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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

For Teachers K
Students practice recognizing the letters in the alphabet. They create leaves of coconut trees out of cans and use magnetic letters to retell a story they heard before.
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Save the Lofty Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Save the Lofty Trees, by Leslie Mills, provides the text for a study of the roles of animals and humans in the forest. Richly detailed, the plan offers two approaches to the play: as a scenario for children to imagine what actions would...
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We All Need Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a guessing game. In this tree products instructional activity, students view various household items and try to determine if they were made from trees. They discuss their findings and then read books about trees.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

For Teachers K
Students review all of the alphabet letters once they are taught. They are involved in growing their class tree and then take an interactive part in putting their letter on the tree when it is their turn.
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Fun With Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and listen to the musical tape. Then they make their own coconut trees, adding their own letters. They express and record their favorite parts. All are displayed on a bulletin board.
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C and G up the Coconut Tree

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study letter recognition and differentiation of the letters C and G. They write the letters, listen to their sounds, and identify pictures with the C and G beginning sounds. They recite tongue twisters and write the letters....
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree

For Teachers All
Students review the letters of the alphabet using the book, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault. They create their own alphabet "tree" in the classroom.
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If a tree falls in the forest.......

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify by-products from forests used in their everyday lives. They describe several ways in which people depend on forests. Students list everyday products made from trees, then research and categorize less common products...
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Fun With Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete various activities for the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They listen to the story, construct a coconut tree, create paper letters for the coconut tree, and write about their favorite part of the story.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

For Teachers K
Young readers write alphabet letters. They review the alphabet and examine the relationship between letters and sounds. A final activity has each child sequence the story together.
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read and discuss the book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." They participate as a group in performing the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom play and complete a variety of activity cards that deal with different avenues of the book. Adjectives...
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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon in order to determine the main idea and essential message of bullying from the text. In this anti-bullying lesson, students first listen to the story, then each student re-reads the sayings...
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Costa Rica's Sustainable Coffee

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners experiment to see if birds prefer to eat bird seed with additives vs. no  additives.  For this experimental lesson students test to see if birds notice a difference between additive and no additive food. 
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Paper Molas

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Delve into the history of textile art using this resource. Learners discuss the history of molas, a type of textile art made in Panama and Columbia, and talk about the importance of this process in the Kuna culture. Then, they create...
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Seeds, Miraculous Seed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate relationships between plants and animals and how living things change during their lives. In this life cycle lesson, students split different types of seeds apart to see the beginning life stages of future plants.
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Tissue Leaf Rubbings

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students use tissue paper to create the texture of a leaf. They use different colors of tissue paper to have leaves of different colors. They place the leaves on white construction paper for all classes to view.
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Travel Time

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this travel worksheet, students respond to 8 fill in the blank questions regarding where they would vacation and what items they would take on the trip.
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Artha: Strategies for Survival, Success, and Power

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the concept of artha, recognize strategies that allow states to survive and see how elements useful in political science can be applied to getting ahead in everyday life.