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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Jelly Beans Add Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The lesson will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The lesson provides students an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically, the students will discover what...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Fractions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson the children will demonstrate parts of a whole using a candy bar (or fruit), and piece of paper. The activities are used as instructional plans to help students better understand shapes and parts of a shape up to a whole....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Connecting With Coordinates

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will allow students to practice plotting points on a grid. Students will have an opportunity to play a coordinate game. This lesson is hands-on and allows for cooperative learning. This lesson plan was created as a result of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Showing the Difference Between Erosion and Weathering

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In the lesson, the young scholars will be learning about weathering and erosion. They will see examples of weathering and erosion and the difference between the two. They will be performing experiments that show weathering and erosion....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: 'Calendar'

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers will enjoy teaching this innovative calendar lesson which incorporates technology through the use of a PowerPoint presentation. Students will be actively engaged as well as entertained. This lesson plan was created as a result...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Light Travels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digging in for Dirt Day!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson is managed through stations that students will rotate around every 20- 30 minutes. Each second grade teacher conducts one station. Parent volunteers can also be used to manage stations. Students will use an auger to gather...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream !

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Let's Get Going!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
By doing this lesson the students will have the opportunity to explore transportation firsts. By exporing this information, the students will make a timeline charting the year when the forms of transportation were invented.This lesson...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fraction Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will participate in a hands-on instructional activity about dividing a whole object into parts. They will also practice simple addition.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Simple Machines

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will teach students about simple machines. Students will have an opportunity to explore and identify simple machines used in their everyday lives. Students will enjoy learning as they play a game on the Internet about simple...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hurricanes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson starts out with a short video clip of Hurricane Ivan and shows the pattern it followed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that Hurricane Ivan struck and the eye traveled over Alabama. Discussion of hurricane facts follow....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is an Inch?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This activity gives the students the opportunity to see what an inch really looks like. It also provides them with a chance to be creative using various inch materials and to create a visual for what an inch is. It is a great lesson to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "3 in a Row" Calendar Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a fun lesson to use while teaching students how to read a calendar. The students will learn how to find information on a calendar then participate in a "3 in a Row" game in order to review. This lesson plan was created as a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Five Senses How They Relate to Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will demonstrate and incorporate the use of the five senses. Through hands-on and exploratory experiences, young scholars will gain an understanding of the importance of the five senses. Students will also gain an awareness...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "The Lorax" an Environmental Issue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students watch "The Lorax" as an introduction to environmental issues. Students need not have prior knowledge of terms. This lesson follows the learning cycle. Students design a plan to make the Truffula trees sustainable and...
Handout
University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh: Elementary Education Resources: Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent reference tool for kindergarten-aged students. Resources cover a broad range of topics from math and science to English and social studies. Links include students activities and lesson plans.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will have the opportunity to learn names of many parts of the human body and how they help the body function healthy. Students will put a skeleton together to create a full human body.This lesson plan was created as a result of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Celebrate!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will be introduced to the different federal holidays celebrated throughout the year and will be asked to place pictorial representation of these holidays using a time line.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Surviving in the World!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
After learning about the survival traits of the chameleon, students will work in groups to research the survival traits of other animals on the Internet and will create a slide show using the collected information to share with the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Shape Up or Ship Out"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this activity, young scholars will identify shapes that architects use to build houses. Students will then explore these shapes by building a model "dream" home.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Continent Jump

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars will learn about animals that live on all seven continents. Students and teachers will use websites to learn additional information about the animals from various continents.This lesson plan was created as a result of the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometric Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Wheels All Around

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will use skip counting to see how many wheels visit the school during specified times in one day. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.