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  • LESSON PLANS

    A Back-to-School Conversation

    Foster trust in the classroom through this first day of school activity.

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    Prior Knowledge: The Popcorn Book

    Encourage your students to activate their prior knowledge with this lesson plan on The Popcorn Book.

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    Main Idea: The Great Kapok Tree

    Finalize your lessons on how to find the main idea of a story by reading the book The Great Kapok Tree with your class.

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    Reading Comprehension
    Main Idea and Supporting Details
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    Questioning, Frog and Toad Together

    In this lesson, you will teach students how to use Question-Answer Relationships by reading from Frog and Toad Together,…

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    Introducing Questioning, The Mitten

    Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to the importance of asking questions before, during, and…

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    Name Tags

    Use name tags to help you learn students' names.

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    Story Elements: Danny and the Dinosaur

    Use a lesson that introduces primary students to the elements of a story that is read aloud. Students begin by…

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    Making Fossils

    Make dinosaur bones or fossils with these clever ideas.

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    Geology
    Fossils
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    Tap Your Feet

    Students will practice following a pattern and become familiar with the concept of beat in music. They will be…

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    Class Garden

    Create a class garden with this lesson plan. Your students will observe the growth of the plants after the garden has…

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    Science
    Plants and Botany
    Plant Life Cycles
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    Squiggle Drawing

    Students learn about group dynamic by creating a group picture.

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    Visual Arts
    Art, Music and Drama
    Drawing
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  • GAMES AND APPS

    Mad Libs® Teacher Guides (Gr. 1-6)

    Learn how you can use Mad Libs© in your classroom to teach reading and language arts. These activities are a fun way to…

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    How Do You Say Hello?

    Children explore an online resource and learn to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.

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    Reading and Literature
    Foreign Languages
    Culture and Diversity
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    Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters

    In this science lesson plan, elementary students will learn about dinosaurs that were meat eaters versus plant eaters,…

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    Animals (Zoology)
    Geology
    Biology
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    Making a Fresco

    In this lesson, students learn about frescoes and improvise their own simple fresco paintings on Plaster of Paris. This…

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    One, Two, Buckle My Shoe: Music and Children's Literature

    Use children's literature to help teach music. Explore nursery rhymes with your students and make musical connections to…

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    Literature
    Music Education Strategy
    Music National Content Standard 1
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  • Malala Yousafzai Character Traits Language Arts Mini-Lesson

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    Character Traits Mini-Lesson: Spotlight on Malala Yousafzai

    This ELA-based lesson features a read-aloud of Lina Maslo's "Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala" picture book. The…

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    Reading and Literature
    Language Arts and Writing
    Women's Rights
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  • REFERENCE

    Sunflowers, Van Gogh, and You

    Students will taste sunflower seeds, plant sunflowers, research Vincent van Gogh, and paint a picture of a sunflower.

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    Social Studies and History
    Community and Ways of Life
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    Predicting: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

    Use the prediction strategy while reading aloud the book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry…

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    Making Inferences, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

    Use a lesson that is designed to expand primary students' skill of making inferences. The lesson uses the book, Why…

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    Reading
    Reading Comprehension
    Caldecott Medal Books & Illustrators
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    Ten More and Ten Less

    Students will review identifying and writing the number that is one more or one less than a given one or two-digit…

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    Mathematics
    Place Value
    Numbers and Number Sense
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    Journaling with The Sun, Wind, and the Rain

    This lesson, to be completed after reading The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain, has students practice their journaling…

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    Journaling Tips, Strategies & Topics
    Letters, Journals and Diaries
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    What Is a Peaceable Classroom?

    An activity to encourage your students to interact peacefully in the classroom.

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    Social Skills
    Social and Emotional Development
    Health and Safety
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    Primary Question-Answer Relationships

    Use a lesson that introduces the Question-Answer Relationship strategy to primary students. Students should be able to…

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