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Lesson Plan
NASA

Soda Straw Rockets

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Three, two, one, blast off to a better understanding of force and motion with this exciting science lesson! Beginning with a discussion about rockets and gravity, young scientists go on to complete a series of worksheets about net...
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Lesson Plan
Growing Minds

Potato Exploration: Projects All About Potatoes!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
How many potatoes tall are you? Unearth this rich resource! A reading of John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes begins a cross-curricular exploration of potatoes. Class members read, write, weigh, measure, and experiment with potatoes. Additional...
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Lesson Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Ray Charles

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Introduce young learners to the read-aloud process with a short biographical passage about Ray Charles. After listening to the passage, class members respond to factual, inferential, and evaluative questions, and then create a timeline...
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Lesson Plan
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

Shapes in Agriculture

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
It's time to get crafty with shapes! Your future farmers demonstrate their geometric ability by building a farm using triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares. But first, scholars take part in a brainstorm session inspired by their...
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Printables
Student Handouts

Five Amazing Facts About...

For Students K - 4th Standards
What are five amazing facts about you? Your best friend? Butterflies? The United States? The possibilities are endless with this worksheet!
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Writing
K12 Reader

My Favorite Food

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Everyone has a mouth watering, delectable delicacy that they can talk or write about. Pupils will use this writing prompt worksheet to not only detail their favorite food in writing, but also illustrate what they are...
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Lesson Plan
Growing Minds

Growing Minds: Cucumber Exploration

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
After reading a picture book about planting and harvesting cucumbers, learners get a chance to examine some cucumbers of their own. First, they see photographs of a cucumber on a vine, and learn that it is part of the gourd family....
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Growing Minds

Lettuce Exploration

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Kathy Henderson’s book And the Good Brown Earth introduces the class to how a vegetables grows and changes over time. They use different types of lettuce to do a close study of this quick-growing vegetable. Learners consider the look,...
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Common Sense Media

ABC Searching

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young scholars explore English by completing an interactive computer activity. In this alphabet lesson, students research the Internet to create a picture dictionary which they share with classmates. Young scholars locate digital images...
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Article
Other

Teaching Ideas: Fifty Alternatives to the Book Report

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Just as the title claims, here are fifty different ways to respond to a book. Most can be adapted to all grade levels.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Lesson: Author's Purpose: Cause and Effect Signal Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, students can learn how several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes.
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Wild About Authors and Illustrators

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, young scholars learn about the roles of authors and illustrators through games and book-writing. Students will have an opportunity to act out the roles of illustrators and authors. They...
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Professional Doc
Queen's Printer for Ontario

Ontario Education: A Guide to Effective Instruction in Writing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This comprehensive guide is designed to provide classroom teachers of Kindergarten to Grade 3 with practical approaches and resources for delivering an effective writing program. Sample lessons are included for each topic discussed.
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Activity
Other

Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Lesson Plan
Education.com

Education.com: Purposeful Writing: Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Your kindergarten students will learn how to share their opinion with others through entertaining and purposeful persuasive writing practice. At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Teach Writing in Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan shares best practices for teaching reading and writing. In this article, he recommends some reasonable approaches, activities, and routines to help facilitate and teach writing in Kindergarten.
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Website
Literacy Head

Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: Rhyme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These images and writing prompts are to spark writing ideas in your young writers.
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Activity
English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheet

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
When we are reading nonfiction or fiction we can often use a point of reference that drives us to make better conclusions. Illustrations are the perfect media to achieve this. This can help the reader attribute value to a setting, a...