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Common Sense Media

Sending Email

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Youngsters are introduced to the idea of communicating through e-mail, and gain important foundational knowledge for how to interact safely online.
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Curated OER

KINDERGARTEN PEACE UNIT

For Teachers K
Students learn the meaning of peace, the value of world peace and the individual commitment it requires through discussion and a variety of hands-on activities
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Curated OER

Ancient Times

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a mural depicting modern life. In this ancient civilizations lesson, students view images of wall painting from ancient civilizations showing aspects of their daily life. Students discuss the ways our life today is...
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Curated OER

Max Knows Mexicao, United States and Canada

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students utilize their map skills to explore the regions of North America. They explore the physical characteristics and climates of the regions. Students label their map and prepare a presentation of their findings.
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Curated OER

Clifford Phonics Fun

For Teachers K
Students develop phonemic awareness skills. They recognize consonant sound spellings and distinguish easily confused letter pairs. Students examine common short and long vowel sound spellings. They read stories containing high frequency...
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Curated OER

"Fall"owing Changes in the Season

For Teachers K
Students create a whole class A-B-"C"eason Book. Each student is responsible for creating a "letter" page relating to changes, adaptations, or other fall concepts. After hard copies of the class ABC books are created, the teachers using...
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Curated OER

Immigration For Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson about the concept of immigration. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order to create context for class discussion or a class presentation topic. They also read...
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PPT
Positively Autism

Travis the Train Delivers Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Triangle, circle, square, rectangle, oval, star, diamond, heart. Travis the Train delivers eight shapes for learners with autism to identify. Part of a learning unit on shapes.
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PPT
Positively Autism

Travis the Train Coin Songs

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Travis the Train is hauling pennies this time. Kids sing the captions as they view the face side then the back side of a shiny new penny, and then the face and back of a tarnished penny.
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Curated OER

Great Online Art Sites

For Teachers K - 8th
Students complete an online study of art websites. In this art and technology lesson, students explore the links and try the activities to learn about art online.
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Curated OER

Internet ABC's for Elementary Schoolers

For Teachers K - 4th
Students develop basic Internet skills. In this lesson introducing the basics of the Internet, students discover how to use toolbars, address bars, how to save a website to revisit later, and how to use the back and forward buttons. This...
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Curated OER

The Friendship Bridge

For Teachers K
Students brainstorm example of big problems and small problems. They watch a Powerpoint presentation, were the students role played everyday social problems that they had encountered. Students demonstreate using the Friendship Bridge...
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Curated OER

Field Trip!: A Visit to the Grocery Store

For Teachers K
Students discover that foods are organized into groups of similar items by developing vocabulary to enhance verbal discussion i.e., real experiences provide the foundation for thoughtful discussion and critical thinking. They then...
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Curated OER

Seminole Housing (Chickees)

For Teachers K - 4th
Students listen to a story about the Seminole Indian tribes. They participate in a teacher-lead discussion of chickees--Seminole housing. They create a chickee book in which they write a description of their belongings in a chickee.
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Curated OER

Watch the Sky for Lightning

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify lightning in pictures from the provided Internet site. They study a definition of lightning as a form of heat energy that can be dangerous. They state and illustrate a minimum of three lightning safety rules.
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Curated OER

Birthday Soup

For Teachers K
Students utilize the story, "Chicken Soup With Rice, " by Maurice Sendak to compare the number of days in each month, research their birth date and navigate their way through a calendar.
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Curated OER

McONE Hundredth Day

For Teachers K
Students explore the components of a calendar and counting through the preparation and celebration of the "One Hundredth Day" of school. Badges are worn and McDonald fries are enjoyed in the celebration.
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Curated OER

Mary Todd Tours the World

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils analyze how distinguishing another culture encourages us to respect each other. They research culture and all its avenues, recognizing and comprehending the relationship between people and geography. Ultimately, they can apply...
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Curated OER

Hanukkah Fun: The Dreidel Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Celebrate Hanukkah with an engaging lesson about the history of the dreidel! After reading or listening to a short description of the dreidel's place in the Hanukkah celebration, young learners work on their own dreidels from classroom...
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Curated OER

BUGS-INSECTS

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a theme study while teaching primary students basic skills according to Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals in Reading, Math, and Writing. The lesson is concerned primarily with the concept of insects.
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Curated OER

Our Favorite Pet

For Teachers K
Students each have a turn, telling the class his or her favorite pet. The choices are cat, dog, fish or bird. Using the computer, the information from the tally be recorded on a spreadsheet and bar graph.
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Curated OER

Team Up for Telling Time

For Teachers K - 5th
Students team up to compete in a variety of Internet time-telling activities. In teams of four, groups are assigned to computers and solve problems related to telling time.
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Curated OER

Seeing Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study a variety of geometric shapes by taking pictures of items representing the shapes with a digital camera. They identify the shapes by using software to paint on the image.
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Scholastic

Ruby Bridges: A Simple Act of Courage, Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
A civil rights movement lesson plan designed specifically with the Common Core State Standards in mind, young learners are introduced to the story of Ruby Bridges as the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary...