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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: A Blanket of Snow

For Students K - 1st
Read about how even as snow covers the land with a beautiful white blanket, signs of spring lurk beneath it. Book includes audio narration in nine additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Senses

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read about the wonderful changes that take place when spring arrives. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: It's Fall!

For Students K - 1st
Read about the changes that take place when autumn arrives. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert

For Students K - 1st
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Championship Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
A picture book about the final championship baseball game of the season. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: The Year at Maple Hill Farm

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Clifford Learns About the Four Seasons and So Do We!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Uses the book "Chicken Soup With Rice" by Maurice Sendak to teach about the seasons. Three detailed lessons are included as part of this eight week unit.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Weather

For Teachers K
Students learn about real and imaginary situations by connecting knowledge from nonfiction texts and media sources to events in literary texts. Students develop an awareness of weather and its patterns, how weather affects living things,...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Frogs

For Teachers 1st
First graders gather information from a variety of texts to more deeply understand the connections between literary and informational texts. They build on knowledge of the seasons to focus on the life cycles of animals, specifically...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Seasonal Changes of a Tree

For Teachers K - 1st
For this activity, young scholars adopt a tree in the schoolyard and observe it throughout the year, recording the changes that they notice as the seasons pass. They will learn about the parts of the tree and notice how the tree is used...
Handout
Textbook of Bacteriology

Todar's Online Textbook of Bacteriology: Lyme Disease (Borrelia Burgdorferi)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, the reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, and the vaccination created to prevent Lyme disease. Included are pictures of erythema migrans, a condition in early Lyme...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Spring

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This spring unit is targeted for kindergarteners to learn about climate and environment changes in the spring. An assessment is included at the end by means of Activotes.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: Indigenous Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Indigenous Geography helps you develop key understandings on nine different dimensions as they relate to six Native communities located in the Western Hemisphere. Learn about the creation stories, place boundaries and landmarks, calendar...
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...