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Let's get moving!: In this lesson, students explore supply chains through a mystery bag activity. This lesson is the first in a two-lesson unit. The lesson that follows is Turning back the wheel of time.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Social Studies); By Diane Ireland.

Let's hunt for vivid vocabulary!: This activity will be used to encourage students to focus on using an enriched vocabulary. During an oral reading of the book A Bad Case of Stripes, the students will search and identify various nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, dialogue tags, and transition words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Susan Byrd.

The life cycle of a seed: This lesson integrates science into the language arts block. Students will read about plant life cycle events and then write their own books about the life cycle of a plant.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Science); By Joni Kight.

Light and shadows: Lightness and darkness in space: In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 5; In this lesson, students will learn that light travels in straight lines until reflected or scattered by objects in its path. They will discover how this fact leads to the existence of shadows. Students will explore how an object's size, shape, position, and orientation determines the shadow it creates and how it is affected by a particular light source.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science); By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.

Light and shadows: Pinhole viewers: In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 6; In this lesson, students will construct a simple pinhole viewer. Experiments with the viewer will solidify the concept that light travels in a straight path and demonstrate that if beams of light pass through a small aperture, a coherent image can be produced.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 3 Science); By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.

Light and shadows: Shadow-tracing: In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 7; In this lesson, students will measure the length of their shadows at different times during the day. After recording how their shadows change in shape, size, and direction, they will connect this information to the Sun's motion across the sky and properties of light and shadows.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science); By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.

Light and shadows: The Sun moves in the sky: In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 4; In this lesson, students will record their observations of the Sun's path through the daytime sky. They will use landmarks as a basis for their recordings and to help make predictions about the Sun's changing positions.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science); By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.

Light, camera, action! Shadows?: This lesson will demonstrate how the position of a light source or direction of light and the time of the day will affect the shadow images that are depicted in our environment over a period of time.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science); By Alta Allen.

Little and big houses: Using the book Little House on the Prairie and international keypals, students will learn about similarities and differences among children at different times and in different places.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By Karen Ester.

Little Bit - BIG BIT - Little Bit: This lesson helps students who tend to jump right in and tell their entire story in the first few sentences and then struggle to complete their story. Students will learn to start and end their stories with just a "Little Bit" about the setup and closure of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Love songs: In BioMusic, page 1.4; In this lesson, students will investigate how birds use song to communicate. After listening to the story Birdsongs and recordings of bird songs, they will identify “words” in the calls and patterns in the songs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Music Education and Science); By Debra Hall and Crystal Patillo.

M&M math: M&M Math provides students with hands-on activities. Students will be sorting objects, comparing whole numbers, writing fractions, performing addition, subtraction, and division problems with the use of manipulatives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Angela Gillie.

Making equal shares: This activity is designed to connect literature and math. The students will use manipulatives and literature to reinforce the concept of equal sharing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Tara Almeida.

Matchmaking: Students examine the benefits of pet adoption. Students will learn about the responsibilities associated with pet ownership and how to make a good match between pets and potential owners.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Social Studies); By Barbara Lapointe and Kathleen Johnson.

A math story!: This lesson plan is designed to use a basic third grade math fact as a prompt to write and illustrate a math story. A hands on math activity using math manipulatives will serve as the focus and review for this lesson. A writing activity will serve as a conclusion as well as an assessment for understanding.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Sherrill Haltigan.

Meanwhile...: Transition words that connect ideas: Students will identify transition words in picturebooks that they can use in their own writing. Transition words are the glue that holds sentences and paragraphs together. They signal that this is a new part of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Milk it for all it's worth: Students will cooperatively discover the equivalent measures of capacity. In addition, students will be given a unit price of milk and will be asked to calculate the price of other units of capacity based on the price given. They will then use this information to determine the most economical buy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By ann dawson.

A million fish... Serving up exaggeration: Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Jennie McGuire.

Modern folk tales: Playwriting: Working in teams, students will rewrite short folk tale or fable plays, modernizing them. Then, they will present the old and new versions of the play.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Theater Arts Education); By Dayle Payne.

Monster symmetry: Students will make a "monster" through symmetry using white paper, pencils, and scissors. This activity will help students visualize how to identify objects that can be divided symmetrically.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Mary Allen.

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