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Statistics Education Web

First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Making groups of groups can help to organize data. Classes use statistics to group themselves using descriptive adjectives. The objective is for learners to understand that grouping qualitative data is useful when the original groups are...
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Novelinks

The Giver: Biopoem

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
The characters in Lois Lowry's The Giver are rich and complex as they weave their way through the plot. Examine the character traits of one chosen person with a biopoem, which enables learners to follow a poetic format in writing a...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Masks, a pandemic, remote learning, and isolation; scholars reflect on the past school year and consider what positive things they would like to see continued in the current school year and what negative things they would like to...
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Trinity University

Who Am I? Using Personal Narrative to Reflect on Identity

For Teachers 6th Standards
Who am I? Pupils work to answer this question through a unit that explores personal narratives and identity. Exit tickets for activities that examine different poems, short stories, and autobiographical writing serve as prewriting for...
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Student Handouts

"I am as..." Similar Similes Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
As brave as a scarecrow, as silly as a book? What will your youngsters compare themselves to? Here is a creative and fun way to explore the world of similes that your class members will definitely enjoy!
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Novelinks

The Little Prince: Biopoem Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about character traits with a biopoem activity. Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, the activity prompts learners to fill in the blanks of a poem form to describe themselves.
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Curated OER

Name & Word Wall Activities, Building Blocks: Literacy, Letter Recognition,

For Teachers K
Students use the word wall to learn letters, their names, develop print awareness and many other literacy skills.
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Curated OER

Foods and Nutrition

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study nutrition, healthy choices for food, and ways to prepare food. They review the Food Guide Pyramid and play Nutriend Tic Tac Know to select healthy foods. As a group they make pretzels, Mystery Muffins, soda, and play the...
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Curated OER

Mannequin

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create an outfit out of newspaper and masking tape to be placed on one of their classmates. In this outfit lesson plan, students have 10 to 20 minutes to complete the getting to know you activity.
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Curated OER

Collaborative Communication Project

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a getting to know you database to share with e-mail pals. They follow friendly letter format to communicate with their pals and share math word problems with them. They compare their culture with that of their e-pal.
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Curated OER

Word Processing for Third Graders

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice while in the computer lab mastering how to utilize Microsoft Word and word processing. They produce a Microsoft Word All About Me document after viewing a video on the main purposes of using a word processor.
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Curated OER

Class Puzzle - First Day of School

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars draw talents, interests, and hobbies of themselves and a classmate. In this getting to know you lesson plan, students also state how they would resolve conflicts.
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Curated OER

My Teacher Acrostic Poem

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this poetry writing worksheet, students create their own acrostic poem. The title is "My Teacher." The first letter of every line is provided.
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Curated OER

Pride and Prejudice: Biopoem

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Describe yourself or a character from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with a biopoem activity. Using the provided format, kids write their own characteristics or the character traits from the novel to create a poetic portrait.
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Curated OER

My Favorites

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this worksheet students list their favorites on the list provided. Students are directed to talk about their lists and compare them with friends.
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Curated OER

Meet Someone Who?

For Students K - 2nd
In this social skills worksheet, students find other students in their class who meet the different category on the worksheet. For example: like to swim, has shoes with laces, etc. Students are given pictures to help which makes this...
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Curated OER

Changing the World, One Month at a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in kindness and good citizenship activities in this lesson. Each month of the school year, they are assigned a different activity. For example, in August the theme is "Getting to Know You!" The students hand out...
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Curated OER

Management Stop and Go

For Teachers K
Students discover the go command and the freeze command for the management of the class. They go out into personal space on the go command, and walk around playing the name game, introducing themselves to the rest of the class.
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Curated OER

Persona Interests, Likes, and Dislikes

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students practice listening to and discussing their personal interests and opinions. In this communication lesson, students listen as the teacher talks about his/her personal interest. They work with a partner to verbally share their own...
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Math Tales From the Spring

Ice Breaker Activity - Bio Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Get to know your pupils and create a stunning display in your room with a class set of bio pyramids. Scholars answer questions about themselves, their hobbies, hopes, and dreams. Autobiographical information is written on a...
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Curated OER

Me and My World

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this me and my world worksheet, students draw a picture and write sentences about themselves, their family, their friends, and activities they like to do. Students write 1 or 2 sentences for each.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

How To Calm Back-to-School Nerves

For Teachers K - 3rd
Set students up for success with these tips for getting the year off to a smooth start.
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Mississippi State University

The Five Senses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Your learners engage their five senses every day without knowing it. Help them identify their experiences and extend their understanding with a month full of lessons designed for the five senses. Kids focus on a different sense every...
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Curated OER

Control the Classroom from Day One

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Avoid the beginning-of-the-year scramble by having a strategy for the first few days of school.

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