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Chucky Chickadee
Students create an original project dealing with birds. In this bird lesson, students take a virtual field trip to bird feeders around the nation. Students replicate the coloring of winter birds.
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Handwriting: Group Upper and Lower Case Letters
Students recognize and practice characteristics of upper and lower case letters. They assess how to write letters in a straight line, a slanted line and in a curve and then write the letters covered on their individual dry erase board or...
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Kids for Character Pledge
Students discuss character and values and discuss what it means to be a good citizen. In this character lesson plan, students also sign the Kids for Character pledge and pledge to be good citizens.
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Vocabulary Lesson (Color Words) Using Various Books by Eric Carle and Internet Sites
Young scholars investigate color words. In this vocabulary, high frequency words, and technology lesson, students visit various websites to practice reading color words. Young scholars listen to Eric Carle books and observe the...
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Sports Safety Posters
Students create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Discuss some general safety guidelines students must follow when playing sports in the gym or the schoolyard. Write students' responses on the board.
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Trust
Pupils define trust. In this social skills lesson, students read The Other Side and interact with their classmates to define what trust is.
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Volunteering as Good Work
Learners discuss the various jobs at a school. In this school jobs instructional activity, students recognize the way people in the school are helped by others. Learners are assigned a job and write about the help of others. Students...
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Gingerbread Baby
Students explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson plan, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the...
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Butterfly Life Cycle
Students read books about animals and describe their structures, how they grow and change, and their life cycles. In this animals lesson plan, students also make animals out of pasta.
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Destination Reading
Students practice reading skills and comprehension through the use of computers and the educational software "Destination Reading" provided by Riverdeep in this self-directed lesson.
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Information Station
Students look through different print materials to information. In this information lesson plan, students look through the newspaper, magazines, and menus to practice finding such things as, the weather for the day, a picture of a nice...
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Beanbag Toss
Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. In this bean bag toss lesson, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to compete...
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The Whole is More Than Half
Students explore number sense by completing a food related fraction activity. For this parts of a whole lesson, students utilize a graham cracker to divide and identify what a quarter, third, or half looks like. Students eat their snack...
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What's My Height?
Pupils explore geometry by conducing a student measurement activity. In this height lesson, students identify their own height by utilizing a tape measure and marking their height on a wall. Pupils identify their height in centimeters...
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Using 2 and 3 Dimensional Geometric Shapes
Students explore geometry by participating in a shape identification activity. In this figure dimensions lesson, students identify the difference between 2 and 3 dimensional shapes by their vertices and faces. Students examine blocks in...
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House of H
Learners identify the letter H and the sound it make through drawing. After identifying the letter H, students brainstorm words that begin with the letter H. In the computer lab, they use computer drawing software to create a house and...
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Musical Patterns
Students use musical instruments to create simple patterns. They, in pairs, come to the front of the classroom and create a pattern.
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Check My Writing
Students practice the process of writing letters to students in other countries. This lesson is highly motivating for them to write and interactive with diverse cultures. The use of technology should be considered with the use of e-mail.
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Here and There: Discovering Communities Through the Olympic Torch Relay
Students compare their hometowns to the towns on the Olympic Torch Relay and complete multi-curricular activities for the lesson. In this Olympics lesson, students complete math, geography, science, and history activities to learn about...
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Give It Back From a Snack Lesson 2: Invest With the Best
Students survey schoolmate as to what type of snacks they would prefer to purchase. They graph the results and apply them to planning a classroom snack sale while examining what wants, needs, and consumers are.
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Enhancing Social Skills and Vocabulary through Photography
Students in a special education classroom identify pictures of various living things. In groups, they role-play different roles to help them with their social and communication skills. To end the lesson, they take pictures of different...
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Laguna Pueblo: Winter; Laguna Village Officials
Learners name two officers from the village they reside in, name one duty of the village officer and compare and contrast roles of village officials from two different villages.
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Recognizing Lifestyle Changes
Young scholars discuss the changes they are going through in their lives. Using literature, they relate the stories to their own lives and discover how to properly deal with them. They also make a list of how the scenery, transportation...
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Can You Find It?
Plan a Parts of a Book scavenger hunt. Begin by giving your young adventurers a book, and asking them to find the title, author, illustrator, and table of contents. After a discussion of the purpose of each of these items, class members...