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Word Wizards: Students Making Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore patterns in words and how to make new words by adding or changing the sequence of letters
Lesson Plan
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Life on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Energy

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the concept of energy. After observing a demonstration, they identify the sources of heat and the ways heat can change objects. In groups, they travel between stations to view different demonstrations dealing...
Lesson Plan
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What Does Your First Day of Winter Look Like?

For Teachers K
Students brainstorm the characteristics of winter. Using an email program, they share their characteristics of winter with those in another part of the country. They compare and contrast each letter they receive with their own criteria...
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Hickory Dickory Dock Webquest

For Teachers K
Students listen to and read nursery rhymes. They discuss rhyming words. Students play a variety of computer games with rhymes, numbers and telling time. They retell the story through dramatic play, speech, and comprehension questions.
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Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
Lesson Plan
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The Segregated Pencil Sharpeners

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore racism through pencil sharpeners.  In this civil rights lesson plan, students utilize a pencil sharpener with one of two colored pencils and explain how some people were not allowed to use certain items because of...
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Winter Animal Match

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game. In this matching activity, students learn about animals and their winter homes.  Students match cards of animals with the cards of winter homes.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Toyland, Toyland Word Search

For Students K - 3rd
In this simple word search activity, students search for a total of 12 "toy" words, such as bear, car, doll, game, etc. Link to related pages is given.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Celebrate Our Land!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate Woody Guthrie's beliefs. In this citizenship instructional activity, students research and discuss the beliefs of Woody Guthrie and write down several facts that they learned.
Primary
Other

University of Southern Mississippi: De Grummond Children's Literature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...
Website
Other

Applit: Resources for Appalachia Literature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Resources for readers and teachers of Appalachian literature for children and young adults that includes lesson plans, texts, bibliographies, and so on.
Graphic
Princeton University

Cotsen Children's Library: Water Babies: Swimming in Picture Books

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about children's book illustration of swimming scenes in this on-line exhibit of relevant images from popular children's stories.
Website
Other

Children's Book Council: Building a Home Library

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Children's Book Council offers four downloadable lists for different age groups to use for developing a home library or just for finding good books to read.
Activity
Other

Children's Nursery: Beatrix Potter's Children's Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this site dedicated to beloved children's author Beatrix Potter you can view a list of her works, many with links to the texts. Stories include Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Mrs. Tiggie Winkle, and more! Includes links to many other...
Activity
University of Calgary

The Children's Literature Web Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Curriculum Areas

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has book reviews for literature for children Grades 9 and under. You can search the reviews by grade level.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Songs for My Children by Jane Dunbar Chaplin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Songs for My Children by Jane Dunbar Chaplin (1861), an extensive collection of children's songs/poems.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Children in the Wood

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Children in the Wood, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Children in the Wood

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Children in the Wood, a book of poems for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Stories of the Red Children

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication Stories of the Red Children by Dorothy Brooks, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Children's Book for Sabbath Hours

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Children's Book for Sabbath Hours by Asa Bullard, a book of religious stories for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Good Wishes for the Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of Good Wishes for the Children by Hans Christian Anderson, a book of stories for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: My Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1873 publication of My Children, a book of poetry for children.

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