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Mother, May I Communicate?
Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.
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Musical Alphabet
Students play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts lesson for early-elementary classrooms. The lesson includes an idea on how to evaluate student comprehension.
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Neat Feet
Students view a video and discuss different kinds of feet found in the animal kingdom. They make prints using paint, rubber stamps and their own feet and then measure and compare the tracks.
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International Festival: Germany
Young scholars complete several activities to learn about the German culture. In this German culture lesson, students read the 'Hansel and Gretel' story and create a paper gingerbread house. Young scholars complete a matching game for...
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Thanksgiving Activity: Thanksgiving and Family
Students examine common Thanksgiving foods employing counting, singing, and discussion. Students sing "We Eat Turkey" and discuss what their families eat. Students will then be asked to create and plate of Thanksgiving food and count and...
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Sorting
Learners practice sorting books. For this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, learners sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...
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Sportsperson of the Day
Students follow the classroom and game/activities rules. They demonstrate responsibility by wearing tennis shoes to class, assisting others, taking care of equipment, helping clean-up, show respect and kindness to others during class time.
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Sparky's Birthday Surprise
Fire safety is a hot topic for kids! With this resource, little ones will read, color, draw, and play as they are learning about prevention and, as an added bonus, practice naming shapes, counting, and adding numbers! Reading, math, and...
Polar Trec
Swan Savvy
Just like so many other birds, swans migrate during the cold winter months. Your class can gain a better understanding of migration and bird life as they act out some of the activities common to the tundra swan. They make a nest, sit on...
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Who Knows the Letter?
Help learners identify initial consonant sounds and letters that represent that sound. They indicate awareness of consonant sounds and letters by responding with a physical movement. They also sing using "Sing Your Way Through Phonics"...
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Let's Learn About Plants!
Students discover different plants and plant parts by observing their campus. In this plant life lesson, students take a guided walk around their school with a magnifying glass examining everyday plants as well as photographing them....
Illustrative Mathematics
Shape Hunt Part 1
The hunt is on! Send young mathematicians on a search for shapes in the first lesson of this two-part series. Each time a child finds a hidden shape, he draws it on his paper, and continues searching for the rest. Perform this activity...
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Sprinkles 5
In this environment learning exercise, students read the information and complete the survey about their own local habitats and some of the others in Florida.
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Getting along With Others
Students examine character traits to find the most positive behaviors. In this getting along lesson, students identify behaviors that are beneficial to getting along. Students evaluate their own behaviors and target three that could...
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Expression!
Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this lesson plan. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.
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Boxes & Blocks: Square Play
Learners add a new angle to block play with this spatial challenge. In this early childhood math lesson, students use creative-thinking, patterning, visual-spatial, and fine-motor skills to explore the different shapes that can be made...
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Amphibian Spawns
Students observe tadpoles as they gradually change into adults. For this amphibian biology lesson, students watch tadpoles in a tank in the classroom, keep a daily record of what they observe, and chart the growth development of the...
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Halloween 2
Students listen carefully to songs and identify specific things. They demonstrate knowledge of songs by sing- along with class.
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What is electrical energy?
Students distinguish between items with and without energy. In this energy lesson, students understand that natural resources power electrical apparatus and that energy needs to be saved.
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Hug O' War
Students discuss philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy lesson, students read Shel Silverstein's Hug O' War and brainstorm ways of working together.
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Power of Speech (Private-Religious)
Students read a story. In this speech lesson, students read Yettle's Feathers and discuss what they learned from this parable. Students discuss how the words we say have an affect on other people.
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Be Prepared With Emergency Supplies
Learners identify what needs to be in a Family Emergency Supplies Kit. For this safety lesson, students discuss items that are necessary to have in emergencies. Learners use pictures of items and order them according to importance.
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Adding Pennies, Nickels and Dimes
Students add pennies, nickels and dimes and organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples. They discuss the importance of money in the day-to-day world.
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Fun with Food: Hola Jalapeno
Students engage in an at-home lesson on language. It contains components that address Adult Education/ESOL, and age appropriate activities for Toddler, Preschool and School aged Students. Adults reinforce steps to prepare tacos in...