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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Build a Family Album (Scrapbook)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Ideas for creating memorable family albums using the talents of all family members. Downloadable scrapbook basics as well as twenty different album templates to help you get started.
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Website
Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
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Website
Other

Silicon Valley Art Museum

For Students Pre-K - 1st
From the center of America's high-tech industry, the Silicon Valley Art Museum showcases the talents of artists-- past, present, and future-- who explore the connections between art and technology. Through a variety of high-interest...
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Article
Other

Texas Child Care Quarterly: Promoting Imagination in Preschool Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Imagination is one of the most important ingredients of a creative mind. Because imagination is at its peak in early childhood, educators can continually cultivate it among preschoolers. By allowing children to experiment with life...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog: Let's Make Music!

For Students Pre-K - K
Explore music at home and in class with homemade instruments. In "Top of the Charts," Emily Elizabeth gets inspired to create the happiest song in the world. Emily Elizabeth, Jack, Pablo, Samantha, and Clifford pool their talents and...
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Activity
Understood For All

Understood.org: Strengths Chain: Hands on Activity

For Teachers K - 1st
To help kids thrive, recognizing their strengths is just as important as working on their challenges. Here's a cool - and crafty - way to identify kids' strengths and connect them in a paper chain, or a "strength chain".
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Lesson Plan
Other

Better Attitudes & Skills in Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of social emotional lesson plans. They were developed by the Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist, and Child Care Consultation Staff via the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
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Interactive
Other

Interest Based Learning Everyday

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource from Carol M. Trivette, PhD, Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, provides multiple examples of ways to incorporate "interests" in guiding learning activities for young children.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Vamos Hacer Musica!

For Students Pre-K - K
Exploremos la musica en casa y en clase con instrumentos hechos en casa.
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Interactive
Other

Virginia Career View: A Book About Me 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use a virtual pencil to write or draw likes, talents, and skills. Then print the activity when finished.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: The Real Macaw

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Watch a video [2:06] about the many talents of Macaws and listen to the narrator describe features of these beautiful birds.
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Jazz Giant Louis Armstrong

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Library of Congress takes a jump back in time to examine the life and career of jazz innovator Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Armstrong is known for his amazing talent as a jazz trumpeter and for his "scat" singing. This site will give...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Squiggles

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
After reading "The Squiggle" by Carole Lexa Schafer, students use their own creative vision and talent to turn a squiggle into a masterpiece. They use crayons to color background and details, anything that helps make their squiggle into...
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Website
Other

Virginia Career View: What Will You Be When You Grow Up?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore what you want to be when you grow up here on this career information delivery system portal. Discover the many different career paths that match your interests and talents, and learn about numerous types of careers.
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Website
Other

Maine Department of Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Maine's site offers information on all aspects of its educational system (e.g., budget reports, gifted and talented programs, certification requirements, testing, teacher certification). In addition, links take the viewer to a range of...
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Article
Understood For All

Understood.org: 5 Steps for Recognizing Strengths in Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Knowing your child's strengths can help you build their self-awareness and self-esteem. You can also use those strengths to work on challenging areas in ways that aren't as frustrating. Following these steps can help you recognize your...
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Article
Other

What Makes Your Child "Tick"? Using Child Interests to Build Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article from Lauren Lowry, a Hanen Certified SLP, provides an understanding of how using children's interests can assist with speech and language development.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Hold an Awards Ceremony

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Identify your own personal talents and design an award celebrating those skills and accomplishments. Participate in an awards ceremony that recognizes the talent in everyone.
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eBook
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tar Heel Reader: Types of Work

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This e-book introduces how to choose a career that fits your talents or interests.
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Article
Other

District Administration: Without Boundaries

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Technology is becoming more and more of an integral part of arts education. This article discusses how technology can enhance arts education by helping students explore their own creative talents.
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Article
Other

Lorea Martinez: 3 Steps to Increase Students' Self Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students (and adults) who can identify their strengths will be more likely to build on them to improve their areas of growth; they will probably have greater motivation and will be more self-confident. Here are 3 suggested steps to talk...
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Website
Other

Macomb Intermediate School District: Gifted Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Part of a Michigan school site, this page offers several definitions of giftedness, lists characteristics and behaviors of gifted students, and confirms ways of addressing their special needs.
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Article
Goshen College

Motivating Non Drawing Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."
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Article
Goshen College

Motivating Non Drawing Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Marvin Bartel writes this article in hopes of helping you find a way to reach the students who insist "I can't draw."

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