Unit Studies: Fun, Active, and Creative Learning
Unit Studies: Fun, Active, and Creative Learning
Join our group to share your ideas for making learning fun, active and creative for all.
Reading each of the lenses in this group will help each of us discover new ideas and inspire new lenses. Please read and rate several lenses each week. I intend to feature all of the lenses in our group. If you do not see one here, let me know so I can add it.
Hands-on Learning
Join our group to share your ideas for making learning fun, active and creative
Check out our lenses for games, books, bulletin board ideas, ways to present projects, ways to integrate math into social studies projects, songs to teach the periodic table, links to other sites, ideas you never thought of before. Add your lens and share your ideas.As Jill Hauser says in Kindergarten Success:
Children construct their own sense of their world through play, exploration, and experimentation. In the process, new knowledge is applied and integrated to deepen learning.
Through the process of communication, children organize their ideas and solidify their understanding.
The more connected the learning, the more meaningful it is to the child and the better it is understood.
Look here for ways to apply new learning across the curriculum in the classroom or throughout the day at home.
We look for ideas that will challenge children to think critically and creatively.
Promoting deeper understanding rather than rote memorization gives kids the capability to apply new skills and strategies.
This is not only for kindergarteners, it is true for all of us.
Organization of Featured Lenses
Table of Contents
CURRICULUM
LANGUAGE ARTS
MATH
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
ART
MUSIC
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH
CULMINATION OF UNITS
LENSMASTERS
Every Day brings new ideas
These are the newest lenses added to Unit Studies: Fun,Active, and Creative Learning
Unit Studies are ways to integrate all areas of the curriculum into one theme. Making that theme active, hands-on and creative makes it fun.
Books with Teaching Ideas
Which ones are your favorites?
Mathematics Their Way, Blackline Masters by Mary Baratta-Lorton
Playful, enjoyable activities develop insight and more...3 points
Count on Math: Activities for Small Hands and Lively Minds by Pamela Schiller
3 - 7 years. Loaded with over 450 activities that more...3 points
There are many ways to teach.
We can all learn from eachother.
Homeschool Curriculum
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Preschool Activities Queen Lensography
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I have been studying, researching and writing about preschool education topics ever since my son graduated from baby to toddler. This lens is simply a showcase of my many preschool-related lenses.
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Activity Preschool Education
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Helping preschoolers prepare for school and life is both exciting and challenging. We are all about helping you help your little ones learn and develop!
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Lilliput Station Adventures
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Learning is a very exciting thing, but most methods of education quickly remove this excitement. Here at Lilliput Station, we believe that children (and adults) learn best by experience. Some of these experiences will happen naturally, others must be...
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'Five in a Row' Literature-Based Unit Studies: Easy, Inexpensive, Fun!
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As an educator, mother, and homeschooler, I have a rave review for all you new (and seasoned) homeschoolers out there. Five in a Row is the best, easiest, most fun, and cheapest homeschool curriculum, guaranteed to prevent teacher/student burnout! I...
Classroom Decor
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Posters for Teaching
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Posters are colorful and inspiring works of art that draw student's attention to the subject being taught. Posters don't have to be just wall decoration. Posters can be used to highlight vocabulary being taught, visually organize student'...
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Word Walls and Pointers
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Word walls are a collection of words for beginning readers to use to promote learning in reading and writing. WordWalls are most effective when the children help to generate them. This lens will point out various types of WordWalls used in classroom...
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Interactive Bulletin Boards
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Bulletin Boards can be more than just decoration on the wall. By making it interactive, a bulletin board can become another center in your classroom. You will find bulletin boards to teach math at calendar time and word walls for learning to read and...
Classroom Management
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Morning Meeting and the Responsive Classroom
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Teaching good behavior involves breaking down into small steps the behaviors expected of children and actively teaching the skills involved. Start with an empty slate and build upon it step by step. You will find dozens of activities, suggestions,...
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Rewards and Cheers
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You don't need to offer candy or presents to reward accomplishment. With obesity on the rise it seems unconscionable to continue the practice of offering candy or even food as a reward in the classroom. Teachers across the country are learning n...
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Chester Raccoon and The Kissing Hand
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The first day of school can be very traumatic for both children and their parents. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a wonderful tale of a mother raccoon reassuring her baby that he will have a great night at school and that the kiss she leaves on h...
Homework
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Literacy Bags Make Homework Fun!
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Book Bags. Home Bags, Book Buddies, Story Bags... Literacy Bags are a fun way to help children share what they are learning with their families. Children take these literacy bags home, read the stories, do the activities with their families and then...
Teaching Supplies
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Get Smart Educational Supply Store
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Get Smart is committed to helping teachers, parents, daycares, tutors and homeschooling families find the materials they need to teach their children and students. Our friendly, bilingual staff can help find you find bulletin boards, borders, creati...
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Teacher Created Resources & Tips
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We bring our know-how and expertise to recommended teaching products and free resources for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers.
Teaching Reading
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Beginning to Read
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Mrs. Wishy Washy and The Big Bad Pig are inviting you all beginning readers to join them in the adventure of learning to read. Learn how to make Word Walls, Literacy Bags, activities for Center Time and lots, lots, more. You will find suggested begi...
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Word Walls and Pointers
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Word walls are a collection of words for beginning readers to use to promote learning in reading and writing. WordWalls are most effective when the children help to generate them. This lens will point out various types of WordWalls used in classroom...
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Is your child having trouble reading?
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Helping your child to overcome reading trouble early is very important. As children get older they become increasingly frustrated and their overall academic performance is compromised. The good news is that children can improve their reading skills....
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Reading Strategies
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Developing tracking skills is key to your child's literacy development. Tracking in reading is the ability to follow a line of type across a page from left to right and from the top of the page to the bottom. Most educators agree that effective trac...
Learning to Read
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Read Aloud Books For Families
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Welcome - I hope you will enjoy reading this lens about the fun (and importance) of reading aloud with your family. I'll discuss why reading together is so great for families, what kinds of books make good read-aloud material, what ages to read to, a...
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Learning To Read Books
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It is never too early to begin teaching your child to read, or at least laying the foundation for early literacy skills, and it can definitely be left too late! If you are not sure then think about this. Statistically, more American children suffer...
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Learning The Alphabet Letters
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One of the first steps in becoming a successful reader is learning the alphabet letters. The alphabetic principle teaches that spoken language is represented by written words that are made up of varying combinations of letters, and that these letters...
Learning the Letters of the Alphabet
Alphabet Unit Study Activities
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Eating Alpha-Bits Letters
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Alpha-Bits Have been teaching Kids to read for years. I remember the first time I heard of them in the early 1960's and how much fun it was to make words in my cereal. Then the other day my 13 year old asked for cereal with letters. Oh, you mean, Al...
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Activities for Learning the Alphabet
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One of the first things that a child learns when are the letters of the alphabet. The activites in this lens are ones that my children and the children I have taught either in a classroom or while homeschooling have found to be fun and engaging. By...
Reading Activities to Enhance Unit Studies
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Music and Multiple Modalities Enhance Literacy
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Sight words, often called "Dolch words" are very important in a child's reading development. They are also often referred to as "high frequency" words as they make up the top percentage of words we use to read and write every day. Words like the, sai...
Picture Book Unit Studies
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Baby Lamb's First Drink
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It is spring. The pastures are green and lambing season is upon us. The baby lamb has just been born and the mother ewe is carefully looking after her baby. With beautiful illustrations and simple words, Beverley Randall tells the tale of a baby lam...
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Chester Raccoon and The Kissing Hand
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The first day of school can be very traumatic for both children and their parents. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a wonderful tale of a mother raccoon reassuring her baby that he will have a great night at school and that the kiss she leaves on h...
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Old Black Fly Unit Study
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Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on an alphabet's worth of spilled drips and drops of food. This poem is fun to read aloud with it's lilting rhyme has makes you want to dance. Use Old Black Fly to start a unit on insects that will inspi...
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Go Away Big Green Monster Unit Study
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Go Away,Big Green Monster! is a book of cut-out pages that page by page reveal a monster and then page by page make it disappear. The simple cuts and the bold colors appeal to both young children and old. It is as much of a delight to read to g...
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Unit Study
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub is a wonderful story by Audrey and Don Wood about a king who loves baths and playing in the bathtub. It is a great jumping off point for studying Medieval Times, Hygiene, or sorting and categorizing. In this lens we...
Picture Book Unit Studies
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Hamtaro and the Hamhams
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Hamtaro is an adventurous and curious hamster who belongs to a girl named Laura (named Amy in the original books), and who secretly leads a society of hamsters called the Ham-hams. While he rescues hamsters in trouble and goes on huge adventures, he...
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Stone Soup
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A weary, poor traveller arrived in a small village. He had no food or money and had not eaten in days. The one thing he did have was a cooking pot that he used on those rare occasions when he had something to cook. He built a small cooking fire, pla...
Chapter Book Unit Studies
Chapter Books that Compliment Homeschooling
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Dragonsdale: Stable Your Pet Dragon
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In my 12 year old's words: Dragonsdale is a nice book revealing an enchanting place. If I could only go to the places in books, I would love to go to Seahaven. It is easy to see the love between Cara and Skydancer, to see how Drane would find i...
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Marv by Marilyn Sachs
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Do you have a reluctant reader in your family? When my tween needed some encouragement to read I stumbled across Marv by Marilyn Sachs. Marv is an inventor. His mind is always working; thinking of new inventions. He builds a revolving door, an elevat...
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My Side Of The Mountain
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A coming of age story about a boy who goes to the woods of upstate New York to live on his own for a year. He lives in a hollow tree, eats only what he can trap, fish or gather. Though he has some survival skills when he starts out he soon discovers...
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Little House Unit Study
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Lately my family has been watching a lot of Little House on the Prairie. I am finding the show as enjoyable as I did when I was a small child. I am putting together this unit study to use in the near future with my homeschool. I hope you will find t...
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The Redwall Series!
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Brian Jacques definitely started an exciting series when he published his first book, "Redwall". The book was a great tale of a horde of rats attacking a large abbey for animals, and a young mouse's rise to Warrior of Redwall Abbey (see bel...
Unit Studies based on Classic Literature
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A Christmas Carol Unit Study
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The classic story "A Christmas Carol" ~ a famous author, Charles Dickens ~ creative animation genius, Walt Disney Productions ~ & one uniquely facinating actor, Jim Carrey ~ what else can I say!? With the new Disney...
Fairytale Unit Studies
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
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How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you know about wolves in general? Do wolves really dress in Grandma's clothes and eat little girls? In the Wolf Unit Study you can learn about the anatomy of these fascinating canines, where they live,...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Reading the classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff is a delightful way to kick off a Unit Study on Goats. We compare fiction and non-fiction goats, make graphs, build bridges and play lots of games. Goat's milk and goat cheese are staples in ma...
Fantasy
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The Nocturna Series
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The Nocturna Series is an exciting book series about the adventures of a young hammouse (hamster+mouse=hammouse) who stands for naught but justice and safety. She confronts dangers, perils, and loss of friends, on her epic battle against raging enemi...
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Flat Stanley visits Dachshund Luke in Spain
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A very nice girl called Alana asked if she could send Flat Stanley to visit Dachshund Luke in Spain. Well, we all know that Luke has been missing his friends in Florida so he was excited about meeting Flat Stanley. Dachshund Luke had to wait for Flat...
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Princess Tutu
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Princess Tutu is based on a story within a story. It begins by telling the story of a storyteller who died, leaving his tale of a battle between a prince and an evil raven unfinished. Frustrated at their battle being left unfinished, the prince...
Book Suggestions for your K-4 Children
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Books for Kindergarteners
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Kindergarten is a pivotal year in learning to getting kids interested in books. While our children were in Kindergarten, my wife and I would read to our Kindergartener almost every night. We let them pick out the book they wants us to read to her and...
