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School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers
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- 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.
- Author: Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison and Susan Pope
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Beans and how they grow
- The students will incorporate computer skills, math, and literature with books such as: Miss Rumphius and The Reason for a Flower.
- Author: Betty Black
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- The Big, Bad, Red Wolf: Fact and Fantasy
- This lesson will explore the myths and legends surrounding wolves. We will also investigate factual information about the endangered red wolf.
- Author: steven sather
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Cause and effect
- Students will identify and interpret cause and effect as expressed in poetry.
- Author: Rochelle Mullis
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Cloudy with a chance of...what?
- Students will enjoy reading about a town where no one ever goes hungry because the sky provides food while learning about weather, healthy and unhealthy foods, and creating a database.
- Author: BJ Larson and Paula Sharpe
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
- Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
- This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
- Author: Amber Miller
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–3)
- Comparing Proverbs
- The lesson will feature comparisons of American and African proverbs.
- Author: Pat Chancer
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- "Kid-Created" Biographies
- In this lesson plan, the students will create biographies on the people they know best-- their teachers! The students will use various skills to collect information, organize details, publish the biographies and present the information.
- Author: Gregg Farr, Lynn Beatty and Tricia Freeze
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- 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.
- Author: Karen Ester
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- 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.
- Author: Jennie McGuire
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Pigs and Wolf on a Map!
- The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
- Author: Cherry Randall
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–4)
- PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!"
- During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.
- Author: Alta Allen
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Positively Poetry: Part 6
- Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.
- Author: Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy and Tracy Dagenhart
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Tangram Magic
- This lesson will involve students in the use of tangrams and how they are used to create different figures.
- Author: Alta Allen
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- Visualizations: Black poet, Langston Hughes
- Third grade or fourth grade students will have an opportunity to read and appreciate selected poetry of the African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
- Author: Floanna Long
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–4)
- Word Processing Valentines
- This lesson combines the need to practice keyboarding skills, completion of rhymes, a popular children's book, and the motivational aspects of the Valentine holiday.
- Author: Kay Harrison
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3)
- 3, 2, 1...Blast off! Vocabulary instruction using a virtual trip to the moon
- Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 2–3)
- Be a reading detective: Finding similarities and differences in ideas
- In this lesson, students use graphic organizers and clue words to compare and contrast items in nonfiction writing.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Behind the scenes with Cinderella
- Students use literature and the Internet to research and learn about the geography, architecture, and weather that are associated with the setting of Moss Gown.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Blending fiction and nonfiction to improve comprehension and writing skills
- Introduces text sets to increase student interest in and understanding of content area material and to develop critical writing skills.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–6)