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- Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!
- Using chocolate as a theme, students will become involved in reading, writing, math, word study/spelling and other developmentally appropriate (integrated) activities. The unit includes centers for the classroom along with whole group activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Luwonna Oakes.
- Collecting family stories
- Students will interview relatives and compose a family story on the computer. This lesson was completed in conjunction with two other lesson plans (art and media) using the same theme but could be used alone. Student work from all three lessons was compiled in a student portfolio.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Amy Honeycutt, Chris Furry, and Diana Hicks.
- Color mixing
- Students are introduced to the basic steps in mixing secondary colors from primary colors of paint.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Gwen Auman.
- Colorful fruit bowl
- Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education)
- By Marilyn Carter.
- Comparing & contrasting real & make-believe bears
- Student pairs create a Venn Diagram in their Bear Research Journal listing things that are the same and different about real and make-believe bears.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Composing snowman stories
- Students will compose sequential, descriptive instructions about how to build a snowman.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Weavil.
- Conflict resolution/Self-discipline
- Students will define the character trait self-discipline by listening to the story Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. They will then learn a 3R strategy: Retreat, Rethink, and React, in order to handle conflicts. This strategy can be applied to the events in this story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- Creating a community
- Students will design a community and take into consideration the structures and human resources necessary for a balanced community. They will evaluate their community as they evaluate differences between wants and needs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Social Studies)
- By Helen Byrd.
- Creating an inclusive environment: Understanding feelings
- The students will learn about feelings and how to get along with others in group situations. Students will discuss what makes a friend, how friends make each other feel, what friends do together and how to resolve differences between friends. They will identify the qualities of friendship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance, Healthful Living, and Social Studies)
- By Dianne Prohn.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 1 (setting goals )
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community. Group goal-setting, brainstorming, peer feedback, group decision-making, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure are used to create a safe, supportive environment for learning in the classroom.
In Part 1, students are introduced to the goal-setting process. They will practice the first step of the process as they set individual and class behavioral goals. - Format: lesson plan (grade 1–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 2 (cooperative planning)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students will apply knowledge of the goal-setting process by cooperatively creating a plan to work on group goals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 3 (monitoring progress)
- This series of lessons is designed to help develop a sense of classroom community through use of group goal-setting, decision-making, brainstorming, peer feedback, positive reinforcement, and positive peer pressure. The lessons will help students create and maintain a supportive environment for learning. Part 1 focused on goal-setting process and practice. In Part 2, students applied knowledge of the goal-setting process and cooperatively created a plan to work on short-term group goals. In part 3, students will monitor the effects of their plan by determining whether short term goals are being achieved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Creating community in the classroom: Part 4 (rewarding improvement)
- The fourth lesson in a series on improving classroom learning climate, this lesson provides an opportunity to evaluate student progress and to provide positive reinforcement for improvements in behavior. Using a one to ten continuum, students will subjectively evaluate class progress on the ten adjectives listed as class climate goals. After this process, students will publicly recognize those classmates who have helped the class improve or who have personally improved.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–8 Guidance)
- By Pat Nystrom.
- Critical thinking and art with The Snowy Day
- This lesson will focus on the illustrations from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. The students will describe what makes illustrations worthy of a Caldecott Award. In addition, the students will complete an art project that will allow for creative critical thinking to compliment the illustrations in the book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education and Information Skills)
- By Caryn Levy.
- Cross-checking: An early reading strategy
- Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Jane Kate Blackmon.
- Dem "Dry Bones" take form
- This lesson introduces musical form (ABC) by using the song "Dry Bones."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Describing words: Go Away, Big Green Monster
- The students will use describing words in their writing based on the book Go Away, Big Green Monster while integrating math concepts about shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Paula Jennings.
- Digging in the dictionary
- In this activity, students will learn to use an age-appropriate dictionary to find a word, write its definition, write a sentence using that word, and report their results to their classmates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills)
- By Mary Waldrup.
- Digging up discoveries
- The students will study archaeology, practicing their knowledge of spelling patterns and capitalization and punctuation skills along the way. The students will go to a teacher-created excavation and discover a surprise in a “rock” from the excavation. The students will then write about their experience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Alyssa Slater.
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