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Making Estimations in Measurement
Students explore estimating and measurement with the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. They read and discuss the story, estimate and measure their own height, circumference, and length of their foot, and draw and paint a giant using...
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Moving Rhythms
Pupils explore the elements of tempo, beat and rhythm. They create rhythm patterns and an original dance. In groups, students perform their phrases for their peers. As a class, they explore choreographic principles, processes and...
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Dramatizing Fables
Students familiarize themselves with fables by listening to several of them. They define fables. They identify the moral of a specific fable. They identify characters, plot and sequence of events. They create a mask of a character in a...
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Spring Potted Plants
Students identify and interpret plant growth as well as gain graphing skills and other important knowledge related to potting plants. They take a regular milk jug and cut off the top, leaving the handle and the rest intact. Then,...
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A is for Apple
Students participate in a variety of activities to learn about apples. Students graph apples, learn about apple uses, taste apples, and observe what happens when apples are dipped in lemon juice.
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Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 2
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
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Learn the Shapes
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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History of Famous Women
Students explore famous women who have made contributions to the world.
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Spatial Relationships: an Over/Under Dance
Young scholars explore the relationships of space through movement. Two perform movement improvisation based on over/under. The activity improves hand-eye coordination, cooperation, and communication skills. The timing of the dance also...
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Heart to Heart
Students predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Where Oh Where on the Playground, Do I Love To Be?
Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.
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Cause and Effect
In this cause and effect worksheet, students read sentences and write the cause and effect present in each one. An answer key is included.
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Harriet's Halloween Sort
Students listen to the book, Harriet's Halloween Candy, and discuss the many ways Harriet sorted the candy from her trick-or-treat bag. They sort and classify individually wrapped candy.
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Frog and Toad
Second graders learn vocabulary and use of words, set, attribute Venn diagram. They learn to describe attributes.
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Folk Tales Thematic Unit
Second graders read different folk tales and discuss them. They are given a template of a letter and they are to write a friendly letter. Special education students are paired with advanced students to help them.
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Learners use the book, The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, to explore spending, collecting, opportunity cost, saving, and speculating.
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Create A Map!
Students examine two- and three-dimensional shapes, and discuss map skills and attributes. They plan and create their own school campus maps using pre-cut building site shapes.
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Game Shows in the Classroom
Students participate in game show like games when reviewing material for any subject or grade level.
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Piece by Piece
What do your pupils know about quilting? Read and discuss the information included here before sending class members off to create their own quilt blocks using construction paper. When they have completed their blocks, provide some time...
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Primary Resources
For this literacy worksheet, students complete the worksheets that have been chosen by the teacher with the help of the icons on the left side of the webpage.
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Visual Arts: Portraits
Second graders examine a portrait of George Washington, and analyze the historical record and likeness in portraits of the period. They create their own portraits from snapshots brought to school.
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Adventure Into The World of Shapes
Students view Elmer Holtzrichter's work Mystery Planet and discuss basic shapes and patterns. They create their own collage. and discuss the patterning they created. Students demonstrate how this pattern would sound with clapping and...
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The Perfect City
Students analyze group influences on people, events and culture. They design their own perfect society and report it to the class.