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Books for 3rd Graders
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My son entered third grade this year. He is an average reader and is starting to enjoy reading more and more. I have two daughters that have graduated from third grade. This page includes my 3rd grader's favorite book, and books my kids have read for...
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Books for 1st Graders
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My daughter is in 1st grade this year. This will be a year where she transitions from us reading to her to her reading to us. The books below are books my kids have read in first grade. These are usually books they pick out themselves from the schoo...
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Books for 4th Graders
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My kids read a lot of books. Although, I don't have a child in fourth grade this year, two of my children have graduated from fourth grade. This page includes my 4th grader's favorite book, and books my kids have read for fun and during school while...
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Books for 2nd Graders
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My son has graduated from 2nd grade last year. I began to chronicle the books he read in second grade on this page. The books below are books my kids have read for fun and some are books they have read for school. While my kids are in second grade we...
Book Suggestions for your 5-8 Graders
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Books for 6th Graders
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My kids read a lot of books. This page includes the favorite books of my eldest daughter when she was in sixth grade and I'll be adding the books my current 6th grade daugther will be reading this school year. It is interesting watching 6th grader...
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Books for 7th Graders
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My kids read a lot of books. This page includes my seventh grader's favorite book and books my kids have read for fun and during school while in seventh grade. I currently do not have a student in 7th grade, but please check out my 6th grade and 8th...
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Books for 5th Graders
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My daughter just finished fifth grade. While in 5th grade she read a lot of books. As we do not know if all the books are appropriate for a fifth grader, my wife will read the same book before or immediately after to ensure the understanding of the b...
Thematic Units for MobiStories
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Transportation Unit Study
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Young children are always on the go so it only follows that some of their favorite toys are cars, boats, planes and trains. This transportation theme can wheel us along with games, math activities and science projects that keep your child busily lear...
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Autumn Unit Study
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Leaves are crunching below your feet and geese are flying overhead. It's time to gather in the pumpkins and munch on crisp ripe apples. Watch the squirrels gather nuts and the birds fight over the sunflower seeds. Fall is here and learning is all aro...
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Big Annie: Mississippi Flatboat Captain
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Activities related to the story of Big Annie, a flatboat captain who, despite all odds, brings Christmas toys from New Orleans up the river to the children of Natchez. Learn about the cultures, historical times and wildlife along the Mississippi Riv...
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Wintertime Activities for Kids
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Winter is the time to snuggle up and with a good book, make a winter table and watch the snowflakes falling down. It's a time when the days are short, the nights are cold and the smell of woodsmoke is in the air. Get ready for the cold with The Ja...
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Choo! Choo! A Train Unit Study
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Have you ever stood near a railroad track and watched a train? Trains are fascinating. They seem to be going so slowly at first and then faster and faster as they get closer. No matter what age you are, everyone loves trains. As your child chugs alo...
Digital Books for Children related to Unit Studies
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Salsa for Kittens and Puppies
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Written by Andy Blackman Horowitz Salsa for Kittens and Puppies introduces young children to Salsa. With Spanish rhythms and dance, children are introduced to the music of Latin Americans who brought their music from Cuba, and Puerto Rico mixed it wi...
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Unit Study
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There are five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's Pumpkin Patch. Four of them are round and shiny and look like the perfect pumpkins but the fifth little pumpkin is lumpy and bumpy. Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is on stage in NYC jaround Halloween at Shadow Box...
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Acorns for the Squirrels
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Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving by making place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations. What will they be thankful for and w...
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MobiStories: Digital Books for Children
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MobiStories are narrated digital children's books with illustrations and music written by famous authors such as Steven Kroll and Chris L. Demarest. Digital Books can be downloaded onto any MP3 device and offer children high quality, educational lit...
Audio Books for Unit Studies
Audio Books can inspire Unit Studies
These lenses feature audio books. Often these stories inspire teachers, children and homeschoolers to investigate a subject deeper. Whether you start with an audio book or use it to enhance your unit study, audio books help children who are learning to read enjoy books and help to develop a love of learning.-
Beep, Beep Goes the Bus
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One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is transportation. Listen to the sound of a bus going beep, beep, beep. Hear the roar of the bus as it pulls up to the bus stop. Notice the hiss of the air coming from the brakes. With their bright col...
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Christmas Audio Books
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I love Christmas Audio Books. They take me back to the time I was a small kid and XMas was the time of the year when the air was full of great perfumes of pine, peanuts, oranges, plenty of Christmas cookies and everybody was looking forward to the tr...
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Big Annie: Mississippi Flatboat Captain
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Activities related to the story of Big Annie, a flatboat captain who, despite all odds, brings Christmas toys from New Orleans up the river to the children of Natchez. Learn about the cultures, historical times and wildlife along the Mississippi Riv...
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Childrens Audio Books
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Childrens books are a great way to learn about the world. Unfortunately many kids don't like to read, so, it's important to show them how interesting books can be. Childrens Audio Books are a good method and a first step to introduce books to childr...
Poetry
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Nursery Rhymes Online
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Find free nursery rhymes online. Having three children at home we have a wide and varied collection of nursery rhymes which we have set out in an alphabetical list. Most nursery rhymes are a reflection to a historical event, or an incident in someone...
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Best Websites for Kids Poems
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These are the best poetry websites to get kids excited about writing and reading poems -- especially during National Poetry Month in April. Kids love to read and write poems. Sometimes they struggle with choosing the right word. Or they're unsure if...
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The Teapot Dragon
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Come read the poem of the Teapot Dragon with it's crinkly tail and pincer claws. It sticks out it's tongue and keeps the tea piping hot. The Teapot Dragon is a poem that takes a child from reality to imagination. Start with The Teapot Dragon poem an...
Penmanship
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Too Young For Scissors? Punch Outs Are the Answer!
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Students come into my Montessori classroom at age 3. A few have the fine motor skills to use scissors or hold a pencil correctly, but most are not yet ready. What they can do are paper punch outs! Using a simple push pin and a basic outline, you can...
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Penmanship: The Art of Teaching Handwriting
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As a child I remember Mrs. Thompson, my first grade teacher, gently putting her hand over mine and guiding me in forming the letters. We wrote on green lined paper with dotted lines down the middle. After we had practiced for a whole week we were all...
Writing
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Where The Wild Things Are
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Is such a delightful read for young children. Fun story about a real "wild child" with a great imagination! It if warm and funny. Also, a wonderful inspiration for the writing of older children.
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The Circle Journal
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This style of journaling ought to be considered a circle of life diary. It is a way to celebrate your accomplishments, share new things you have learned, connect with someone you may not see all the time. By your words alone you'll certainly help som...
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The Hello, Goodbye Window
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The Hello, Goodbye Window has resided on my son's bookshelf for years. I think we bought the book when he was in kindergarten. We fell in love with it from the first. It is just a delightful, heart-warming and fun story that children love. We enjoyed...
Unit Studies about Grammar
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Adjectives: A Unit Study for Valentine's Day
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Fill the day with arts, crafts, science experiments and ways to say I Love You. Pour out your feelings of love throughout the day. But it's not Valentine's Day you say? No Problem, these activities adapt to any other day or holiday. You will find b...
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Verbs: What ARE You Doing?
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No matter where or when, verbs are action words. They tell what we are doing, what's happening, or how we are. Whether you are reading, writing or rhyming, Jumping, swimming or crawling, Twittering, Squidooing, or DIGGing, There is a verb tells what...
Unit Studies to learn a foreign language
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Do You Know a Fancy Nancy?
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Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy Nancy likes sparkles and glitter, lace and tulle. No amount of jewelry is too much. Tutus, boas, and satin are the latest fashion and she will wear them anywhere. Fancy Nancy is not just for little gi...
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Pigloo: Penguins Sing in French
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These happy French-singing penguins will get your kids singing along and they won't even realize that they are learning French. We all know that learning a second language is very important but who knew it could be so much fun. Pop a Pigloo CD into...
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The French Revolution
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A series of revolutions have occured throughout the world during all of history. Groups of people seeing things differently have unfortunately ended in too much bloodshed. The French Revolutions is one of these wars that took a toll on many people ~...
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'Twas the Night Before Navidad or Christmas?
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through la casa Not a creature was stirring, Caramba! Que pasa?... My cousins were Costa Rican so learning Spanish was always important to my family. While looking for activities to teach my children Span...
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Italian verb conjugation - Present tense of some Italian regular verbs
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Hello! Would you like to learn how to conjugate the present tense of some Italian regular verbs? Yes? Ok!! So, just stay here, I'll teach you. Also, visit my new Italian language course blog, in which I'll periodically post little lessons. Arrive...
Sign Language
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Chester Raccoon and The Kissing Hand
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The first day of school can be very traumatic for both children and their parents. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a wonderful tale of a mother raccoon reassuring her baby that he will have a great night at school and that the kiss she leaves on h...
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Unit Study
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King Bidgood's in the Bathtub is a wonderful story by Audrey and Don Wood about a king who loves baths and playing in the bathtub. It is a great jumping off point for studying Medieval Times, Hygiene, or sorting and categorizing. In this lens we...
Authors
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Dr. Seuss
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There are probably few children and grown-ups who haven't read at least one of the imaginative works of Theodor Geisel. The children's books of Dr. Seuss, such as the Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Green Eggs and Ham have become classics for...
Math
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Charlotte Mason on Math
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Although modern CM practitioners use the term "living math," you will see that it is not in her original writings.She did talk repeatedly about "living books," and obviously the term living has been carried over to the learning of math. Charlotte Ma...
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Fun Math Games
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My kids on the whole are a pretty happy bunch and they've always got on well with every subject at school...apart from math. My son never had a problem with it, but both my girls have struggled with math all through school. Every time a new topi...
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10 Ways To Make Math Fun
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Has math become a battle at your house? Are you searching for ways to make math be more fun, as well as educational? During my years of teaching in the public schools, as well as my more recent homeschooling years, I've come up with a variety o...
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Hands-on Math Activities
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Children learn and truly understand mathematical concepts best when engaged in hands-on activities and games. By manipulating everyday objects, playing games and finding out ways of solving everyday problems children gain a true understanding of the...
Math Lenses for Unit Studies
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Natural Math Manipulatives
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A hands-on approach to learning new concepts involving all 5 senses makes understanding easier and quicker for learners of all styles. Here you will find manipulatives that intrigue, excite and encourage exploration. From wooden blocks to needle fel...
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Living Math
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In a child's early years, math is actually play. Counting, stacking, sorting, and balancing are all fun activities that develop mathematical reasoning. Don't separate math from fun. Don't kill a child's natural love of mathematical play by insisting...
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Tangrams
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Tangrams are geometry made into 3D, creative fun! Print off some paper tangrams or make your own from craft foam. Then put on your visual-spatial thinking cap as you discover how to arrange the tiles to make animals, people, or objects. Put away the...
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K-12 Math Homework Help Websites
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These 12 websites will help your child learn math and help them with math homework. Math is the bane of many students. They (and their parents) often want to pull their hair out as the struggle through a problem or concept while doing homework. Help...
More Math Lenses for Unit Studies
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How I came to Love Teaching Math
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Math has always been easy for me but it wasn't until I started taking classes to get my teaching certificate that I came to truly love math. Both my mom and dad loved to play card and board games. They taught my sister and I many mathematical concept...
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The Fun and Games of Pre-Algebra
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Over time children learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Hopefully they have been taught using creative math manipulatives so that they have a concrete understanding of those skills. As a final step before Algebra, children are taught percent...
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Learning Math While Playing Yahtzee
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It is amazing what you can learn while playing a seemingly simple game like Yahtzee. It's not just rolling the dice. In the game of Yahtzee you try to score the highest points by rolling a combination of numbers. These numbers are added up and the hi...
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Celebrating Pi Day 3.14
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Mmmm. Pi Day! The nerdy holiday celebrated by math geeks worldwide. This is the day we gather around to celebrate that amazing little (long) number, pi. Pi, approximately 3.14159, is the mysterious mathematical constant (number) that represents the...
