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Lesson Nine: Size and Scale

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate scale as it is related to maps. In this map lesson, students read Jack and the Beanstalk by Carol North. Students then compare the setting in the story to a landscape picture map to help them study scale.
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Coal Flowers

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create coal flowers. In this mining lesson, students discuss the importance of coal during the 1800s and use ingredients to make coal flowers. Students determine the effect temperature has on crystal formation.
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Gwendolyn Brooks

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write a poem. In this writing instructional activity, students learn about Gwendolyn Brooks, a famous poet. Students discuss shape poetry and how it is written. Students choose an object from nature and write their own shape poem.
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Masks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine how weather masks were used and design their own. In this weather mask lesson plan, students look at examples of weather masks before planning one of their own. They sketch the mask on the associated template and build...
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Masks

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create weather masks. In this social studies lesson plan, students discover the history behind the weather masks used by Native American cultures and then create their own.
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A Tree for all Seasons

For Teachers K
Students investigate seasons. In this environment lesson, students describe the four seasons by drawing an appropriate tree for each season.
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Winter Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing winter. Students complete 20 matches total.
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Fractals Rock

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify the repeated sequences of a pattern. In this geometry lesson, students identify fractals in patterns and nature. They construct a fractal tree and make conjectures.
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Fractals Rock: Investing the Fractal Tree

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationship between fractals and sequences. In this geometry lesson, students build a fractal tree. They investigate different career fields where fractals are used in the real world.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars calculate the lines of symmetry using polygons. In this geometry lesson, students graph, compare and estimate using collected data. They identify different attributes to the polygons based on their sides.
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Symmetry that is Basic and Beautiful

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore lines of symmetry. In this symmetry instructional activity, students divide and combine shapes along basic lines of symmetry. Young scholars explore symmetry in real life objects.
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Introduce Vocabulary: The Itsy Bitsy Spider

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. For this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book The Itsy Bitsy Spider and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocab...
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Sounding Out, Holiday Relay

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore word sounds by participating in a visual relay game. In this vocabulary identification game, students create holiday themed images and cards based on the different holidays in a year. Students place the cards and images...
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Linked Together: One Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand the rights and responsibilities of belonging to a community.In this citizenship lesson, students illustrate eight citizen rights and share them. Students define the meanings of nationality and responsibility.
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Frosty Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students demonstrate locomotor skills in a game of tag.
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Snowboarding! Join the U.S. Team: Olympics, Math, Weather

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make weather predictions and observations, research the cost of snowboarding equipment, and use their math skills to plot the course of a Giant Slalom Snowboarding event.
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A Blotto Fun

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a free form painting using paper shapes and paint.
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Snowy Night Snaps

For Teachers K
Students use misprinted photographs donated from a photo processing company to create paintings of a snowy landscape at night.
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Enhancing Writing Through Technology

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in a class survey of their favorite activity to do in the snow and organize the results in a graph. They write a paragraph about the graph using language from a class-developed word web and include both an opening...
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Season's Readings

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use descriptive language to write riddles on their favorite seasonal subjects; they illustrate the "answers" to their riddles using the medium of their choice and compile both riddles and illustrations to create a book.
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Teaching Imagery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the terms idyll and imagery. They read "A Winter Idyll" from "Snowbound" as a class. They break into groups of 5 and respond/react to their lines to make connections to the text.
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars use a hot list to research information on and find pictures of The Water Cycle and make a Kid Pix movie explaining and showing pictures of The Water Cycle. They then give a presentation of their movie of The Water Cycle to...
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Listening For Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the concept of an adjective and how it is a word used to make a description. In this lesson they appreciate music for the purpose of finding an adjective to describe it. The skill of visualization is also used for...
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Wintery Words

For Students 2nd
In this word search instructional activity, 2nd graders read the 24 words that relate to winter. Students then find the words within the word search puzzle.

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