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Laus Dnet: Kinder. Word Lesson Alphabet Potluck Feast [Pdf]

For Teachers K Standards
Students will create a class book (PDF) modeled after the book Potluck, by Anne Shelby, to identify the beginning sounds of words and the letter of the alphabet representing that sound (phonemic awareness). Contains links to step sheets...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: It Looked Like

For Teachers 2nd
Make a class book based on the format of "It Looked Like Spilt Milk".
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-12) to pair with "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. After losing her family estate to creditors, Blanche DuBois moves in with her younger sister, Stella, and her working class...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can Shapes Be

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a hands-on lesson plan that will help young scholars explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Young scholars will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan...
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EL Education

El Education: Calculicious: Making Calculus Delicious

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This book was created by seniors at High Tech High in San Diego, California. It is a product from a cross-curricular study of art and mathematics. For one semester, the students worked on a project in math class and art class that...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak

For Students 3rd - 8th
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A profile of Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. There is also a lesson plan for K-2 (make a class book) and one for Grades 6-8 (create an opera based on Sendak's work).
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Abc Community Walk

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will learn vocabulary related to a community. The class will create a class Community ABC Book as a culminating activity to show what they have learned about what it means to be part of a community.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Farm Phonics

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is designed to be used to integrate phonics into a farm theme used in kindergarten. Students work with story sequence, making words, describing using their 5 senses, and listening to and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Brain Sizzlers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains one page logic puzzles adapted from the book Brain Sizzlers. These activities make great warm ups for math grades 6- algebra.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Learning Playground Rules

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps children to practice safety and learn to share. It explains what it means to make, enforce, carry out and interpret rules. Incorporates the book It's My Turn by David Bedford.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)

For Teachers K - 1st
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observing and Creating Sketches of an Outdoor Environment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars use their senses to observe nature then sketch a plant and/or animal in their science journals using detail and color. Using these sketches, they will create classroom books which are shared with the class.
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Other

Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden

For Teachers K - 1st
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wizardry and Chemistry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students learn how common pop culture references (Harry Potter books) can relate to chemistry. While making and demonstrating their own low-intensity sparklers (muggle-versions of magic wands), students learn and come to appreciate the...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Understanding Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will open students' eyes to hurtful stereotypes by making them examine their beliefs. This is a three-day lesson that includes whole class and small group activities, critical thinking questions, suggested resources and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price students will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions, students...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Twenty Questions" History Virtual Fieldtrip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, students engage in a virtual game of "Twenty Questions" with another class. They will utilize textbooks, trade books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and other Internet sites for reference. Each team (class) will be...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Beloved Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan serves as a final assessment for Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. Students need to have a thorough working knowledge of the story and characters in the book. They are asked to give Sethe a present-day trial since her trial...