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Lumini Stick Macarena
Students use lummi sticks to perform a routine and identify a rhythmical beat.
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Teaching Nutrition Using the Food Guide Pyramid
Second graders explore how to make healthy eating choices. There are goals included for students to meet by the end of fifth grade.
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THE GRINCH, SANTA, AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS
Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.
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MARVIN K. MOONEY SCOOTER ACTIVITY
Students use scooter boards safely after listening to ways Marvin K. Mooney traveled on a scooter board.
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Turkey Round-up
Students perform this game as a warm-up for their bodies and a review of game strategies. It is designed to be used around Thanksgiving.
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Shell Sort; Serving up Seafood
Young scholars complete various small group activities to classify items and determine the types of combinations that can be made with these items. In the second lesson, students create menus for a restaurant to help them gain money...
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Locomotor License
Students participate in a simulation to practice motor skills and moving safely in the space they share with others.
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Boo-ographies
Students read biographies of famous people and create a presentation where they become the characters they have read and researched. They create tombstones for the people they have researched.
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Power Words
Using words can create a power struggle! Using antonyms and synonyms can create a Power Words game! Check out this lesson plan that teachers your class the difference between the two and how to use a thesaurus.
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Listeners for Life
Students listen well while the teacher reads directions which they must follow. They correct each other's activity to see if they listened well.
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Place Value Popsicles
Learners play a place value game using popsicle sticks and dice. They investigate units and tens.
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Where Do I Belong?
Second graders locate three-digit numbers on a number line and explain their placement in this hands-on activity based on their knowledge of numbers and place value. After the initial demo, 2nd graders stand up and get in the correct...
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Five Little Monkeys
Young scholars listen to story Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed, and act out subtraction situations.
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Goldfish Subtraction
Learners manipulate Goldfish crackers to explore subtraction and number sentences.
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Wading Through the Water Cycle
Students explore the water cycle and wade through the facts and vocabulary associated with it.
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Stop, Drop, Goal
Second graders examine how to resolve conflicts quickly and independently in the classroom by connecting putting out fights to putting out fire. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their role plays.
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Needs of the Family
Students investigate the needs that need to met in order for a family to survive and flourish.
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Listen and Learn
Second graders play in a listening game and brainstorm ways to communicate health information and ideas.
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Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight
Young scholars participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
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Mother, May I Communicate?
Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.
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Winning Resolutions
Students discuss the I Care rules for handling conflicts. They role-play various scenarios using the new rules to handle the conflicts, and complete a rubric to assess each group's conflict resolutions.