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Let's be firefighters!
In this lesson, the students will learn about firefighters and the role they play in our community. This lesson will familiarize the students with the types of equipment used by firefighters, the special clothing worn by firefighters, and the responsibilities each of them have in our community.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies)
By Lavonne Holland.
Letter books
Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Clara McKenzie.
Letter recognition with Alphabet Band and Express
This activity will reinforce letter recognition along with letter order. Students will watch a video, listen to stories and play CD games on the computer to aid in recognition of alphabet letters, sounds and order.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
By Levrah Hall.
Life cycle of painted lady butterflies
Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
By Anne Allen.
Look and listen: Exploring the five senses
This group of shared reading lessons is based on the book Look by Jillian Cutting. They are designed to be used as a part of an integrated classroom unit on the five senses.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
Lucky ladybug doubles
This lesson will involve students in using symmetry and doubling of numbers 1 through 7 to make ladybugs.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Information Skills and Mathematics)
By Alta Allen.
"Luscious lollipops" and other adjectives
The students will become familiar with adjectives by reading Ruth Heller's book Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives. They will also be able to use adjectives to describe an object in their own writing.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
By Pat DeMello.
M&M math
Rotating to each station using M&M's, this lesson will allow students to add, graph, sort, and estimate.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
By Karen Walker.
Make math "bear"-able
The students will use teddy bear counters to explore addition and subtraction facts (1-10). Students will demonstrate an understanding of ordinal numbers by locating the position of their counters on their workmats.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
By Nikki Gilmore.
Make your own cereal bowl
In this lesson for kindergarten, students will learn that the art of creating functional pieces of pottery in North America first began over 4000 years ago in North Carolina. Students will learn where clay comes from and will create their own pottery pieces.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education)
By Eileen Palamountain.
MaraLIMAthon
Kindergarten students will work with an older grade buddy (we worked with 1st grade students) to make predictions, and then over a two-week period, see changes in lima bean growth, and be able to document the lima bean's progress. The buddies will work together to create an illustrated short story about lima bean characters that they create.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
By Kristi Waddle.
Marc Brown author study: Arthur's Nose
Using the book Arthur's Nose by Marc Brown students will respond to the story through art, music, and in written form.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
By Kathy Palmore.
Matching with The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 10
In this kindergarten lesson, students participate in a pattern-matching activity based on the nursery rhyme "The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe."
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Lisa Wright.
Math in the White House
This plan uses an online tour of the White House to reinforce the concept of tallying.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
By Bunnie R. Brewer, Missy Colborn, Kathy Hale, Kim Roberson, and Emily White.
Me and my scarecrow
This math lesson will allow students to create their own individual and unique scarecrows based on attributes about themselves. Students will compare their scarecrows to those of their classmates and observe similarities and differences.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Social Studies)
By Stephanie Duncan.
Measuring weight
In Design technology: Children's engineering, page 4.3
In this lesson, students will build an understanding in the difference between density and weight. They will measure objects with a triple beam balance and record their findings.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Science)
By Erin Denniston.
Mixing colors with Little Blue and Little Yellow
This is an integrated lesson based on a French book entitled Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni. Within the lesson, students will experiment with various colors to create new colors and eventually write their own version of this story.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
By Lisa Tartaglia.
Monstrous masks
Teacher will read the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Children will create monster masks to associate the letter m and the phonemic sound of m to the masks.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
Moooving over to low-fat milk
In Food for thought: Elementary lessons on nutrition and healthy living, page 1.4
This kindergarten lesson plan, from the Food for Thought nutrition curriculum, teaches students that low-fat and fat-free milk are delicious substitutes for whole milk and provide the same amount of calcium without the fat.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
More or less
This lesson contains a series of activities on more or less. These activities can be used over several days or combined into a one-day lesson.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Sarah Owens.