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Lee & Low Books: Giving Thanks Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in reading comprehension activities associated from a teacher's guide. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, 4th graders read Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp and...
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Can you think of pictures that will tell a story about rice?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use pictures and letters to create a rebus. In this writing sentences lessons, 1st graders analyze sample rebuses as a class and read a rice rebus independently. Students make three rebus sentences. Students play a rice game.
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Government and Community Resources

For Teachers Higher Ed
Adult learners, with the assistance of flash/picture cards, explore a variety of United States holidays and social customs: Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and more. In addition, they draw pictures illustrating...
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Hello Sun, Goodnight Moon

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with different times around the world through the reading of 9 O'clock Lullaby.  In this Earth, sun, moon lesson, students recognize the movement of the Earth and the relationship to the sun and the moon. ...
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Classroom Guide for The Birthday Swap

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars complete activities with the book The Birthday Swap by Loretta Lopez. In this literature lesson, students answer pre-reading questions, locate new vocabulary, and read the story. They answer comprehension questions,...
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Print-Making Card Designs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore print making. In this art and print making lesson plan, students listen to biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci, then define "mirror image" as a technique used by this artist. Students cut out magazine...
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Meet Matisse!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover the life and works of French artist Henri Matisse in this one day, introductory lesson plan for the 2nd grade classroom. This first lesson plan can be used by itself or as the first day activity to a three to...
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Immigration: Our Changing Voices

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify how immigration affects the family and or community. In this Immigration instructional activity, students examine traditional migration and how immigration has changed over time. Students will consider their own...
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Ahimsa in the Real World: Truth, Love, and Nonviolence

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create an abstract painting that conveys feelings of nonviolence.  In this visual arts lesson, 2nd graders read "The First Step of Jainism" and discuss honesty, watch a digital story, discuss feelings after watching the...
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The Thanksgiving Meal

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make a Thanksgiving meal based on the nutrition of the colony they were assigned. In this nutrition lesson plan, students' parents come in to taste the food after the students explain their colony to them.
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Thinking About Money

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students evaluate various approaches to spending money.For this spending money literacy lesson, students broaden their financial goals by reading "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "A Chair for My Mother."Students use a Venn...
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Home at Last

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners read about an immigrant family and participate in reading activities related to the book.  In this immigration book lesson, students answer question related to immigration and the book.
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Pre-Colonial Native American Groups

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate U.S. history by researching the Internet and taking a test. In this American Indian group lesson, students identify the many specific Native American tribes and their geographic locations. Students research the web...
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The Story of Art

For Teachers K
Students canvass the important elements of art in the seven lessons of this unit. Story structure and in particular, color is perceived as essential to the development of the idea of a picture.
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Mohandas Gandhi: Changing the World One Step at a Time

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars illustrate pages of a book.  In this famous historical icon lesson, students are read a story about Mohandas Gandhi, illustrate the pages in small groups, assemble a class book to read to younger young scholars, and act...
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Identifying Bullies

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate human behavior by defining bullies.  For this psychology lesson, students read the book Just One Flick of a Finger, and discuss why bullies act out in front of other children.  Students investigate actions that can...
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The Photographs of Dorothea Lange

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine theme in the photography of Dorothea Lange. For this photography lesson, students analyze photography taken by Dorothea Lange and identify themes that run through each. They design an exhibition that shows how the theme...
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The constitution and Our Republic

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students record and interpret data. In this constitution lesson, students discuss voting and making bar graphs. Students practice voting and do a bar graph activity. Students make visual representations of votes on the board.
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The Environment and You

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the human environmental impact and discover ways to lessen effects. They create a pollution damage flow chart and write down what they think Mother Earth might say. They create inventions from recyclable materials.
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From the Post Office to the Oval Office

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This Presidents' Day, have your pupils write letters to the presidential family. They will read an article about writing letters to President Obama, identify topics they feel are important, and finally discuss if those topics would...
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Creating Coasters

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students discuss ways to care for the environment by creating a product from recyclable materials.  In this arts and crafts project, students utilize yarn scarps and plastic lids from a drink to create a coaster for drinks.  Students...
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WWI and Twenties & Thirties

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study economics and timelines of events to understand changes in America.  In this Twenties and Thirties lesson, students navigate Internet sites to research famous reformers.  Students recognize the economic changes through...
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Jelly Beans for Sale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students connect literature (story Jelly Beans for Sale by Bruce McMillan) to math concepts. In these estimating and money lessons, students work with jelly beans, unifix cubes, pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters, to estimate and make...
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Probability in Daily Life

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the use of probability in daily life. For this probability lesson, 6th graders listen to scenarios from Louis Sachar's, Holes, after discussing probability in everyday life. They pretend they are detectives who are...

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