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Compare and Contrast deciduous and evergreen tree leaves to aid in tree identification
Boost observational skills and get to know the difference between deciduous, coniferous, and evergreen trees with a lesson that challenges scholars to compare, contrast, identify, sort, and draw their findings.
Roald Dahl
Matilda - Miss Honey and The Trunchbull
As the instructor reads aloud several quotes from five chapters of the story Matilda, class members mime their interpretation of the scenes. Then, after reading "Miss Honey" and "The Trenchbull" (chapters seven and eight), the...
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Our Classroom Constitution
Develop a system of classroom rules created by the kids, for the kids with this three-part instructional activity series on the US Constitution. After learning about the structure of the Constitution and the government it...
Boys Town
More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Put an end to wasted instructional time with this lesson plan on responsibility and preparedness. After completing this series of activities students will learn the importance of these social skills not only in the classroom,...
Reading Is Fundamental
Summer Fun...
Extend learning through summer with these activity ideas! Individuals can choose one or all nine of the activities, which range from a summer reading goal to an examination of local insects (with accompanying story prompt). See the...
University of Rochester
Common Cold – Self Care
When kids enter school, they often bring home new illnesses. Decode their symptoms, and help them to take care of themselves, with a fact sheet about the common cold. It delineates the symptoms one would experience as well as the signs...
Thoughtful Learning
Expressing Emotions Through Movement
Encourage scholars to better understand and express their feelings with an activity designed to boost self-awareness. Scholars read several statements that challenge them to showcase how their body moves when they feel certain feelings....
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Use Literature to Teach Tolerance
Students listen as teachers read a different book or a different passage that focuses on the theme of tolerance. Students then write a paragraph each day to tell how that day's book/passage taught them the importance of tolerance.
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Take the Polar Express to Learning
Students complete a variety of activities surrounding the book, The Polar Express.
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Author, Author!
Third graders, in groups, select and research a favorite studenT author or illustrator. They answer questions about the author, conduct research and prepare a PowerPoint presentation with their findings.
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The Preterite vs. the Imperfect
Students write their own original studenT story in the past in Spanish using the imperfect and the preterite after watching the teacher present the provided Power Point presentation on the differences in the uses of the two.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Pupils participate in activities associated with the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". They practice using new vocabulary and the days of the week. They create a book about what they ate on the different days of the week and how the...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Young scholars read and discuss the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They participate as a group in performing the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom play and complete a variety of activity cards that deal with different avenues of the book....
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The Night Before Christmas
Pupils, after reading and discussing the book, "The Night Before Christmas," explore, examine, and study about the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. They primarily assess the letter 'D' by inquiring which animals guided...
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Count Down the Days to a Special Event
Students calculate time using a grade appropriate skill. In this time activity, students calculate the time to a special event. Students calculate days, months, weeks, hours, minutes or seconds depending on their skill level....
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Quick As A Cricket
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of reading a story and then they reenact it while performing a pantomime. They answer questions related to the reading and then children move throughout the class imitating...
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Officer Buckle And Gloria
Students investigate the book of "Officer Buckle and Gloria" to practice the skill of reading comprehension while focusing upon finding correct traffic laws. They practice reading the story while conducting class discussion about obeying...
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The Japanese Way
First graders complete a two-week introductory unit on Japan and Japanese culture. They compare/contrast Japanese and American lifestyles, watch videos, design an original kimono, eat Japanese food using chopsticks, fold Origami shapes,...
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The Flea's Sneeze Lesson Plan
Learners read a book and engage in three different activities. In this lesson about repetitive story patterns, students read a story, The Flea's Sneeze, and examine how the story has a rhythmic pattern of rhyming verse that sounds like a...
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Range and Mode Reteach 4.5
For this range and mode worksheet, students analyze the data table and graph that show numbers of books read. Students use the data to answer 4 questions.
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One Monday Morning Activity Card
In this literature worksheet, students learn the names of the days of the week and respond to the book One Monday Morning. Students complete an activity at home in which they re-read the book, then cut and paste the events of the story...
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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...
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Predictable Chart/Sentence Building with "Goodnight Moon"
First graders work on a series of modeled reading and writing lessons based on "Goodnight Moon." students work on pages of a predictable class book.