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Trucks and Community Workers

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify community helpers and their roles. In this transportation lesson plan, 1st graders complete a series of lessons integrating technology and literacy. Students decode sounds of short u, c/s/ and g/j/ words and...
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Zelda and Ivy

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the theme books Zelda and Ivy and do activities that are related to the books. In this reading instructional activity, 2nd graders read the books given and then do activities that include a reader's theater,...
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Reading Pattern Books

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate pattern books. In this literature lesson, students read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? and use echo and choral reading strategies. Students identify the pattern in the text and write about the...
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Who Is Family? Analyzing Family Photos

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine families through photography. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine photographs of families and discuss the attributes of families. Students select family photographs to analyze in writing.
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The Changing Me

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the human body. For this health lesson, 3rd graders discuss that everyone's body is growing, measure body parts using a tape measure, and color the body worksheet.
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Global Warming Statistics

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research and collect data regarding temperature changes for a specific location and find the mean, median, and mode for their data. In this climate change lesson, students choose a location to research and collect data regarding...
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An Uplifting Experience

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research and complete a graphic organizer about the principles of flight. In this aviation lesson, 5th graders experiment to understand the work of Daniel Bernouli and his discoveries about air pressure. Students create...
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The Three Gorges: Should Nature or Technology Reign?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a debate regarding the Three Gorges Dam in China. In this research skills lesson, students prepare for a debate regarding the construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China. Students participate in the dam taking...
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Chronological Order

For Teachers 6th - 8th
First, next, and last, the elements of chronological order. In every story or text one can find a series of events that occur one after the other. To help learners with visual impairments conceptualize chronological order, this...
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Big Boats Up The River

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using boats along in the Port of Albany as the focus, learners practice adding single-digit numbers and interpreting data. This lesson plan comes with the worksheets, resource links, and other materials to make it a worthwhile experience.
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a movie or slide show depicting a typical day at school through the eyes of a student. Students will use knowledge and experience to tell about events. Students will use multimedia to tell about events.
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Descriptive Words

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners use descriptive words in writing. In this descriptive words lesson, students learn to show instead of tell. Learners enter into a discussion of adjectives and adverbs, then add descriptive words to sentences to make vivid word...
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The Poetry Archive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover how to express their feeling poetically. In this poetry instructional activity, students discuss their feelings, descriptive language to describe these feelings, and create poems.
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Veteran's Day or Memorial Day Poetry Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine poems dealing with Veteran's Day or Memorial Day. They discuss America's involvement in wars and if anyone in their family has served in the military. They write their own poems and share them with the class.
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Finding the Missing Letters and Sequencing

For Teachers K
Students discover missing letters of the alphabet. In this letter recognition lesson, students identify the missing letters in a short alphabet sequence. Students complete a worksheet as an assessment.
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It’s 12.00 O’clock!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars draw a picture of themselves and label specifically where they are and what they are doing. In this language arts lesson, students respond to the questions, "Where are you?" and "What are you doing?" Young scholars ask and...
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Reading A Medicine Label

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use the real life situation of reading a medicine bottle to increase phonemic awareness and reading comprehension as a result. The oral pronunciation of sounds is the focus of the lesson. Reteaching may be needed for some...
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Paws in Jobland

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore jobs in different countries . In this lesson plan about different countries through research. Students are broken into groups and given a country to research. Each group is provided with a worksheet with 14...
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Diazo Prints and Technology

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders watch a demonstration and then they make photographic prints using Diazo paper and ammonia. They photograph the demo, compile the pictures, and add text to make a PowerPoint presentation of the original demonstration.
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Story Stew -- Teaching Character, Plot, And Setting

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the story elements of characters, plot, and setting. They identify the story elements from various "ingredients" taken out of a pot, and add their own story element "ingredients" on index cards into the pot.
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The Immigrant Experience In America

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study immigration, Ellis Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. Each student create an identity of an immigrant and write an essay in the first person. Essays describe what they found when they arrived in New York City.
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Metaphorical Poetry

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read and discuss poems by Jewel., Sylvia Plath, and Langston Hughes They examine poems for examples of metaphors and similes. After discussing Jewel's poem Lost, they write their own poems. They hold a poetry reading in...
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Literacy Centers- Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students, after reading the Three Bears, talk about finding a task that is "just right" for them and work at Literacy Centers.
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Power Writing to Elaborate: Paragraph Writing, Main Idea

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are walked through an outline (Power Writing) and shown how to elaborate on a main idea in their writing.