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Bob and the Frogs Hop on Logs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' as it makes the /o/ sound. They recite tongue twisters and practice writing words with the /o/ sound. They read a story and choose /o/ words from the story...
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"If You Hopped Like a Frog" by David M. Schwartz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm several animal/personal scenarios, select one, and write out an explanation of the comparison. They apply the measurements/characteristics to themselves and use algebraic equations to demonstrate the comparison.
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Researching and Writing in the Jungle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice research and writing skills. They pick an animal to resarch from the template chioces and write a paragraph about the animal. In addition, a digital camera is used to insert student pictures onto the slides.
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China: Dim Sum: Writer's Workshop Mini Lesson: Dominant Impression: Writing a Descriptive Paragraph Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write and illustrate a descriptive paragraph entitled "My Favorite Place" highlighting a dominate impression or dominant feeling in their paragraph.
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Bump on the Head

For Teachers K
Students discuss as a class if they have ever had a bump on the head and started crying and said /a/. They pretend they have hit their head and say the /a/ stretching it out and try a tongue twister containing the sound and write the...
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Let's Make A Dill

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students perform an "autopsy" on a dill pickle to determine its' cause of death. After finding "clues" inside the "body," students organize facts and use their imagination to write an epitaph. As an alternative, students may view a...
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Picture This

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars, after explaining the famous quote, "A picture is worth a thousand words," supply the missing words to a wordless story by Mercer Mayer called "A Boy, A Dog, and A Frog." They brainstorm the setting, plot, descriptive...
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What Makes a Tropical Rainforest Special?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the characteristics of the tropical rainforest. Using a map, they locate the rainforests found around the world, continents and the equator. Using the internet, they research the various layers of the rainforest and...
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Bodaciously Beautiful Butterflies Take Flight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete study on butterflies using real caterpillars, keep individual daily journals of observations, and complete timeline for their caterpillar/butterfly.
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Animal Names

For Teachers K
Students match animal pictures with animal words. In this farm animal activity, students put together the parent and their offspring. Students should have prior knowledge of the basic needs of animals. Students write animal booklets.
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Butterfly Lifecycles

For Teachers 2nd
What a great way to present this topic! While a little difficult to follow, this lesson provides great ideas for a second grade lesson involving butterfly lifecycles. Learners make drawings of butterflies, discuss life cycles, and write...
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Literary Devices and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third and fourth graders study literary devices and figurative language. They view a PowerPoint presentation (which you must create) to review hyperbole, idiom, simile, and metaphor. They read and discuss the book There's A Frog in My...
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Bats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate bats. In this animal science lesson, students use several websites and suggested bat books to write an informative paragraph. Students should be able to write with 90% accuracy.
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Reading Research!

For Teachers K
Students investigate the life of an animal and how it responds to winter. The lesson's focus is on reading and research skills using pictures to assist in the understanding of the information presented.
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Map Me a Paragraph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
There are so many great reading strategies. In this lesson, learners practice decoding. They break down two paragraphs to analyze and determine main ideas and details. They each observes ways to model as they map their paragraphs.
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Report Writing in Primary Grades

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen and restate facts from a text. They gather and organize information as a class. They create a report and present it to their classmates.
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"If You Hopped Like a Frog" by David M. Schwartz

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars search for and generalize an algebraic pattern. They make and analyze a coordinate graph.
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Music of the Estuary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the sounds of the estuary. In this wetlands activity, students discuss how to simulate the sounds of nature. Students write and record a musical score featuring the sounds of the wetlands.
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Life Is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate about cycles through games, shared readings and a shared writing activity. They play a game of Ring Around the Rosie to be introduced to the concept of "cycle."
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A Little Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this poetry lesson plan, students listen to stories that contain alliteration. While listening to stories, student pairs make a list of words that they then use to construct "silly sentences" that contain alliteration. Each student...
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In and Out Function Problems

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders solve In and Out function problems. They analyze a chart and discuss the steps to solving the functions, and discuss the patterns and complete the charts. Students then create a book of repeating patterns using magazines,...
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Unit Plan for Mark Twain and American Humor

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students create brochures about the humor of Mark Twain. In this literature-analysis lesson plan, students read "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and other short stories by Twain. Students write analytical paragraphs and...
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Animals and Their Coverings

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate the coverings of vertebrates and invertebrates and cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. In this animals and their coverings lesson plan, students observe displays of different animals and discuss and answer...
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Why Koala Has A Stumpy Tail

For Teachers K
Students examine Australian folktales. In this folktales lesson, students read the Australian folktale, Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tale. Students list characteristics of the characters from the book. Students act out these characteristics...