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Sharing the Beat
Students discover what it means to be a giver. In this service lesson plan, students create a story and art project to be shared with a local preschool or nursing home. They reflect on the impact of this experience on their own lives...
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Appetizing Apples
Students identify individual sounds in words in order to read and write. They explore ways to be successful in reading and identifying phonemes and sounds in words. Students recognize and use the phoneme a. They review the phoneme a by...
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What Does Christmas Mean to Me?
Students write an essay entitled "What Does Christmas Mean to Me?" In this writing lesson, students express their feelings about Christmas in an essay. Students discuss ways they have given to others during the Christmas season, then...
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Mindful Murals
Second graders depict the illusion of depth in an artwork, using overlapping shapes, relative size and placement of fabric on a mural. They identify with the elements of art in objects in nature, the environment, and Ringgold's mural.
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Pipe-Cleaner Stick Figures
Second graders create puppets out of pipe cleaners and, in groups, put on a puppet show based on a section of a story they have read from their readers.
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Fishy Fish
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore the letter 'f'. Through instruction and modeling they examine the sound the letter makes, how to make the sound with their mouths, how the letter is written, etc. They recite...
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Fishing for Success
Students listen to story Rainbow Fish to the Rescue, and identify strategies to assist those in need.
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Peter and the Wolf
Pupils create movements to music that reflect focused listening, write story using complete, coherent sentences, design and perform class play speaking clearly and at an appropriate pace, and retell Peter and the Wolf story, including...
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Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
Students read "Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss. They complete a story map and write about the topic of prejudice. They role-play star-bellied and plain-bellied sneetches and write a persuasive essay about their experiences.
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Monster Voices
Students create stories based upon the techniques of author Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are. They use a word processing program and the Apple software program GarageBand to create new voices for the story. ...
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Sense of Sight Lesson
Students sequence what they saw in the book Maisy's Nature Walk. In this sequencing lesson plan, the teacher reads the book and the children listen and observe. Once the book is read, the students have to sequence what Maisy saw on her...
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Bam, Chi, Chi, Bam
Students create a class poem based on the song, Bam, Chi, Chi, Bam. The class participates in a brief discussion of the music of Jamaica and the feelings conveyed by this music. After listening to the song, students create a poem to...
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The Lavendar Llama
Students define and discuss discrimination after listening to the book The Lavender Llama. They color a worksheet from the book.
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Insect Communication and Harmful Insects
Seventh graders use children's literature in order to create an interesting context for the activity. The concept of insect communication is investigated in order for students to form educated hypothesis guesses.
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Hands
Students are read the book "Hands". They discuss things they are able to do with their hands. They create a cutout of their hands and write one thing they can do on the hand. They share what they wrote with the class.
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Are You a Frog?
Students listen to the book "Ask Me If I'm a Frog, and compare their anatomy and habits to the anatomy and habits of a frog to identify with the characteristics unique to frogs. They respond to teacher-generated questions by writing...
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They Had a Dream Too
Students research the obstacles and daily challenges that a successful person had to overcome. They create a book or mobile based on the research.
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Unconditional Kindness
Learners express their feelings about their neighbors and how to be kind to others. Teacher and students discuss the meaning of philanthropy and how they can be kind to others. After reading a particular trade book, learners are assessed...
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Outside the In-Group
Students pretend they are the person who is kept out of a group. As a class, they examine the behaviors of each person in a group situation and discuss how the role-play made them feel. They examine situations in which they kept...
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Language Arts: What's My Line?
Students discover how to employ number lines by estimating the number of tiles in a jar. After writing their estimates on sticky notes, they place them in order on a number line mat. Included in the lesson are various activities and...
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History of Congress and Government
Seventh graders will perform research that helps them to learn about government and the democratic way of life. This form of life serves as a basis of reflection for the basic forms of life on earth.
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Families and Neighborhoods
Young scholars study family structure. In this family structure lesson, students read the book The Family Book and discuss families. Young scholars create a bulletin board of family photos and draw their families on paper. Students dance...
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Lesson Plan - Africa: What's in a Name
Students compose a reflection letter discussing their feelings and the meanings about their "new Yoruba name".
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Stories To Be Told
Students listen to stories about the tradegies of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Using their own experiences from the hurricanes, they try to put their own story into words. They are to focusing on getting the information and their feelings...