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Curated OER

Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders find patterns and draw and describe them
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Curated OER

The Lavender Llama

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore friendship, discrimination, prejudice and tolerance.
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Curated OER

Jane Goodall

For Teachers K
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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Curated OER

Hunting and Gathering in the African Rain Forest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate their knowledge of the Mbuti people hunting and gathering in the African rain forest by writing a story about a Mbuti hunting or gathering food.
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Curated OER

The New Kids on the Blog

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the role of a critic by creating top ten lists for arts-related topics and participate in a simulated blog activity. They write newpaper articles to accompany their top ten lists and submit them for publication.
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Curated OER

Chuga Chuga Choo Choo

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Curated OER

Icky, Icky, Sticky!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore phonemes in spoken words as well as their corresponding graphemes in written words. They practice the short vowels /i/ and /e/. Students perform activities to practice sounds. They identify pictures with a particular...
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Curated OER

Simple Everyday Products

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the origin of products and how they are manufactured from natural resources. They draw the production cycle and discuss how one could help reduce the number of natural resources that are used. They also...
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Curated OER

Online Project Center

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write two haiku poems in appropriate form. Writing haiku allows students to practice in the skills of dividing words into syllables, counting syllables, and searching for words to fit a structure.
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Curated OER

Revolutionary Newspaper

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a newspaper article about an important event or cause of the Revolutionary War. In small groups they participate in a jigsaw activity, and return to their original group to report on their new information. Students...
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Curated OER

Horton Hears a Who

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars explore the ways that communities work in the story Horton Hears a Who and compare that to the community in which they live.
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Curated OER

Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to Horton Hears a Who? and complete a study of word cooperation. They group the words into families to see chunking.
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Curated OER

Rain and Our Environment

For Teachers 1st
First graders understand the importance of rain in our environment by writing a sentence about something in existence that would cease to be without rain. They use describing words to describe the living thing's color and draw and color...
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Curated OER

Making Decisions Based on Best Information

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to the techniques to determine if the information they gathered was the best available. In groups, they discuss how having the best information can help them make important decisions. They also participate...
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Curated OER

What's Up Doc?

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate the /o/ sound by opening up their mouth and saying, "Ahhhhh". They try saying a tongue twister that contains the /o/ phoneme; repeating it two times together. They then practice writing the letter /o/ so that it can...
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Curated OER

"Eddie the Excited Elephant"

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize each letter in the alphabet and the phoneme it makes. They recognize phonemes in spoken words and their corresponding letters or spelling maps and distinguish phonemes in their oral contexts.
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Curated OER

Sink or Float?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students predict and explore to discover which objects sink or float in fresh and salt water, predict how salt affect objects, write predictions on T chart, discuss difference between man-made and natural waters, and graph results.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Big Book Activities: What Will the Weather Be Like Today?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this K-2 activity, the teacher uses guided reading strategies and creative activities to make a big book come alive to her learners.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Character Education Read Alouds

For Teachers K Standards
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Patty Lovell's book, Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Students will participate in listening to other stories with the same message and then will determine the "big...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words....
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Sorting Into Predetermined Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into student created categories using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works

Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....