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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 1

For Teachers K Standards
A unit focuses on prewriting skills. Over 10 days, young scholars practice drawing lines and shapes, use play dough to build shapes, and track from left to right. Pupils put their sense of hearing to the test by listening for words in...
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Create a Compass

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Historically, humans have used many methods of finding due north. Using a hands-on activity, learners create their own compasses. They then test their compasses in their neighborhood or to assist with stargazing.
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Interactive
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Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc.

Directions and Distances

For Students K - 12th
Describe where you are—and find out where you are going—with a beginning Spanish resource on directions and maps. Spanish learners repeat and practice direction words such as norte, este, and oeste, as well as measurement terms such as...
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Unit Plan
Columbus City Schools

It’s All Relative

For Teachers 8th Standards
Are the people on the other side of the world standing upside down? Pupils discuss the relationship between movement and position words. The unit explores the concept of reference points through animation, modeling, photography, and more. 
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Lesson Plan
Bowland

DanceStar

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Express dance moves mathematically. Scholars dissect dance routines and express them using mathematical notation, such as translations and rotations. They use video clips to investigate seven different dance genres.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Special Friends: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 9)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Enhance language proficiency with a Special Friends themed English language development unit. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that is guaranteed to get your scholars discussing topics such as animal...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Summer Vacation: Traveling

For Teachers K
A classic instructional activity idea, kindergarteners share stories about their summer vacations on their first day of school! First, your young learners will listen to you talk about your summer vacation, making sure to use plenty of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Traveling aroud Our Town

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are asked to describe to a partner how he or she walks to school or the bus stop. They are shown on the overhead an one-inch grid paper, and at the intersection of two lines on the grid paper, students are shown a house and...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Places in a City

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this city worksheet, students look at a map of a city and write direction words to where places are, answer short answer questions, and fill in a crossword. Students complete 3 activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Traffic Activity Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this trace and write worksheet, students trace and write words that contain color words, direction words, and cooking words. Students trace and write 10 lines.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Inside, Outside, Upside Down

For Teachers K
Students study directional words and opposites. In this inside, outside, upside down, instructional activity, students illustrate words and are captured on camera sharing their words. The digital pictures will be compiled into a class...
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Interactive
Curated OER

North Or Northern?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this direction words worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about the correct use of direction words such as north, northern, east, eastern.
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Curated OER

Using the Four Main Directions in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students utilize a compass to determine where North is in the classroom. In this direction lesson, students label the four main directions. Students locate features in the classroom and describe the directions to get to them. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language Arts: Inside, Outside, Upside Down

For Teachers K
Students create a computer slide show of pictures representing directional words. After listening to several books with examples, they pair words such as inside and outside, below and above, or high and low. With older students or...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sequential Directions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils demonstrate how to give clear directions when drawing a map to a specific location. In this map skills instructional activity, students create a map to a location, such as their school, and write down clear directions to the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Walk Across the School

For Teachers K
Students explore the concept of location. They discuss the terms right, left, near, far, under, and over, participate in a walk around the school, and display the correct direction for various locations around the school.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Going Places

For Teachers 1st
First graders study directional words such as North, South, East, West, up and down.