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North Carolina State University

Exploring Genetics Across the Middle School Science and Math Curricula

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Where is a geneticist's favorite place to swim? A gene pool. Young geneticists complete hands-on activities, experiments, and real-world problem solving throughout the unit. With extra focus on dominant and recessive genes, Punnett...
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Icky Sticky Inchworm

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Dribble The Basketball

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme /d/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /d/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /d/ with its letter representation and identify...
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Batter's Up

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Get your Mouth Examined

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Open Wide and Say Ahh

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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The Iddy Biddy Igloo

For Teachers K
Students identify and recognize the short vowel /i/ in spoken and written words. They identify the short /i/ sound and its letter symbol. They say a tongue twister emphasizing the short /i/ sound, and identify the words with /i/ in the...
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Where The Green Grass Grows

For Teachers K
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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The Cat Ate My Apple

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme for the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through a variety of activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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The Summer Sun is Hot, Hot, Hot

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /o/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate /o/ with its letter representation and...
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Can You Open the Creaky Door?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Icky Sticky

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel E in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read pseudo...
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The Pink Pig

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the short /i/ sound in spoken words and the letter symbol in this lesson. They say a tongue twister emphasizing words with the short /i/ sound. They then read the story "Liz is Six" and identify the words with the...
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Good Grape Soda--Gulp, Gulp, Gulp

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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Lucky Ducky

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Open Wide

For Teachers K
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel o from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Waaahhh Cries the Baby!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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I Can't Stop Itching

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /i/ from other phonemes. After reading the story "Liz is Six," students draw a picture with...
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Icky Sticky!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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A Doctor's Visit

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel A in spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in words and picture worksheets.
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The Itsy Bitsy Pig

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel I in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and...
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Crying Students

For Teachers K
Students recognize the phoneme for the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through a variety of activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
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I Am Tired

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...