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Counting to 10
Young scholars count and recognize numbers to 10. In this math lesson students play a CD-ROM game Mouse in the House: Blast Off. Support worksheets are also included.
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Spatial Awareness and Understanding Directions
Students follow directions. In this spatial awareness lesson, students play follow the leader around an obstacle course following simple directions.
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The Alphabet
Pupils discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game. In this phonics instructional activity, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets. Pupils utilize a computer program...
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Tic, Tac, Toe - Taking Turns
Students play the game of tic-tac-toe and practice taking turns while playing the game. In this taking turns lesson plan, students use mouse cards to play the game.
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Putting it All Together
Students explore the design of structures. In this science lesson, students use various items to build structures. Students discuss the structures they build.
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Human Behavior
Students are introduced to the study of human behavior and develop their ideas about the importance of understanding mental health.
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The Roanoke Mystery
Fourth graders hypothesize about what happened on the island of Roanoke. In this South Carolina history lesson plan, 4th graders use primary documents to draw conclusions about what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. This...
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The Little Star: Learning About Christmas
Pupils listen to the story, discuss how Christmas is celebrated, and construct a nativity scene. In The Little Star lesson, students hear the story showing Christmas as a religious festival. Pupils act out the story and...
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Bias Sampling
Students explore statistics by conducting a scientific study. In this data analysis instructional activity, students conduct a class poll about popular foods of their classmates. Students complete a worksheet and discuss how bias...
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Bias Sampling
Students demonstrate how the results of a poll or other scientific study can be biased by selecting special types of people to respond or by asking only certain questions.
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Dino-Friends
Young scholars learn about dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students participate in an interactive read aloud of The Giant Book of Dinosaurs. They make play dough dinosaurs and write a dinosaur story about their sculpture. They dance...
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Jamestown Journey Part 3
Fourth graders study the economy of Jamestown. In this early settlers lesson, 4th graders read about the trade between the English and the natives in Jamestown. This lesson is part of a larger unit and coincides with the novel The Double...
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Mental Health 3: Mental Health Through Literature
Students examine the impact and portrayal of mental illness in literature. They develop thier ideas about mental health through the arts in this the third lesson on mental health.
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Sampling Rocks
Students examine rocks. In this geology lesson, students collect rocks from the schoolyard and classify them by color, weight, and size. Students use a rock guide to identify each of the rocks.
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They're Only Children
Third graders compare how the lives of African American slave children differed from children's lives today. In this analysis of slavery lesson, 3rd graders evaluate and discuss the conditions of slavery in collaborative groups....
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End of the Line: What Happened to the Blue Ridge Railroad?
Sixth graders study the westward expansion and the role of railroad construction to the expansion. In this railroad history activity, 6th graders complete KWL activity for the topic. Students view a PowerPoint about the growth of...
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Hatching Chickens
Learners discover how chickens are hatched and cared for. In this hands on lesson plan students get to watch baby chicks be hatched. They explore the chicks needs and how long they take to hatch.
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Sorting
Students explore how books are sorted in a library. In this sorting lesson, students play a game where they have to fill the shelves with books that share a common theme. Students compare this game to a real library. Students discuss how...
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It Counts
Students explore one to one number correspondence. In this early math instructional activity, students make observations about and classify plants in order to gain an understanding of using numbers to describe their world.
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Dr. Seuss and Read Across America
What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement...? This is the driving question of a research project that requires scholars to find information about Dr. Seuss' life and work. Class...
National History Day
Reporting on World War I
Throughout history, newspapers have reported the events of the day as they unfolded. Using primary and secondary sources from World War I, scholars uncover how the American people learned of the events of the War to End All Wars. History...
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Roald Dahl Day
Who's your favorite Roald Dahl character? What book by Roald Dahl is the most exciting for you? Explore the wacky world of Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, and more with a helpful resource pack for...
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Reading Between the Lines: Making Inferences About Idioms
Students discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience. Students write sentences using newly learned idioms.
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National Tragedy, Global Response
Students explore how different people on local, national and international levels respond to a destructive natural disaster and the needs of its victims and how various facets of the media cover such an event. The August 1999 earthquake...