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It's Under Discussion
Students create brainstorming webs to facilitate discussions about writing about an informational topic. In this writing lesson plan, students do this in groups and then free write about their topic.
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Creating Opera
Students study the how music enhances drama in opera. They work in small groups to develop a short story that would be enhanced with music, costumes and props. They perform their operas for classmates and others.
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Showing Depth
Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...
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Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport
Second graders listen to "Gila Monsters Meet You At the Airport" and complete venn diagrams of geographical areas.
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Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Students identify the plant parts and bee structures that are involved in pollination. They simulate pollination in a group activity and process the information.
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Jeopardy Review
Students engage in test review. In this test review lesson, students participate in a Jeopardy game. Students work in small groups answering comprehension questions. Standard Jeopardy rules apply.
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Gingerbread Baby Ornaments #4
Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They use patterns from the book's website to use as templates for ornaments. They use clay and colors to make the ornaments and give them to someone as a gift.
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Gingerbread Forest Map Skills #2
Young scholars are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They work together to develop a 3D map of the journey the baby traveled in the story. They practice their map reading skills to complete the lesson.
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Gingerbread Baby's Home #1
Students are read the book "Gingerbread Baby". They work together to create a home for the baby in the story. They use clues from the story to help them build the house.
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"The Greedy Triangle" by Marilyn Burns
Students discover which regular polygons can be used to tile a plane.
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Haring Art Truck
Young scholars are introduced to the work of Keith Haring and graffiti art in general. They work together to design and paint a car imitating Keith Haring's style.
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The 1980s Series - Graffiti
Students explore life and work of Keith Waring, and create their own "Graffiti Wall" in the classroom.
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Inside Information
Pupils research and write reports about inventions and inventors. They develop graphic organizers to organize their information, and create reports on the impact of inventors and inventions.
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What's on Your Plate?
First graders, after studying the food guide pyramid, create mock dinner plates. They include on these plates magazine cutouts of foods from each of the groups in the food guide pyramid.
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C.M. Beg
First graders are introduced to a pretend boy named C.M. Beg. The initials of the boy be a mnemonic device to help students explain the basic characteristics of living things.
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The Food Chain
First graders explore how most living things, big and small, need food for survival.
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Play Dough Pizza Party
Students review fractions using a visual display. They receive a can of Play Dough and have to complete a worksheet figuring out how to divide up a pizza for a specified number of guests.
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Making Cents of Division
Third graders use pennies as manipulatives to solve simple division problems. They create division number sentences to correspond with each exercise. This is a good, hands-on way to teach the concept of division.
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Subtraction Relay
Students play a team subtraction game, subtracting two-digit numbers and using addition to check their subtraction. They solve subtraction problems at the board while the team solves the same problem in their seats.
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Yummy Division
Second graders watch as volunteers divide large paper M&Ms on the board. They divide M&Ms into groups and write division sentences to show understanding of division concept. They eat M&Ms.
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Let's Visit Letter Land
Young scholars listen to a story about putting words in alphabetical order so they can decide who should start the Letter Land Parade. They practice alphabetizing letters, and words.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing
Students brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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123/ABC Hopscotch
Students practice alphabet recognition, alphabet sounds, and number readiness while playing a hopscotch type game.