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- Are you listening?
- Students will learn the importance of listening and how to listen effectively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Linda Bazemore.
- Around the world, a multicultural unit
- The students will listen to stories from different cultures. They will participate in directed discussion, followed by a related art activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies)
- By Judy Cliver.
- Art detectives
- Students will look at a variety of artworks and explain what tool or medium was used to create them.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 Visual Arts Education)
- By Kathy Greene.
- Artifact ethics
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.5
- In their study of archaeological issues students will use ethical dilemmas to examine their own values and beliefs about archaeological site protection. They will also evaluate possible actions they might take regarding site and artifact protection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Social Studies)
- At home in the tropical rainforest
- Students will choose one rainforest animal to research using print and electronic resources. They will work cooperatively with a partner to create a PowerPoint slide with the following information: photograph of the animal, the layer of the rainforest it inhabits, the sound the animal makes, and an interesting fact about the animal.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Sally Eller.
- Attributes by kids
- This activity requires the student to demonstrate an understanding of classification, patterning, and seriation. The students will complete the project based on personal characteristics.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies)
- By Bunnie R. Brewer.
- Balloon flinkers
- In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 4.4
- Students will try to determine how much weight a balloon gondola can carry while it “flinks” in the air for 20 seconds. To be a successful balloon “flinker,” no part of the balloon or the gondola can touch either the ceiling or the floor during the 20 seconds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Science)
- By Erin Denniston.
- BANG! Calendar review
- This is a fun and exciting way for students to review calendar skills. The game can also be used to review skills from other content areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)
- By Christy Walsh.
- Bearly estimating
- This is a lesson which allows students to explore with estimation in cooperative learning groups.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Melissa Geiser.
- Body graphing
- "Body Graphing" is an interactive graphing activity involving manipulatives to compare graphing results. With the use of ropes and unifix cubes students will learn to compare and contrast their body with classmates. The graphing activity can be extended to graph differences with height, hair and eye color, and other physical attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By patsy morgan.
- Bugs, bugs, bugs
- This lesson integrates writing and the study of insects by having the students create a book following the pattern of How Many Bugs in a Box? by David A. Carter.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Vicki Rivenbark.
- Building friendships
- The class will listen to the counselor/teacher read the book: "Enemy Pie" by Derek Munson and a discussion will follow. This lesson will be summarized by listening to the students share their friendship recipes created from the new ideas learned from "Enemy Pie." An example of "Friendship Pie" is attached.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Julia Efland.
- Bulletin board of story elements
- This lesson will introduce young children to the elements of stories starting with characters. Children will be involved with interactive writing as they respond to shared reading lessons. Students will illustrate a caption of a character to be displayed on a bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
- Bunny addition
- This lesson integrates language arts, music, and math. The children will listen to the story Count on Bunnies. They will be given the opportunity to act out the story and solve bunny equations. After listening to the song "Five Young Rabbits," the children will take turns being rabbits and pantomiming the actions as the class sings. The children will combine the rabbits at the end of each verse to see how many rabbits have been added. Then they will work in pairs to create their own rabbit equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Becky Smith.
- Butterfly cycle
- Students will understand the life cycle of the butterfly and create various art activities that would model metamorphosis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Becky Woolard.
- Butterfly metamorphosis
- This is an integrated lesson which is introduced using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Butterfly metamorphosis is explored through art, math, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Laura Byers.
- Calico watercolor cats
- This two-class lesson focuses on students learning how to draw a cat using geometric shapes, learning and applying wet-on-wet technique of watercolor painting, and using crayon to create area surrounding cats. The final art product will be a mixed media painting of one cat and one kitten in an indoor or outdoor environment.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and English Language Development)
- By Barbara Zimmerman and Heidi Summers.
- Candy math
- Unit on reviewing Math skills. The unit will take 20 minutes per day for 6 days. A good activity for late spring.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Tammy Sharpe.
- Character education: Honesty
- This lesson will focus on two character education traits - honesty and friendship. During this lesson the students will conduct a character analysis and link prior knowledge to help understand the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By LaTina Robinson.
- Children and families in North Carolina
- In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green āNā Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–3 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
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