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Amazon Rainforest Conservation, Brazil
Learners explore rain forests. For this rain forest lesson, students participate in a "BioBlitz" of their schoolyard, observing and recording every living thing in a designated area. Learners visit websites about rain forests to...
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Miss Nelson is Missing
Learners examine the story elements in the book, Miss Nelson is Missing. In this literary elements lesson, students listen to the story and identify the sequence of events in the test. Learners also use an online dictionary to define the...
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Poetry And Me
Third graders create visual poems using crayons, making a connection to an important aspect or event in their lives.
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Nutrition
Students create a video incorporating clay animation and skits. Using their video creation, students explain and explore the five basic food groups, nutrition news, nutrients, benefits and food examples. They maintain a food journal,...
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Poppin Popcorn
Learners use their senses to write descriptive sentences. In this descriptive writing lesson, students discuss their senses. Learners are asked to look at and feel unpopped corn kernels. Students then write descriptions of the corn...
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Cacao Tree Geography
Students use a map to learn about where chocolate comes from. In this lesson on the cacao tree, students locate various regions where the cacao tree grows. They will discuss why the cacao tree grows more favorably in particular climates...
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It's Off to Work We Go
Students reenact what finding a job was like in the 1900's and model their actions after Milton Hershey. In this history lesson, students create business cards, and conduct mock interviews for jobs that would have been predominate in...
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Weather Watchers - Interdisciplinary
Learners investigate weather and climate through a variety of interdisciplinary activities.
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Can You Hear a Story?
Young scholars listen to, analyze, and describe music. They explain relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
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Push or Pull
Students discover that one way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull. They design their own boats and work with 'The Great Boat Push' worksheet to compare how their boats move when they are pushed or pulled and...
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Anecdotes from Artifacts: Hearing When Clay Sings
Students discover artifacts of the American Indians. They also bring in their own artifact for viewing.
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Titanic
Learners conduct research with the purpose of writing a report about the Titanic. They use a variety of resources. The students produce a written document that has plenty of documented information. They also compare the information that...
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Amazon Rainforest Conservation, Brazil
Students explore the concept of understanding the effects of disturbances in an environment. In this life science instructional activity, students use the game Jenga to help capture the idea of environment disturbances. Students...
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Self Portraits
Third graders complete a unit on the writing process that focusses on the self-portraits of Rembrandt and Norman Rockwell. They create their own self-portraits and write autobiographical sketches. They also research the lives of the...
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Introducation to Vocabulary for a Lesson about Communities
Students practice using new vocabulary they learn about communities. In this communities vocabulary lesson plan, students use synonyms, context clues, and relevant content to unlock the meaning of new vocabulary words.
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Early Explorers
Learners answer short answer questions and participate in a role play where they are explorers being interviewed. In this early explorers lesson plan, students discuss why it is beneficial to be the first one in a place.
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Jimmy's Rules
Students analyze the major theme in the story, "Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash" to change the outcome and design a rule that changed the outcome of the story. The importance of rules and their differences formulate the basis of this lesson.
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Koala Lou: A Lesson on Love From Australia
Students will learn how family members can help and support each other as they listen to the story Koala Lou by Mem Fox. They will also learn about Australia as they study the animals illustrated in the book.
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What Is a Business?
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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Multiplication Lesson Plan
Learners demonstrate multiplication facts using an interactive whiteboard. In this multiplication lesson, students use an online activity on a whiteboard to master multiplication facts. Learners complete an online quiz as a follow-up.
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Speech Therapy Students Interact Between Schools
Students use technology to improve their communication skills and have the ability to interact with other speech students attending other elementary schools. Through riddles, games, and other activities, students attain their speech...
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all About the States
Pupils conduct Internet research about the states and use educational software to graphically organize the facts they have studied. As a class, students create posters and bulletin boards of the 50 states.
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Swimming with Crabs
Learners explore Earth science by completing several graphic organizer activities in class. In this oceanography lesson, students research ocean inhabitants such as blue crab and oysters. Learners complete graphic organizers about the...