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Third Grade NYS Math Regents
In this New York State Math Regents learning exercise, students complete six short answer problems based on the third grade math curriculum. Students must show all work.
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Growing and Changing
Students practice interviewing skills. In this school newspaper instructional activity, students interview students in their school about what they want to be when they grow up. Students take pictures of the people they interview use the...
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Activity Plan 3-4: It's a Zoo in Here!
Students create a classroom zoo for large-group science learning. In this early childhood science lesson plan, students develop their language, science, creativity, and fine motor skills as they research zoo animals and create classroom...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Family Banner
Students create family banners. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop language, creative thinking, and social awareness by creating banners about their families.
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The Effects of Weather on People
Learners discover the causes of different types of weather and it's effect on society. In this environmental activity, students utilize the Internet to examine cloud types, normal weather conditions and the type of weather considered...
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Very Hungry Caterpillar Play-Doh
Students explore the concept of retelling a story. In this retelling lesson, students use Play-Doh to create models of the objects in Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Students use these models to to retell the events.
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Preschool Lesson: Guinea Pigs
In this Guinea Pig themed lesson, students hear the story, Guinea Pigs Add UP! and then engage in several themed learning activities. Each activity fosters skills in letter/number recognition, art, math or writing.
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Teddy Bear Picnic
Students sit in a circle with their bears from home, each child introduces their bear, then students examine all the bears and think of one way that they can be sorted.
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Let's Make a Mural
Learners social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. In this early childhood visual arts activity, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work together to plan,...
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Species Charades
Students identify endangered species. In this endangered species lesson plan, the teacher leads a discussion about endangered species, then the class plays a game of charades to pantomime animal behavior.
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Grocery Store
Students explore food and grocery stores. In this instructional activity on foods, students are introduced to the food pyramid and healthy eating through a variety of center activities. Students have to opportunity to role-play working...
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Zodiac Bookmarks
Learners explore the Chinese culture. In this cultural lesson, students create bookmarks using the Chinese Zodiac. Each learners uses the zodiac animal from their birth year to make a bookmark.
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A Birthday Basket for Tia
Students practice reading and math skills using technology. In this main idea activity, students retell the important events of A Birthday for Tia in sequence using Kid Pix. Students create a bar graph using The Graph Club and use...
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Nursery Rhymes
Students retell a memorized nursery rhyme. In this early public speaking activity, students retell a familiar nursery rhyme with the help of visual prompts.
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Autobiographical Writing About Memories
Students reflect on fall memories in preparation for creating an autobiographical composition. For this composition lesson, students explore how many writers use the changing seasons, fall in particular, to describe a character's life...
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All About Me Poster
In this biography/autobiography instructional activity, students read a few biographies and discuss the term and it's characteristics. Students then brainstorm what makes a good biography/autobiography and create an 'All about me'...
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Lesson Plan Ideas for Preschoolers
Students complete different activities throughout the day in a structured preschool setting. In this preschool day lesson plan, students complete circle time, academic learning, free play, and gross motor time.
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Activity Plan 4-5: I'm Graphing to Know You!
Students create graphs about themselves to learn more about one another. In this early childhood math lesson, students record information about one another as they make picture graphs.
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Enhancing Friendships Through Photography
Students connect with pen pals through photography. In this digital photography lesson, students create photo booklets to share with pen pals. Students correspond with their pen pals throughout the school year. Students also create...
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Toys Exercise
In this English activity, students are tested on their reading comprehension. They match the names of toys to pictures of the toys.
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Family Picture Quilt
Students explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt instructional activity, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things...
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Remember Me Bag and Other Gift Ideas
Young scholars make end of the year gift bags in the forms of a bag with different materials in it. In this crafts lesson, students put stationary, lollipops, stamps, bookmarks, pencils, and other materials into the bags.
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Bab Books: On Line Stories and Resources for Kids
Collection of children's books online. Some of the books are "Talking books," and children can create their own story by using Adlib and even have the story read back to them.
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Children's Book Council: Building a Home Library
The Children's Book Council offers four downloadable lists for different age groups to use for developing a home library or just for finding good books to read.