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Happy First Day of Spring!: 12 Lesson Resources for Teachers
March 20 is the First Day of Spring, and Education World has you covered when it comes to finding the right lesson plans and activities to welcome the Spring Equinox. Here are some lesson plans and activities teachers can use in the classroom:
- First Day of Spring: Get Busy!: This article offers a "to-do list" for teachers to complete to welcome in the spring including cleaning out their desks, and straightening up their classrooms.
- Springtime Online: With this article, students can complete all different types of activities to learn about what causes the seasons, plants, weather, Daylight Saving Time, butterflies, and more.
- 5 Simple and Colorful Art Projects for the First Day of Spring: This article offers five different arts and crafts projects for students to complete during the first days of spring.
- Spring Has Sprung: With this resource, teachers can find a list of lesson ideas about garden and plants, eggs activities, composting, and more.
- Spring Haiku: Students will read and write a haiku about animals during the springtime.
- Every-Day Edit: Spring is Here: With this activity, students can find grammatical errors in a paragraph about springtime.
- Spring to Life!: Teachers can access a list of activities about springtime including animal life cycles, butterflies, migration, and recycling.
- Spring Ahead Scavenger Hunt: With this printable, students can explore the Internet and answer questions about the seasons and spring.
- Soar Into Spring With Kites!: With this article, educators can teach their students all about kites and how they were used in the past and present.
- Spring Has Sprung!: This resource offers a list of lesson plans teachers can bring to the classroom including bees, gardens, soil, and ecosystems.
- Spring Poetry Unit: With this lesson plan, students will learn how to write poems in lists, makes-me-think-of, and haiku formats.
- March Into Spring: This article offers a myriad of lesson plans for the springtime from Women's History Month to National Nutrition Month.
Article by Kassondra Granata, Education World Contributor
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National Football League (NFL) teams do alot to get ready for the knew football season that begin each fall. In april, the league holds a draft where teams pick player’s. Over the summer, the players practis and train. starting in September, each team spends the next 17 week playing games. The season ends with playoffs and the championship game. Do you have a favorit football team you will watch this year.
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National Football League (NFL) teams do a lot to get ready for the new football season that begins each fall. In April, the league holds a draft where teams pick players. Over the summer, the players practice and train. Starting in September, each team spends the next 17 weeks playing games. The season ends with playoffs and the championship game. Do you have a favorite football team you will watch this year?
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Subject: ELA- Reading
Grade: 5
Lesson Objective: To explain what part of a text about plants and animal cells means while drawing inferences about that text
Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1- Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Materials:
Printable Student Worksheet
Starter:
Say:
Why do you think that drawing inferences is something that you need to do? (Allow the students to answer.)
Main:
Say:
We all draw inferences when we are reading. It is important to be able to draw inferences because many times you need to be able to draw a conclusion based on information that has not been stated.
Drawing an inference is also called reading between the lines and you do it when you are reading and when you are having a conversation with someone.
In science texts, you are often given many details and a lot of information. You need to be able to understand that information and draw conclusions about what is being stated.
For example, you might read a text that says that there were pieces of an egg found in a nest. What inference would you make?
You would infer that a bird had hatched out of the egg that was in the nest.
In science texts, it is important to understand the difference between an observation and an inference. An observation is something that someone has seen and then written about.
Scientists use inferences all of the time, especially when they are learning about something that they cannot actually see or touch, like fossils or outer space.
Now, you are going to read a paragraph about a science topic. While you are reading, pay attention to the details and to any inferences that you might be drawing while you read. Then, you will answer the questions.
Does anyone have any questions?
Feedback:
Say:
Who would like to share their answers? (Allow the students to share and go over the answers.)
Written by Kimberly Greacen, Education World® Contributing Writer
Kimberly is an educator with extensive experience in curriculum writing and developing instructional materials to align with Common Core State Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Subject: ELA- Reading
Grade: 5
Lesson Objective: To compare and contrast fairytales, including the theme and details in them
Common Core Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9- Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Materials:
Printable Student Worksheet
Starter:
Say:
Do you enjoy reading fairytales? Why or why not? (Allow the students to answer.)
Main:
Say:
A fairytale is a story written for children that has magic or imaginary beings and lands. Fairytales are meant to be entertaining.
All fairytales have certain elements that are the same. They begin with “Once upon a time…” and end with “And they lived happily ever after.”
There is always a good character and an evil character. One of the characters in the fairytale is usually royalty, such as a prince, princess, king or queen. One of the characters is usually poor or from a poor working family.
Another element of a fairytale is that something magical happens. There might be a spell cast, animals talking or fairies, trolls or elves.
Fairytales have a problem that needs to be solved. Generally, it takes three tries to solve the problem.
Numbers or patterns are also common in fairytales. Usually things, phrases or tasks appear in “threes” or “sevens.”
Other common themes or things you will see in a fairytale are talking animals or objects, sleep, human weakness (greed, laziness) and human strengths (kindness, generosity, patience) and impossible tasks.
Now, you are going to read two fairytales. While you are reading them, think about how they are the same and how they are different. Think about the different elements of a fairytale and which elements they have. Then, you will fill in the table.
Does anyone have any questions?
Feedback:
Say:
Who would like to share their answers? What aspects of the fairy tales are the same? What aspects are different? (Allow the students to share and go over the answers.)
Written by Kimberly Greacen, Education World® Contributing Writer
Kimberly is an educator with extensive experience in curriculum writing and developing instructional materials to align with Common Core State Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy.
Copyright© 2019 Education World
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