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Roman Numerals, I to MM
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Roman Numerals may be found where you least expect them. Look up at the clocks on public buildings and down on the cornerstones. Check out the copyright date of your favorite movie or book. You might even find roman numerals on your watch. Learning...
Math Focused Unit Studies
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Bluebird Math
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The bluebirds are busy building nests, laying eggs and helping young children learn all about math. The basis of all math is discovering and describing pattens found in the natural world. This lens offers dozens of math activities, workjobs and cente...
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Froggy Math Facts
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Continuing the Frog Unit Study this lens is all about adding and subtracting with frogs. Children learn best when given hands-on multi-sensory projects and games that relate to the overall subject being studied. With dozens of frog related addition...
Counting
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Understanding a Billion
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Everyone is talking about spending billions of dollars to save the economy but how much is a billion? We all know how to count to 100. We count by 10's, 5's and 2's but when the numbers get higher it becomes more and more difficult to comprehend jus...
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Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's
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Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10's, 5's or 2's. All young children learn to Skip Count but did you realize that this is one of the beginning steps to learning multiplication. This lens has rhymes, songs and activities for teaching S...
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Learning to Count with Frogs
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Learning to count can be a joyful hop around the Frog Pond. With this froggy theme, children count their way around the frog board, count the flies the frog eats and count the hidden frogs. From counting to 10 to helping in annual Frog Monitoring pr...
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Pumpkins and Place Value
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Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
Addition Activities to Add to your Unit Study
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Froggy Math Facts
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Continuing the Frog Unit Study this lens is all about adding and subtracting with frogs. Children learn best when given hands-on multi-sensory projects and games that relate to the overall subject being studied. With dozens of frog related addition...
Measuring Time
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The Cycle of the Seasons: A Calendar for Kids
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As soon as one birthday is gone, the questions start: When is my birthday? How long is that? When is Christmas? How long is that? A countdown calendar is good to see how many days are left, but it doesn't help with the concept of one season following...
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The Mouse Ran Up The Clock
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It's time to learn how to tell time. Here is a unit study that teaches children to tell time, understand lapse in time and the evolution of the understanding of time through history. Learn about devices for measuring time, clocks, egg timers and...
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It's Turkey Time!
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Wild Turkeys nearly became extinct in the 1930's but times have changed and turkeys have benefited. Now turkeys are often found in fields and on the edge of the woods. In this unit you will learn about Wild Turkeys, read turkey facts and stories, pl...
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Sundials: How to Make a Sundial, How they Work and Some Sundial History
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Many people think of sundials as nothing more than historical curiosities. How wrong can you be? Sundials are fantastic things to have in your garden, incredibly beautiful focal points just like any urn or garden sculpture. But sundials are so much m...
Money
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Raising Financially Responsible Children
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Our children need to learn how to handle their money. We as parents know that it is a vital part of their education. Are we correct in assuming that they will learn these life skills in school? The answer to that question is no. The education system...
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Money as Debt: How Banks Loan Money They Don't Have to Create Money We Owe!
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What is money? How is it created, where does it come from, what backs the printed paper we spend? This is a huge and incredibly confusing topic, especially for anyone not in the finance industry. This animated video (broken into five short segments)...
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Teach Your Children to Save
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Teaching our children how to manage their money is a vital part of their education. In our spend-happy society, it's too easy to put off saving until tomorrow. Pennies are small and relatively insignificant, but like our children, they grow. The penn...
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Coin Collecting for Kids
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I started Collecting Coins as a child and started my children collecting coins when they were young as well. It is a thrilling hobby that can also be used as a starting point for many different educational explorations. Finance is the obvious one, bu...
Symmetry
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Maple Math
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Look at this beautiful collage of a Maple Leaf with buttons on softly colored paper. The leaf was cut in half at the line of symmetry. The buttons are also arranged with three on each side of the Maple Leaf also creating a symmetrical pattern. The...
General Science
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Elementary Science Fair Projects
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Doing Elementary Science Fair Projects has never been this easy. You do not have to spend days and months on it. Even if you do not have a lot of time you can share in the fun. Elementary Science Fair Projects can easily be done in 24 hours and mostl...
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K-12 Top 12 Science Fair Projects Websites
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Are you looking for science project ideas, plans and advice? Students will find hundreds of science fair projects, experiments, and help at these 12 free websites. Some help you find ideas. Some give you step-by-step instructions for conducting exper...
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Science for Preschoolers
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There are so many things that we can do with preschoolers to help develop their scientific thinking skills. Let's get them thinking scientifically at an early age because there is so much to explore.
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Good Science Fair Projects
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A question many students ask is: "What is a good science fair project?" Kids and parents often fear science projects simply because they are not sure how they are supposed to go about the whole process from start to finish. It is a pity, because with...
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Examples Of Science Fair Projects
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Getting good examples of science fair projects are not always that easy. It feels as if it has all been done before. Or maybe you have left it too late and now you are desperately searching for a good idea. This is what this lens is about. I'm taking...
Anatomy
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Doin' the Bone Dance and Other Creative Ways to Learn Bone Anatomy
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Teaching children about bone anatomy can be made a bit easier and a lot more fun for the children by using some songs, dances and available innovative educational tools. The idea for this lens came after watching a recent episode of Hannah Montana the...
Animal Characteristics
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Kitty Talk: Meow, Purr or Swish Her Tail
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Welcome to a lens that is filled with a growing storage of facts and information about about the way that cats communicate and the way we communicate with our feline friends. Kitty Talk looks at the way a cat communicates with it's body as well as it...
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Animal Tracks Unit Study
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When you study nature it is often hard to get close to the animals you are studying but often they leave their tracks. Learning to recognize the tracks of the animals that live near you will let you know which ones are visiting you. Animal tracks ar...
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Have you seen any animal tracks?
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Winter is a wonderful time to find out which animals are wandering around your neighborhood. When a fine dusting of snow covers the earth, tracks are easy to spot. Go out for a walk before the sun has had a chance to blur the tracks. The clean lines...
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Cows Aren't The Only Ones
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Sure you know that milk comes from cows but did you know people around the world milk other animals as well? There are many books about milk and milking to start off a Unit Study about dairy animals and their products. Finding a friendly farmer who...
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Who Layed THAT Egg?
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Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animals that lay eggs? Children may be surprised that some eggs do not contain birds. Other egg layers include frogs...
Milk
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Reading the classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff is a delightful way to kick off a Unit Study on Goats. We compare fiction and non-fiction goats, make graphs, build bridges and play lots of games. Goat's milk and goat cheese are staples in ma...
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Cows Aren't The Only Ones
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Sure you know that milk comes from cows but did you know people around the world milk other animals as well? There are many books about milk and milking to start off a Unit Study about dairy animals and their products. Finding a friendly farmer who...
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Milk and Milking Headquarters
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Milk and Milking: Cows aren't the Only Ones This Group is for all milk related lenses whether Dairy Products or the Animals the milk comes from, all milk related lenses are welcome. Milk comes from cows, goats, sheep, camels, water...
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Baby Lamb's First Drink
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It is spring. The pastures are green and lambing season is upon us. The baby lamb has just been born and the mother ewe is carefully looking after her baby. With beautiful illustrations and simple words, Beverley Randall tells the tale of a baby lam...
Mammal Unit Studies
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Woodchucks Under the Porch
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Woodchucks chuck wood and Groundhogs determine the coming of spring. They eat your garden, dig holes under the porch but look adorable when they are first born and start to venture out of their dens. Watching the woodchuck babies venturing out from...
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Acorns for the Squirrels
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Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving by making place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations. What will they be thankful for and w...
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The Redwall Series!
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Brian Jacques definitely started an exciting series when he published his first book, "Redwall". The book was a great tale of a horde of rats attacking a large abbey for animals, and a young mouse's rise to Warrior of Redwall Abbey (see bel...
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Beaver Unit Study
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Paddy the Beaver knew perfectly well that he would have visitors just as soon as he began to build his dam. He expected a lot of them. You see he knew that none of them ever had seen a Beaver at work unless perhaps it was Prickly Porky the Porcupine,...
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Common Rodents: Rats and Mice
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After reading this sentence, close your eyes and think of the word "rodent", then think of the first rodent that comes to mind. It's a mouse or rat, right? Of course it is! Rats and mice are perhaps the most common rodents other than lemmi...
Mammal Unit Studies
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Tiger Island: The Awesome Pawsome
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Tiger Island Zoo is raising tigers in order to save the gene pool of these endangered big cats. Sign a Petition to Save Tigers and learn tiger facts. And the Awesome Pawsome are born! Taj, Sultan, Rama and Sita come into the world, and Taj is t...
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Lemmings: Falling into the Sea of Knowledge
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When the winds start to howl and the snow begins to blow you can capture your student's attention with this innovative Arctic Unit Study focusing on lemmings. Your little lemmings will be excited to learn with a theme that includes little furry crea...
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River Otters: Playful Friends of the Woodlands!
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Learn about River Otters through games and hands-on learning centers. Decorate your classroom with a Woodlands Riverbank Theme. Learn the habits of River Otters, the food they eat and how they raise their young. You will find suggestions for both fi...
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Whitefoot the Wood Mouse: A Mouse Unit Study
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Whitefoot welcomes homeschoolers, teachers, parents and children to turn into mice, scurry through the tunnels and sniff out learning opportunities in every corner. Whitefoot the Wood Mouse welcomes everyone to his nest where learning never ends. He...
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Baby Animal Pictures
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This page is about baby animals and pictures of them. Living in the woods, as I do, gives me a special appreciation for nature, animals, and especially baby animals. I love to see the little ones with their mamma. I've included on...
Mammal Unit Studies
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Baby Lamb's First Drink
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It is spring. The pastures are green and lambing season is upon us. The baby lamb has just been born and the mother ewe is carefully looking after her baby. With beautiful illustrations and simple words, Beverley Randall tells the tale of a baby lam...
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March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb!
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You remember the old weather saying March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb!. The winds of March encourage an exploration of contrasts. From fierce gales to gentle breezes, pelting rains to soft mist. March is the time of transition from...
Wolf Unit Studies
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Wolf Stamps
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Do you love wolves? Do you like stamps? Do you have a legitimate reason to buy stamps? Then you're at the right lens! Check out our wonderful selection of wolf stamps, which is always growing!
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How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you know about wolves in general? Do wolves really dress in Grandma's clothes and eat little girls? In the Wolf Unit Study you can learn about the anatomy of these fascinating canines, where they live,...
Bear Unit Studies
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The Three Bears: A Unit Study
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There are the three bears that Goldilocks encountered but in Alaska there are also three types of real bears. (Ok, Four if you count the Kodiak but it fits the tale better to combine the Kodiak with the Brown or Grizzly Bears.) The three best known...
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American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
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This page contains facts about the American black bear, including physical traits, behavior, diet, reproduction, communication, tracks, and signs. You'll also find pictures of bears!
Raccoon Unit Studies
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Raccoons in the Corn
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Raccoons love to investigate. In this unit study we will be investigating the lives of raccoons with both fiction and non-fiction books, sensory table explorations and even a visit from a wild raccoon. Let Bobby Coon teach you about life on the Gree...
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Chester Raccoon and The Kissing Hand
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The first day of school can be very traumatic for both children and their parents. The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn is a wonderful tale of a mother raccoon reassuring her baby that he will have a great night at school and that the kiss she leaves on h...
Birds
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Bird Rescue
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My passion for birds has been a life long love affair. I will be sharing this passion with you. You will especially learn from this website how to care for baby birds, both wild life birds and pet babybirds (sometimes rejected by parents). The keynot...
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How To Get Your Kids into Birding
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Want to get your kids outside, away from TV and video games? Get them interested in birding. Here you find my recommendations for field guides, fun books, and basic equipment. It doesn't cost much and can turn into a lifelong hobby.
