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Everyday Life In Africa

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students compare the life of a boy in Africa with their own lives. Students act out stories that they have written in groups.
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Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and discuss a story in Spanish. Creating a poster board, they write the names of the characters in the story. In pairs, they write sentences about their characters they have chosen to role play. They practice and perform...
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Natural Enemies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in the reading of an ancient Chinese fairy tale. The goal of the lesson is for them to become creative in the use of writing. The story creates a context for student's writing and ideas for future drafts.
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The 47 Loyal Retainers -- Honor and Murder in Early Modern Japan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read articles about the 47 retainer group in Japan. They discuss the importance of honor and law in early modern Japan. They develop their own opinions about how a case should have been handled and share them with the class.
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Dialogue Disguises

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils read a story out loud to a partner and change their voices and expressions when depicting specific characters. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on the person's voice who is reading to them, while keeping track of...
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Adding Snap to Language Arts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners take photographs of themselves, animals, and objects and used these photos as springboards for writing stories, plays, photo captions, comic strips, ads for products, and greeting card messages.
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What Are You Doing Here?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students draw scenes of different environments and create unexpected visitors in those environments. They reinforce their understanding of the characteristics of different environments and the animals that do or do not live in these...
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It's Time to Get Organ-Wised

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars engage in a lesson which contains several ideas for a unit on the body and body organs. They solve riddles, color in shapes of organs, participate in games and read about the functions of the various organs. Worksheets are...
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Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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Japanese Folktales

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to examples of Japanese folktales and identify universal themes. Students construct a 'kamishibai' - a traditional Japanese storytelling prop - and dramatize a folktale through puppetry.
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Jamberry

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore good nutrition through dancing to the Jamberry song.
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Going Batty

For Teachers 1st
First graders begin with the word "at" then explore bats and other things ending with "at." After a lecture/demo, 1st graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which guides them through compiling a "batty book."
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What are You Doing Here?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars discuss different types of environments and climates on Earth. They choose an environment and draw a picture of it, another student create an animal that he/she believes belongs in that particular environment.
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Allison the Alligator

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the concepts of greater than and less than. This leads to the use of inequalities. The teacher tells the story about an alligator in order to create a fun environment for practicing the objectives of the...
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Where Is Hoku?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students are introduced to map making and reading. Using maps, they identify the cardinal directions and discuss the importance of a legend. They analyze the human characteristics of the classroom and create overhead view maps of the...
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Unit Plan on Travel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars research a vacation to the state of Florida in order to acquire language skills. They also use the internet to create an imaginary vacation. Literacy is improved through student engagement and language is related to...
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Allie the Rat

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils identify the letter a and the short vowel sound it makes. They do a tongue twister with the sound in it and write what the letter a looks like on primary paper. Students have to listen to or read a story called Pat's Jam and...
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Shiny Shoes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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Problem Solving: Equal Groups Problems

For Students 4th - 5th
In this equal groups worksheet, students read the word problems and learn to use equal group numbers to solve the six word problems.
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Five Little Frogs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use music to study concepts in math. In this music math lesson, students sing songs, read books, and learn counting skills in frog themed activities.
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Here is A Beehive

For Teachers K
Students begin each school day with a song, starting the day on a happy note. They choose the songs, which change each month with each new unit. The words and music are given here for the busy bee song.
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Amphibians and Reptiles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students classify animals as either reptiles or amphibians.
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Day of the Dead

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore Day of the Dead, also called "Dia de los Muertos," which is a holiday (or festival) celebrated in Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, and other areas in Central and South America populated with the Latino ethnic background.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 19: Hey, Hey, Whaddaya Say!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses.

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