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Solar System

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create planet mobiles in order to reinforce concepts such as planet size, position in relation to the sun, and planet names.
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Protection

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create dolls in a variety of skin tones to help reinact different community helpers. They make a helping hands mural on butcher block paper. They adopt a doll and demonstrate how to treat others gently. They discuss along...
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Integrated Social Studies and PE Fine Motor Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the Civil War and Indiana's participation in the war. In groups, they choose a person from the Civil War and create a "bio bottle" of that person. They use fine motor skills to create and dress a model of that...
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Making Christmas Ornaments

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this craft worksheet, learners follow the directions provided to learn how to make a dough ornament. Students answer 11 questions about the story.
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Dream Bed

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view and discuss two beds in the Getty collection and design and write descriptions of imaginary beds. In this imagery beds lesson plan students have to describe and compare/contrast works of art, orally and in writing. They...
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Learning to Give

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn what it means to give generously. In this giving instructional activity, students give examples of when they have given of themselves. Students complete a service project where they create a gift for preschoolers with...
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A is for Apple

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a variety of activities to learn about apples. Students graph apples, learn about apple uses, taste apples, and observe what happens when apples are dipped in lemon juice.
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Examples of Justice Systems and Practices in Western Africa

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore African belief systems. For this West African lesson, 10th graders research these belief systems. Students create a wooden figure that represents these beliefs.  
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Cultures of Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students eat food, make crafts, read books, and wear costumes all to learn about another culture. In this culture lesson plan, students can also go to a museum.
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"How Big is a Foot?" by Rolf Myller

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use estimation and fractions and standard units of measure to measure foot strips.
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K-2 Valentine's Day Heart Purse

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students create purses for students to collect classroom Valentine's or treats in. In this Valentine's Day lesson, students create valentines purses out of the given materials to collect their valentine messages in.
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Invention Convention

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recognize the work of Leonardo da Vinci. They invent a new machine for the 21st century and make a model of the invention.
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Creating a Canvas Floor Cloth

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a clored canvas floor cloth. They practice color blending and pattern design.
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Word Books

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners explore art and writing. They create a word book consisting of new words that they come across in their reading or words they hear from people. Students create a cover for their word books.
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Equality: Children's Rights

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to help them explore the similarities and differences of people. They design and wear masks, sort attribute blocks, read stories, discuss the rights and...
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New to School Student Booklets

For Teachers K
Students create a book about their school experience entitled, "(Student's name) Goes to School." They identify who their friends are and discuss and list them as one page in their booklets. Students also listen to a story read by the...
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Making Handbound Books

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make handbound books. In this book making instructional activity, students make handbound books by following the 7 steps. Students may use the books for a variety of subjects.
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How To Make a Rainstick

For Teachers K - 5th
Students research the uses of rainsticks in ancient native cultures. The teacher discusses the ceremonies rainsticks were traditionally used in. The students then construct their own rainstick.
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Weather Mobile

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars color the lightning part of the thunder cloud and then cut out the pattern. They then cut out the cloud pattern and put cotton onto it with glue. They then fold a piece of paper several times to create a snowflake to which...
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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Classroom Conservation

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders suggest ways paper and other natural resources can be used and recycled in the classroom. Students conduct a investigation into paper use and make distinctions among observations, conclusions (inferences), and predictions.
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Rainsticks

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create a rainstick decorated with repeated patterns of shape and color, out of paper towel tubes.
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Happy, Angry, Excited!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They create paper plate animal masks, then in small groups participate in a reading of "Snarlyhissopus" by Alan MacDonald, using the reading...
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Tall Tales: Reconstructing A Personal Tell

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover the ways archaeologists examine artifacts and where they are found. After being introduced to new vocabulary, they use artifacts from their own lives and discover what could be told about their life from them. ...

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