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- “J'adore la pizza” by Karen Kransky: Finding rhyming words in a French poem
- This lesson is designed to increase students' awareness of some French letter-sound combinations that rhyme, in spite of being spelled differently using the poem, "J'adore la pizza" by Karen Kransky.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Second Languages)
- By Laura Hemphill.
- Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings
- After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Reid.
- Mr. Griggs' Work
- The students will learn about the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, honesty, and effort in the workplace through the reading of the book Mr. Griggs' Work. The students will have the opportunity to explore these character traits in their own work setting.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By William Hodge.
- Snowflake Bentley: The book and more!
- By using the picture book, Snowflake Bentley, students are introduced to the Caldecott Award and exposed to an interesting biography.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison, and Susan Pope.
- The Birchbark House
- This study guide was created by a group of third grade enrichment students. They were planning to read this book but could find no published guide to go with it. They decided to create their own as they read.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Carolyn Ridgway.
- The Greedy Triangle
- Students review geometric terms by making predictions about what the Greedy Triangle will become as the teacher reads the book, The Greedy Triangle. Students will create geometric creatures after the review.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Renee Allen.
- The Sign of the Beaver real estate advertisement
- Having read The Sign of the Beaver and the Sunday Real Estate section of the newspaper, create a slide show designed to sell Matt's cabin to buyers in early America.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By CarrieAnne Blocker.
- Action chains
- Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Adding emotions to your story
- One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- All about trash
- Students will discover which kinds of trash break down naturally and which do not when they make their own landfills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Dawn Gilbert.
- Alphabet hunt
- Students will find images in our environment which contain letters of the alphabet (either man made or natural) and photograph them so that they appear as the focal point.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Visual Arts Education)
- By Lee Anne Kitzmiller.
- Amazing amaryllis activities
- Students will use an amaryllis started from a bulb to explore the growth of the plant, measure, record and compare the growth of the leaves and the flower. They will enter the data on a spreadsheet and convert it into a graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- Angry words: What goes around comes around
- This is a simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. Strategies for coping with angry feelings are shared.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Judy Lavore.
- Animal friends
- This lesson helps students explore personal beliefs and feelings toward others. Students will examine stereotypes and how they influence interactions. The lesson emphasizes peer relationships, awareness of feelings, understanding/accepting differences and self-knowledge.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Beth Lindsey.
- Anthill number round-off
- The purpose of this lesson is to give students a visual aid to help them round off numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Phyllis Roberts.
- Appositive action
- Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an appositive phrase.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Archaeology as a career
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.2
- In their study of archaeology as a career, students will read essays and complete an activity to gain an understanding of and appreciation for the career of a professional archaeologist.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- 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.
- 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)
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