After reading stories about relationships, students will record their thoughts using a "Before" and "After" organizer.
Dr. Seuss' story "Horton Hears a Who" is used in this lesson to prompt a discussion about communities and cooperation.
Students will select four characters from familiar books and determine if they have healthy or unhealthy characteristics.
Students will sort breakfast food items into sources: store, factory, natural world, and farm.
After reading Joan Sweeney's book "Me On the Map", students will create a map of their bedroom and of their house.
Playing the World Game will make students more familiar with continents, oceans, countries and states.
Students will select four characters from familiar books and determine if they have healthy or unhealthy characteristics. They will use graphs to show information about which book characters are voted as the best friend.
Students will learn that animals have parts that are called features, and those features have functions that allow them to survive in their habitat. Students will conduct research on an animal of their choice and write an informative paragraph about that animals features.
This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.
Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.
Google folder with resources for teaching Weather and Climate Patterns, including Googles Slides and accompanying studnent journal files. Contains 4 episodes.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about observing weather patterns
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about climate patterns
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about natural disasters
Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about human genetic traits
Develop and use models to describe changes that organisms go through during their life cycles. Emphasize that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but follow a pattern of birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Examples of changes in life cycles could include how some plants and animals look different at different stages of life or how other plants
and animals only appear to change size in their life.
Thanksgiving Point lesson plan about traits and behaviors
Construct an explanation showing how variations in traits and behaviors can affect the ability of an individual to survive and reproduce. Examples of traits could include large thorns protecting a plant from being eaten or strong-smelling flowers to attract certain pollinators. Examples of behaviors could include animals living in groups for protection or migrating to find more food.