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Six Ways to Effectively Use Classroom Volunteers

For Teachers K - 5th
Parents are often an untapped resource, offer them a variety of ways to help in your classroom.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

What Is Comfortable and Uncomfortable Touch?

For Teachers K Standards
Two stuffed animals open a activity 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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Island Sinker

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform various locomotor skills while practicing cooperative teamwork. In this locomotor skill lesson, students move from "island" to "island" using the designated motor skill. Imaginative components such as escaping a "shark"...
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Growing on My Own, Kids on the Grow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in an after school program that promotes critical thinking, concern for others, recognizing differences, accepting differences, self-motivation and personal safety. They cover how kids develop, expressing...
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Dolphins

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore sea life. In this cross curriculum fine arts, science, and P.E. "dolphins" lesson, students sing songs and play games about dolphins, perform water experiments, create mosaics, and use their five senses to explore sand...
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. In this baking lesson plan, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them. Students...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

What Are Safe and Unsafe Drugs/Medicines/Objects?

For Teachers K Standards
Encourage responsible decision-making while boosting sorting skills with a lesson plan that looks at safe and unsafe situations. Scholars use two bags, one happy the other sad, to sort scenario cards. After a thorough examination,...
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Organizer
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Reading for Life

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Imagine a packet packed with reading resources designed for every grade and reading level. Imagine worksheets, graphic organizers, flash cards, activities, and exercises. This is just such a packet and is well worth downloading, 
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Designing a Web Page

For Teachers K - 1st
Students utilize educational software to create their own websites.  In this web design lesson, students collaborate in groups to create web page designs based on workers and figures from their community.  Students research other website...
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Monet's Magical Garden

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study classic paintings by masters like Monet. For this art history lesson, students listen to the story Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and sing flower songs with the rest of their class. Students examine the painting The...
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Continuing Gandhi's Legacy of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Central Asia and the Middle East

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the lifestyle of Gandhi by creating a Venn Diagram.  In this biographical activity, students compare the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi while discussing their teaching methods.  Students utilize...
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Taking Care of a Baby

For Teachers K - 2nd
Caring for a newborn is harder than it looks! Elementary pupils learn more about taking care of babies with an age-appropriate lesson that addresses how babies grow inside their mothers, what they need to grow, and how members of the...
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Branding Circles, Squares, Rectangles, Triangles

For Teachers K
Compare and classify 2-D shapes! Kindergarteners inspect the attributes of plane shapes and examine shapes in everyday life. They label the circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles they find. This is the website where you can find the...
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From Mashed to Riches

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss the uses of a potato. In this food group lesson, students identify the five food groups and which one the potato belongs to. They create potato printing, compare different kinds of potatoes, grow a potato plant, and more.
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A Teeth Changing Experience

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students research human health by reading an educational story in class. In this oral health lesson plan, students identify the importance of brushing their teeth and consuming calcium. Students read the book A Teeth Changing Experience...
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Think It, Write It, Create It

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Help your scholars create a class story. They will write a page of the story and illustrate that page. Then they use a variety of digital technologies to make the story come alive. A variety of digital resources are recommended for the...
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Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate Johnny Appleseed.  For this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students listen to Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg, and dictate important events in his life as the teacher writes them on index...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use...
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Newspaper Association of America

Cereal Bowl Science and Other Investigations with the Newspaper

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What do cereal, fog, and space shuttles have to do with newspapers? A collection of science investigations encourage critical thinking using connections to the various parts of the newspaper. Activities range from building origami seed...
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4-4-3-2 Food Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners investigate the quantities of those foods they must eat each day in order to have a balanced diet. They determine the quantities from each food group they need to eat for a balanced diet.
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Do You Really Need to Go Again?

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Here are some hints and tips for managing bathroom use during class time.
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Food and Nutrition

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes decision making, cooperation, choosing healthy foods, recognizing and naming a variety of foods, state healthy benefits from eating healthy foods and involving oneself in...
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National Eye Care Month

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Here are some activities to teach your students about the importance of maintaining healthy eyesight as part of National Eye Care Month.
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Get Acquainted with the Great Outdoors

For Teachers K - 8th
National Parks and Recreation Month offers opportunities to improve health and education.

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