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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Nature Critter Guide: Raccoons

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What do raccoons eat? Explore this site to find your answer. Students will gain a perspective of where and how raccoons live through this educational resource.
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Order of Events

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn about putting events in order with a short text. Then they complete guided and independent sequencing activities with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Short texts and handouts...
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Other

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter a Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning Focused Curriculum Setup; Teaching for letter A includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided lessons, graphic organizers, guided reading, and science tie-ins.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter C Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter C through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter D Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter D through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter E Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter E through learning-focused based curriculum instruction.Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter F Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter F through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter G Flipchart for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teaching letter G through learning-focused based curriculum instruction. Includes activator, vocabulary, teacher guided instruction, handwriting, graphic organizer, guided reading, science-tie-ins and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What Lives Under a Rock?

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading and discussing the book "Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs" by Anthony D. Frederick, students are equipped with tools for observing nature and are taken on a guided walk. They find a rock to overturn, and record...
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Scholastic

Scholastic Explorers: Ocean Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan explores how human activity has an impact on turtles, sea otters, and dolphins in different parts of the world. Your students will read field reports from the sites and evaluate data that is offered.
Article
Other

Big Life Journal: How to Teach Problem Solving Skills to Kids (Ages 3 14)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How you teach problem-solving to kids depends on their age. Read on to learn key strategies for teaching problem-solving to kids, as well as some age-by-age ideas and activities.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Why Does It Go So Fast? Investigating Rockets

For Teachers K - 1st
After reading a book about movement and speed, students blow up a balloon and release it. During questioning and discussion, they are guided to make a connection between the balloon and a rocket.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Letter K

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning activities related to the letter /k/ are included such as word identification, initial letter recognition, blending with short vowels and /k/ck, and story structure with beginning, middle, and...