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College Board

The Departure

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars learn about the Hero's Journey as they read Ray Bradbury's "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh." They analyze the story's structure and narrative techniques. Finally, they write summaries of the text's central idea and use their...
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Art Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to lesson collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon drawing, assessment,...
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, texts, and materials to teach kindergarten students to use clues in a story to draw and explain a conclusion.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Fact

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify and describe facts using the book Animal Touch.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Identifying Facts and Forming Opinions

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify facts and form opinions using the book Animal Smell.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities between two pictures.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Similarities and Differences in a Text

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities and differences using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williams.
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Read Works: Lesson: Author's Purpose: Cause and Effect Signal Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.
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Better Lesson: Our Stars

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students will observe and communicate how the stars are in the sky both day and night. The extremely detailed lesson plan includes photos and videos of the lesson plan in actions, examples of student's work,...
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Better Lesson: 10 More and 10 Less

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson is More or Less a great lesson! Engage students in finding 10 more and 10 less than a number using these fun activities. Includes an eSpark video on place value, detailed lesson plan, copy of a hundreds chart, and practice...
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Better Lesson: Who's Your Plant Parent?

For Teachers K - 1st
In this instructional activity, we observe our own plants to discover the answer to this big question: How are plants like their parents? Students will observe pre-planted seedlings and compare them to photographs of their parent plants....
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Better Lesson: The Fox and the Grapes Moral

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will get exposure to a folktale and work to understand the moral. This lesson uses two fables "The Fox and the Grapes" and "The Fox and the Hen". The lesson involves guided practice where the students write notes on the left...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blowing in the Wind Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this Curious George STEM lesson, students will explore the concepts of air and wind. Student will engage in a hands-on activity after watching a video excerpt from Curious George.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: A Listening Doll

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson plan, students explore the tradition of Pueblo "Listening dolls" and create their own version of this historical tradition. Also contains a rubric, extensions, and books to use as references.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson is designed to give students practice creating and reading bar graphs as well as understanding how to accurately represent a graph with appropriate units.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that a biography tells the story of a person's life.
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Read Works: Lessons: The Frog Prince

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten learners that fairy tales start with "Once upon a time" and have a happy ending.
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to Ernest J. Gaines' novel, A Lesson Before Dying, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and ten lesson plans with activities, homework assignments, project ideas and essay topics. A radio show, with...
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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: Introduction to Accountable Talk

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson plan and allow the children to "wrangle" with the...
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Better Lesson: Our Sky

For Teachers K - 1st
What objects are in the day sky and the night sky? How do they seem to move? Come and explore with us as we discover the sun, moon, planets and stars! This detailed lesson plan includes pictures and videos of the lesson in action,...
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Better Lesson: Building Shapes Review of 2 D Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...
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Better Lesson: Translucent, Transparent, Opaque Oh My!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Can you block the beam of light? Students will investigate what happens to light beams when you put objects in its way. These tests will allow them to learn new vocabulary (translucent, transparent, opaque) and discover how these terms...

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