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Transitioning To Kindergarten: Life In Kindergarten

For Teachers K
Students investigate Kindergarten and the different activities that are found there. They are introduced to the classroom and procedures with the help of a puppet show. Then students color in a worksheet that focuses around the...
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The Changing Times of The Future

For Teachers 1st
First graders share their wishes for the future and discuss changes that have taken place. They observe a puppet who describes life in the future and identifies positive and difficult challenges he may face. Individual students draw a...
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Traveling the Career Paths (Part 1)

For Teachers K
Students are quizzed by the counselor as a class asking them to match jobs with career paths. They discuss and analyze why there are so many different types of work out in the world. Puppets illustrate for the students various career...
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Worms, Nature's Recyclers!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study what worms need to survive in different environments. They study how worm composting improves soil and reduce waste. They discuss composting techniques and present a puppet show about a worm's life.
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Latinos in the United States of America

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore a website about Latinos in the U.S., and answer worksheet questions about information on the website. They create a puppet show, organize a press conference, or create a brochure regarding Latinos living in the U.S.
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...
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Pipe-Cleaner Stick Figures

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create puppets out of pipe cleaners and, in groups, put on a puppet show based on a section of a story they have read from their readers.
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Nurse Tina Stick Puppet

For Teachers K
Students describe alcohol s a drug that can be harmful to their bodies.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

What Is Comfortable and Uncomfortable Touch?

For Teachers K Standards
Two stuffed animals open a lesson that examines two types of touch. Scholars discuss the difference between comfortable and uncomfortable touch. They offer examples then brainstorm ways an individual can keep safe from uncomfortable...
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Storybook Theater

For Teachers K - 6th
Tell a story visually using this resource. Learners design a storybook theater by creating a book and painting watercolor pictures describing scenes from the story. This is a creative means to have your class practice summarizing skills.
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Longhouse Spirits Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students study the Native American nations that reside in the Pacific Northwest. They work with the traditional Raven stories to make a puppet theater in the form of a replica longhouse. Next, they make a spirit shape that is...
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Froggy Gets Dressed

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Froggy wants to know: what are you wearing? Lead young Spanish learners through a review of weather-related terms before reading the popular children's book Froggy Gets Dressed. Then, using a froggy puppet, discuss what you're...
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Junk Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students find uses for old or discarded items (recycling) by making puppets.
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Little Red Hen

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the story of the Little Red Hen. They listen to and discuss the story, create puppets and retell the story, and make bread using a bread in a bag recipe.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 6, Lesson 20: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use shape puppets to review geometry content. They take turns singing songs, reading students poems, reciting class bulletin board notes and choral poems. They prepare for their summative assessments through play and interview...
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Coral Reef Community

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the coral reef. In this food chain lesson plan, students study the plants and animals of the coral reef and how they each play a role in that ecosystem. They participate in a class play to demonstrate the types of...
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Bee Dance

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Everything a bee does serves a purpose. Learners in grades one through five explore the behaviors of bees through reading and dramatic puppet play. First children will create honey bee puppets, then they will discuss how bees dance to...
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Activity Plan 5-6: All About You And Me

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore their unique qualities as they create "me" puppets. In this early childhood lesson, students play a category game, discuss uniqueness, and create their very own "me" puppets.
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Recycling & Our Environment

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students present information about recycling to other students. In this environmental protection lesson, students create a puppet show or commercial about the importance of recycling for other students to view.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Speaking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K
Students listen to The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and use a teacher created puppet for a listening activity.  In this Hungry Caterpillar lesson, students recall the order of events in the story with the puppet and cards of the...
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Jack and the Beanstalk

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read a story and grow a beanstalk. In this literature and life science lesson, the class reads "Jack and the Beanstalk," then lists fairy tale elements and write a puppet show. The students plant pinto beans and observes...
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Eency Weency Spider

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use the poem "Eency Weency Spider" to understand up and down. Students say the poem and act out the motions. Students make their own spider puppet and move their spider with the poem.
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Have a Thai day!

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students participate in a fund raiser for the Thai Children's trust.  In this sociology lesson, students prepare for a Thai Day by making puppets, having a cake sale, making fans, and performing Thai dances.
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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!

For Teachers K
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb activity, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...

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