The activities in this lesson plan will help students understand the similarities and differences in families and identify attributes in themselves and others.

This lesson plan will help students understand that they are important members of their own family.

The activities in this lesson will help students understand their surroundings and how they fit into their family, community, and the world.

Learning about community helpers, such as police officers, fire fighters and hospital workers, and taking community field trips will help students understand how they fit into their community and the world.

The "I Grow" activities in this lesson will help students understand the abstract concept of time passing.

This lesson plan gives you several ideas on how to use labeling in your classroom to help students connect print with a message.

This lesson plan provides many center activities that are designed around the idea of "families" and apply language and math skills.

This lesson plan provides many ideas for students' investigation of items, people and places in around the school.

After illustrating the place where they spent their summer vacation, students will place their picture on a teacher created matrix.

The teacher will read aloud Ruth Stiles Gannett's book, "My Father's Dragon" and facilitate rich classroom discussions.

Students will be motivated to reflect on family traditions and customs of celebrations. As they share these 'unique' practices discussion will bring to light the differences and similarities of families. Students are introduced to other celebrations from around the world as well as right here at home.

Students will study a map of their school and then create a map of their classroom.

In this lesson, students will learn how to use maps to support the conclusion that the Aztec homeland was once in Utah.

Students will observe as the teacher performs a variety of chemical and/or physical reactions. The teacher will guide a discussion that reinforces the concepts that atoms and molecules are too small to see but that we know about them through their behavior.

This lesson explores what qualities make a good friend. This is a way to help students become aware of positive and inappropriate behaviors.

Students will list three or more types of evidence of prehistoric cultures that encouraged archaeologists to investigate the marshes around the Great Salt Lake. Students will also explain why it is important not to disturb archaeological remains.