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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Science (1)
Title: Exploring Owls
Description: During this lesson, students will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book about owls.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Science (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Fun-Loving Frogs
Description: During this lesson students will use their imaginations and writing skills to write a story from a wordless picture book, Tuesday, by David Wiesner. They will work in pairs and write text to go along with the pictures. They will also view a website to learn facts about frogs.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Social Studies (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: The Little House
Description: During this lesson, students will actively listen to the story, The Little House, and determine the sequence of events. This lesson will be used to help students differentiate between natural changes and man-made changes in environments over time. The students will use word processing software to write about the little house's feelings. The students will also create their own little house.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Pass the Punctuation, Please!
Description: During this lesson students will listen to the story, Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells and identify punctuation used in the story. Students will also play games to strengthen knowledge of punctuation usage. They will then use the Internet to practice what they learn during this lesson.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Nifty Nouns
Description: This lesson will introduce students to nouns. Students will practice identifying nouns in a book and on the Internet. A noun quilt will be created at the end of the lesson to demonstrate students' understanding of nouns.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Mathematics (K - 1), or Science (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Leo Lionni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow
Description: Students will use Leo Lionni’s literature and his website to learn about the author, mix primary colors, summarize and rewrite a story, and use graphing skills to determine the classes’ favorite color.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Mathematics (K - 2), or Science (1), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Yummy Apples!
Description: Students will identify, explore and graph characteristics of several different types of apples.
Subject: English Language Arts (1), or English Language Arts (1), or Mathematics (2)
Title: Pat Brisson's Benny's Pennies
Description: Students will listen to the book Benny's Pennies and demonstrate their ability to count pennies, understand proper sequence and rewrite a story.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: December Calendar
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Description: This EDSITEment calendar is a collection of peer-reviewed Web sites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering December holidays and special events. The calendar covers topics such as the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Boston Tea Party, and includes links to many EDSITEment lesson plans, Web site features and additional learning activities related to these and other topics.
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Grade Span: K,C1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Let's Build a Snowman
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Description: In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
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Description: Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
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Description: After listening to and discussing the story Score One for the Sloths, primary students research the sloth. Students use a variety of resources, including an information wheel graphic organizer.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: What Is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
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Description: This lesson, from EDSITEment, aims to help students understand history and recognize that the past is different depending on who is remembering and retelling it. There are four activities, in which students construct a timeline based on events from their own lives and family histories, construct a class timeline through comparison with each other's histories, research oral history by interviewing family members, and study primary sources to write their own history of the Great Chicago Fire.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Teaching Shapes Using Read-Alouds, Visualization, and Sketch to Stretch
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Description: Visual clues in winter-themed books used in this lesson encourage students to make real-world math connections.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
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Description: Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: November Calendar
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Description: This EDSITEment calendar is a collection of peer-reviewed Web sites and EDSITEment lesson plans covering November holidays and special events. November is Native American Heritage Month and this calendar includes links to many EDSITEment lesson plans, Web site features and additional learning activities related to this theme.
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Grade Span: K,C1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
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Description: This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
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Description: Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
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Description: Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
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