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M&M Mountain

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing the capital and lowercase M when practice writing with M&M's. They listen to and view the book, "Are You My Mother?," by P.D. Eastman with Random House, Inc. Each student interacts with a tongue twister...
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Excellent E!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the short /e/ sound. They practice making the sound and recite an 'e' tongue twister. They practice writing the letter e and use Elkonin letter boxes to spell e words. In groups, they read stories and identify short /e/...
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the physical properties of water.  In this water instructional activity, students observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state. There are 2 extensions for this instructional activity that one can access...
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Author Study

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students work collaboratively to create PowerPoint presentations on an author of their choice. This lesson plan is written for a first and third grade joint project with students pairing up across grade levels.
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Let it Snow!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore water and ice. In this 3 states of matter lesson, students work with a partner to observe, illustrate, and describe the characteristics of an ice cube in a cup. The ice cube is observed again in 15 minutes and changes...
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Sky 2: Shadows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore space science by participating in a shadow experiment. In this sky observation lesson, students identify how the sun creates different sized shadows by moving across the horizon. Students utilize yard sticks, markers,...
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A Day on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss their morning as they prepared to come to school. The teacher guides the discussion so students understand ways they relied on agriculture to accomplish tasks. Students view pictures of various farm machinery. As the...
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Rudolph, Rudolph

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this early childhood Rudolph booklet worksheet, learners color the 7 pictures, cut the pages out, and assemble the Christmas booklet that may be read again and again.
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Chance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice sight words using the Dolch vocabulary lists.  In this sight word lesson, students are engaged in a whole class game that allows every student to practice reading Dolch words off index cards.  Students then...
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Apple Picking

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading Dolch words using an apple theme.  In this sight word instructional activity, students play an apple picking game that allows them to practice reading several Dolch words.  Students play this game...
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Using Our Talents for the Common Good LESSON 2: How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars decide what talents are and how they can be used to help others. They recite a poem and write journal entries about using their talents.
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What’s the Smallest Thing You Know?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Elementary learners listen to a story, then sort objects from largest to smallest at six different stations around the classroom. Adaptable for a large range of age and ability groups. 
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Protecting Our Water Resources

For Teachers K - 9th
Teach young environmentalists to protect their planet's resources with a set of interactive experiments. Kindergartners and other youngsters learn about watersheds and the water cycle, while older elementary learners focus on fertilizer...
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Winter Bear Warm-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't be left out in the cold, ensure young learners are prepared for the winter weather with this clothing activity. After introducing them to different clothing items using the provided picture cards, students sing a song before...
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Get into Shape

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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Cereal Bowl Science and Other Investigations with the Newspaper

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
What do cereal, fog, and space shuttles have to do with newspapers? A collection of science investigations encourage critical thinking using connections to the various parts of the newspaper. Activities range from building origami seed...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Nonviolence

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore a local seat of government to examine ways to make changes in their communities. In this local government lesson, students read about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his nonviolent protests. Students read important dates and...
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You Can, Too!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students and their parents participate in a volunteer opportunity in their community in order to solve a problem. In this problem solving lesson plan, students reflect on historical problems and see how they can solve a current problem.
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Short "u" vowel

For Teachers 1st
First graders successfully build words containing the short "u" vowel. They connect letter cards with an accuracy of 90%. Students build on phonics as well. They encounter within this lesson plan sequencing.
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!: Manners Discussion

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars have a class discussion about appropriate behaviors and manners.  For this manner lesson, students read the book entitled Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and discuss the events within the book.  Young...
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Mackinac Bridge

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Learners participate in various activities investigating the Mackinac Bridge. They explore various websites, read a history of the bridge, view live Webcams, take a Virtual Tour, and compare the Mackinac Bridge to other bridges in Michigan.
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Teaching Responsibility

For Students Pre-K - 5th
In this responsibility worksheet, learners read a list of steps about how to be a responsible person and complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced video program. Suggestions for related activities are also given.
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Building a Sentence

For Teachers 1st
First graders echo a sentence targeting a vowel selected by the teacher and shown on a sentence strip. In this sentence building instructional activity, 1st graders put the cut up sentence strip back into correct order, repeating the...

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