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Activity
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Young Writers Workshop

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A wonderful collection of downloadable PDF story starters ("workshop pages") for young children. Each worksheet includes a colorful image, fun prompt and writing lines. Students can also submit their stories for publication on the site.
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Navajo Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
After studying Navajo weaving and listening to the story "Ten Little Rabbits," learners create their own interpretive dances. Contains an assessment checklist and extensions ideas.
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Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Kids' Quest on Disability and Health

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
KQ, the techno-health wizard, lets kids choose a WebQuest about a disability-related question they may have been wondering about. They get a page of activities and resources about Autism, Vision Impairment, Mobility Restriction, etc.,...
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Website
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Kids' Quest on Disability and Health

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
KQ, the techno-health wizard, lets kids choose a WebQuest about a disability-related question they may have been wondering about. They get a page of activities and resources about Autism, Vision Impairment, Mobility Restriction, etc.,...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Seven Selfish Shellfish

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This video segment from Between the Lions features a classic tongue twister: a type of wordplay that helps children tune their ears to language and the sounds within words. [0:29]
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Interactive
University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Outside Games

For Students K - 1st
Learn about how the synapse works in the nervous system. Then play common games that demonstrate many functions of the nervous system. Find definitions of the vocabulary necessary to understand how the nervous system works.
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Activity
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Stopwatch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a general-use stopwatch that can serve any purpose, for any subject area. The stopwatch counts up and down, records times that events happen, and also includes a buzzer that will activate at any time the user chooses. Java is...
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Professional Doc
Scholastic

Scholastic: Separate but Equal? An Experiment Mixes Urban and Suburban Students

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Life is very different for students in urban and rural communities. Find out how these differences impact their everyday lives and experiences in the classroom.
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Toxic Trees: Just How Toxic Is That Black Walnut Tree?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The goal of this plant biology science fair project is to make and test an herbicide made from the leaves of the black walnut tree and investigate the toxicity of black walnut trees.
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Seeing Seeds [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An exploration for younger students into the diversity of seeds and what is inside a seed. Includes extension activities.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Helen Lester's Me First [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Helen Lester's children's book, Me First, is provided on these pages. Eight character roles are needed in this activity.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Where the Wild Things Are [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater adaptation of Maurice Sendak's early childhood book, Where the Wild Things Are, is provided on this script. Six character roles are needed in this performance.
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Activity
Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Redheaded Robbie's Christmas Story [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A reader's theater script for Bill Luttrel's children's book, Redheaded Robbie's Christmas Story, is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity.
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Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Bingo: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
A version of Bingo! that teaches students to differentiate between words that rhyme. The site includes links to bingo boards and rhyming pictures.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers Show & Tell Newspaper Doll

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Tracing a child's body helps a child know where their his or her body begins and ends. This awareness is the first stage of self-control. Follow this activity to help your child understand this life skill.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
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Lesson Plan
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Early Childhood Art Lessons

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Art lessons for infants up to kindergarten level. They are sorted into categories of age levels, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.
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Lesson Plan
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Elementary Art Lessons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Art lessons for elementary students. They are sorted into categories of grade levels, medium used, subject matter, art period, artist, and cross-curricular connections.
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Website
Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Files for Art Teachers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A large collection of files that have been contributed by art teachers. Examples of topics include rubrics, lessons, ideas for critiquing art, assessments, icebreakers, classroom management, games, parent communication, and lots more.
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Website
National Geographic

National Geographic: The Great Nature Project: Butterfly Mission [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Get involved with the Great Nature Project! This resource focuses on the life cycle of butterflies.
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Unit Plan
Other

Science4 Us: Changes in Matter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through an instructional video, games, and activities, students explore three types of change matter makes: physical change, in which only the shape of the matter changes; physical phase change in which matter changes to a different form...
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Website
Other

Toronto Zoo: Adopt a Pond Wetland Conservation Programme

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a large website from the Toronto Zoo with information on environmental conservation. There are explanations about habitats and species, and teacher resources for a variety of grade levels and subjects.
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Activity
Other

Class tools.net: Create Interactive Flash Tools & Games for Education

For Teachers K - 1st
ClassTools.net offers a collection of templates you can customize and save online and even embed into your own website or blog. Fast and intuitive Flash animations guide you through the template-building process, and you'll be creating...