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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Identifying Feelings

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars identify feelings through facial expressions and body language. Learners listen for a feeling word, then act it out and discuss how they portrayed it.
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Building Self-Confidence

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
Encourage scholars to build self-confidence by giving themselves a "word hug." Learners calm and focus their bodies to reflect on how they feel great, then provide a mental it verbal pep talk listing the positives that came to mind.  
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Curated OER

Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words, Body

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Can you tell which words rhyme? Choose a body part as a starting word (i.e. head) and begin saying words to see if learners can identify those that rhyme. Does red rhyme with head? Continue giving examples, some rhyming and others not....
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Colorado Unit Writing Project

Fun with Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The phonemic awareness activities in this packet are designed to help kids develop skills in rhyming, syllabication, blending onsets and rimes, and beginning and ending sounds. Well worth a place in your curriculum library.
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Curated OER

Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science lesson, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in up to 6...
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Special Olympics

Walking & Running

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
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Curated OER

Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Body Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the shape of things as they bend, twist, and turn. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop social, creative-thinking, and language skills and spatial awareness as they use their bodies to create geometric...
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Curated OER

How Size Shapes Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate how size affects large and small animals differently. In this animal lesson plan, students determine how size affects different animals by constructing their own animal out of marshmallows. Once students create...
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Curated OER

It's a Wrap!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students investigate symbols and colors on the Osage blanket. In this visual arts lesson, students examine a blanket from the Osage culture and identify symbols on the blanket. Students create a class blanket, including symbols which are...
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Curated OER

My Favorite Things

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a body portraits to depict their favorite things. In this self-expression lesson, students use drawings, paintings, and magazine clippings to fill in their life-size body portraits with pictures representing their...
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Curated OER

Art to Zoo: Celebration

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students research and develop a report on birthday rituals around the world. In this research lesson plan, students compare birthday rituals from other cultures to their own. Images and resources are included.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Amazing Alphabet Lessons to Excite Your Little Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Wiggle, create, and recognize! Fun and engaging activities to reinforce phonemic awareness and pre-reading skills.
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Curated OER

Different Ways to Travel

For Teachers Pre-K
Students use concentration and imagination to show different ways to move. In this body awareness lesson, students show different ways to move to music.  While the music is played students move around the room changing their movements to...
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Curated OER

Musical Activities for Early Childhood Inclusion

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get your movers and shakers grooving to the beat with this series of musical activities designed to meet everyone's needs! Ten games, using an assortment of instruments, bring awareness to one's body, brain, and social interactions in a...
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Vanderbilt University

Literacy Teaching Guide: Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
You don't have to be a teacher in New South Wales to appreciate this phonics teaching guide. The 73-page packet is packed with information about the principles of effective phonics programs, teaching methods, sequencing, key strategies,...
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Curated OER

Using Bean Bags

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Here is useful lesson plan which demonstrates how bean bags can be used to develop manipulative skills. Young learners gain awareness of their bodies by taking part in this exercise. They also respond to a whistle, and focus on following...
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Curated OER

Dealing With Feelings

For Students Pre-K - 5th
Meant to be used with the Dealing With Feelings video from the You Can Choose series, this lesson can also be adapted for use without this resource. This plan is aimed at showing young learners how to appropriately deal with their...
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Progressive Phonics

Short Vowel “A”

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Support your phonics instruction with this beginner reading book that focuses on the short vowel /a/. The book is divided into four chapters based on the word families at, ad, an, and am. Letters and words used are c, a, t, s, m, n, d,...
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Curated OER

Building Bridges: Living in a Diverse Society

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students participate in various activities that help them build esteem, and explore racism. In this multicultural lesson plan, Students increase their awareness of, and appreciation for, cultural differences and similarities. This...
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Curated OER

Memory & Song, Malagan Figures from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars investigate the uses of images, shapes and colors in classic art sculptures.  In this art analysis lesson, students observe Malagan Figures, a type of sculpture from New Guinea, and describe the different ideas and images...
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Curated OER

Making Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this well-designed nutritional activity, students are given the opportunity to create their own daily food record, compare their nutrient with minimimun requirements, and think critically about their own food choices. Materials and...
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Curated OER

The Westward Movement

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students study the westward movement through examining stamps. In this westward movement lesson plan, students draw conclusions, determine cause and effect relationships and examine the westward movement of the United States by...
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Curated OER

Air Engine - Air Races

For Teachers Pre-K
Students conduct an experiment about air volume, density, and pressure. In this air lesson, students discuss air, and how it moves. They make predictions about what will happen during the balloon and string experiment. They document the...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Drugs

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars investigate drugs by identifying which ones are illegal and potentially harmful.  In this medicine lesson, learners complete worksheets in which they role play situations where they have found or ingested drugs and decide...

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