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Pbs Learning Media: Jumping Math: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Combine counting sequences with physical activity to engage students and increase overall fitness. This lesson plan describes a fifteen to twenty minute series of activities that can be easily tweaked to work in any elementary classroom.
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Pbs Learning Media: Antonyms and Synonyms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students learn about synonyms and antonyms through physical activity. The teacher calls out a series of commands. First, the students perform the synonyms (the same as the movement called out) and then they go through the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Action Verbs Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly.
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Pbs: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle throughout the story and as they...
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Pbs Learning Media: Waddle Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. Students listen carefully for the animal name and the verb describing how that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Sight Word Spelling Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson students explore with movement and creativity to make words come alive! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words.
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Background Information

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children learn to cope with their feelings as well as build more resilience and maturity, in this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Tips for Adults

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children express their worries in different ways. Learn some ways a child may signal that they are upset in this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Resilience Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help children find ways to cope with difficult situations, with this guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: How to Cope

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Using advice and role-play, help guide your children through an exploration of how to handle scary situations, focusing on what happens when you are lost, in this educator guide from Arthur: "April 9th."
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur's Cafe

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Want to eat some healthy snacks? Try some favorite recipes, in this activity from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Test your children's knowledge of nutrition and healthy eating, in this quiz from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Tips for Grown Ups

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn tips to foster healthy behavior in children, in this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Tips for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help kids learn about nutrition and healthy eating, with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Peanut Allergy Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Test your children's knowledge of peanut allergies in this quiz from Arthur: "Binky Goes Nuts."
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Recipe Book Family Activity

For Students K - 1st
Use this recipe book based on the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali to get cooking with family and friends! Try out some of Molly's recipes and then write down your own recipes to add to her recipe book.
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Dream Tube Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use this comprehensive activity as part of a comprehensive literacy, STEM, or social studies unit in which children will be using informational texts. In the "Dream Tube" animated story from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, Molly and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Sled Dog Dash Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. Molly and her friend Tooey use a fictional app to access information that will help...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Beading Art Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand students' use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. In this game, Molly shows players how to make various beading designs using the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: A Splash of Mink Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In the animated 11-minute story "A Splash of Mink," from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, Molly and Trini must find a remedy after being sprayed by a mink. Despite getting advice from various sources about how to get rid of the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Performance and Art

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students explore how stories can be told without words, such as through performance and art. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling: Oral Traditions

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students talk about what makes a good story, look at the oral tradition of storytelling, and compare and contrast stories from two different cultural traditions. This is one of four storytelling lessons.
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Pbs Learning Media: Little Women: Becoming a Writer

For Students 6th - 9th
Explore the conflict between Jo March and her father over writing for money, in this video excerpt [1:36] from Little Women, Masterpiece. Like Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women, Jo is an aspiring writer. When she receives a...
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Pbs Learning Media: The August Wilson Education Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The WQED August Wilson Education Project offers resources to educators including a teaching guide, video clips from the documentary, interactive maps, a biographical timeline, webinars, contests for students, and much more. The goal of...