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Critical Thinking Cooperative

Doing Our Share

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Whether at home or in the classroom, each member of a community has certain responsibilities they must tend to. With the help of the children's story Piggybook by Anthony Browne, kids learn how to assign jobs in a fair and safe...
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California Academy of Science

Tropical Belt

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Where in the world is the equator? Explore a world map with your class, coloring in oceans, continents, and rainforests while locating the three major lines of latitude: the equator, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn. Discuss how...
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California Academy of Science

Fish Forms

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, you can add art to any lesson! While little learners are discovering why fish have specific body parts such as, scales, fins, and gills, they start making three-dimensional fish forms. Children...
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Common Sense Media

ABC Searching

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students 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. Students locate digital images of words...
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Curated OER

Agriculture in Motion

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm.  They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Once Upon A Bear

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students study the characteristics and habitats of a variety of bears in this series of cross-curricular lessons.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introducing Practical Speaking Skills

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
If you really speak WELL, people will love to listen! In this instructional activity, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...
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Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.1.a Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to practice the Common Core skill of following agreed-upon rules for discussions.