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Teachers.net: The Gingerbread Man
Introduce your primary learners to retelling and sequencing skills. Will also help move your students to higher-level thinking which deals with characters, setting, and plot. Site offers one week's worth of lessons.
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Teachers.net Lesson: Weather
Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.
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Teachers.net Lesson: Natural Disaster Bloom's Taxonomy
Here is a lengthy activity for student to work on while learning about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Students will enjoy researching these disasters and applying what they have learned to a project.
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Teachers.net: Cause and Effect
Simple and effective method for introducing primary students to the concept of cause and effect in literature.
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Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards
While this lesson is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the lesson can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing chronological order.
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Teachers.net: Who Lives in the Sea? A Class Book
A lesson plan where young scholars work together to create an alphabet book filled with ocean plants and animals.
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Teachers.net: Alphabet Line Up
A lesson plan where students work together to play a game of putting the letters of the alphabet in order.
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Teachers.net: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Chicka Challenge
Here are a variety of ideas to go along with the book "Chicka-Chicka-Boom Boom." The activities include sequencing skills, bulletin board ideas, art activities, and much more.
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Teachers.net: "It Looked Like Spilt Milk"
Contains teacher posted lesson plan ideas for "It Looked Like Spilt Milk." These were posted on a chatboard, so they are a little hard to follow in places.
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Teachers.net Lesson Plans: Tooth or Consequences
This resource provides several activities on dental care are described here. The activities involve a dental scavenger hunt on the Internet, watching a video, and reading a "Berenstein Bears" book about going to the dentist.
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Teachers.net: Why Spiders Don't Get Caught in the Web
In this lesson plan students listen to clues to determine that a mystery animal is a spider. After hearing the many clues, they will have learned many spider facts.
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Teachers.net: Pumpkin Potpourri (Lesson Plan)
Some cute ideas on integrating a pumpkin theme into many subject areas, based on reading "Pumpkin, Pumpkin," by Jeannie Titherington. Activities include making a pumpkin story wheel, creating a mural, and making a paper pumpkin patch.