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Kindergarten
Students engage in a discussion about their preconceived ideas about kindergarten. They share their feelings about being in kindergarten and listen to the book "Oh, The Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Seuss.
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Snack Smart Move More
Show your kids that staying healthy is the smart choice! They examine nutrition, healthy snacks, and the importance of staying active in a several-part lesson plan. There are different ideas for older and younger students here, and you...
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Celebrating Caring and Kindness
Students create a poster that represents how to care and give kindness. In this caring and kindness lesson plan, students demonstrate character development by creating a poster in groups on how they can care and be kind at home, school,...
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Feelings Are Very Important
Here are some ways you can help your students understand and cope with their feelings. This presentation provides ways to deal with anger and sadness through calm times, self talk, daily affirmations, and replacement thoughts. Note: This...
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Character Education - Kindness
How to get students to always remember to be kind to one another.
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Westward Ho!
Second graders use a minimum of three maps of Kansas developed during the 1800's. They plot five major settlements that developed near water sources. Students brainstorm reason settlements may have developed near water sources.
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Animal Adaptations
Animal adaptations, such as camouflage, are high-interest topics that are easily integrated into both reading and math curriculum.
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Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life
You can make your students amateur paleontologists with great fossil lesson plans.
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Science Workshops
Based on the popular Writer's Workshops used in language arts, Science Workshops can be used to teach both science content and process.
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Working Together
Students sit back to back with their legs straight out in front. They interlock arms and push against each other's backs to try to stand up. They discuss things they can do on their own and what kinds of things we need others to help.
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Animals, Soil, Trees
Fourth graders describe the various kinds of soils and how plants and animals are affected by them. They describe the baic needs of plants, scoring at least a 3 or 4 on a 4-point rubic. Students are able to predict and/or infer what...
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Frog Dissection Lesson Plans
Check out these lesson plans for both actual and virtual frog dissections.
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End of the Year Lesson Plans and Activities
End of the year lesson plans can help you and your students finish the year right.
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Top 10 Aerospace Lesson Plans
You can use these exciting aerospace lesson plans to supplement nearly any unit in your science curriculum.
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Special Education Students in the Mainstream Classroom
How to prepare your mainstream students for a special education student in their classroom.
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How to Use Classroom Animals to Spark Life Science Inquiry
Use low maintenance classroom pets to get your students engaged in life science inquiry investigations.
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Career Interest Record Update
Students create and update Career Interest Records to indicate their current career interests. Students evaluate what they want to be when they grow up and how their interests have changed since the previous year.
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The Clothes Don't Fit
First graders keep a scrapbook of themselves throughout the year and see how they have changed.
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Our Interests
Third graders discover what mental health is. They discuss examples and draw pictures of themselves taking care of their mental health. They write a story about a time when they felt good about themselves.
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All About Me
Third graders explore how everyone is different and have a certain way in which they learn best.
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Planning and Setting Goals
Fifth graders set goals for themselves and evaluate themselves a month later.
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Work and Leisure
First graders distinguish between work and leisure activities, identify examples of people participating in each of these types of activities, and put them in the correct category.
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Three Wishes
Second graders make three wishes in order to help them decide what is important to them and compare it to what is important to others.