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Hiragana - Perfect ~ Writing a Japanese Pictionary
Students listen to a story and view Japanese artifacts. They use the internet to explore the writings known as Hiragana. They create their own Japanese pictionaries and share them with the class.
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What are Numbers?: Learning to Add
Young scholars identify numbers from 0-20. They show quantities to 20. Students work in small groups and take pictures of items demonstrating the numbers that they have beeen taught. They form the number shape using their bodies and take...
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Lesson Eight: Depending on Others
Learners consider what real needs are and how people meet them. In this community instructional activity, students read A New Coat for Anna and utilize a landscape picture map to help them discuss community.
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Carbon Cycle Lesson
Seventh graders learn how trees help nature recycle. In this carbon cycle lesson plan, 7th graders view a picture of a giant redwood tree, complete a Think, Pair, Share activity, view and discuss a poster about how nature recycles,...
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Health Bookmarks
Students discuss the importance of good health such as, brushing your teeth, not putting toys in your mouth, using tissues, washing hands before and after meals, and other examples. They create a bookmark from the examples shared in class.
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USA Quilt and Cookbook Project
Students share information about themselves and their surrounding area through postcards, quilt squares, and recipes. Students use a digital camera to take pictures of their community and create postcards using desktop publishing. They...
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Where We Live
Students practice the click and drag technique on the computer as they match pictures of activities in the home, school, and community to the correct boxes. Then they will write about the activities.
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!
Students complete activities to become more aware of environmental issues and the effect on plants and animals. In this environmental issues activity, students use a globe to discuss issues with the environment. Students then take a trip...
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Five Senses
Students explore the five senses. In this five senses science and literature lesson, students listen to The Magic School Bus Five Senses book, stopping to identify and discuss each sense. Students draw and label a picture of...
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Jobs
Students explore the importance of a job. In this career education activity, students read the book Bear About Town and identify jobs in their community. Students draw pictures of a job they would like to have.
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Beginning Persuasive Writing
Learners identify elements of persuasive writing. Students discuss writing strategies and topics. They participate in pair and share activities. Learners write a persuasive letter.
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October Writing Journal
Students work on Sustained Silent Writing which encourages them to develop their writing skills. Students are encouraged to share their writing with a partner, the class, a small group, or in a "donut". Lesson describes ways to journal...
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Talented Fingerprints
First graders create a book about their interests and talents. In this lesson plan on personal differences, 1st graders share what makes them unique and who they are.
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Who I Am Collage
Young scholars create a collage about themselves and their interests by using magazines and pictures. In this who I am lesson plan, students present their collage orally to their classmates.
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Air Terms: The Flash Card Game
Fifth graders define vocabulary words regarding air quality. In small groups, they match magazine pictures or create illustrations for definitions and terms, and share the flash cards with their group.
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Lesson Nine: Size and Scale
Students investigate scale as it is related to maps. In this map instructional activity, students read Jack and the Beanstalk by Carol North. Students then compare the setting in the story to a landscape picture map to help them study...
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R & R - Incorporating Literature While Teaching Math - Ordered Pairs - "The Polar Express"
Third graders create pictures using ordered pairs after listening to a piece of literature. In this ordered pairs and literature lesson, student listen to and discuss The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. They participate in...
Helping with Math
What is Division?
In this division assignment, math learners can use counters to help solve simple division problems or draw pictures to show how things can be shared. Real-world scenarios allow youngsters to apply division concepts. The webpage contains...
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Simile About Me
Pupils are introduced to similes and read various examples. Then students write their own similes to describe themselves and share them with the rest of the class.
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Whose Shoes?
Young scholars explore the meaning of objects. Students conduct research on the history of shoes, and write an imaginary story about a pair of shoes. They host a group presentation to share their stories.
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Munsch mania
Third graders choose a Robert Munsch poem to interpret. In this language arts lesson, 3rd graders interpret their chosen poem by either acting it out or through illustrations. Once the interpretations are complete, students send their...
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What Are Our Talents?
Students read a book. In this philanthropy activity, students read The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush and discuss the children in the story and the gift or talent they share with their people. Students determine what they have to...
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Where'd You Get That Paper and Pencil?
Third graders make a poster display of objects made from trees. In this wood products lesson, 3rd graders read "The Giving Tree," discuss things that are produced from trees and watch the videos "Let's Make a Pencil," and "How Paper is...
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Oddity Rhyming Strips
Students practice identification of rhyming words. Students compare/contrast pictures by identifying rhyming sounds in them. Students place strips on the pictures. Students share comparisons with each other.