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The shape of stuff
This lesson will involve students identifying, describing, and making solid figures.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Bettie Davis.
Shapes
Students will use the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe computer software program to draw a circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. They will be instructed to make the shapes a certain color and size. Then they will print their work.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Information Skills and Mathematics)
By Di Small.
"Shaping up" with ordinal numbers
This lesson teaches students ordinal numbers through literature, and a visual memory game, and it reviews shapes, colors, and ordinal numbers with a listening and following-directions assessment.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Sue Bowen.
Sharing with others
In this guidance lesson plan for grades 2 and 3 students will focus on the concept sharing and using their manners. They will complete an activity and then discuss their thoughts.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance and Healthful Living)
By Janelya M. Lewis.
Sizing up Sam the Scarecrow
Students will integrate measurement as a math activity during "S" week as they talk about Scarecrows and the Season Fall.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Marsha Thomas.
Snakes are cool
This lesson begins with a reading of Verdi by Janell Cannon. It integrates science with language arts as the students learn about snakes and write about their findings.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Science)
By Marcia Reich.
The Sneetches and teaching diversity
This lesson uses The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss as an introduction to diversity and tolerance. Its kinesthetic element makes it doubly appealing to students.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Information Skills)
By Robin Boltz.
Sorting with Little Boy Blue
In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 1
In this kindergarten lesson, students use the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue" to practice sorting items into groups.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Lisa Wright.
Sorting with Old Mother Hubbard
In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 6
In this kindergarten lesson plan, students use the nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard" to practice sorting objects according to their properties, and practice reading by reciting a familiar nursery rhyme while following the text.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Lisa Wright.
Soup's on!
This lesson integrates children's literature and math. The students will listen to "Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown and bring items from home to make "First Grade Soup." The children will use the items to create a graph and share information about their graphs.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Vicki Rivenbark.
Stamp it here, stamp it there, stamp it where?
Using a drawing program (Kid Pix), students will integrate English Language Arts and Technology Skills as they work with Geometry skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Mary Rizzo.
Story map: The gingerbread manhunt
The purpose of this lesson is to present a fun, memorable way for students to learn where the secretary, principal, nurse, janitor, cafeteria, playground, and other grade levels are located while matching a face and job with each of these locations and its importance to the functioning of the school.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Social Studies)
By Tina Baker.
Story sequencing
This multi-faceted lesson teaches students how to sequence stories. It reinforces the following concepts: first, last, before, after, left, right. This lesson can also focus on carryover of articulation skills to answering questions as well as story telling.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
By Michele Christon.
Summer safety!
The children will learn to identify unsafe situations and name hazardous activities they may encounter or see during the warm months between May and September.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living)
Super shape shifter
Students learn shapes and put them together to make other shapes.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
By Becky Woolard.
Supermarket sweep: Day 1
Students will talk about choices that families make when purchasing groceries. Students will make a booklet of frequently purchased grocery items.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes.
Supermarket sweep: Day 2
Students will participate in a supermarket game and follow a shopping list. Students will compare the quantity of items “purchased” and graph results. Students will also learn a song about shopping in a supermarket.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Development and Mathematics)
By Angela Hunt and Melody Holmes.
Thanksgiving story: Stone Soup
This lesson is for K–5 Exceptional Children who are mild to moderately disabled. This lesson will incorporate listening, daily living, fine motor, and augmentive communication skills.
Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts)
By Christina Pond and Sarah Boling.
Three Little Kittens
Students will experience the joys of acting out the story using simple props. Students will enjoy eating pie, and completing a bubble map and class graph.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Theater Arts Education)
By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.
To eat or not to eat
After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, students will sort the foods the caterpillar ate by foods they need or don't need for their body.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Social Studies)
By Karlyn Sugg.