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Teaching the Musical Concept of Tempo

For Teachers K
Intended for an Autism class, this lesson teaches self-expression through music while facilitating an understanding of the concept of tempo. Pupils engage in a call-and-response song, clap, discuss, and sing keeping feelings and tempo...
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Cultivating Caring - Filling Buckets of Caring Carrots

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice compassion. In this character education lesson, student read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. Students discuss the book as well as ways to demonstrate they care for one another. Students fill buckets...
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Collaborative Creation

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the body parts in a sculpture. In this sculpting activity, students view the "Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva" and discuss the characteristics of each body part. Student work together to draw one specific body part.
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Gone Fishing: Still Life With Fish

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore lines and texture in a still-life painting. In this visual arts lesson, students study William Merrit Chase's painting "Still Life With Fish" and discuss the lines in the painting. Students choose a line to repeat in...
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Hues and Bridges: Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet.  In this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout.  Students create their own painting of a famous...
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Out of the Box

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars think creatively.  For this out of the box lesson, students explore the Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum, examining the work of architect Daniel Libeskind and his team.  Young scholars discover...
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Migration Activities for Kids

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
For as long as there has been life on earth, animals, including humans, have used migration as a means of survival. This collection of activities supports young scientists as they learn about this behavioral adaptation, encouraging them...
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Musical Chairs Review Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review material by playing musical chairs. They identify shapes, colors and vocabulary. They give the definition of the new vocabulary words while playing the game as well.
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Multi-Disciplinary Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" and play instruments.
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Lesson Plan #26

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students build background knowledge or schema of critical division skills by predicting or inferring what will happen next in the story, retelling story detail, and counting the number of cookies on the plate.
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Curriculum Corner

Curriculum Framework Forms

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Sketch out weekly plans for reading, writing, math, and small group instruction, noting standards that will be addressed, materials to be used, and the lesson focus, on a one-page form. A great way to see the week at a glance. Eight...
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The First Days

For Teachers K - 12th
Designed for first-year teachers, this 116-page packet has it all. Questions you should ask administrators and fellow teachers, a checklist of things to do before school starts, a school-year calendar to record special school events and...
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The Extraverted Feeling Personality Type: An Introduction

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Curriculum planning techniques and strategies designed to engage and inspire an extraverted-feeling class mix.
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Lesson Planet Article
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How To Use the Six Traits of Writing

For Teachers K - 7th
Use these reference tools to plan and organize the Six Traits of Writing Program.
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Constructing a Building

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students work with big boxes to connect big ideas. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students develop social, language, math, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work together to plan and design a...
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Scrambled Eggs Super!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming lesson, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words inside to use...
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Franklin Says I Love You

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students consider the importance of giving as they read "Franklin Says I Love You". In this character education activity, students engage in discussion about the importance of sharing and giving. They relate to the story by offering...
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An Exciting New Year

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students look back on last year, so that they are able to plan ahead for a new year. In this early childhood language arts lesson, students use verbal and cognitive skills to discuss what they did the previous year and what their...
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Creative Cubbies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students get comfortable in the classroom. In this early childhood visual arts lesson plan, students engage in an art activity that encourages individuality and creativity using a variety of art materials to decorate their cubbies.
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What Size Is It Anyway?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fabulous plan on teaching basic concepts of measurement to young learners. Pupils use nonstandard units to measure length, practice using a ruler and a yardstick, compare the length of two objects, and perform estimations of length....
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Science Charades

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners dramatize the wonderful world of nature, without making a sound. In this early childhood creative thinking lesson, students dramatize different aspects of nature to develop creative thinking, reading, memory, and motor skills.
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New Ways to Measure

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners recognize that measuring tools can come in many different shapes and sizes. In this early childhood math lesson, students develop creative-thinking, math, and social skills as they use nontraditional measuring tools.
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Have Block Party!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover that the possibilities are limitless in this block-building activity. For this early childhood, problem solving lesson, students develop social, problem-solving, math, and language skills using a specific number of...
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A Small Book of Small Things

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore size relationships as they collect pictures of the small things in their world. In this early childhood math and literacy lesson, students gain an understanding of size differences and develop fine-motor and literacy...

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