Downloadable, Printable Lesson Plans &
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Kindergarten through Second Grade
Lesson Plans from Around the 'Net
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African American Voices Lesson Plans
(31 pages). Sets of
lessons for elementary students that celebrate African
American Heritage.
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Alpha-Phonics Lesson Plans: A Model for
Excellence (7 pages). Here's an outline
of 33 weekly lessons (5 days per week) of phonics.
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Big Black Bear (4 pages).
This lesson uses a book about a black bear with no manners
that comes to visit a little girl at home and makes a terrible
mess, but another visitor helps him see the error of his ways.
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Children's Literature Across the
Curriculum Ideas (2 pages). Great ideas
for K-5th grade.
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Cinderella Lesson Plans
(5 pages). The following are given as “jumping off”
points for students attending a ballet of Cinderella.
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Collaborating for Student Success
(13 pages). From Chesterfield County Public Schools,
here are some fresh approaches to introducing reference
skills, book talk themes, and lessons for K-5 grade students.
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Collection Development Resources for
Elementary Schools (2 pages). From
Maryland State Department of Education.
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Communities Long Ago (6
pages). This first grade unit explores U.S. communities
in a historical context. By exploring their own community’s
buildings and services of both long ago and today, children
are introduced to concepts of change, continuity and geography
in a local, immediately tangible context. The books for this
unit provide thematic structure; lessons begin with picture
books that introduce a community history concept.
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CyberSmart: Private Identity
Information (16 pages). A virtual field
trip helps Kindkergarten and first grade students experience
the power and excitement of the Internet by taking them places
in cyberspace that might be impractical for a class to visit.
They also learn that, just as when traveling in the
face-to-face world, they should always take an adult with them
when traveling in cyberspace.
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Dolphins (8 pages).
A three week unit about dolphins for elementary students.
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Education Web Sites (2
pages). Collection of online resources, be sure to check
out the Lesson Plan section.
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EEK! A Spider: Best
Practices of Technology Integration (6 pages).
This is a unit designed for Media Specialists when they see
first grade students for 30 minutes per week for 6 weeks
(Total time 3 hours) If a classroom teacher were to use the
lesson plans, it could be completed within a week.
- Elementary Library Lesson Plans. From
Hanover County Public Schools in Ashland, Virginia - these
sets of lessons includes handouts
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Find an Animal! Find a Book!
(4 pages). This elementary lesson plan teaches students
to categorize or identify books and other materials into
fiction or nonfiction and identify genre of a book by using
print concepts.
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Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
(45 pages). This unit is designed to expose students to
the wonder of flight. Students will have the opportunity to
explore the history of flight, the impact of Native Americans
on flight and the contributions of Oklahomans to the history of
flight.
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Gwendolyn the Library Fairy Lesson Plan
(1 page). Using this popular book, here is a lesson on
rhyme for first and second graders.
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Immigration History (11
pages). This second grade unit explores immigration to
the United States, with an emphasis on the latter half of the
19th century. Because such time concepts typically are not
meaningful for children, for the purposes of the unit we often
refer to historic times as “long ago”.
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Lesson Planning (12
pages). From Technology Integration Learning
Environment, this document presents the "nuts and bolts" of
lesson planning with an emphasis on technology.
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Lesson Planning Resources
(5 pages). Great set of online resources to help
teachers get ready for their students.
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Lesson Planning Resources
(1 page). Another set of good online resources.
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Library of Congress On-Line Resources
(4 pages). The Library of Congress Web site offers a
gateway to many history resources and primary materials.
Important support materials for manyK-12 curricular areas.
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Library Lessons for Kindergarteners
(19 pages). This document outlines 18 units to introduce
Kindergarten students to library skills.
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Library Media Skills, Scope & Sequence
(2 pages) Here's a brief outline of skills that
elementary students can master.
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MS Word Companion Websites
(2 pages). This document has resources for everything
you need to know to use MS Word in the classroom.
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Multicultural Education Websites
(1 page). Increasingly, America is becoming a more
diverse country - here are some resources to integrate
multiculturalism into the classroom.
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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
(7 pages). Here is a complete seminar on using
strategies for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness.
There are also ideas for poetry, chants, finger plays, and
rhyming books
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Practical Strategies for Enhancing Your
Classroom Curriculum with the 'Net (5 pages).
Great set of resources to create cross-curriculum lessons
featuring information and technology literacy skills.
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Presidential Election Lesson Plan:
Who Should Be Our Next President? (16 pages).
The Grade 2 Election lessons will focus on introducing the
students to the election process and the candidates who are
running for President.
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Presidents' Day Resources
(7 pages). The resources here, presented by general
grade level (early elementary, elementary, middle school, high
school) can be used when incorporating the study of the
American presidency, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln
into your
social studies instructional sequence.
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Read Aloud Bookmarks (1
page). Great bookmark to send home with young children.
It helps parents understand how they can help their children
by reading to them.
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Reading and Language Arts
(5 pages). The challenge of integrating technology
into elementary lessons is not the technology, but what we
teach and how we teach it. The key is to not confuse the
tool with the result. These student activities, tools,
and resources will help.
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Resources for Teachers
(10 pages). Here are a variety of resources to help
teachers.
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Second Grade Lesson Plan Chart
(12 pages). A
simple chart that presents thumbnails for 6 units, each
consisting of several lessons.
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Stories About Clothes (2
pages). Some suggestions for children's books about
clothes and activities too.
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Storytime! (7 pages).
This is the #1 rule of story telling. Make sure you
familiarize yourself with the books that you are going to
read, songs you are going to sing, or finger plays that you
are planning on presenting. This handout will help.
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Technology Skills Guidelines
(9 pages). Here is a chart that indicates, by grade
level, what elementary student should be able to master using
technology.
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Teacher Resources and Lesson Plan
Databases (6 pages). A fairly
comprehensive set of resources that does just what the title
says.
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Using Mock Elections to Teach Basic
Skills (37 pages). A set of lessons for
elementary and middle school students, includes handouts.
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Using the Internet in the Classroom
(9 pages). As you seek resources for teaching, you’ll
find the Internet indispensable. You’ll find ready-made lesson
plans. Other sites supply you with information you need to
design lessons that will be goal oriented and meet the
objectives of your curriculum.
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Video Production Curriculum: K-12
(33 pages). Kids are excited about multimedia and video
- integrating it into the curriculum can be a lot of fun.
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Web Sitings: 70 Top Web Sites
(9 pages). Here are lively, lesson-planning links packed
with tips, activities, great reproducibles and much, much
more!
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Webbing Lesson Plan Ideas
(16 pages). Here's an interesting way to look at lesson
plans - a graphic organizer that focuses on Process
(activities), Context (environment/materials), and the
teacher's role.
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