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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways
Students read Little Red Riding Hood, focusing on her path home to Grandma's house. In this language arts and geography lesson, students perform a reader's theater, re-creating the walk home and possible routes that could have been...
National Park Service
Petrified Forest National Park
Poetry Soup, a reading and writing unit constructed by the Petrified Forest National Park, will have scholars hungry to learn about nature. The cross-content unit contains topics related to history, science, and language arts. Content...
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Reading Our Neighborhood
Learners explore their environment and what they can read. In this lesson about signs, letters, and pictures in the neighborhood, students will observe what they see around them. Learners walk around and take pictures of different things...
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Organism Detectives
First graders take a nature walk and search for organisms. They use magnifying glasses to see things that live on or near the surface of the Earth in land, air, and water.
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Geo-Town
Second graders use a checklist to construct a Geo-Town map including a compass rose, a map key, and a paragraph about a walk around Geo-Town, using appropriate geometric and directional vocabulary to identify the two-dimensional figures...
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Art Shoes
Sixth graders construct a collage using found objects over the surface of a shoe creating an object of art. They use a digital camera to document the process of making the shoes. They create images of "art shoes walking" with the...
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Introduction to the Federal System of Government
Eleventh graders participate in a gallery walk activity to identify past Canadian Prime Minister.
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Machines 'R' Us
Learners increase their vocabulary and knowledge base while learning about different types of machines. For this machine lesson, students glue pictures of the machines they like onto paper and share their collages with classmates.
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Types of Transportation
Students study different types of transportation including specialized trucks. In this transportation lesson, students look at a landscape picture map (not included) and identify all of the modes of transportation they see. They see...
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Five Senses-Introduction
Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.
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Trees and Their Parts
Students research trees and their parts. In this forestry lesson, students participate in various learning stations to identify trees by matching the photographs of the tree to the correct name.
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Animal Riddles
Students write animal riddles. They write three or more sentences describing a selected animal, and draw a picture to go with their descriptive sentences. Students then create a three slide slideshow using Kid Pix 3 computer software.
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What Can I Do?
Pupils identify ways to handle conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students brainstorm times when they had a conflict with a friend. Pupils develop a strategy to deal with conflicts in the future, such as talking it through or...
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Using Senses in My Community
Young scholars use their senses to make observations about their community and the world. They sort and describe picture cards by senses, read a story, take a sensory walk around the school, and discuss common good.
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Habitats
Students are introduced to various animals and their habitats. In groups, they must determine which animal skin matches the correct animal and identify the texture. They discuss the reason for the texture and width of the skin to end...
Museum of Disability
Stand in My Shoes
Stand in My Shoes, a story by Bob Sornson, is an effective way to teach young learners about empathy and making friends. Once pupils read through the story, they answer a series of discussion questions and complete reading...
Museum of Disability
Can You Hear a Rainbow?
Teach your class about compassion and empathy with Jamee Riggio Heelan's Can You Hear a Rainbow? As kids read about Chris, a boy who is deaf, they discuss the things he likes to do, as well as the ways he communicates with the world.
Museum of Disability
Looking Out for Sarah
Perry the dog is Sarah's best friend and her guide to the visual world. Young readers learn about guide dogs and communication with Looking Out for Sarah by Glenna Lang, through a series of discussion questions and activities.
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A Hiking We Will Go
Students identify and describe examples of point source pollution. In this hiking lesson plan, students classify water pollution as either point source pollution or nonpoint source pollution. They listen to a story, take a walk around...
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SWOOP Reading
First graders read fluently. In this phonics lesson students practice reading strategies for fluency. They write a response in their journal about the book read in class.
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Air Pollution: What Can You Do?
Learners discuss and write about air pollution in their journals. They practice using new vocabulary words associated with pollution and write sentences using those words. They end the lesson by determining what they can do to fight air...
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Focus Story: The Mitten
Learners explore language arts by analyzing a story with their classmates. In this poetry identification lesson plan, students read the book The Mittens and identify the characters, plot and settings in the story. Learners recite poems...