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Baby Birds
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Here you'll find pictures of baby birds and birds at the nest. It's a rare treat to see birds feeding their young at the nest and some photographers have captured this moment. I love birds and hope to share some of those special moments with you. T...
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Making delicious treats for all birds
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A fun, easy activity anyone can do from all ages. Make a delicious bird treat by using pine cones, peanut butter and birdseed. These delicious bird treats are ideal for getting children involved in bird watching.
Unit Studies of Birds
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Who Layed THAT Egg?
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Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animals that lay eggs? Children may be surprised that some eggs do not contain birds. Other egg layers include frogs...
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Robin in the Rain!
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It's springtime and one of the most popular signs of spring is the robin. Robins, with their cheery tweets and bright red breasts stand out against the disappearing snow. Cheerio, calls the robin as the rain starts to fall. This lens is a unit...
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Bluebirds of the Meadow
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Summer nears and the bluebirds start nesting along the fenceline. The children are fascinated with the way they fly back and forth to build their nests. They become the focus of our next Unit Study, Bluebirds of the Meadow. As your little bluebirds...
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Pigloo: Penguins Sing in French
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These happy French-singing penguins will get your kids singing along and they won't even realize that they are learning French. We all know that learning a second language is very important but who knew it could be so much fun. Pop a Pigloo CD into...
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Purple Gallinules of the Everglades
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Gallinules are spectacular creatures. The can be found walking on water lilies in the canals throughout the Everglades. One day we took a trip to the Everglades and saw a Purple Gallinule for the first time. It's vibrant colors are unbelievable. We...
Turkey Unit Studies
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The Thanksgiving Tale of Tobias Turkey
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Tobias Turkey is a determined little turkey who wants to win the prize for being the biggest turkey on Farmer Joe's Farm. This Thanksgiving Tale by Sandra Robbins can lead into a unit study of domestic turkeys with poems, crafts, math activities...
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It's Turkey Time!
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Wild Turkeys nearly became extinct in the 1930's but times have changed and turkeys have benefited. Now turkeys are often found in fields and on the edge of the woods. In this unit you will learn about Wild Turkeys, read turkey facts and stories, pl...
Reptiles and Amphibians
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Alligator Pie
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Alligator Pie is a great poem for introducing the alligator theme. Use it in a reading chart and then go on to learn about the alligators. Alligators bring us eye to eye with the watery, muddy world of the swamp. Write a poem or explore an alligato...
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Who Layed THAT Egg?
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Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animals that lay eggs? Children may be surprised that some eggs do not contain birds. Other egg layers include frogs...
Frog Unit Studies
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
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Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs. This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...
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Industrial Waste in the Frog Pond
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Are Vernal Pools in remote rural areas of Vermont being destroyed by industrial waste? Come on a walk in the early spring. Walk through the cold wet mud and try not to slip on the remaining spots of ice as we go on a hunt for frog eggs and discover s...
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Build a Classroom Frog Pond
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When you are trying to learn about frogs there is nothing that can beat having your own backyard frog pond. Teaching about frogs and pond life I found that daily trips to the frog pond offer opportunities for children to observe frogs in all their st...
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Frog Eggs
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Each year we eagerly await the arrival of spring to listen to the Spring Peeper and anticipate the discovery of frog eggs in the vernal pools. Frogs lay their eggs in pools, ponds, and puddles. As snow melts, low lying areas fill with water and frogs...
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The Frog Report
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Find out what is going on in the world of frogs? There are reports of frogs being arrested in Nevada and frogs that make so much noise that that home values are going down in the neighborhood. Maybe the most disturbing, however, are the reports of...
More Frog Themed Unit Studies
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All About Frogs: Games, Activities and Unit Studies
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Children learn best when engaged in hands-on, creative learning projects that excite and keep them focused. A frog theme lends itself to just that type of experience. Here you will find a collection of lenses leading to games, learning activities and...
Dinosaur Unit Studies
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Dinosaur Discovery: A Fun Dinosaur Unit Study
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If you're a parent with a child who loves dinosaurs, this is for you. It was designed as a homeschool Dinosaur Unit Study around the biggest theme on Earth - The Story of Life. Teachers can find ideas for lessons and you can have f...
Unit Studies about Ocean Life
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Sand Dollars: Math on the Beach
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One day at the beach in Costa Rica my daughter and I were digging in the sand making sandcastles when we ran across a live sand dollar. Finding a dead exoskeleton would have been exciting but finding a live sand dollar was unbelievable! We held it i...
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Lobsters of the Sea
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What do you know about the lobster in the fish tank at your local grocery store or fish market? Learn all about lobsters, their habitat and what their lives are like before they reach your plate. How long can a lobster live? What kind of habitat doe...
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Nature Study at the Beach
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Charlotte Mason considered it ridiculous that a child would study about the rainforest but not recognize the plants and animals in his own back yard. But she certainly didn't limit nature study only to a family's immediate surroundings. Nature study...
Unit Studies about Insects
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Painted Lady Butterflies
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My son and I raised two Painted Lady Butterflies from caterpillars, to chrysalises, to beautiful orange, brown, black, and white Painted Lady Butterflies! In the process, we learned a great deal about butterflies! Did you know that butterflies ne...
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Old Black Fly Unit Study
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Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on an alphabet's worth of spilled drips and drops of food. This poem is fun to read aloud with it's lilting rhyme has makes you want to dance. Use Old Black Fly to start a unit on insects that will inspi...
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Try, Try Again: Ants at Work
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Life is a series of hills and valleys. Some weeks are harder to get through than others. But can we agree to something here today? Let's postpone the pity party. Hold the grumbling. Today we're going to take a long look at nature--ants, specifically...
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Fireflies: Twinkling Lights of the Meadow
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Have you ever gone out on a summer evening to catch fireflies. They flit and fly everywhere. Soon you have five and then six. One escapes and then you catch two more. In the morning you let them go. These wonderful experiences of childhood may be dis...
Botanical Unit Studies
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Project BudBurst: Recording the Signs of Spring
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My grandmother was an avid gardener and observer of nature. She kept careful track of when the snow melted, buds emerged in the Spring and when each flower burst into bloom. Records like these are now being sought by Project BudBurst to create a data...
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Invasive Species
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Invasive species are non-native species which threaten our native ecosystems They not only crowd out native species, but they starve wildlife, use water and create allergens. Noxious weeds also provide tremendous ladder fuel which during wildfires ca...
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Nutty about Peanuts Unit Study
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Peanuts and peanut butter spread all across the curriculum in this new botanical unit study. Investigate peanut plants and learn how they fix nitrogen in the soil. Shell the peanuts and lean about mathematical averages. Grind the peanuts into peanut...
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Going Bananas: A Banana Unit Study
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Raffi introduced us to the Bananaphone Song years ago and now technology has finally caught up with him. Introducing the Banana Phone! B is for bunches and there are bunches of banana ideas for teaching across the curriculum from vowels to emergency...
Apple Unit Studies
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Apple Trees and Apple Blossoms Unit Study
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When Garner Rix moved with his family to Vermont in 1780 he brought apple seeds with him. He carefully planted those seeds which grew into trees and produced apple blossoms in Springtime and bushels of apples in the fall. It has been 200 years since...
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Johnny Appleseed Thematic Unit
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The legend of Johnny Appleseed (aka John Chapman) is filled with fact and fiction and Steven Kellogg's humorous retelling of the story is perfect to build a thematic unit around. I have included suggested teaching / learning activities, centered arou...
Pumpkin Unit Studies
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Pumpkin Picking Time
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Pumpkins seem to fascinate children, whether they are growing in a field or carved as a jack-o-lantern on the front porch. This thematic teaching unit is all about pumpkins from growing them and eating them to the history and symbols associate...
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Pumpkins and Place Value
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Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the top and smell the fresh pumpkin smell. Carving a Jack O'Lantern leads into a mathematical unit study of place value that incorporates all five senses. Counting pumpkin seeds into groups of 10...
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Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Unit Study
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There are five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's Pumpkin Patch. Four of them are round and shiny and look like the perfect pumpkins but the fifth little pumpkin is lumpy and bumpy. Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin is on stage in NYC jaround Halloween at Shadow Box...
Earth Science Unit Studies
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Rocks
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They're all around us and, at first glance, they may seem pretty boring. But take a closer look and you'll see that there's a lot more to rocks than you might have thought. First of all, the planet we are living on is one giant rock. The Earth's out...
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Let's Investigate Volcanoes!
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This lens is meant to accompany my Chronological History of the World lens. In studying the history of our Earth, we are also studying the sciences behind our Earth, the hows and whys of our Earth. All of the Earth Sciences can easily be tied into th...
Astronomy
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Starry Starry Night: A Unit Study of Stars
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From Astronomy to Art this lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create starry-themed activities for both homeschool families and classrooms. Learn about Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night painting technique. Lis...
Environment
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Earth Day Trivia Questions And Answers
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1. When was the first Earth Day celebrated? A. March 21, 1970 B. April 22, 1970 C. May 21, 1970 D. June 22, 1970 A. March 21, 1970 QQ: First celebrated in the U.S. on this date, it has been celebrated each year thereafter at the United Nations, brin...
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Global Warming for children
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For young children to understand a concept like Global Warming it needs to be taught through hands-on observable experiments. Make a terrarium with falling rain. Melt ice and watch the water level of a lake rise. Observe what happens when plants rec...
Woodland Habitat
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Creatures of the Woodlands
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Winter is coming on! The little Woodland Creatures are looking for winter dens, storing up food and preparing for the long winter ahead. The Thornton Burgess Books, such as Old Mother Westwind, are just full of charming woodland creatures that bring...
Weather
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Tornado Lesson Plan
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A tornado is a violent weather system in which a column of air rotates from the surface of the ground to the clouds. The narrowest part of the tornado is the part that touches the ground. It is filled with debris of all kinds which it picks up as it...
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Weather Related Science Projects for Kids (and their parents)
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This is dedicated to science projects for the family to help with understanding weather and other aspects of Earth science. These are all weather experiments that you can make freely on your own. If you are looking for fun, yet educational activitie...
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It's Raining! It's Pouring!
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As the Rain Pours Down the Learning Soars... Water, rain, puddles, wetness... This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create water-themed rainy activities for both homeschool families and classrooms. There are endle...
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Wintertime Activities for Kids
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Winter is the time to snuggle up and with a good book, make a winter table and watch the snowflakes falling down. It's a time when the days are short, the nights are cold and the smell of woodsmoke is in the air. Get ready for the cold with The Ja...
Chemestry
Unit Studies that Celebrate Chemestry
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Mole Day: October 23
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October 23 is Mole Day! It is the day we celebrate the mole. No, not mole the animal, and not mole the congenital growth; not mole the sauce, or even mole the spy. Mole Day celebrates the mole that is a SI unit measuring the quantity of a substance....
Philosophy
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Big Ideas For Little Kids
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"Big Ideas for Little Kids : Teaching Philosophy Through Children's Literature" is a great resource for anyone who is looking to teach the introduction of philosophy to children in elementary school. While the book details specif...
History
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History Lesson Resources
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History is such an important subject ~ what we can learn about the past will help us no doubt in the future. To be honest, I never liked studying history or social studies. It seemed way too boring to learn about old dead people ~ who they were, whe...
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History is a Story: Teaching History the Interesting Way
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Welcome to Chapter 4 of Noori's Library: History is a Story, dedicated to sharing the best historical fiction and non-fiction for kids from preschool to high school and beyond.
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Old Vermont Barn
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The old barn on our farm in Vermont was built by my Great-great grandfather in about 1870. He learned to build from his father and grandfather in a tradition passed down from the first New England settlers. He took those traditions but he applied new...
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Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
Lessons in History
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Chronological History of the World Unit-Studies for Homeschoolers
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We are secular homeschoolers, and as such we will be studying the progression of evolution, both of our planet Earth, and of humans and all other life-forms over the course of history. This is a history unit that will carry our family through the ne...
