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Line Up! Shape Up! Color the World!
Students explore the Elements of Art. In this art lesson, students read the book Katie Meets the Impressionists and brainstorm the different things that artists create. Students observe various elements of art such as line and color and...
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Voting Process
Students study and participate in the voting process. In this voting process lesson, students read Duck for President and vote on class snacks. Students create posters for the class snacks and present them to the class. Students tally...
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Sparky's Engineer: A Story Book Introduction to Engineering
Students investigate what an engineer does. In this engineering lesson, students read the book "Sparky's Engineer" and analyze the different types of engineers that are referenced in the book. The students identify tools and machines...
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The Saturday Morning Superhero:
Students explore the concept of engineering design. In this engineering design process lesson, students read The Saturday Morning Superhero and discuss the problem solving steps that the main character encounters as he creates a...
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Foods and Languages of the World
Students review Mexico's location and language and learn to pronouns 10 new Spanish food words. Students listen as the book, Corn is Maize is read, touching and passing around an ear of Indian corn. Students discuss the contribution of...
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Meet Danitra Brown Lesson on Friendship
Students discover the qualities of friends. In this character education lesson, students read the poem "Coke-bottle Brown" by Nikki Grimes. Students then discuss the Golden Rule and how it applies to friendships.
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Anti Racism Activity: The Sneetches
Students group together into fairness teams and reflect on how to be fair. For this fairness lesson plan, students read about The Sneetches and discuss how racism singles people out. Then they discuss their own experiences and group...
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Equal Shmequal by Virginia Kroll
Students read a book and complete exercises to explore the meaning of 'equals.' In this equal numbers lesson plan, students brainstorm the meaning of equals and read a story about the topic. Students use manipulatives to study balance...
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A Chair For My Mother
Students create art inspired by literature. In this literature instructional activity, students read A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams and then design cards and draw gifts they would present to new neighbors.
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What's "Out" There?
First graders investigate the five outer planets. For this space science lesson, 1st graders read the book Our Solar System and identify the five outer planets. Students create a booklet and write about outer planets.
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Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Arthur's Thanksgiving
Students investigate Thanksgiving by reading a children's book. In this holiday lesson plan, students read Arthur's Thanksgiving by Marc Brown and create a turkey fact book after reading an electronic encyclopedia. Students bring in...
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Gardening for Beauty, Food, and Enjoyment
First graders create their own garden. In this plant lesson, 1st graders discover the essential elements for a plant to grow. They planted their own garden and read the amount of space needed and the sunlight preferred for each plant.
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Ready, Set, Action
Students investigate parts of speech by analyzing action words in sentences. In this verb usage lesson, students read sentences to each other and identify the action words and verbs used. Students participate in a speed challenge in...
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Sound Effects
Students listen carefully so they can say their "part" during a reading of a Cinderella story. In this listening and speaking lesson plan, students saying their "part" on cue during a reading of a familiar story. They actively listen to...
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Odd and Even Numbers
First graders practice number identification by reading a story in class. In this number sense instructional activity, 1st graders read the story A Wish for Wings that Work and identify objects within the book's photographs. Students...
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Silly Sentences
Students read and illustrate silly sentences. In this sentence structure instructional activity, students draw illustrations to reflect the parts of one of the silly sentences. Students pictures should show all the parts of their silly...
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Counting Numbers: Four
Students practice counting to four. In this counting to four lesson, students access an e-book at "I Save A Tree.com" where they count items up to four. They examine the text and images which can be seen in both Spanish and English.
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Thanksgiving Then and Now
Students create a Venn diagram to compare the Pilgrim's "First Thanksgiving" with today's Thanksgiving celebration. They use one type of graphic organizer, a Venn diagram, talk and read about the Thanksgiving celebration of 1621 at...
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Past Tense Verbs
Young scholars read Hilburt The Halibut, and discuss the verbs in the story. Using the overhead projector, and a copy of the story on a transparency, the class examine the verbs and identify all the past tense verbs within the story.
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Around the Water Cycle--A Reader's Theater
Students read aloud a play script in a group to research the water cycle. They take the parts of raindrops. The amount of raindrops can be adjusted to fit group size.
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Locomotor Treasure Hunt
Students practice in refining their locomotor skills and developing their understanding of pathways and basic map reading skills.
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Who's Inside the Mitten?
Pupils read "The Mitten", by Jan Brett. They discuss vocabulary presented in the story and sequence significant plot events. They make masks to represent several of the characters and act out the story.
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Transportation
Students examine the different types of transportation. They practice reading a bus schedule and identifying which direction the bus is traveling. They also calculate cost of the ride and how long the ride is.