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Opening Lesson: Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a community service project and present an art project.  In this instructional activity on community service, students read Rainbow Fish and discuss its meaning for them as it relates to community. Middle...
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Raising Trout

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students investigate the life cycles of fish as they observe a trout's life in class.  In this fish life lesson, students create a proper habitat in a fish tank for the trout eggs to spawn and thrive for several weeks.  Students record...
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Underwater Descriptive Detectives

For Teachers 1st
First graders utilize descriptive words to convey ideas in writing. After hearing the story, 'Rainbow Fish,' students create their own fish books. The books contain original writing and illustrations.
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Don't Wake the Baby - Phonics

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore beginning reading through the use of phonics. They practice making the /sh/ sound and create a list of /sh/ words. Students practice saying tongue twisters containing /sh/ sounds. They model writing the s and h...
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Let's Make Writing Fun

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to "The Rainbow Fish" and write a story using their own experiences with friends. They use computer programs to publish their story.
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Rainbow Friends

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the colors of a rainbow. They explain the uniqueness of each person in the classroom. They work cooperatively with one another.
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Review of Locomotor Skills/Lang.Art/Art/Math

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study locomotor skills. In this physical activity lesson, students listen to the story known as Rainbow Fish and make a Rainbow Fish together using locomotor skills. 
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Exploring "The Fishes"

For Students 5th - 12th
In this fish activity, students access a website to review basic fish anatomy and compare different fish characteristics. This activity has 1 short answer and 7 fill in the blank questions.
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One Thing Leads to Another

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders rediscover cause and effect situations using the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. They gain an understanding of how one thing leads to another.
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Ratification & Review

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Pupils work with their parents to decorate strips of construction paper in primary colors to represent one family member per link on the chain. They sing a gathering song and all share their family chains. They read the story of the...
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I Can Read Fast, Smooth, and Expressively!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen to the explanation of the words expressively, smoothly, and quickly as being keys to fluent reading. They review some of the vowel sounds and identify them in different words and listen to some passages from The...
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Swimmy's Friends

For Teachers K
Students solve problems using various strategies. In this problem solving lesson, students read the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. Students make fish swimming patterns, measure how many goldfish crackers it takes to make a handprint and...
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Rain Forest Teaching Curriculum

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Take young naturalists on an exploration of the world's tropical rainforests with this extensive collection of lessons and activities. Whether its creating leaf and flower prints or investigating the absorption spectrum of chlorophyl,...
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Friendship

For Teachers K
Students examine social skills that are needed to be someone's friend. They are read a book about friendship and identify the characteristics they would want in a friend. They create a rainbow from their handprints.
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Graphing With Paper and Computers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders construct bar graphs. For this graphing lesson, 4th graders create bar graphs in connection with the story, The Copycat Fish. After creating the initial graphs on paper, students use MS Excel to create graphs.
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Fun with Fish!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe the phoneme and digraph /sh/ in spoken words. They discover a meaningful representation and practicie finding /sh/ in words. They read and spell words (using a letterbox lesson) that contain the phoneme /sh/.
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Trees For Trout!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine the impact of native forests, local clearcuts and local clearcuts and local reforestation projects on the survivablity of Rainbow Trout in their area. They record and document the stages of the trout throughout...
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Fishy Fun

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review the correspondent /ai/ = long a and break into groups of five. They use a fishing pole with a magnet attached to "fish" for words that contain the /ai/ sound in it. If they catch a word that does not contain the /ai/...
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Deck the Halls with Literature Trees

For Teachers K - 12th
Reinforce and assess reading comprehension by having your class make a literature tree! After reading a book, pupils make decorations to represent the book's themes, characters, and setting. Materials for decorating can be as diverse and...
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Chemistry Day With Glitter Wands

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe examples of the three states of matter and identify matter in each of the three states. They make glitter wands to remind them of the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Pupils brainstorm and record...
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Friends

For Teachers 1st
First graders use the software Inspiration to create a web describing characteristics of a good friend. With the use of a digital camera and PowerPoint, 1st graders create "Friends Found" posters after reading the book, "Don't Need...
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It Matters to Me: Iowa quarter reverse

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
What matters to your pupils? What values do they hold dear and how does that shape your classroom community? These are some the questions you'll get your class thinking about when they engage in this lesson from the US Mint. They will...
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Food Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students list and explain the five food groups and the recommended serving amounts.  In this food pyramid activity, students discuss the food pyramid and journal about their reaction to it.  Students complete a building block activity...
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Developing Friendships

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Friends and discuss how to make friends and the characteristics of good friends. In this friends lesson, students listen to the story and practice role playing on how to make friendships.

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