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.
Quia
Quia: German Vocabulary Games
A wealth of fun, interactive games to hone your skill of speaking German. Require Java to be enabled.
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Tips: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning (1St Grade)
Use these teaching tips from the PBS Kids Lab to help children make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equations, use addition and subtraction within 20 to...
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: Dr Jollyboy's Abc
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Dr Jollyboy's ABC by Gordon Browne, an alphabet book for children.
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: 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.
Other
The Imagine Nation
Homepage for the imagine nation, a coalition with the aim of putting innovation and imagination back into schools through art. Links include resources and highlights of initiatives.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: What Makes a Teen Number?
Learners will learn about teen numbers by understanding the base-ten structure of teen numbers. They will fill-in a 10-frame and a blank equation as they complete the activity. Worksheet included.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Inventors and Inventions 2: Air and Space
After discussing important flying inventions, students explore technological design by making paper airplanes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Fiction and Nonfiction Sort [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars look at different books, write their titles, and sort them according to whether they are fiction or nonfiction. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Sequence a Story [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and write the main events of the story on sentence strips. Materials are included.