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Easter egg math
Using colored Easter eggs, students will sort by color, count eggs, and graph data.
Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
By Marie Messer.
4-H club girl sorting eggs for packaging
4-H club girl sorting eggs for packaging
An older man and a young girl can be seen standing in front of an egg sorting machine in this black and white photograph. The girl is taking eggs out of a wire basket and placing them on a conveyor to be sorted. The eggs roll into a box on a wooden stand as...
Format: image/article
Jelly beans count!
Children will fill plastic Easter eggs with the correct number of jelly beans. After they complete the entire dozen, they are allowed to keep the ones they get correct.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Ronnia Frazier.
Recipe: Huevos Motuleños (Eggs Motul Style)
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 4.4
Ingredients 6 eggs 6 tortillas 1 large cup refried beans 1 cup peas 3 tomatoes 1 clove garlic 3 small green pickled chilies 1 bay leaf 1/2 onion (preferably...
Format: recipe
"Eggs-tra" special sounds
Students will identify, compare, and classify the sounds made by plastic eggs filled with rice, pebbles, and salt. They will graph the results of their discoveries. They will then compose and tape sound pieces illustrating dynamic levels they discovered. Finally they will construct their own "maraca" using plastic eggs.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
By Sondra Edwards.
The world of a butterfly
The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of nature's most amazing feats. These photographs show the development of an eastern black swallowtail butterfly from egg to larva to chrysalis to adult.
Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
Embryology: Hatching baby chicks
This lesson integrates science, math, communication skills, arts, and social studies through hands-on activities. Students are directly involved in hatching baby chicks.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science)
By Ann White.
Recipe: Pan de Muerto (All Souls' Bread)
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.3
This bread is eaten traditionally in parties celebrating the dead and one's ancestors. It is placed on altars in the form of an offering and eaten in Mexican homes on November 1 and November 2. Ingredients 1 lb. flour...
Format: recipe
Similes
"The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
By jennifer lettieri.
Surprise box descriptions
Students will learn to give oral definitions and descriptions. Each student will take a turn describing the contents of a plastic egg with a category plus attribute format. Other members in the group will have an opportunity to guess the contents of the egg after listening to the description.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Susan Karcher.
Huevos motuleños
Huevos motuleños
Huevos motuleños, eggs Motul style, is a traditional Mexican dish.
Format: image/photograph
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.
Life in a fishing village
This was recorded on an island called Koh Sukorn, off the southeastern coast of Thailand. At first you hear the sound of me walking and the ocean. The fisherman here operate individually with their own motorboats and nets. You can hear one fisherman calling...
Format: audio
Birds by inquiry
Students will make observations of bird pictures to note the similarities and differences in one animal group. They will note especially the beaks, feet, wings and feathers of different types of birds. The life cycle of birds will be explored.
Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
By Anne Allen.
Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 7
Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 7
On the seventh day after the egg is laid, the butterfly larva is visible inside the egg.
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Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva emerging from egg, day 7
Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva emerging from egg, day 7
The butterfly larva (caterpillar) emerges from the egg about seven days after the egg was laid.
Format: image/photograph
Mrs. Barbara Wagoner
In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.3
WAGONER, MRS. BARBARA; married; two children; aged 20 years; reside in Wilkes Co., N.C. Children: Jacob, aged one year. Buck, aged 9 — child by husband's first wife. INCOME: About $20.00 per month. Husband is laborer on government park project in this...
Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 1
Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 1
The egg of an eastern black swallowtail butterfly (Papilo polyxenes) shortly after it has been laid. The leaves are parsley, which is one of a few plants eaten by the larva.
Format: image/photograph
Workers' pay and the cost of living
In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.8
In this activity, students examine census records of North Carolina tobacco mills and retail prices of food to determine how much money factory workers made in "real dollars."
Format: activity
By David Walbert.
Whole language reading: Pumpkin pie baking activity
A whole language literature-based reading lesson that culminates in a cooking extension activity.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
By Amy Durso.