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"Zigzag"
Students listen to the book "Zigzag" by Robert D. San Souci, and examine the concepts of friendship, respect, and determination. They answer story comprehension questions, then create a fabric doll using the shapes from the book.
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"Zigzag"
Second and third graders explore point of view and read and discuss the book "Zigzag." They listen to the story "The Five Blind Men and the Elephant" and discuss point of view, identify the point of view of the main character Zigzag, and...
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Zigzag
Students observe three boxes drawn on the board to organize a story's beginning, middle, and end. They listen to the story Zigzag and identify a beginning, middle and end to organize their thoughts sequentially to improve recall.
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Zigzag
First graders compare the main characters in the story Corduroy with those in Zigzag. They explore the themes of character, setting, problem, and resolution while viewing picture sets that show similarities and differences and discuss as...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Jonathan and His Mommy (Smalls)
Go on a walking adventure through Irene Smalls' touching book Jonathan and His Mommy, an excellent resource to practice vocabulary in context. Go over the walking-themed terms (humongous, pace, leap, and zigzag)...
DK Publishing
Mary Sorted Her Snails
Mary needs help sorting her snails! Each snail has one of three distinct patterns on its shell, and scholars sort each into the proper category. Then, they count the number of snails in each pattern group (triangles, circles, and zigzag)...
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Zigzag Seeds
Students observe the effects of gravity on seeds. Students place seeds in various orientations and record their growth to determine how gravity affects the seeds' growth.
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The Story of Art
Students canvass the important elements of art in the seven lessons of this unit. Story structure and in particular, color is perceived as essential to the development of the idea of a picture.
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Zigby Zigzags
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /z/ sound. As a class they recite a Z tongue twister, then listen to the book Zigby Hunts For Treasure. Students identify the words in the book containing the /z/ sound, trace and...
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Rod, Penny, and Lightning: The Straight Story
Students review the concept of a movement story. As a class, they practice moving in straight, curved and zigzag pathways while making frozen body shapes of the characters in the story. To end the instructional activity, they must...
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Passing and Receiving on the Ground
Students improve skills in partner passing and zigzag soccer passing. In this motor skills lesson, students understand the tactics and performance skills needed to pass a soccer ball. Students display their increased skill in...
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Seaweed Art
Students read a book about seaweed. They create various types of seaweed by painting a variety of lines. Students utilize a variety of line techniques such as wavy lines, zigzag, and curly.
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Trace The Lines
In this language arts worksheet, students use pre-writing skills. Students trace four zig zag lines to practice fine motor control and writing technique.
Lakeshore Learning
Alphabet Sounds Teaching Tubs
A hands-on activity brings the alphabet to life in your kindergarten! Fill tubs with items that begin with the same letter or end with the same sound, and let kids make the connections between the items.
Inside Mathematics
Squares and Circles
It's all about lines when going around. Pupils graph the relationship between the length of a side of a square and its perimeter. Class members explain the origin in context of the side length and perimeter. They compare the graph to the...
EngageNY
Scatter Plots
Scholars learn to create scatter plots and investigate any relationships that exists between the variables with a lesson that also show them that statistical relationships do not necessarily indicate a cause-and-effect...
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Aboriginal Hand Prints
A part of a study of Australian Aboriginal culture, class members listen to a Dreamtime story about a father who stenciled his handprint on a rock wall. Class members then make their own hand print art representative of themselves...
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Is it alive?
Kids in grades K-2 increase their logical reasoning and visual discrimination skills by determining which things shown are alive. They use the criteria that all living things move on their own to mark each image as alive or not.
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Cutting Zig Zag Lines
In this practice cutting lines worksheet, learners use their fine motor skills as the cut each of 3 dotted zig zag lines with scissors.
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Soccer - Lesson 13 - Practice
Soccer practice. Practice some of the basic skills. Then play some small 4 vs. 4 games in preparation for the class World Cup tournament. Lesson 13 out of 20 in this soccer unit. There are links to the other lessons as well as to the...
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Lines of Symmetry
Students practice dance to divide the space or body shape into equal sections to create symmetry in dance. In this symmetry lesson, students practice symmetrical and asymmetrical movements in dance. Students participate in move and...
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Clay Tile: Art Deco Style
Students analyze and classify sets of pictures using a mathematical classification system and create original works of Art Deco tiles using this new knowledge and four types of symmetry.
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Model Equivalent Fractions : Beth's Block Tower
For this equivalent fractions worksheet, students use the math model tower to solve the equivalent fractions word problems. Students solve six problems.
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Am I Straight
Identify the slope of a linear equation in this algebra lesson. Middle schoolers graph linear equations using slopes and intercepts. They identify the slope as being positive, negative, no slope, or undefined.