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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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A Hidden Beauty
Expose the beautiful mystery of bulbs as young botanists learn all about these fascinating plants. They glean information from a short text before observing actual bulbs (consider an onion), and comparing their findings with predictions....
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Rain
First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...
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Japanese-American Internment/Relocation Camps
Learners create poetry and verse, using all 5 senses to paint a visual image of life in a Japanese-American internment camp.
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A Box Of Crayons
Students draw self-portraits on die-cut crayon patterns after hearing the poem "A Box of Crayons" in this Art instructional activity for the elementary classroom. The instructional activity is ideal for celebrating Martin Luther King...
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Patterns
Fourth graders investigate patterns and sequences. In this patterns and sequences lesson, 4th graders use a hundreds chart to build recurring patterns. Students skip count by threes and fives on a hundreds chart by coloring multiples...
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AM Radio Ionosphere Station
Tune in! Young scientists use an AM radio at home to monitor solar output. The long-term project would be ideal in a flipped classroom or as an out-of-class project.
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Polite Listeners and Traffic Rules
Students consider the necessity of rules. In this citizenship lesson, students consider the reasons for rules and they complete traffic light activities.
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Cherokee Leaf Printing
Young scholars investigate their local creeks and forests and practice identifying trees. For this ecology identification lesson, learners utilize a pad and pencil while on a field trip near their school and describe their trip while...