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Polar Express Lesson Plan
Young scholars develop a podcast as they retell the story of The Polar Express. In this early childhood lesson plan, students experience technology by creating a podcast. Young scholars also create illustrations to be scanned for the...
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Summer Fun Activity: Have a Picnic
Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Pineapple Investigations
Students use all of their senses to explore a fresh, delicious pineapple. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in activities that encourage sensory exploration, problem solving, creative-thinking, language skills, and the...
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Activity Plan 4-5: Animal Habitats
Young scholars investigate the world around them with this animal habitat activity. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create murals depicting animal habitats to encourage the development of science, geography,...
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Study Guide to Surprised by Joy
This resource makes accessible the text that portrays the occurrences leading to C.S. Lewis’s finding of God. It encourages the reader to personally reflect upon, and examine Surprised by Joy. The document is divided into two sets where...
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Compare and Contrast Night to Life is Beautiful
After reading Elie Wiesel's Night, watching the movie Life is Beautiful, and researching World War II, class members write a comparison essay on the book and film. This includes a prior knowledge activity, discussion in whole and small...
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Creating a Literacy-Rich Learning Environment
Students in a teacher education program use a jigsaw method to identify the six areas of language arts to be taught in an early childhood classroom. They describe their vision of a literacy rich environment and practices uses a KWL...
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Sun Blocks: Building a Foundation for Healthy Skin
Here comes the sun! Primary graders engage in activities that teach them how to protect themselves from the effects of UV rays. They learn that each season (fall, winter, spring, and summer) offers its own special challenges so they...
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Essential Strategies for Teaching Phonemic Awareness
Although designed for those new to teaching phonemic awareness, the strategies and activities included in this 25-page packet are sure to engage kids and help them develop these essential skills.
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Young Readers
Students experience early readers. In this early childhood introduction to literacy, students are read a story (four book options) then complete associated, simple activities. Activities include ideas such as coloring pages, simple...
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Story Starters for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students respond to a story starters about a dinosaur, present, pet store, puppy or another topic of interest to primary-grade students. They dictate or write stories in response to 15 story starters designed to develop language skills.
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Recycled Treasures
Students develop creative-thinking skills that they will use repeatedly throughout their life. In this early childhood art lesson, students develop creative-thinking, social-development, and language skills, and an awareness of the...
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Creativity
Learners participate in several activities to help them see the importance of developing creativity in Students.
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Outdoor Activities/Problem Solving: Play a Listening Game
Students listen to everyday sounds that help them develop listening skills. For this early childhood lesson plan, students develop listening and language skills to recreate sounds in the outdoor environment.
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Practice Cutting Lines
In this early childhood scissor skills worksheet, students practice cutting straight lines with their scissors by cutting along the vertical and horizontal dashed lines in this printable worksheet.
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How-To Books
Students apply their knowledge and create a how-to book of their own. In this early childhood language arts worksheet, students learn about non-fiction books and write their own procedural non-fiction booklets.
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Reviewing the Rules
Students participate in a group discussion to evaluate rules that the class created together. For this early childhood social studies lesson plan, students condense rules into categories and reword rules to be stated in the positive.
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Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Art History 101
Students learn to appreciate art. In this early childhood lesson plan, students read about different artists and imitate their style to develop creative thinking, and language and literacy skills.
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Cutting Straight Lines
In this early childhood scissor skills instructional activity, students practice cutting straight lines with their scissors by cutting each of the 4 dashed lines across the page.
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Practice Tracing Lines
In this early childhood practice tracing lines worksheet, students practice drawing straight lines as they help the balloons rise by tracking the dashed lines from the bottom to the top.
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Recognize the Color Purple
In this early childhood color recognition worksheet, students identify the objects that are purple in the 9 pictures on the page and then circle them.
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Lesson 1: What's Unhealthy in this Classroom?
Students discover behaviors and practices that are unhealthy within their classroom environment. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify behaviors and practices that lead to an unhealthy environment, and discuss how to...
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Summer Fun Activity: Dream Vacations
Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.
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