Ancient History Unit Studies
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Ancient Greece: A Unit Study
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Ah, the Ancient Greeks! What a wonderful subject to explore! From Ancient Greek Mythology to the Philosophies of Socrates and Plato, from Euclid's Geometry to the origins of Democracy, this is a unit study for middle schoolers that can easily be...
Native American Unit Studies
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Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
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Native American Legends Thematic Unit
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Native American culture is rich with wonderful folktales and legends. I have featured three of my favorites and written a mini thematic unit about each. The unit for Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola is geared toward first grade. The G...
Unit Studies about the 1800's
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18th Century Threshing
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Photo Credit: Threshing with hand flails on Flickr, Creative Commons. This lens is a continuation of the Garner Rix Unit Study Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid. After returning to Royalton, Garner was given a section of land that had been confiscated...
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United States in the 1800's
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So many things can happen during a short century of history! Exciting people interacting positively and negatively upon each other ~ changes in governments and geographic borders ~ artists, musicians, authors, and architects recording their time and...
Revolution
Several revolutions occurred around the turn of the 18th century. These unit studies will help you teach about the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Spanish Revolution.-
The French Revolution
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A series of revolutions have occured throughout the world during all of history. Groups of people seeing things differently have unfortunately ended in too much bloodshed. The French Revolutions is one of these wars that took a toll on many people ~...
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Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
US Westward Expansion
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Pioneers & the Oregon Trail
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Imagine going back in time to visit the pioneeers traveling across the country. So many exciting adventures they must have had! Let's step into their world and learn about what everyday life was like during the 19th century. You will find lessons...
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Lewis & Clark Expedition
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The Lewis & Clark Expedition ~ how exciting! Doesn't it send tickles down your spine? A journey on the way across a broad new land! Who knows what they will see, who they will meet, what dangers await, which obstacles they may come across? The...
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Western Expansion
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Travel back in time to the western frontier of the United States with us to learn about the brave men and women who traveled the hard trails to make the west their new home! Why would they move far from their families and homes, push through the unk...
Promoting Peace
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Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
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Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for generations. Now there is a documentary of Pete Seeger's life entitled Pete Seeger - The Power of Song it has been shown on PBS and at Film festivals from Oklahoma to Vermont. Pete Seeger sang at Barack...
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Peace Ornaments - Hope Ornaments - Ornaments to Remember
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A special selection of Ornaments Ornaments to inspire peace to honor and remember loved ones who are facing challenges or have died year 'round. Some of the Ornaments are designed for high quality porcelain and available through Cafe Press stores; oth...
Historical Fiction Unit Studies
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Little House Unit Study
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Lately my family has been watching a lot of Little House on the Prairie. I am finding the show as enjoyable as I did when I was a small child. I am putting together this unit study to use in the near future with my homeschool. I hope you will find t...
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Big Annie: Mississippi Flatboat Captain
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Activities related to the story of Big Annie, a flatboat captain who, despite all odds, brings Christmas toys from New Orleans up the river to the children of Natchez. Learn about the cultures, historical times and wildlife along the Mississippi Riv...
Community Leader Unit Studies
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Community Helpers ~ Labor Day
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Lesson Ideas & Resources for Teaching about Labor Day, Community Helpers, & Neighborhoods
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Community Helpers in Your Neighborhood
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Community helpers are people who help us in our neighborhoods. We say that they provide a service for us. Find out about the various community service jobs in your community and who the people are that provide those services. From the postal carrier...
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American Presidents Paper Dolls
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Every four years, the United States Presidential elections reinforce every American kid's dream that one day he or she could become President of the United States. Presidents paper dolls are an excellent learning toy to teach children about US histor...
Transportation
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Choo! Choo! A Train Unit Study
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Have you ever stood near a railroad track and watched a train? Trains are fascinating. They seem to be going so slowly at first and then faster and faster as they get closer. No matter what age you are, everyone loves trains. As your child chugs alo...
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Transportation Unit Study
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Young children are always on the go so it only follows that some of their favorite toys are cars, boats, planes and trains. This transportation theme can wheel us along with games, math activities and science projects that keep your child busily lear...
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Beep, Beep Goes the Bus
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One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is transportation. Listen to the sound of a bus going beep, beep, beep. Hear the roar of the bus as it pulls up to the bus stop. Notice the hiss of the air coming from the brakes. With their bright col...
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Building Bridges Unit Study
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Garner Rix and his family moved from Connecticut to Vermont in 1780 by oxcart. During his captivity he walked to Montreal and back. What was it like to travel in the 18th Century? There were few roads and even fewer bridges. The bridges over streams...
Map Skills to help with Unit Studies
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USING A MAP AND COMPASS to Navigate Your Way
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MAP AND COMPASS This is the third lens page so far, in a series about navigation. The first in this series is How to Use a Compass, and the second, How to Read a Map. As you will need to know full well how to navigate with a compass alone in order t...
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Salt Dough Maps
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How can a little flour, water, and paint become a fantastic hands-on geography project? With salt dough maps, that's how! Get messy and make a 3D relief map of a country or state with these directions and pictures.
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All 50 States Group Headquarters
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If you were given a blank piece of paper and a pencil right now, could you name all 50 States? What about their capitals? Learning the 50 States and their capitals can be lots of fun. What follows are a wide variety of games, puzzles and activities...
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Mapping the World
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Learning map skills can be a fun way to learn about the world. There are many hands-on learning experiences that lead to true understanding of the world, it's countries, political divisions and the ways that countries are divided up into states and p...
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HOW TO READ A MAP
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HOW TO READ A MAP is a very important bit of education to take on when you are out camping, hiking, backpacking, or for any other reason you find yourself out in the wilderness. This lens (the site you are on now) is here to help you learn all about...
Map Skills
Teaching Geography
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Too Young For Scissors? Punch Outs Are the Answer!
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Students come into my Montessori classroom at age 3. A few have the fine motor skills to use scissors or hold a pencil correctly, but most are not yet ready. What they can do are paper punch outs! Using a simple push pin and a basic outline, you can...
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Longitude - John Harrison's chronometers
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Longitude is a measure of position vital for navigation. In the eighteenth century there was no way to measure it and ships were being lost at sea. Parliament passed an Act setting a prize for anyone who could solve the problem. The problem was solv...
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So - you want to Teach your Kids Geography?
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Do your children know where India is? Or what the capital of Wisconsin is? Do they know where they could see Ayers Rock and what language is spoken in Egypt? Whether your children are homeschooled or attend public or private schools, the chances ar...
Visit the World
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Amazing Webventures: Let's Explore Andorra!
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If you've never heard of Andorra, join the party. I hadn't either, until I bumped into it in a list online. Andorra is 2.5 times the size of Washington D.C. If you look it up on Google Earth, you'll find its terrain rugged and mountainous, with valle...
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Amazing Webventures: Let's Explore Borneo!
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Borneo is the world's third largest island, after Greenland and New Guinea. It covers some 287,000 square miles--almost twice the size of Germany, and is home to Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Join me on another Amazing Web...
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Amazing Webventures: Let's Explore Antarctica!
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Most of us probably won't ever have the opportunity to visit Antarctica, the highest, driest, coldest, windiest continent. You might read a book about it or watch a movie or documentary, but it doesn't compare to being there. Come with me on an exci...
Saint Patrick's Day Unit Studies
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Creative Resources for St.Patrick's Day
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Saint Patrick's day is approaching and it's all about green! I've compiled a list of links here to help you (and myself) go even more green on this green day! Here you will find links to sites where you can find directions how to reuse common househ...
Easter Unit Studies
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Creative Easter Resources
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We have so many things around our home that we throw away instead of giving it a 'second chance', a second life. In same time, we spend lots of money on craft kits that can be found all over the net and in stores near our homes! I say: Let's change t...
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Who Layed THAT Egg?
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Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animals that lay eggs? Children may be surprised that some eggs do not contain birds. Other egg layers include frogs...
Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
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Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
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Although occurring around the same time of the year as Halloween, Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, is a very different holiday. Dia de los Muertos is celebrated in many Latin American countries with a different focus. This festival...
Christmas Unit Studies
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Favorite Christmas Tales
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Christmas is the time to cuddle up next to the fire and read all your favorite Christmas stories. Some are of Santa and Trees and Ballet, others are of snow and playing outside while others are of a manger and child. Christmas is also a time to lear...
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'Twas the Night Before Navidad or Christmas?
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through la casa Not a creature was stirring, Caramba! Que pasa?... My cousins were Costa Rican so learning Spanish was always important to my family. While looking for activities to teach my children Span...
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Christmas Unit Study
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Christmas is a wonderful time of year and a great learning opportunity. This December why not do a Christmas Unit Study? There are so many things about Christmas to study.
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Inexpensive Eco-Friendly Christmas
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With these difficult economic and ecological times are there ways to make this Christmas Season inexpensive and eco-friendly as well a memorable? Consider giving a toy that has been carefully passed on for years. Make your own recycled cards, orname...
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Sugar Plum Ballerinas
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Plum Fantastic is the first book in a new series by Whoopi Goldberg about a young ballerina whose mother moves her to Harlem in order for her to have a chance at dancing in the Nutcracker. As a new dancer at the studio, Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson...
More Christmas Unit Studies
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Christmas Unit Study 2 - Social Studies
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Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not turn it into a fun unit study? Add some mat...
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Christmas Unit Study 1 - Science
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A Christmas Unit Study (Science) ~Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not turn it i...
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Christmas Unit Study 3 - Language Arts
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A Christmas Unit Study (Language Arts) ~Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not tur...
Christmas Unit Studies
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Christmas Unit Study 4 - Bible
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A Christmas Unit Study (Bible) ~Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While parents and teachers who are teaching about the events of the Bible, and the events of the seasons, why not turn it int...
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A Christmas Carol Unit Study
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The classic story "A Christmas Carol" ~ a famous author, Charles Dickens ~ creative animation genius, Walt Disney Productions ~ & one uniquely facinating actor, Jim Carrey ~ what else can I say!? With the new Disney...
Art
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EZ Doodle
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EZ Doodle was designed for young children and the young at heart, a simplified way to expand their horizon and allow their hidden artist to emerge. A wonderful way for children to spend those rainy days and let their imaginations grow. I have develop...
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Bible Crafts For Kids
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I have been participating in a community project today and to my surprise I learned something very valuable. Bible crafts for kids do not have to be very complicated or "new." A simple craft, a collage like we did today, can really be fun a...
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Recycle Your Digital Camera…to a Child
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This photograph was taken by a 7 yr. old recording her world. You are encouraging creativity and memories. I wish I had some pictures of my favorite toys, don't you? By recycling your camera to a child you are giving a gift that is educational a...
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Art Projects for Toddlers
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My daughter goes to nursery school. I love the art projects they make in class so I decided to share them to inspire others. If you are looking for toddler artwork ideas or just ideas to keep your child entertained, take a look at these easy, fun to...
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Hey Kids, Go Play With Your Kool-Aid!!
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Awesome, non-edible Kool-Aid recipes that will entertain your kids for hours. All moms and dads dread these words... "I'm bored". It drives me crazy when my kids complain about being bored when I know they've got a room full of toys and books but I...
Lenses about Art
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Too Young For Scissors? Punch Outs Are the Answer!
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Students come into my Montessori classroom at age 3. A few have the fine motor skills to use scissors or hold a pencil correctly, but most are not yet ready. What they can do are paper punch outs! Using a simple push pin and a basic outline, you can...
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Preparing for a Trip to an Art Museum
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No amount of studying art from books or computer screens can substitute for seeing actual pieces in a museum. So visiting an art museum is a wonderful complement to a Charlotte Mason styled artist study regardless of which artist you are currently st...
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Frog Art Center
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Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frogs to painting, clay, sculptures, origami, frog cakes, Moche, Totem Poles and much much more... Children thrive with a hands-on. creative learning experiences that help them illustrate all that they a...
