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Fishy Fun
Students review the correspondent /ai/ = long a and break into groups of five. They use a fishing pole with a magnet attached to "fish" for words that contain the /ai/ sound in it. If they catch a word that does not contain the /ai/...
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What Genre Am I?
First graders differentiate between different pieces of literary genres by participating in a hands-on activity. This includes a student assessment sheet.
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Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise
Sixth graders watch a demonstration on how talking cans produce sounds. In groups, they compare and contrast the sounds from different sized cans. They participate in a variety of activities to discover how sounds are made and how...
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Developing Friendships
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.
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Chemistry Day With Glitter Wands
First graders observe examples of the three states of matter and identify matter in each of the three states. They make glitter wands to remind them of the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Pupils brainstorm and record...
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Bunny Rabbit
Students design their own bunny mask to follow-up reading the book, Runaway Bunny.
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Art with Colored Shaving Cream
Students use different textures and mediums to paint with.
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Bunny Rabbit
Students design their own bunny mask to follow-up reading the book, Runaway Bunny.
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Creatures of the Sea
Fourth graders complete a two-month long unit on the physical characteristics of the oceans and animal environments. They create a "Creatures of the Sea" alphabet book in collaboration with a kindergarten class, conduct Internet...
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Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise
Students construct "talking cans" and instruments to explain how vibration of objects produces various sounds.
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Power Point Lesson Plan
Students create a multimedia animal research presentation based on the include criteria for both information and sideshow format. They follow directions on slide set-up from creating a slide to transitions and musical insertion.
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Inner Beauty
Students analyze inner and outer beauty in a text. They raise questions about the main characters and their portrayals and explore issues such as friendship, love, and respect for yourself and other individuals. They choose a friend and...
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Shoreline Seining and Sampling
Pupils investigate ecological systems and the cause and effect relationship between humans and the environment by using the prey items of Ospreys.
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Waterfowl Word Search
In this science worksheet, students find the names of 14 waterfowl in a word search puzzle. The word bank has a detailed color drawing of each bird.
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Let's All Help (The Little Red Hen)
Students explore ways that children can help during mealtime preparation. In this adult health lesson, students discuss the benefits of letting children help. They view a cooking demo and implement what they learned at home.
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More Rhythmic Ribbons
Students reinforce and further develop jumping and landing skills, and locomotor skills. They further develop body and space awareness.
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Learning Activities: Peace Education
This series of activities for early elementary pupils focuses on peace education. Emphasis is on our behavior and how it impacts peace.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Lake Superior
This site provides facts, illustrations, and more about the largest Great Lake. Includes descriptions of wildlife and industry. For grades 4-8.