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Better Lesson: Skittle Arrays

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Skittles - yum!! You will instantly have your student's attention when you teach about arrays using Skittles. This detailed lesson walks you through the steps, provides worksheets for varying math levels, and includes a video of the...
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Better Lesson: Preventing Wind Erosion

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students will use the engineering process to design a windbreak to save a house from wind erosion. Included in this lesson plan are detailed instructions, a video of the lesson plan in action, a list of materials, and a printable lab sheet.
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Better Lesson: "Let Go of My Lego"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Junior scientists use their imagination to create a Lego car. This investigation allows scientists to see that they can put items together to create some new product. Videos of the lesson in action and examples of student's journal...
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Better Lesson: What Shapes the Land?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, the teacher will read a book about different landforms. The children will learn about the features of the landforms and how they were shaped by natural forces. Then text features will be discussed. The children will then...
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Better Lesson: Butterfly Bush Visitors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this lesson, the children learn about how critters depend on the butterfly bush and how the butterfly bush, in turn, depends on it. Common Core writing skills are integrated as they take it to the next step, and create their own page...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Trails

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...
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Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
At the end of this lesson plan, learners will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape they will need...
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Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Tongue Twist Mania

For Teachers 1st - 5th
For this lesson students practice saying tongue twisters, read Dr. Seuss' Oh Say Can You See, and then write orginal tongue twisters of their own.
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Better Lesson: Look Who's Talking

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This is an introductory lesson to learning who is speaking in a story. The students do this specific skill after the teacher models it in the hook. They get guided practice sorting and labeling who is talking in the guided practice and...
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Better Lesson: The Power of Questions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively by using the Think-Pair-Share technique to ask questions about a story. Included are examples of student's questions, and a Think-Pair-Share poster and document.
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Better Lesson: Building and Reading Tables With Three Digit Numbers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders gain fluency in reading and building tables using three-digit numbers. This activity includes a detailed plan, printable worksheets, a video showing students engaged in the activity, and an exit ticket to assess...
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Better Lesson: Comparing Things!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders explore numbers in a variety of ways to understand how to compare three-digit numbers based on an understanding of place value. This lesson includes an interactive number line video, samples of student work, and a...
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Better Lesson: Attributes of 3 D Shapes Part 2

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will identify the attributes of 3D shapes and measure the edges in inches and centimeters. This lesson contains a detailed plan and videos of students engaged in the activity.
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Better Lesson: The Recipe for a Great Word Problem

For Teachers 2nd
The big idea of this lesson is to have students write their own word problems to help them have a better understanding of mathematical operations, as they relate to real world scenarios.
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Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Point of View

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
For this lesson, pupils compare/contrast two versions of "The Three Little Pigs" including the traditional from the pigs' point of view and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith version as told from the...
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Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Word Wall Madness

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This lesson plan for grades 3-5 uses a team activity to focus on locating misspelled words on the Word Wall and spelling them correctly.
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Can Teach: Follow Directions and Draw (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Have your students practice writing directions, then listening to and comprehend those directions with this lesson plan.
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Better Lesson: Skip Counting Patterns

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Are there repeating patterns in number counting? Recording skip counts may help reveal patterns that can be used in solving later math problems.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Consonant Digraphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What is a digraph? The objective of this lesson plan is that pupils will be able to recognize and use consonant digraphs in sentences and speech.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
Through this lesson plan, students demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.
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Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Changes With Acids & Bases

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson plan is designed to introduce young learners to chemical changes in acids and bases.
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Scarterfield: Want to Learn How to Draw Cartoons?

For Students 1st - 9th
This site offers free step-by-step lessons on how to draw various types of cartoons including animals, characters, cars, Christmas, Disney, Manga, Superheros, landscape, and much more. General information about drawing cartoons is...
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Beacon Learning Center: Fence Me In!

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Students can practice calculating the perimeter of rectangles in this interactive web lesson.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.

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