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Pizza for Everyone

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

Pizza is the inspiration for the cross-curricular instructional activity detailed here. Start out with a poem about pizza and move into a discussion about balanced eating. To close the language arts portion of the instructional activity,...

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Oklahoma Stone Soup

For Teachers K - 8th Standards

Class members complete activities related to the story "Oklahoma Stone Soup." First, pupils read, discuss, and answer questions about the story. Next, to incorporate math into the lesson, learners make stone soup using a variety of...

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Finding Synonyms

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

Student identify synonyms in poetry. In this grammar lesson plan, students define what a synonym is and view several examples on the board. Students read a selected poem on an overhead transparency and circle the synonyms.

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Beef or Dairy?

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards

Guernsey, Jersey, Holstein. Brangus, Charoloais, Herford. Here’s a truly cross-curricular resource that combines language arts, science, math, and visual arts activities as class members learn to distinguish between beef and dairy...

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The Fable of Franny And Her Fabulous Fainting Goat

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Mix the art of reading comprehension with the skill of telling time. Children in grades two and three will discuss the importance of goats throughout history based on the provided background information. They'll create cute goat clocks...

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This Little Pig

For Teachers 1st Standards

First graders study basic information about swine. They write and identify vocabulary words relating to the subject. They write a recipe for "Pigs in a Blanket," using canned crescent rolls and small sausages. They trade recipes and...

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A Field of Beans

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards

Beans, or legumes as they are sometimes called, are the topic for an integrated multi-subject lesson. Youngsters will read, write, observe, and research everything there is to know about beans. They read a bean story, conduct a bean...

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Plant Parts We Eat

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards

I bet the kids in your class will love to eat their vegetables after an engaging lesson plan about edible plants. They read information about vegetables and edible plants, sort vocabulary words, identify plant parts, measure and graph...

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Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards

Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson plan based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...

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Lesson 3: Encyclopedias

For Teachers 2nd Standards

After being introduced to non-fiction texts, second graders meet a different type of non-fiction text that can help them locate factual information. They discuss and examine all of the features found in typical encyclopedias such as,...

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Causes

For Teachers 2nd Standards

What makes someone cry? Little learners read the story, Why Do You Cry?: Not a Sob Story by Kate Klise to discover a bit about crying and a bit about cause and effect. They'll fill out a cause and effect chart while they discuss and...

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Lesson 2: Distinguish Fact from Opinion in Books

For Teachers 2nd Standards

An important part of reading informational text is being able to discern fact from opinion. The class reads chapter one from the book, Penguins by Lynn M. Stone. They analyze specific sections of the text to determine if what is being...

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Sorting in More than One Way

For Teachers 2nd Standards

Sorting, categorizing, and classifying are skills learners must master for many different reasons. The class will work in small groups to list, classify, and sort a stack of familiar books. The neat part about the lesson plan is that the...

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Lesson 1: Figurative Language

For Teachers 2nd Standards

The story Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan is full of figurative language. Second graders choose one idiom from the story and create an illustration of its meaning. Handouts and structured vocabulary practice is included with the...

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Agriculture in Motion

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards

Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm. They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...

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Bread in a Bag

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards

This lesson focuses on making bread, but also spends some time on the origins of wheat. In order to make the bread, each class member receives a kit full of the materials they will need. Included here is a detailed list of instructions...

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Days of the Week Word Search

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 7 names of the days of the week in a word bank. Students find the words in a word search puzzle.

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Truth or Hogwash

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

Explore the history of domesticated pigs and their important byproducts. After discussing the use of pigs, class members create game boards describing the animals. While playing the game, they determine if the answers are true or...

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Mc Graw Hill Education: Grade 2: Treasures: Practice Book O [Pdf]

For Students 2nd Standards

Help second graders reinforce their understanding of the reading skills, vocabulary acquisition, phonemic awareness, and sight words with the pages in this 260-page workbook. This workbook is designed to supplement the stories from Grade...

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