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Wild Things

For Teachers K
Students draw a literacy response picture demonstrating knowledge and appropriate use of computer hardware components (monitor, mouse) using KidPix and Kidspiration software with a minimum of two different pictorial details on their...
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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon in order to determine the main idea and essential message of bullying from the text. In this anti-bullying lesson, students first listen to the story, then each student re-reads the sayings...
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Pounds and Ounces Reteach 18.3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pounds and ounces learning exercise, students estimate the weights of 4 common objects. Students then weigh each object on a balance scale and record the weights.
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T-Shirt Glyph

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create a glyph (a symbol or icon) that represents who they are, and read the glyphs of others to explain the glyphs' data.
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1st Grade - Act. 03: T-Shirt Glyph

For Teachers 1st
First graders create glyphs (symbols or icons) which represents them, and read the glyphs of others using a legend to explain the data on the glyphs.
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POP! Goes the Popcorn!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students complete a variety of activities based on examining corn and popcorn as one of the major crops of Kansas. They journal the results of the multidisciplinary activities in this unit.
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Remembering What We Read

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover strategies to help them better understand the stories they read. As a familiar story is read to the class, individuals practice answering basic questions about the main characters, settings, problems, etc. while...
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It's About the Author

For Teachers Pre-K
Students develop print awareness. In this literature lesson plan, students memorize and recite nursery rhymes and listen to stories of Maurice Sendak and Ezra Jack Keats. Students draw pictures to illustrate read aloud books and dictate...
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Things We Love

For Teachers K - 1st
Students brainstorm and share things with the class that they love. They are to pick one thing they love and create a drawing of it. They are also to create a class storybook. They share their favorite things with the class as well.
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Interview for Reflection

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice their interviewing skills using the elements of questioning. They write and illustrate a past experience of theirs doing a philanthropic act. They share their stories and illustrations to complete the lesson.
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Upside-Down Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read various examples of literature. In groups, they brainstorm a list of views that go against what was in one of the stories. They illustrate the opposite ideas and compile them into a class book. They use each other to...
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What Are the Ethical and Legal Aspects of Radon?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research a legal or ethical aspect of radon. They create their own legislation regarding radon and real estate. They present their information to the class.
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Tree of Giving

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students work together as a team to solve the hypothetical common problem of litter. They give examples of organizations that focus on trying to help others in significant ways (volunteers). Each group maps out their strategy, a tree...
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Time, Talent, Treasure, and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine and trace the origin of an item of clothing. They write, illustrate, and publish a book describing the trade flow that brought their item of clothing to the United States.
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Authoring Stories for Guided Reading

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students in a teacher education program write their own children's book. Using books already written, they review age appropriate for their grade level placement. They write their own story and illustrate it using various software...
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Rainforest

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners explore and study an activity that reinforces counting skills and drawing rain forest animals in their math storybooks. They brainstorm what type of animals they think they'd see in the rain forest, birds as well as colors. Each...
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Farm Animals

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in an activity that reinforces their counting skills and the relationships between numbers, utilizing the concepts of more and fewer. They read in their Math Storybook's about geese at a fair and how those geese are...
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Helping Each Other, Near and Far

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine their knowledge of the world as a larger place than just their immediate environment. They examine how people in Africa are fighting malaria and other issues. During the lesson they listen to a story about the use...
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Global Story Book

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students work with a school in another country to produce a Global Story Book. They write stories and design pictures that describe both cultures.
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ICT Activity 3

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use KidPix to draw pictures, they are shown how to select and use different tools. They become aware of to use the keyboard to enter text. Students comprehend that their work can be saved and retrieved. They are introduced to...
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Here's an Instant Activity: Onomatopeia Word-Search

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete a worksheet on onomatopoeia. In this spelling instructional activity, 8th graders review the concept of onomatopoeia. The attached worksheet for students includes a word-search of thirty onomatopeic words....
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Story Stew -- Teaching Character, Plot, And Setting

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the story elements of characters, plot, and setting. They identify the story elements from various "ingredients" taken out of a pot, and add their own story element "ingredients" on index cards into the pot.
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Kindergarten Phonics

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the letters and phonemes for C, L, N, P, T, and A. They identify each letter in its upper and lowercase forms. Students differentiate the letters from each other and practice identifying objects and pictures...
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Photo Talk!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students communicate with Epals. They write letters with photo exchanges and create a website for presentations of 3,000 words or less and one photo. They tell their life stories and illustrate with photos in the target language. V