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- At home in the tropical rainforest
- Students will choose one rainforest animal to research using print and electronic resources. They will work cooperatively with a partner to create a Hyperstudio card with the following information: photograph of the animal, the layer of the rainforest it inhabits, sound the animal makes, and an interesting fact about the animal.
- Author: Sally Eller
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- How Much is that Doggy in the Window?
- Using internet sources, students will explore information associated with owning a dog. Students will access a controlled collection of websites regarding owning a dog within the scavenger hunt.
- Author: Kathy Beck
- Format: lesson plan (grades 1–2)
- Nephelococcygia--Cloud Watching.
- As part of the 2nd grade science objectives dealing with weather, students will learn the various types of clouds as well as the term and the act of nephelococcygia -- cloud watching.
- Author: Kelley James
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Snails- Fact and Fiction
- This lesson on snails integrates Science, Language Arts, Technology and Math. Teacher will share a fictitious snail story with students. Students will complete a K-W-L chart on snails with the help of the internet. As a related activity, students will take a poll on snail preferences and graph it.
- Author: Jody Shaughnessy
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Weather watchers
- This is a week long activity during which the students record the weather, track weather changes, and make predictions about future weather patterns.
- Author: Virginia Shaddix
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- Adventures in nonfiction: A guided inquiry journey
- The activities in this ReadWriteThink lesson provide a foundation for using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- The frog beyond the fairy tale character: Searching informational texts
- In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students consider their prior knowledge about frogs by predicting whether eight statements are true or false. Students verify their predictions through the guided use of the website The Somewhat Amusing World of Frogs.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2)
- How Many Ways?
- Students estimate the value of collections of pennies, nickels, and dimes. They then determine the exact amount by exchanging sets of pennies or nickels for dimes.
- Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Let's build a snowman
- Students read fiction and nonfiction books and access the Internet to gain information about how animals survive during the winter.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)
- Reading and writing about whales using fiction and nonfiction texts
- Students formulate research questions and write letters. After listening to and viewing nonfiction picture books about blue whales, students write letters to an online scientist.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades K–2)