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Tortoise and Hare Races Lesson PlanTortoise and Hare Races Lesson Plan
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Tortoise and Hare Races

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Students listen to the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and participate in various map skill activities. They manipulate magnetic tortoises and hares on metal cookie sheets to practice direction, and construct racing tortoises out of paper.

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the tortoise and the hare, children's literature, aesop's fables, map skills

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map skills, the tortoise and the hare, english language arts

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