Laura Whitener

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Students will work on reading comprehension skills in this lesson, more specifically, they will learn to formulate questions and come up with explanations by playing a guessing game with a partner or...

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This lesson is full of learning opportunities! Students will learn basic science vocabulary, make hypothesees, make observations and work as a team to see who can make their rainbow ice melt the...

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Students will learn about the earth’s rotation and how shadows are made in this fun science lesson.

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This STEAM lesson will have your pre-schoolers engaged in discovery with new materials, sensory play, and working on fine motor skills.

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Being able to recall and retell events from a story is a required standard and literary milestone for kindergarten students. Retelling stories and events verbally can get boring... this lesson is an...

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Students will develop number sense using a giant tens frame and beach balls at the beginning of the lesson and then transition into deeper learning and assessment through differentiated centers.

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Students will use their creative thinking and decision making skills to create a new animal, choose what’s necessary for their animal’s survival, and create a habitat for the animal. By allowing...

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Students will be able to determine the difference between a good and a service. This is a foundational concept necessary for growth in economics in early childhood.

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In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to explore, create their own thinking, and collaborate. Students will work in groups to put together number problems with their sums and differences.

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The students will be able to understand perspective by identifying multiple characters’ feelings, thoughts, emotions, and actions.

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Students will identify shapes according to the family it belongs to, number of sides, vertices, and points it may have through active and creative thinking.

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Students will use developmentally appropriate and engaging materials to discover different perspectives within literature and their day to day lives.

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Students will create a project on the Titanic tragedy based on topics they have chosen to research.

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Students will spend a week exploring their environment and finding things to measure!

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Creating slime is a trending hobby for young children. Although it is messy, it is a great tool to help with fine motor skills and even science and engineering. The problem with slime is that it...

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The students will be able to count by ones, fives, and tens from any number. This lesson will be presented to students as a game. Teacher will set up classroom for different centers for practicing...

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The students will be able to create a sentence containing 3 sentence features by using the hot chocolate sentence metaphor.

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For this project-based lesson, students will learn the parts of a pumpkin, create their own measurement tools and measure the height of pumpkins, and plant their own pumpkin seeds to learn the life...

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The students will be able to compare two two-digit numbers and decide whether the first number is greater than, less than, or equal to the second number.

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The students will be able to express numerical expressions verbally and change verbal phrases into numerical expressions. The goal is to have groups rotate through stations and work with their peers...