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Stained Glass Polygons
Students follow directions to make a stained glass window design of regular and irregular polygons with specific geometric elements. In this geometry lesson plan, students also analyze other classmate's designs.
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The Great Button Sort
Students practice figuring out how items have been sorted. They also sort buttons in small cooperative groups. They color and sort their own paper buttons and then give their button sort to another student to see if he or she can figure...
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Whistle While You Work
Students are broken into groups and depending on the cycle if the color of their group shows on that day, that group is to help with the set up and take down of equipment.
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Faces of a Cube
Students identify and correctly name three-dimensional solids; cones, spheres, and cubes. In this three-dimensional figures lesson, students build a cube by matching colored square faces to a correct word. Students then...
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Sea Urchins - Diadema Antillarum
Pupils investigate oceanography by painting sea life. In this crustacean lesson, students identify sea urchins in our ocean environments and describe the functionality of their spherical-shaped bodies. Pupils design their own sea urchins...
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Get a Feel for Food
Students describe the size, shape and feel of a food hidden in a "feely bag" and then select the Food Model from a group that corresponds to the food. In a tasting party afterwards, they sample the food and describe the color, taste and...
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THE MEAN INDEX CARD
Students cut an index card to create three similar right triangles and explore the congruencies and proportions that exist. They investigate the properties of lines and concepts of congruency, similarity, tangency and symmetry of...
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Pattern Using Unit Cells
Pupils explore the pattern of the unit cell. In this science lesson, students color the unit cells on a worksheet and create a pattern using unit cells.
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Dragon Math
Third graders, in groups, practice multiplication by putting five multiplication problems on white scales, then the answers on florescent colored scales.
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Joseph Holston Exhibition Lesson Plan
Students, in groups, view original artworks by Joseph Holston in a gallery space. They create a genre work of art that emphasizes the use of the artistic elements line, color, and shape.
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Self-Portraits
Students use a software drawing program to produce self portraits. They draw using the available tools and matching their features such as eye color and shape. They print the portraits for a classroom display.
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Rainsticks
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Bigger Flowers
Students observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Natural Selection and the Peppered Moth
Young scholars study natural selection and its process in the peppered moth. In this evolution lesson, students read about the concept of natural selection as suggested by Charles Darwin. Young scholars then complete a natural selection...
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Texture Towns
Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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Homeschool, Kindergarten and Preschool Alphabet Lesson Plan for Letter H
Students participate in activities related to letter H. For this letter H lesson, students practice handwriting, and letter recognition through a letter search puzzle. Students participate in activities related to letter H words flash...
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Pumpkin Carving for K-2 Students
Students engage in a variety of pumpkin activities. This lesson is especially rich for ESL students, who probably have little experience with this holiday and custom.
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Living, Non-Living Mobile
Students are introduced to the concept of living and nonliving organisms in general and participate in a starter activity where they build their own definitions of living and nonliving organisms.They sort organisms into living and...
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Categorization
Second graders participate in a teacher led bead sorting activity in which they describe different ways the beads can be grouped. Next, they participate in activities in which they sort and resort themselves into groups according to...
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Chemistry: Plastic Milk
Young scholars observe a basic chemical reaction as vinegar is mixed with skim milk and microwaved. First, they listen to the teacher read, "Little Miss Muffet," and discover the meaning of curds and whey. While the experiment have an...
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Descriptive Essay
Learners review previously written essays, draw pictures of shapes, and write descriptive essays.
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Learning Rhymes
Students practice reading and writing in this cross-curricular lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed on daily practice, individual improvements, and positive reinforcements for jobs well done during the activity.
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Musical Art
Students create pieces of Abstract art by listening to various genres of music and reacting to the music with a pencil on a piece of paper and their eyes closed. This activity is intended for a middle-level Art class and can be used as...
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Path Map for the Lake Bonneville Flood
Pupils use a digital atlas of Idaho to explore the effects of the Lake Bonneville Flood. They become familiar with how floods shape our earth and change landscapes. Students graph a a timeline of the rise and fall of Lake Bonneville.