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Activity
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: National Grandparents Day Activities and Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 1st
With this resource, teachers and students can explore the meaning of National Grandparents Day. Includes activity ideas and lesson plans.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Picnic Party

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that includes the /ck/ digraph. An answer key and...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Splash!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable cworksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that include the /sh/ digraph. An answer key and...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Whispering Whales

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look for hidden words that start with the /wh/ digraph. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: The Hole Story

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a fill-in-the blank paragraph. Students will choose a long /o/ word that ends with the silent -e...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Hidden Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable vowel letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Learners will find hidden words that contain "ie" to form long /e/. An answer key and lesson extension are...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: When I Am Blue

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a long /u/ reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will read a fill-in-the-blank paragraph and write missing words that include /ui/, /ue/, or /ou/ vowel digraphs in...
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Article
Other

Animal Planet: Top 10 Animal Moms: Polar Bears

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This article describes the mother polar bear's pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. She is number four of the top10 animal moms.
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Website
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Kids Art Zone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The National Gallery of Art has created this impressive gateway to make its vast collections accessible to children. Colorful, fun, and interactive. With links to an "Art Zone," where kids can make art online, to downloadable guides for...
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Article
Other

Peaceful Playgrounds: Playground Safety Rules

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article explains the importance for establishing rules. You'll also find guidelines for playground etiquette and safety ideas for various pieces of equipment.
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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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PPT
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Sinkhole Swallows Eight Rare Cars

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A slideshow of images shows the destruction caused when a sinkhold emerged, swalling eight Corvettes from a museum.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Our Stars

For Teachers K - 1st
For this lesson, young scholars will observe and communicate how the stars are in the sky both day and night. The extremely detailed lesson includes photos and videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student's work, materials,...
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Pneumatic Creature

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Rube Goldberg Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a machine that accomplishes a task in an inefficient way with this Rube Goldberg challenge. Find some tips and a place to document your engineering process on this site.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Pine Cone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Microexpression Zoetrope

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build a zoetrope machine where you can animate a facial expression and the machine plays the animation back with this site. Site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your design process.
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Activity
Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Control a Microraptor's Flight

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teri and Jairus: Biome Buddies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This video segment from ZOOM compares and contrasts the habitat and life forms found in Death Valley with those found in the temperate rain forest of the Pacific Northwest. [3:46]
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Lesson Plan
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 lesson, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of school sets...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Wolves vs. Dogs

For Teachers K - 1st
Using the book "Is My Dog a Wolf?" learners will find "connections or similarities" in two animals. Included is a printable graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Domestic vs. Wild

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Sorting items help students develop language skills as they describe attributes and qualities to determine which category is the best fit for an item. The teacher will introduce the definitions of wild and domestic by reading the book...
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Unit Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Media Balance Is Important

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics,...
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Website
Other

Little Inventors: Ingenious Ideas!

For Students 1st - 6th
Here you will find examples of inventions created by children. They submit their ideas along with drawings and plans. Many of these are made into real objects and posted for the inventors to see what they would look like in real life....