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Water Cycle Relay
Fourth graders study the water cycle in nature. In this water cycle lesson, 4th graders review the hydrologic cycle by reading the poem. Students then study a picture of the hydrologic cycle and fill in the blanks with the missing...
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Walk, Run, Jump!
Students participate in a series of timed relay races using their skeletal muscles. They compare the movement of skeletal muscle and relate how engineers help astronauts exercise skeletal muscles in space. They list the three types of...
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Number and Operations- Largest Number Race
Students participate in a race to compare whole numbers. In this number operations lesson, students create the largest 10-digit number and discuss how they constructed the largest number.
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Survivor Island Field Day
Students are given the opportunity to use the teamwork and leadership skills they learned in our cooperative learning unit in a real situation. They participate in relays, races, and rope challenges to showcase their ability to work with...
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Trash Bashing
Students define trash, garbage, or solid waste, discuss ways of disposing of trash, list examples of biodegradable materials, and have trash relay race in order to sort trash into appropriate containers labeled biodegradable, reusable,...
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Adapted Physical Education: Track and Field
Here you'll find a list of ideas and activity descriptions for hosting an adaptive physical education or special olympics event. It includes the setting, rules, and pointers for over 10 different track and field activities.
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The Amazing Prefix Race
Students participate in a competitive game of reviewing prefixes. For this word parts lesson students are given a prefix and one member from each team must race to the white board to write a word that contains the prefix.
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Clothing Capers: Creativity
No matter the age of your sewing pupils, they will enjoy these activities and projects that develop basic sewing machine use, following patterns, and finally creating a fun project of their own.
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Where Do I Put My Trash?
Where does the trash go after you put it in the garbage can? The class discusses sustainability, recycling, compost, and landfills as they play as fun relay game. In teams, they race to be the fastest group to successfully sort...
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Eating and Being Healthy
Pupils investigate healthy lifestyles by examining the food pyramid and performing physical activities. In this personal health lesson plan, students discuss their own diets and how it compares to the food pyramid. Pupils...
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Four Corner Running-Baseball
Students complete a relay race. In this four bases running lesson, students form groups at each of four bases. Students tag a person as they touch each base.
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Pollinators and Wildflowers
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce. In this pollination lesson students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects.
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Government Jeopardy Relay
Students review facts and concepts of the Canadian System of Government using a game format.
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Summer Health Activity: Challenging Courses
Students invent outdoor activities. In this early childhood lesson plan, students practice cooperation and large motor skills while they engage in and invent a variety of organized outdoor play activities. The activities encourage...
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Game: Turkey Put Together
Students play a game using a symbol of Thanksgiving - the turkey. In this Thanksgiving game lesson, students divide into teams and participate in a relay race to create a turkey.
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A Review of Lessons and Options
Students participate in a number of activities that reinforce the knowledge they have learned from previous units over waste management.
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A Delicate Balance
Learners complete an activity to help them understand the Earth's delicate balance. In this Earth lesson, students will draw and discuss the ways the Earth's atmosphere can be harmed. Learners will then participate in a relay race that...
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Leprechaun Treasure Hunt
Students play a relay race game that gives them points for finding and retrieving hidden items. They record data on a graph.
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Health Education: Sports Protection
Fourth graders look at personal protective equipment. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify personal protection equipment needed for sports and recreational activities.
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Backwards Day
Students create ways to do things backwards. In this cross-curriculum activity, students participate in various backwards activities for an entire day. Students recite the alphabet backwards, spell their names backwards, and read stories...
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What Happens Next?
While your students may not be psychics, that doesn't mean they can't predict what will happen next in a story. To hone this important reading comprehension skill, young learners read a series of three short...
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Teaching Fundamental Movement
Students perform fundamental movement activities for flexibility and motor skills. In this movement lesson plan, students perform physical activity for all grade levels.
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Pets
Students participate in an after school program that promotes making decisions, getting along with others, decision-making, and being responsible. A pet survey is administered along with a variety of pet riddles with the students. They...
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Yemen Cargo Bombs Foiled
Students explore an international terror alert originating in Yemen. In this lesson, students read an article that explains a terror alert in Britain, then complete several activities that reinforce the reading, including a...