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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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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Should Our Gardens Grow?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will assume...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 2.md How Big Is a Foot?

For Teachers 2nd
For this lesson plan students will determine how big a foot is using a book, tools, and attached worksheets.
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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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Scholastic

Scholastic: All About Me & the School Experience Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Great idea for the beginning of the year. Uses the book Clifford's First School Day by Norman Bridwell as the starting place for students to make their own book about going to school.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Class Book Ideas: Story Frames

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site discusses how story frames are a great way to support emergent writers in the classroom. Lots of story prompts and writing frames to use in a K-2 classroom.