How to Draw Lenses
Drawing helps Illustrate your Unit Studies
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Using Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes
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Here is the record of our homeschool journey into drawing, using Mona Brookes' Drawing with Children as our main resource. My daughter Sprite is nine years old. She is a motivated artist who wants to hone her skills. I do the activities right alongsi...
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How to draw 'The Great Old Wizard Tickety Boo'
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Welcome all to the first of my 'How to draw' lenses. All you need is a pencil / pen and a sheet of paper Oh and a little imagination. So scroll down the page and in no time at all i'll have you drawing 'The Great Old Wizard'! Enjoy !! ...
Arts and Crafts
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Using Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes
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Here is the record of our homeschool journey into drawing, using Mona Brookes' Drawing with Children as our main resource. My daughter Sprite is nine years old. She is a motivated artist who wants to hone her skills. I do the activities right alongsi...
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How to Teach a Child or Teen to Knit
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Now that the weather is getting cooler, I am going to try again to teach my daughters the art of knitting. For me it is a relaxing past-time, something that I can do while I am sitting, so I don't have idle hands. I learned to knit from my mother, w...
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Crafty Kids
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My fondest memories of elementary school are making the crafts and art projects, I still have some of those projects today..they are yellow and crumbling to pieces but I have them and I am not letting them go! Being that I am computer illiterate...
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Starry Starry Night: A Unit Study of Stars
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From Astronomy to Art this lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create starry-themed activities for both homeschool families and classrooms. Learn about Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night painting technique. Lis...
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Picasso Artist Study
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Study the artwork of a modern artist whose very name has come to mean a masterpiece of art-- "a Picasso." If your children have been studying more traditional artists, the works of Picasso may be a most welcome change of style. Dabble into the arti...
Projects for Recycling and Going Green
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How To Reuse Plastic Bags
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How to Reuse Plastic Bags - How many times did we return home from shopping and not knowing what to do with those plastic bags? Well, apart from throwing them away, which I do not advice, this lens gives you loads of tips in how to reuse plasic bags....
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How to Reuse Old CD or DVD
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Do you burn CD-ROMs on your computer and get errors, where you have to toss the CD-ROM? Do you get tons of CD-ROMs in the mail from Internet providers and trial programs? I do and all these unwanted CD-ROMs are piling up. You can recycle them but it...
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How to Reuse Paper Bags
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What do you do with paper bags? Toss them into garbage? Recycle? Reuse? Renew? The obvious first option is to reuse them for your groceries and other goods. They likely won't hold up for as many reuses as the plastic bags, but remember even one reus...
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Green Guide to Back-to-School
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The beginning of school is drawing near and for most families that means shopping for school supplies and clothes. This lens will help you to make some more conscious, green choices about your purchases.
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How to Reuse Paper Rolls
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Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consider what it can be used for? Never thought of that? Or you already reuse them? Although our society urges people not to throw out but recycle and reuse as many common household items as possible, we st...
Crafts
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Fun With Paper Bags: Creative Crafts for Kids
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Hold it! Don't toss those perfectly good paper bags. Hang onto the plastic grocery bags, too. They're perfect for crafts, and what better way to teach recycling than to offer them to your children and grandchildren? Given the chance, most kids are cr...
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Fun With Boxes: Cardboard Crafts for Kids
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Recycling begins at home in a variety of simple, fun projects. In the beginning, you have two choices: You can either dump recyclables in a designated bin for pickup or deliver them yourself to a recycling center; or you can think creatively and find...
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How to Reuse Popsicle Sticks?
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Your kid just love to eat popsicles? Can't get out of the store without buying some? Who can blame them - I love them too! This page is a collection of possible uses for popsicle sticks and here you'll find how it can be reused in house, garden and...
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Fun with Fabric: Craft Ideas for Kids
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Hey! What do you think you're doing , tossing those worn-out jeans the trash? Haven't you thought about crafting? Fabric crafting is a good way to recycle old clothes. Don't worry about faded remnants or frayed edges. Nowadays, faded denim adds pizz...
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What Can Be Done With Wallpaper Leftovers?
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Do you put wallpapers on your walls? And what do you do with residues? Wallpapers aren't just for walls - they can be a free source for some of the most creative yet simple crafts.
Unit Studies with Puppets
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Russ Puppets
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Russ Berrie has always made top-of-the-line toys, their plush animals are wonderful and life-like - Russ Puppets are also great! Very cute and cuddly puppets, some of which have warmed the hearts of children for many many years. The collection below...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
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Reading the classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff is a delightful way to kick off a Unit Study on Goats. We compare fiction and non-fiction goats, make graphs, build bridges and play lots of games. Goat's milk and goat cheese are staples in ma...
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How to Make a Shadow Puppet Theater
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Making shadow puppets with your hands has been a pastime since the earliest of times as men sat around an open fire. Dress it up a bit by designing a small puppet theater and cardboard shadow puppets. Then dim the lights and treat your family and fri...
Drama
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Drama Resources
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Looking for drama teaching resources? This lens contains a free lesson plan (Pirates, for students aged 11-12 yrs) which introduces middle school students to physical theatre.
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Music in Drama
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Free teaching resource for drama and music students aged 13-14yrs.
Costumes
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How to Make a Pink Clover Who Hat or Pink Clover - Easy Halloween Costumes
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It's easy to become a Who or Horton the Elephant for Halloween. All you need is a few pipe cleaners a large pom pom and a little time. With a few twists and turns you'll soon have your own Pink Clover Who Hat or Pink Clover Accessory. Horton Hears a...
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Knit One Save One
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Save the Children is asking knitters and crocheters to knit or crochet one baby cap by December 31, 2008 and then to write a personal note to the President-elect asking him to lead the way to save millions of babies globally. Knit One Save One is a...
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Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
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Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his father, pregnant mother, two sisters and three brothers from a farm in Connecticut to a log cabin on the banks of the White River, a place that would one day be called Royalton, Vermont. He helped h...
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Do You Know a Fancy Nancy?
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Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy Nancy likes sparkles and glitter, lace and tulle. No amount of jewelry is too much. Tutus, boas, and satin are the latest fashion and she will wear them anywhere. Fancy Nancy is not just for little gi...
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How to Make Horton Hears a Who Headband Ears - Easy Halloween Costumes
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It's easy to become Horton Hears a Who for Halloween. All you need is a headband, a few pipe cleaners, some blue paper, yarn or a large pom pom and a little time. With a few cuts of paper, some twisting and turning you'll soon have your own Horton He...
Learning to Read Music
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Reading Music
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Do you play music, but have wanted to learn how to read music? Here is a lens with resources and materials about reading pitches and rhythms for my students, anyone who wants to read music, and anyone who teaches music. My hope is that the resources...
Musical Instrument Families
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Orchestra Lapbook Unit
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The grand sounds of a symphony orchestra ~ especially a live one ~are so beautiful! Come find orchestra websites, teaching resources, kid's music sites, worksheets, flash cards, lapbooks and other materials, games, videos, cds, and adventures for mus...
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Orchestra: Woodwind Family Lapbook Unit
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Wonderful wild whistling woodwinds winding through the wind! Wishing you knew more about the woodwind family of instruments? Whether or not you play one of these beautiful instruments, you will learn much about them here!
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Orchestra: Brass Family Lapbook Unit
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Imagine ... a breezy, beautiful day below the big blue sky ... a brass band begins to step to the bold beat of the bass drum. The sun brightly bounces off the bells of the beaming brass instruments ... then you hear it, the boisterous, blowing of th...
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Orchestra: The String Family Lapbook Unit
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Super, spectacular symphonic string instruments! Soothingly sing along with the slow, slippery, sliding bow strokes or skip along with the spirited, sparkling, staccato sounds of strings! Beautiful string instruments have existed far back in human h...
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Orchestra: The Percussion Family Lapbook Unit
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The percussion family ~ what a broad range of instruments! Percussion instruments are used in every style of music from classical, rock, folk, jazz, ... to any kind! Percussion music may be very simple that even the youngest child can play to extrem...
Musical Unit Studies
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Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
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Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for generations. Now there is a documentary of Pete Seeger's life entitled Pete Seeger - The Power of Song it has been shown on PBS and at Film festivals from Oklahoma to Vermont. Pete Seeger sang at Barack...
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Understanding a Billion
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Everyone is talking about spending billions of dollars to save the economy but how much is a billion? We all know how to count to 100. We count by 10's, 5's and 2's but when the numbers get higher it becomes more and more difficult to comprehend jus...
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Pigloo: Penguins Sing in French
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These happy French-singing penguins will get your kids singing along and they won't even realize that they are learning French. We all know that learning a second language is very important but who knew it could be so much fun. Pop a Pigloo CD into...
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Going Bananas: A Banana Unit Study
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Raffi introduced us to the Bananaphone Song years ago and now technology has finally caught up with him. Introducing the Banana Phone! B is for bunches and there are bunches of banana ideas for teaching across the curriculum from vowels to emergency...
Music for Babies
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The Very Best Music for Children
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A love of music is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.
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Salsa for Kittens and Puppies
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Written by Andy Blackman Horowitz Salsa for Kittens and Puppies introduces young children to Salsa. With Spanish rhythms and dance, children are introduced to the music of Latin Americans who brought their music from Cuba, and Puerto Rico mixed it wi...
Physical Education
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We're All Winners
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“We’re All Winners” is an educational fitness activity designed to let young children have fun, learn a bit about being safe in the sun and then participate in a non-racing, solo running activity. The main goal of the event is to cr...
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What happened to RECESS?
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Do you remember the games you played during recess as a child? Think about all the physical activity that involved and what you learned from those recess games. Did you know that more and more recess is being replaced by testing and homework? While...
Dance
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Riverdance: Traditional Step Dancing
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Riverdance intrigues me. The rapid leg movements of the traditional Irish Step Dancing are a form of dance that I had never known or experienced until I saw Riverdance. How can they move their feet so rapidly without moving the rest of their bodies?...
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Sugar Plum Ballerinas
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Plum Fantastic is the first book in a new series by Whoopi Goldberg about a young ballerina whose mother moves her to Harlem in order for her to have a chance at dancing in the Nutcracker. As a new dancer at the studio, Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson...
Teaching Healthy Habits
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Cover Your Cough
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With outbreaks of Swine Flu cropping up all across the country, how can you help young children remember to take the steps to prevent passing this fast spreading disease on to others? We tell our children to wash their hands and cover their cough but...
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Bacteria 101- Protect yourself from MRSA, Salmonella, E.coli, flesh eating disease, more!
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For the past 5 years, I have worked as a microbiologist in a local hospital. I decided to write this lens to possibly offer a little clarity to someone looking for answers to some common questions about bacteria and infection. Questions like: What is...
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Teaching Children About Germs
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For children germs are invisible things that cause them to get sick. Remembering to do things like washing their hands or covering a cough may not come easily. Helping children understand about germs is to find ways to help them 'see' the ge...
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All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth
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Celebrate the loss of a baby tooth and the growth of permanent teeth while learning to read, write and measure your teeth. Graph the lost teeth by month and write to the Tooth Fairy. Cuddle with the Big Bad Wolf and all his big teeth. Count your fri...
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Games to Promote Learning
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Homeschool Games
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Homeschool games promote learning and family bonding. They are a great way to build language, mathematical and thinking skills, and they also teach good character. Here are some tips for choosing fun and educational homeschool games!
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Enjoying Educational Games
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What do kids do best? Play of course. Why not encourage this natural tendency by providing your children with great entertaining games that just happen to be educational as well. Educational Games such as Mancala and Set teach math concep...
Games to Enhance Unit Studies
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Enjoying Educational Games
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What do kids do best? Play of course. Why not encourage this natural tendency by providing your children with great entertaining games that just happen to be educational as well. Educational Games such as Mancala and Set teach math concep...
