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Better Lesson: Estimate Length in Inches

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches. A video, worksheets, and a detailed lesson plan are included.
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Better Lesson: Toy Vehicle Design

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this lesson, learners prepare their design plans for building their own toy vehicle from local manufacturers' discards. They start to conceptualize what may help the vehicle roll straight and far as they discuss ideas with classmates...
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Better Lesson: Where Is Water Found on Earth?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Water on Earth comes in many different forms. Students will collaborate as a team to locate forms of water on Earth. This in-depth lesson utilizes technology, specifically QR codes, to go on a hunt for where water is located on Earth...
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Better Lesson: Comparing & Contrasting Inventors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
What do inventors have that are alike? How are they different? Why do they invent? Learning about them may inspire you to invent new technology! In this lesson, students will compare and contrast key details in two texts on the topic of...
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Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will write a sloppy copy and help a peer to edit their writing. They will use a kid-friendly checklist (included)to help each other find their mistakes. Videos of the instructional activity in action are provided, along with a...
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Better Lesson: Goody Goody Gumdrop! Building Structures Are Fun!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this lesson, the children will be building a physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object, such as triangles, helps it function. At the end, the children will test their gumdrop structures and the class will collectively...
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Better Lesson: Making a Landform Model

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In the NGSS, one of the performance expectations is for the children to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. In the science practices, the children also must develop and use models....
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Better Lesson: Quick or Slow? I've Got to Know!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Earth changes can happen quickly or slowly. The students will work in teams to stake a claim about these changes and then use texts to find evidence to prove their claims. Included in this lesson are video clips of the class, a list of...
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Better Lesson: And the Author Is...using Digital Tools for Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Empower young scholars to recognize that they are thinkers and writers! They will collaborate on a writing piece to brainstorm, organize and publish ideas with a digital tool. This activity highlights different website creations as...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Who Is in Your Online Community?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] By learning the Rings of Responsibility, 2nd graders explore how the Internet connects us to people in our community and throughout the world. Help students to think critically about the different ways...
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Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: That's Private!

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Staying safe online is a lot like staying safe in the real world. By helping a Digital Citizen sign up for a new app, 2nd graders learn about the kinds of information they should keep to themselves when...
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Cpalms: The Lesson Formerly Known as "Wassssuuup"

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are actively engaged in learning how formal and informal language are used in written and oral communications. Downloadable handouts are provided.
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Bscs: Forces Lesson 1: What Makes Something Start to Move?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Through hands-on activities, this lesson will show students that a force is a push or a pull and forces cause changes in motion. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 1: Our Land

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This hands-on lesson focuses on the land and its many different types of landforms and bodies of water. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Better Lesson: What Is an Array?

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Teach a lesson plan about repeated addition and arrays by using this very detailed lesson plan. The author walks you through the lesson plan step-by-step and even includes a video of her teaching about arrays for reference. Word problem...
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan on Storytelling or Fables for First Grade Children

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching storytelling and/or fables to first graders including listening, reading, lesson learned (moral), and follow up ideas.
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Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
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Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
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Second Step: Grade 2: Lesson 15: Managing Anger

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson plan from Second Step will help students learn how to manage their anger.
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Second Step: Grade 2: Lesson 11: Introducing Emotion Management

For Teachers 2nd
This Second Step lesson will introduce the concept of emotion management.
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Your Dictionary: Lesson Plans Math Vocabulary 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This site includes two first grade math vocabulary lesson plans: one for measurement terms and time and money, and another for geometry terms
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Better Lesson: Building Things in Different Ways

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
This lesson poses the question "can you always take something apart and put it together in different ways?". Students will take part in designing an investigation using snap cubes to help figure out an answer. Videos of the lesson in...
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Better Lesson: Take It Apart, Put It Together

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce the idea that things are made up of small parts that can be recombined in novel ways. It also shows that the shape of certain parts dictates their function. Students delight in taking things...
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Second Step: Grade 2: Lesson 12: Managing Emotions

For Teachers 2nd
This Second Step lesson will help students to learn how to control their emotions.

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