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Summarization Superstars

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
How do you read when you know you're going to be summarizing a text? Summarize a nonfiction text with your upper elementary schoolers. Your pupils independently read a nonfiction article and write a summary paragraph using the six-step...
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My Tooth is Loose

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Elementary learners study the /th/ sound as a whole class. First they hear the sound and learn a tongue twister. After practicing together, they write the digraph on their practice paper. Then, to study the words in context, the class...
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Summarizing: James and the Giant Peach

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Text marking and a T-chart format to distinguish important information from trivia help elementary readers summarize effectively. Encouraging readers to construct a chapter summary from paragraph-level topic sentences is another sound...
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Beat the Heat

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Review common digraphs with your early elementary schoolers. They identify the digraph /ea/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion, they apply the rule for identifying and spelling words containing the /ea/ digraph....
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Mapping Out the Story

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Discuss the reading comprehension strategy of summarization with your elementary schoolers! They read a chapter from their social studies textbook, Regions Near and Far, and create a map, or word web, for the chapter. They identify...
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Red and Blue

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young elementary learners listen to the story Red & Blue and participate in a collaborative project where they paint a picture using abstract shapes. Then they interpret classmates' abstract shapes and write or tell a story about...
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Autobiography - Student Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Motivate your class with this lesson! Learners use the trading card format to create an autobiography. They are given a list of characteristics to list, write down what they would like to include on their trading card, and head to the...
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Gerund or Infinitive?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Decide which form of the verb to use in ten sentences. Young grammarians watch for context clues when determining if they should use gerunds or infinitives in the blank spaces of each sentence.
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Father's Day Tool Belt

For Teachers K - 6th
Students paint designs and messages on cloth nail bags using puff paint or fabric paint in this simple elementary school Art lesson for Father's Day. The lesson could be adapted depending on classroom needs and student needs.
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In Depth: Pearblossom Highway

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars analyze a photograph and a photo-collage showing the same highway. In this visual arts lesson, students write a descriptive paragraph about both images and identify one-point perspective in art. Young...
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And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....
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Shadow Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover the power of lights, shades, and shadows in this Art lesson intended for upper-elementary/middle-level Art classrooms. Older students may want to experiment by adding more than one silhouette to the Bristol board used...
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Butterfly Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners study the life cycle of the Monarch Chrysalis. In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students study the monarch butterfly life cycle and focus on the fourth stage of the life cycle. Learners draw a picture about the fourth stage...
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Bunny Hats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils create "Bunny Hats" using construction paper, paper plates, glue, googly eyes, and pencils in this fun Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson emphasizes building cutting skills and encouraging creative expression.
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Fringe My Heart

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create fringed Valentine's Day hearts in this Art lesson for the elementary school classroom. The lesson includes step-by-step instructions and a materials list. This was created by an 11-year old who loves arts and crafts.
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Winter Quilt

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a class winter quilt. In this visual arts instructional activity, 2nd graders use construction paper, glitter, markers, and ribbon to create a patchwork quilt of winter scenes or memories.
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Lace Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create Valentine's Day gifts. In this visual arts lesson, students create a Valentine's Day project using paper doilies pasted onto construction paper. Students frame their art with brown construction paper and give their...
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Christmas Baubles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create hanging christmas decorations using plastic lids, glue, various colors and shapes of glitter, and tinsel in this early-elementary school Art instructional activity. The instructional activity is ideal for the holiday...
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Kooky Spider

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "Kooky spiders" using toilet paper tubes, twist ties, marbles, buttons, paint, and a hot glue gun in this Art lesson plan for the early-elementary classroom. The lesson plan is ideal for the Halloween season. Take...
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Love Bug Bag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "love bug bags" using pink pipe cleaners, construction paper, glue, glitter or sand, and a lunch sack in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. This can be used in the Springtime or as a Valentine's Day...
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About Life: The Photographs of Dorthea Lange - Images of Children in Dorothea Lange's Photographs

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students examine how visual artists tell stories with their work. In this visual art lesson, students study two of Dorothea Lange's photographs to find elements of art and narrative content, use descriptive language when discussing...
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Fit Kid

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars practice and perform the song "Fit Kid" while learning the basics of motion and music and dynamics in this elementary-level lesson for the General Music classroom. The lesson emphasizes proper exercise and diet for a...
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Paper Batik Flowers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars create original works of floral art in this three-day Art lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. Included with the lesson is a picture example of the finished project and tips on how to create the art using black...
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Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create oil pastel landscape paintings in this middle-level Art lesson on perspective, horizons, foreground, background, and middle ground. The lesson includes resource links to books on teaching art and perspective.

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