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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (2), or English Language Arts (2), or Mathematics (K - 2), or Science (2), or Technology Education (K - 2)
Title: Digging In For Dirt Day!
Description: This lesson is managed through stations that students will rotate around every 20- 30 minutes. Each second grade teacher conducts one station. Parent volunteers can also be used to manage stations. Students will use an auger to gather soil, produce a soil painting, make a dirt cup to represent layers of soil, do a Shake It Up! activity to examine how soil settles, and examine local soil.
This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: The Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden was dedicated on October 13, 1995.
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Description: Students select characters that they believe are the most memorable from Cleary's books and write short persuasive essays to explain their choices.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images
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Description: Students will be monkeying around in this lesson when they create a digital class book in which they imagine what Curious George would do if he visited their school.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Two Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
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Description: Students evaluate book reviews written by other children, discussing their components and effectiveness, and write reviews of favorite books to record on video or post online.
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Grade Span: K,1,2,3
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Readers Theatre With Jan Brett
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Description: Students in grades 1-2 use Jan Brett's Hedgie's Surprise for a Readers Theatre experience.
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Grade Span: 1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
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Description: Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
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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.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: Tell a Migration Story...With Interviews
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Description: In this Xpeditions student activity, students become reporters for the local newspaper and conduct interviews with someone who has migrated to their community. After they finish their interviews, students share what they have learned about their interviewees experiences, memories, and feelings about coming to live in their new community.
Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic Education
Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
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