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Bio Build-up
Trace pollutants through the environment in the seventh lesson of this series on the science of food. Looking at a picture of the plants and animals in an aquatic ecosystem, learners use dot stickers to represent harmful chemicals as...
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Need or Want?
Even as adults it can be hard to distinguish needs from wants. Using pictures of common, everyday items, children make a pocket chart separating the objects they need from those that they want. Discuss their choices, explaining that...
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Needs of Living Things: Post-Assessment
Assess your class's knowledge of the needs of living things with the final lesson in a series. Given a large piece of paper and coloring utensils, young scientists draw a picture of themselves and a plant or animal of their choosing,...
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Tuck Everlasting
Clearly written as an assignment for a higher-level education class, this formal lesson plan contains some fun and well-researched strategies for teaching the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Among the best ideas...
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Baseball
Baseball is an American pastime, super fun to play, and can be made accessible to learners with visual impairments. Instead of taking to the ball field, your class can learn the rules of the game by playing a small three-dimensional...
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Using Food Labels
Help your class make sense of nutrition labels with the ninth lesson plan of this series. After explaining the different information provided on packaged food labels, perform an activity that demonstrates the amount of sugar in a single...
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Sequencing Events
Using The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, pupils practice sequencing events in a story. After reading the story, they head to the computer lab to use Kidspiration to sequence events. Then they create their own books to demonstrate...
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Plant or Animal?
Teach your class about the necessities of life using the book Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun. After a teacher-read-aloud, students make puppets depicting different plants and animals from the story and illustrating the habitat in...
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Counting Cup
Help your kindergartners develop counting skills using a 24 oz. plastic cup, counting manipulatives, and a paper plate. Start with a small group of learners and place a quantity of counting objects between the range of 5 to 10 into each...
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Class Number Book
Students practice counting by ones. They find the numbers one through ten in a magazine or catalog. They put their picture into a classbook and they use it to practice counting.
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Rate It - Working With Positive and negative Numbers
Learners practice rating things using numbers between -2 to 2. In this rating lesson, students determine what a rating scale is before rating things such as the weather, a book, or a day using the numbers -2 to 2. They examine the use of...
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Counting Cheerios
Students demonstrate counting to 10 or 20. They read and discuss "The Cheerios Counting Book," match number cards to Cheerios, and create a Cheerios necklace.
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Physical Differences
Students role play what it would be like to have a physical disability. For this lesson on acceptance, students listen to the book A Rainbow of Friends by P.K. Hallinan. As a class, the students discuss similarities and differences in...
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K-1 Numeral Recognition
Students investigate numerals by creating visual aides. In this number sense lesson plan, students discuss the different types of numerals and how they can be translated into a number or an image. Students create a children's...
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Stories of Our Lives!
Students write their own books based on a life experience that they have had. For this life experiences lesson plan, students practice the writing process along with illustrating their book.
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Aboriginals
Students are read a book about aboriginal perspectives. They answer questions and practice words with the letter "g". They participate in math drills practicing their counting as well.
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Count Around
Students explore counting. For this numeration math lesson, students read a question that poses a "counting" question, count the identified classroom objects, and write their answer on a sticky note. Students place their note...
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First Grade Mathematics Quiz
In this math quiz activity, student complete multiple choice problems about money, shapes, patterns, and more. Students complete 15 problems total.
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The Length of my Foot
Pupils review the concept of measuring length. In groups, they travel to various centers throughout the classroom. They experiment with using different objects to measure the length of items given to them by their teacher. They are...
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Roll Over! (There Were Ten In The Bed)
Students practice math, language, and music skills. In this interdisciplinary activity, students learn the song "Roll Over!" practicing repeating word patterns and subtraction skills. Students improvise in the song by adding...
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Early Childhood Nutrition
Students complete activities that focus on food and nutrition. In this food lesson plan, students sort foods into healthy and not healthy, categorize them into ground and tree sorts, draw their favorite foods, make abc books of food, and...
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How Do You Feel Today?
Students create a graph, then listen to Dr. Seuss' book, My Many Colored Days. After the story, they do a similar graph and then compare the two graphs.
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Piggies
First graders listen to the book, Piggies, and act out the events of the story with premade puffball pigs.
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Penny Jar
Students collect pennies to donate to charity and calculate the number of pennies. In this penny counting lesson, students group pennies in tens and count how many dollars and cents they have. Students read a book about...