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Follow Directions and Draw

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice and explain the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions.
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Follow Directions and Draw

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice and explain the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions.
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Kid-Created Biographies

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners create biographies on the people they know best-- their teachers! students use various skills to collect information, organize details, publish the biographies and present the information.
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1st Grade - Act. 11: Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows

For Teachers 1st
First graders put on puppet show and retell fairy tales.
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Duck, Duck, Goose or Swan?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners study the waterfowl of a wetland. They use Venn diagram to compare and contrast the duck, goose and swan. They research the waterfowl using the Internet. They create a timeline and slideshow of the life of a duck, goose, or swan...
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Scrapbook of Evidence

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read three different genres of fiction. They create a story map and brainstorm possible collage inclusions. Each student prepares a minimum of two scrapbook page entries for each text or passage. Students write beside each...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore ways in which they are smart. In this "getting to know you" classroom team building lesson, students discuss various ways people can be smart and describe ways in which they are smart. Students listen to "Smart" from...
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Scrambled Eggs Super!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study rhythm and rhyme. In this rhyming instructional activity, students read Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss. Students explore the rhythm of rhyming words found in the book. The students decorate eggs and place rhyming words...
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Searching For Letters, Words, and Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st
This simple lesson is designed for K - 1 students. They are introduced to individual letters, words, and sentences. A game is played where they try to collect one example of each. For practice, students complete a worksheet which is...
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Plot Mobiles

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read folktales and identify the plot of the story by making a mobile. In this inventive and colorful instructional activity, students listen to a variety of famous folktales, and practice identifying the plot. Then, they work...
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All That's Fit To Print

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use an editor's checklist to help them proofread examples of other students writing, then edit a worksheet embedded in the plan. In this writing and editing lesson, learners look for capitalization, spelling, and grammatical...
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Writing A Review

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars determine the elements of a review.  For this writing lesson, students investigate the parts necessary for a critic to write a review.  Young scholars write their own review based on a film or production they have recently...
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Reading Fiction: Analyzing Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate sentence construction in fiction.  For this sentence construction lesson, students examine examples of fiction work and discover why sentences are a certain length.  Students create their own passages playing with...
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The Adjective Alphabet

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students paint alliteration pictures. In this adjectives activity, students select an adjective and noun that begin with the same letter, for example: hairy heart, to represent in a painting.
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A Story on a Vase

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze a scene depicting Herakles and the Hydra. For this Greek art lesson, students read Greek myths and choose one scene from a myth to illustrate. Students use tempera paint and a scratch technique using a wooden stylus.
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Dialogue Disguises

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read a story out loud to a partner and change their voices and expressions when depicting specific characters. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the person's voice who is reading to them, while keeping track...
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Fairy Tales in Art and Language

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine works of art. They engage in creative writing of poetry. They learn traditional bookmaking tecnniques. They make a journal and collect their work.
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How to Diamond Poem (2+)

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Ever heard of a "diamond poem" format? Neither had I, until I came across this lesson plan. Young writers are shown a format which results in a poem that comes out in the shape of a diamond! This is a simple, yet effective lesson plan.
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Ben Franklin's Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A reading of What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? provides an opportunity for class members to practice paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources. An exercise on how to avoid plagiarizing is also included. 
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Discovering Swahili

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the African language of Swahili by translating vocabulary words.  In this foreign language lesson, students write 26 English words that define Africa and utilize the Internet to translate them into Swahili.  Students...
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Folk Tales Project

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners explore folk tales originating from other countries. They examine the countries language, culture, and values while reading their folk tales.
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Figuratively Writing...It's for the Birds!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify and use literary devices such as personification, idioms, hyperbole, and metaphors. They identify one literary device and illustrate the meaning. They write a letter using correct letter format and incorporates literary...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  For this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their project...
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Shopping: In a Cafe

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore English by participating in a role-playing activity. In this food ordering lesson, students utilize new vocabulary terms to conduct short dialogues with fictitious servers in a Cafe role-play activity. Students analyze...

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