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Scrabble Apple Word Building Game
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Scrabble Apple is the newest Scrabble games to come out. A variation on the traditional Scrabble Games, Scrabble Apple contains 100 letters and is stored in a bright red, zippered apple. Scrabble Apple is a fast-paced vocabulary building games that...
Educational Toys to Augment Unit Studies
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Christmas Alert! Top Toy Awards for 2009
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The 18th Annual Disney's FamilyFun Magazine Toy of the Year Awards as determined by the Family Fun Toy Tester Families were just announced in time for Christmas. This lens will highlight the toys that were chosen for the awards as well as possib...
Keeping the Kids Happy without TV
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365 TV-Free Activities You Can Do With Your Child
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Make the most of your time with your child - whether it is five minutes or a whole afternoon - with simple, fun activities that will excite the whole family. From arts and crafts to toymaking to math and number games, 365 TV-Free Activities You Can D...
Study Skills
Skills of Learning
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Teach Your Children How to Set Goals
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Knowing how to set reasonable goals and striving for them is an important life skill. The earlier you encourage your children to think about what they want to accomplish, short term and long term, the better. Working toward a goal and receiving the...
Study Skills
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K-12 Top 12 Research Websites for Student Papers
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Parents, are you looking for websites your child can use to write a research paper, term paper or essay? Teachers, do your students need primary sources? Take a look at the many free educational resources described here. There is more to research th...
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Easy memory techniques
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At some point in our lives we all forget something very important. It happens to the best of us! And in society, it is generally accepted that all kids need to go to school, get an education and pass exams. This requires great mental capacity, but th...
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How to Ask Great Questions
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An effective teacher uses questions to see if his student understands, accepts, and applies what is being taught. Through my teaching experiences, I have come across three different types of questions that help teachers achieve these goals. These typ...
Lapbooks for Unit Studies
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Lapbooking
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Lapbooking can be done by any learner-- from preschoolers to adults. With this educational method, you make mini-books covering details that you've studied. After making a variety of mini-books about a larger topic, all the books are put together in...
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Christmas Lapbook
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A lapbook is a wonderful way to educate. A lapbook is creative and it helps with retention of the information that is being learned. It also provides a lovely keepsake of your children's work. This holiday season, why not do a Christmas lapbook w...
Organize Your Unit Studies
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Interactive Notebook
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An interactive notebook is similar to a lapbook, but it is ongoing like a notebook. Basically an interactive notebook is a lapbook in a binder! An interactive notebook can be used for science, history, State Studies, Country Studies, Picture Books, P...
Lenses to promote Homeschooling or Dealing with the School System
John Holt: Unschooling After teaching for several years John Holt realized that children learn best when the are learning what they want to learn.He then went on to write many books about Homeschooling, started the magazine Growing Without Schooling and coined the term "unschooling".
Unschooling is learning based on the student's interests, needs, and goals. Parents are facilitators rather than teachers, helping their children to find resources for learning rather than being teaching a canned curriculum.
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Homeschool Ideas that Make Learning Fun
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Is your family stuck in a cycle of reading textbooks and completing workbook pages? Do your children groan every time you pull out the school books? Think outside the box to help your children reclaim and retain their love of learning. Here are some...
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Homeschool FAQ
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Do you have questions about whether you should homeschool, or how you can? You've come to the right place. Here is an extensive list of questions and answers, with links to some of the best resources on the web. I hope to expand this lens significan...
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Free Advise on School Questions
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Whether your child is just starting school, in school and doing great, or in school and has academic or social difficulties this article can help with your school research. I know that some of you may be thinking - "I have no choice but to send my ch...
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Hearth & Homeschool
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who are dedicated to educational excellence, fostering an eager thirst for knowledge and enthusiasm for learning in your children... for those of you who raise and educate your children with patience, kindness, respect, and gentle, loving guidance s...
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Homeschooling - But what about Socialization?
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When making the decision to homeschool, socialization is often one of the major concerns. Many homeschooling families believe that public and private schools with their classes divided by age, low ratio of adults to children, isolation from the comm...
Homeschool Choice
Making the Decision to Homeschool
It is important to do your research before making the decision to homeschool. These lenses offer different perspective on that decision.-
Homeschooling Disadvantages
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The decision to homeschool your child is a huge, life changing decision. A parent should consider all possible advantages and disadvantages before beginning schooling from their kitchen tabletop. Because of the strong feelings on both sides of the ho...
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Homeschooling
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My grandmother was a teacher and I always had the highest respect for teachers when I was in school. Things are not so good in some of the public schools anymore. The stories coming from the public education sector get more horrifying each year. Nea...
Teachers
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Rudolf Steiner the founder of Anthroposophy
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Introducing the founder of Waldorf education, alternative farming methods (bio-dynamic farming), alternative health practices and dietary advice - Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was way ahead of his time. Rudolf Steiner was quite a learned man. He was a...
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Teachers Who Teach from the Heart
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This lens will tell you about some famous and not so famous teachers, methods of teaching and ways to engage children in learning. Think about the great teachers you have known who truly care about children. They inspire children to do their best an...
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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How I came to Love Teaching Math
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Math has always been easy for me but it wasn't until I started taking classes to get my teaching certificate that I came to truly love math. Both my mom and dad loved to play card and board games. They taught my sister and I many mathematical concept...
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Purple Gallinules of the Everglades
Gallinules are spectacular creatures. The can be f more...3 points
Fancy Nancy
Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy N more...1 point
Constitution for Kids - "We the People" Song
The song is called 'We the People'. It came out of more...1 point
Beep, Beep Goes the Bus
One of the most popular themes for preschoolers is more...1 point
Geology Rocks: A Homeschool Unit Study
3 unit studies: Rocks & Minerals, Weather & more...1 point
Learning Mandarin Chinese
Ni hau! This lens was developed in an effort to or more...1 point
The Iditarod: A Homeschool Unit Study
Here you'll find living books, lapbooking material more...1 point
Children's Author Study: A Homeschool Unit Study
The goal of this unit is to encourage lifelong lov more...1 point
Hawaii: A Homeschool Unit Study
From the mountains to the sea, Hawai'i offers dive more...1 point
Hundred Board Activities
This lens will provide you with many ideas of how more...1 point
Children's
The goal of this unit is to encourage lifelong lov more...1 point
Constitution Lapbook
As young future American voters, children need to more...1 point
Orchestra: Woodwind Family Lapbook Unit
Wonderful wild whistling woodwinds winding through more...1 point
Pioneers & the Oregon Trail
Imagine going back in time to visit the pioneeers more...1 point
Dinosaur Discovery
If you're a parent with a child who loves dino more...1 point
Nursery rhymes online
Find free nursery rhymes online. Having three chil more...0 points
How to write an A essay
Have you ever seen a TV commercial where the begin more...0 points
Awesome Learning Games!
Learning and studying doesn't have to be dry and b more...0 points
Algebra Games - The fun way to learn Algebra
One of the best ways to teach kids and make them t more...0 points
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LearningIsFun wrote...
Thanks for adding my Dinosaur Discovery lens and including me in the group. Lots to learn here - and that means me just as much as the children!
Posted November 11, 2009
JoyfulPamela wrote...
Hi lensmasters! I love all the fun learning units you all have written! Thank you all for your creativity and time in making these for students.
Pamela :)
Posted October 01, 2009
24websurf wrote...
Evelyn, thank you for the invitation, your friendship, the suggestions and for featuring my lens. This looks to be a wonderful group!
Posted May 05, 2009
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Bluebirds: Classroom Meadow Theme
As your little bluebirds flit from place to place more...5 points
Lemmings: Arctic Classroom Theme
Capturing Your Student's Attention: Your little le more...4 points
Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
The spring continues to warm the earth and frogs a more...4 points
It's Raining! It's Pouring!
Water, rain, puddles, wetness...There are endless more...4 points
Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid
Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his fath more...3 points
River Otters: Playful Friends of the Woodlands!
Learn about River Otters through games and hands-o more...3 points
Whitefoot the Woodmouse: A Mouse Unit Study
This lens has dozens of mouse related activities t more...3 points
Starry Starry Night
This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources more...3 points
Hands-on Learning
Children learn best through hands-on learning. A h more...3 points
Take Home Literacy Bags
TAKE HOME LITERACY BAGS are a fun way to help chil more...3 points
Beginning to Read
Beginning readers are very excited about learning more...3 points
Pete Seeger for Nobel Peace Prize
Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for gen more...3 points
Russ Puppets
Russ Berrie has always made top-of-the-line toys, more...2 points
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Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
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My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach children in fun, hands-on, creative ways. The unit studies I make on Squidoo reflect my view that learning should be integrated and no skills should be taught in isolation. I believe that each topic s...
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Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn
Take trips to the frog pond, play games and sing s more...1 point
The Thanksgiving Tale of Tobias Turkey
Tobias Turkey is a determined little turkey who wa more...1 point
Christmas Crafts & Gifts for Children
Children have an instinctive ability to more...1 point
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
How do you feel about Gray Wolves? What do you kno more...1 point
Evelyn Saenz: Lensography of a Teacher
My passion is teaching and finding ways to teach c more...1 point
Beaver Unit Study
Paddy the Beaver knew perfectly well that he would more...1 point
Raccoons in the Corn
Raccoons love to investigate. In this unit study w more...1 point
Frog Art Center
Art for your Frog Unit Study from how to draw frog more...1 point
Skip Count, Skip Count, Count by Two's
Skip Counting is what you do when you count by 10' more...1 point
Global Warming for children
For young children to understand a concept like Gl more...1 point
Verbs: What ARE You Doing?
No matter where or when, verbs are action words. T more...1 point
Old Black Fly Unit Study
Old Black Fly's been buzzing around and lands on a more...1 point
Pumpkins and Place Value
Pick the biggest pumpkin you can find. Cut off the more...1 point
The Mouse Ran Up The Clock
It's time to learn how to tell time. Here is a more...1 point
Hands-on Math Activities
Children learn and truly understand mathematical c more...1 point
Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid - 1780
Garner Rix was just 12 when he moved with his fath more...1 point
Roman Numerals, I to MM
Roman Numerals may be found where you least expect more...1 point
Hamtaro and the Hamhams
Hamtaro is an adventurous and curious hamster who more...1 point
Starry Starry Night: A Unit Study of Stars
From Astronomy to Art this lens will give yo more...1 point
Sand Dollars: Math on the Beach
One day at the beach in Costa Rica my daughter and more...1 point
Our Favorite Childrens Christmas Books
My wife and I love to read and reading around the more...1 point
Favorite Christmas Tales
Christmas is the time to cuddle up next to the fir more...1 point
Literacy Bags Make Homework Fun!
Book Bags. Home Bags, Book Buddies, Story Bags... more...1 point
It's Raining! It's Pouring!
As the Rain Pours Down the Learning Soars...
Wate more...1 point
Penmanship: The Art of Teaching Handwriting
As a child I remember Mrs. Thompson, my first grad more...1 point
Christmas Unit Study
Christmas is a wonderful time of year and a great more...1 point
Froggy Math Facts
Continuing the Frog Unit Study this lens is all ab more...1 point
Wintertime Activities for Kids
Winter is the time to snuggle up and with a good b more...1 point
Mapping the World
Learning map skills can be a fun way to learn abou more...1 point
River Otters: Playful Friends of the Woodlands!
Learn about River Otters through games and hands-o more...1 point
Acorns for the Squirrels
Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are count more...1 point
Making a Shoebox Diorama
The classic shoebox diorama is a childhood rite of more...0 points
How to Reuse Old CD or DVD
Do you burn CD-ROMs on your computer and get error more...0 points
A Christmas Carol Unit Study
The classic story "A Christmas Carol& more...0 points
Pendleton Elementary School Memory Garden
In 2006, The Pendleton Elementary School's Sc more...0 points
How to Reuse Paper Rolls
Before you throw away a paper roll, do you consid more...0 points
It's Turkey Time!
