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Student Achievement Partners
Achieve the Core: Illustrative Mathematics: The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Pdf]
In this lesson, first-grade students explore counting on and the place value system using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah's Early Childhood Core Standards
This comprehensive site provides a scope and sequence for preschool learning experiences. Teaching strategies and preschool learning activities are provided.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness
Journal of School Health: Mental Health Screening in Schools
The National Alliance on Mental Illness presents this article from the Journal of School Health. It discusses the importance of screening students in schools for mental health problems.
Quia
Quia: German Vocabulary Games
A wealth of fun, interactive games to hone your skill of speaking German. Require Java to be enabled.
Other
Nwea: The Five Formative Assessment Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Dylan Wiliam provides the five strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom.
Other
Division of Archaeology: Activity Guides
Find lesson plans for elementary and middle school students that include archaelogy activities for sites primarily in Louisiana. Take a look at the life of Archaic period Mound Builders, and find many examples of artifacts.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: The President
A comprehensive learning module on government that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students look at leaders at the different levels of...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Grandparenting Today: Publications
This site has a wealth of downloadable resources on being a parent of one's grandchildren. Some of the topics covered include grandparent roles, stages of child development, discipline, education, extracurricular activities, getting...
Utah Education Network
Uen: All About Me Story
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Can You Spot the Ad?
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this activity, young students will learn how to differentiate "branded" and brands" in content. Students will also learn learn strategies and goals of advertisers.
US Department of Education
Response to Intervention and Multi Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
An in-depth discussion of need for Response to Intervention systems to be set up within elementary schools, as well as a guide to doing so. The paper makes five recommendations for setting up an RtI system and gives practical directions...
Study Pad
Splash Learn: Decompose Numbers (11 to 19) Into a Ten and a Few Ones
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using ten frames and number sentences, students will practice decomposing numbers into tens and ones.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort
A lesson plan in which students draw letter cards and see how many words they can make from them. Materials are included.
Globe
The Globe Program: Climate Module
Climate change affects the whole world, from the tropics to the poles. Through learning activities, students learn how weather over a long period of time describes climate, explore how sea level rise can affect coastal communities and...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Adding Up, Taking Away Activity Plan
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will practice and explore strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, such as using counters and rulers, performing mental math, and drawing pictures. As children encounter...
Other
Casel: Sample Teaching Activities (Support Social and Emotional Learning)
This resource provides a collection of activities that address the Social and Emotional Learning Standards.
Other
Indiana Department of Education: Social Emotional Learning Toolkit
Authored by Dr. Brandie Oliver, Butler University, this resource provides lessons to help teachers understand social emotional learning and how to implement best practices that will help promote their students' social-emotional development.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Babirusa
This San Diego Zoo resource is a webpage about the Babirusa. Students will learn about characteristics such as the diet, habitat and size of this animal.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Riley Child Rhymes
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Riley Child-rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley, a book of poems for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Comical Creatures From Wurtemberg
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication of The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, a fiction book for children.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Characteristics of 3 D Shapes
Create a worksheet to assess students knowledge of the characteristics of three dimensional shapes.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Ana Juan
Read this biography to learn about author Ana Juan. Links to an interview and a list of her books are available.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Debbie Dadey
Read this biography to learn about bestselling author Debbie Dadey. Links to her website, an interview, an author visit kit, and a list of her books are available.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Deborah Guarino
Read this biography to learn about author Deborah Guarino. Links to an author visit kit and a list of her books are available.