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A Chick Called Saturday

For Teachers K
Students discuss calendars in terms of measurement.
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Flower Power

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate and explain the basic needs and life processes of plants. Key concepts include: living things change as they grow and need food, water, and air to survive. The reverse of the Kansas quarter serves as inspiration.
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Some Sunflower Suggestions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine a real sunflower plant and complete a variety of activities surrounding "sunflowers."
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Tell Me a Story

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read short story, "The Storyteller" by Saki, and expand on concept of stories for students by reading and evaluating several popular students's stories as well as writing their own original students's stories.
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Glue-line Insect

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore characteristics of ladybugs. They view ladybugs in ventilated containers and discuss their observations. Students read a story about ladybugs and create a glue picture of a ladybug.
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Ladybug Leaf

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students employ a literary hook to promote number and color mastery through a hands-on craft experience. They participate in a mini-lesson on ladybugs. Students encounter what they are, what they look like and what do they eat.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study about the stages of metamorphosis of a butterfly and then listen to and participate in the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The students then listen to the story in French and translate the French food words to English....
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Read, Read, Read !

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform repeated readings of the same text to increase their reading fluency and expression. They practice reading sentences from the board aloud to practice fluency. They read "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" as a class.
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Sammy the Slimy Snake

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a emergent literacy lesson with the intention of improving reading comprehension. The goals of the lesson include recognizing both upper and lower case S, to create an awareness of the mouth movement and the phoneme...
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Hurry Hurry!

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the fact that groups of phonemes form spoken and written words. They practice working with identifying words that have the letter "h" and point to its position in words.
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Observing Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify how plants affect the survival of a caterpillar and what plants need to survive. They plant three bean seeds in the three containers, placing two containers at a sunny window and the third one in a dark closet and...
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Learning About Bears And Dolphins

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders engage in a study that compares the body structures of bears and dolphins. They conduct research to find information and use questions to find the differences or similarities and then conduct a class discussion about the...
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Class Bear Book

For Teachers K
Students discover writing their own name with the help of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear. What Do You See?" to create context for the lesson. They create a page for a class book with the help of the teacher. The dialogue for the new book is...
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Going Buggy!

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils study bugs over a four week period.  For this insect collection of activities, students observe insects covering basic science concepts and skills, such as classification, observation, and responses to habitat.  Pupils develop a...
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Author/Illustrator Heroes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize heroic authors and illustrators and create their own comic strips. For this language arts lesson, students examine characteristics of heroes and work in groups to create their own comic strips and hero books.
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Cool Math

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students benefit from the correctly selected book for a specific math concept.  In this book selection lesson, students are given a list of books related to specific math concepts.  Students' ages can range from pre-school to fifth grade. 
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Write It Short

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners listen the books, "Today Is Monday," "Chicken Soup with Rice," and discuss how we use abbreviations for days of the week. This simple lesson plan is a good way to introduce the common abbreviations that young readers will...
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Secret Stories: Exploring the Elements of Folktales and Fables

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to the characteristics of fables and folktales. In groups, they read and identify the various elements in the stories they read from around the world. For each story, they analyze the setting and the various...
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Pattern Detectives

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover patterns in language, math and science. They experience patterns by hearing stories, and becoming pattern detectives.
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Four Animal Legs at Sunset

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book, 1, 2, 3, To The Zoo, and focus on the one-to-one correspondence while counting the animals and other objects in the story. They create page number four in their number books.
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Two Owl Eyes

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the story, Olivia Counts, and demonstrate counting to ten. They make predictions, and recognize the day and night sky. They add page number 2 to their counting books.
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Let's Measure

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice measuring different objects. They discover the concepts of ratio and proportion and practice converting numbers into the correct unit. They read stories as well to help them with the concepts.
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Sunflowers, The Circle of Life

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate and observe plants and animals in nature. They find out how life cycles are present in much of nature. Students use appropriate graphic organizers for information gathering. Students use sequence life cycles of...
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Planting Phil's Garden

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study how to care for plants. In this plant care lesson, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They complete a community...

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