Wild Turkeys nearly became extinct in the 1930's b more...0 points
Dinosaur Discovery
If you're a parent with a child who loves dino more...0 points
Fun with Paper Toys
Paper toys are popular with children and adults. T more...0 points
Lapbooking
Lapbooking can be done by any learner-- from presc more...0 points
Christmas Lapbook
A lapbook is a wonderful way to educate. A lapbook more...0 points
Sundials: How to Make a Sundial, How they Work and Some Sundial History
Many people think of sundials as nothing more than more...0 points
Salt Dough Maps
How can a little flour, water, and paint become a more...0 points
Weather Related Science Projects for Kids (and their parents)
This is dedicated to science projects for the fami more...0 points
Who is Roy G. Biv?
Have you ever been asked to Name the Colors of the more...0 points
Bible Crafts For Kids
I have been participating in a community project t more...0 points
Peace Ornaments - Hope Ornaments - Ornaments to Remember
A special selection of Ornaments Ornaments to insp more...0 points
Best Websites for Kids Poems
These are the best poetry websites to get kids exc more...0 points
Little House Unit Study
Lately my family has been watching a lot of Littl more...0 points
Picasso Artist Study
Study the artwork of a modern artist whose very na more...0 points
How to Make a Shadow Puppet Theater
Making shadow puppets with your hands has been a p more...0 points
Mole Day: October 23
October 23 is Mole Day! It is the day we celebrat more...0 points
How to Reuse Popsicle Sticks?
Your kid just love to eat popsicles? Can't get out more...0 points
Doin' the Bone Dance and Other Creative Ways to Learn Bone Anatomy
Teaching children about bone anatomy can be made a more...0 points
How to Reuse Egg Cartons?
Well, you may ask yourself - what could be done wi more...0 points
Christmas Unit Study 4 - Bible
A Christmas Unit Study (Bible) ~Christmas is such more...0 points
Christmas Literature by Illustrator - Author Jan Brett
One of my most favorite illustrators and authors o more...0 points
Christmas Unit Study 3 - Language Arts
A Christmas Unit Study (Language Arts) ~Christmas more...0 points
Hands-on Fractions
Understanding fractions is a critical foundation o more...0 points
St. Patrick's Day Coloring
Here is your lucky lens for St. Patrick's Day colo more...0 points
Interactive Notebook
An interactive notebook is similar to a lapbook, b more...0 points
K-12 Top 12 Research Websites for Student Papers
Parents, are you looking for websites your child c more...0 points
Teaching Children About Germs
For children germs are invisible things that cause more...0 points
Native American Legends Thematic Unit
Native American culture is rich with wonderful fol more...0 points
Books for 5th Graders
My daughter just finished fifth grade. While in 5t more...0 points
The French Revolution
A series of revolutions have occured throughout th more...0 points
Novel Study Guides
Why spend hours planning the lessons you need for more...0 points
Elementary Science Fair Projects
Doing Elementary Science Fair Projects has never b more...0 points
Acronyms, Rhymes and Songs To Learn Facts
Do you remember using certain phrases or jingles more...0 points
Books for 1st Graders
My daughter is in 1st grade this year. This will b more...0 points
Learn English
Learn English by listening to MP3 audio files prep more...0 points
Ancient History Lessons
Spice up your ancient history studies with hands-o more...0 points
Lewis & Clark Expedition
The Lewis & Clark Expedition ~ how excitin more...0 points
K-12 Top 12 Science Fair Projects Websites
Are you looking for science project ideas, plans a more...0 points
Books for 2nd Graders
My son has graduated from 2nd grade last year. I b more...0 points
Lobsters of the Sea
What do you know about the lobster in the fish tan more...0 points
Fun With Paper Bags: Creative Crafts for Kids
Hold it! Don't toss those perfectly good paper bag more...0 points
Christmas Unit Study 1 - Science
A Christmas Unit Study (Science) ~Christmas is suc more...0 points
Chronological History of the World Unit-Studies for Homeschoolers
We are secular homeschoolers, and as such we will more...0 points
Using Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes
Here is the record of our homeschool journey into more...0 points
What Can Be Done With Wallpaper Leftovers?
Do you put wallpapers on your walls? And what do y more...0 points
Pioneers & the Oregon Trail
Imagine going back in time to visit the pioneeers more...0 points
How To Reuse Plastic Bags
How to Reuse Plastic Bags - How many times did we more...0 points
Fun With Boxes: Cardboard Crafts for Kids
Recycling begins at home in a variety of simple, f more...0 points
Reading Music
Do you play music, but have wanted to learn how to more...0 points
Books for 6th Graders
My kids read a lot of books. This page includes th more...0 points
Books for 7th Graders
My kids read a lot of books. This page includes my more...0 points
Constitution Lapbook
As young future American voters, children need to more...0 points
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
This page contains facts about the Ameri more...0 points
Charts and Graphs for Learning
We were studying the instruments of the orchestra, more...0 points
Community Helpers ~ Labor Day
Lesson Ideas & Resources for Teaching abo more...0 points
How to Reuse Paper Bags
What do you do with paper bags? Toss them into gar more...0 points
Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead
Although occurring around the same time of the yea more...0 points
Celebrating Pi Day 3.14
Mmmm. Pi Day! The nerdy holiday celebrated by math more...0 points
10 Ways To Make Math Fun
Has math become a battle at your house? Are you s more...0 points
Living Math
In a child's early years, math is actually play. C more...0 points
Baby Animal Pictures
This page is about baby animals and pict more...0 points
Science for Preschoolers
There are so many things that we can do with presc more...0 points
Creative Spring Resources
Can you think of better green period of year than more...0 points
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- Reading the classic tale of the Three Billy Goats Gruff is a delightful way to kick off a Unit Study on Goats. We compare fiction and non-fi...
- Painting by Numbers - The perfect introduction for young artists
- Painting by Numbers is a great introduction for young or inexperienced artists. There's no need to worry about composition or the subject m...
- Western Expansion
- Travel back in time to the western frontier of the United States with us to learn about the brave men and women who traveled the hard trai...
- Learning The Alphabet Letters
- One of the first steps in becoming a successful reader is learning the alphabet letters. The alphabetic principle teaches that spoken langua...
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- Do you have a Fancy Nancy in your house? A Fancy Nancy likes sparkles and glitter, lace and tulle. No amount of jewelry is too much. Tutus, ...
- Animal Tracks Unit Study
- When you study nature it is often hard to get close to the animals you are studying but often they leave their tracks. Learning to recognize...
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- Hello! Would you like to learn how to conjugate the present tense of some Italian regular verbs? Yes? Ok!! So, just stay here, I'll teach...
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- We were first turned on to Jan Brett by my sister-in-law. Since then, we have been reading Jan Brett stories to our kids. Titles like The Mi...
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- These 12 websites will help your child learn math and help them with math homework. Math is the bane of many students. They (and their paren...
- Autumn Unit Study
- Leaves are crunching below your feet and geese are flying overhead. It's time to gather in the pumpkins and munch on crisp ripe apples. Wat...
- Big Annie: Mississippi Flatboat Captain
- Activities related to the story of Big Annie, a flatboat captain who, despite all odds, brings Christmas toys from New Orleans up the river ...
- Vedic Math: Ancient Wisdom for the Future
- Watch YouTube videos and do tutorials on Vedic Math a mental calculating system from India. Vedic maths is truly an elegant math form inspir...
- Lumpy Bumpy Pumpkin Unit Study
- There are five little pumpkins in Farmer Joe's Pumpkin Patch. Four of them are round and shiny and look like the perfect pumpkins but the f...
- Books for 3rd Graders
- My son entered third grade this year. He is an average reader and is starting to enjoy reading more and more. I have two daughters that have...
- Bluebirds of the Meadow
- Summer nears and the bluebirds start nesting along the fenceline. The children are fascinated with the way they fly back and forth to buil...
- Alphabet Activities
- One of the first things that a child learns when are the letters of the alphabet. The activites in this lens are ones that my children and t...
- Orchestra: The String Family Lapbook Unit
- Super, spectacular symphonic string instruments! Soothingly sing along with the slow, slippery, sliding bow strokes or skip along with the s...
- Christmas Unit Study 2 - Social Studies
- A Christmas Unit Study (Social Studies) ~ Christmas is such an amazing time of year to celebrate the birth of the blessed baby, Jesus. While...
- Let's Investigate Volcanoes!
- This lens is meant to accompany my Chronological History of the World lens. In studying the history of our Earth, we are also studying the s...
- Who Layed THAT Egg?
- Everyone knows that chickens lay eggs. Most people know that all other birds do as well but have you ever thought about all the other animal...
- Tornado Lesson Plan
- A tornado is a violent weather system in which a column of air rotates from the surface of the ground to the clouds. The narrowest part of t...
- Robin in the Rain!
- It's springtime and one of the most popular signs of spring is the robin. Robins, with their cheery tweets and bright red breasts stand out...
- Fun with Fabric: Craft Ideas for Kids
- Hey! What do you think you're doing , tossing those worn-out jeans the trash? Haven't you thought about crafting?
Fabric crafting is a ... - Books for 4th Graders
- My kids read a lot of books. Although, I don't have a child in fourth grade this year, two of my children have graduated from fourth grade....
- Inexpensive Eco-Friendly Christmas
- With these difficult economic and ecological times are there ways to make this Christmas Season inexpensive and eco-friendly as well a memor...
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Unit Study
- King Bidgood's in the Bathtub is a wonderful story by Audrey and Don Wood about a king who loves baths and playing in the bathtub. It is a ...
- Ancient Greece: A Unit Study
- Ah, the Ancient Greeks! What a wonderful subject to explore! From Ancient Greek Mythology to the Philosophies of Socrates and Plato, from ...
- Cover Your Cough
- With outbreaks of Swine Flu cropping up all across the country, how can you help young children remember to take the steps to prevent passin...
- Orchestra: Woodwind Family Lapbook Unit
- Wonderful wild whistling woodwinds winding through the wind! Come find out more about them!
- 'Twas the Night Before Navidad or Christmas?
- 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through la casa Not a creature was stirring, Caramba! Que pasa?... My cousins were Costa Rican...
- Alligator Pie
- Alligator Pie is a great poem for introducing the alligator theme. Use it in a reading chart and then go on to learn about the alligators.
... - The United States Flag
- "This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no ...
- Go Away Big Green Monster Unit Study
- Go Away,Big Green Monster! is a book of cut out pages that page by page reveal a monster and then make it disappear. The simple cuts and the...
- How I came to Love Teaching Math
- Math has always been easy for me but it wasn't until I started taking classes to get my teaching certificate that I came to truly love math...
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- Longitude is a measure of position vital for navigation. In the eighteenth century there was no way to measure it and ships were being lost ...
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- Children learn best when engaged in hands-on, creative learning projects that excite and keep them focused. A frog theme lends itself to jus...
- Interactive Bulletin Boards
- Bulletin Boards can be more than just decoration on the wall. By making it interactive, a bulletin board can become another center in your c...
- Pumpkin Picking Time
- Pumpkins seem to fascinate children, whether they are growing in a field or carved as a jack-o-lantern on the front porch. This them...
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- For the past 5 years, I have worked as a microbiologist in a local hospital. I decided to write this lens to possibly offer a little clarity...
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- A love of music is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children.
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- Have you ever gone out on a summer evening to catch fireflies. They flit and fly everywhere. Soon you have five and then six. One escapes an...
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- Even though I was already an adult when I learned about Miss Rumphius, I have adored this children's book from the first page I turned....
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- My daughter goes to nursery school. I love the art projects they make in class so I decided to share them to inspire others.
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- Flash Math Games
- Improving your math level will not only help in the classroom, you can apply it to real-life situations.
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- Sugar Plum Ballerinas
- Plum Fantastic is the first book in a new series by Whoopi Goldberg about a young ballerina whose mother moves her to Harlem in order for he...
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