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Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Minilesson
Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
Jane Yolen was born in 1939.
Grades
1 - 5
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Jane Yolen was born in 1939.
Students read one of Jane Yolen's books, retell the story in the form of a puppet show, research animals in the book, and document their findings with the Animal Study interactive tool.
Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
Grades
K - 6
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Calendar Activity
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Historical Figure & Event
Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
Students talk about the causes of heart disease and the role that diet and exercise play. Then, students find healthy dessert recipes and vote on one dessert to make in class.
<em>Snowflake Bentley</em> illustrator Mary Azarian was born in 1940.
Grades
K - 4
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Snowflake Bentley illustrator Mary Azarian was born in 1940.
Students catch snowflakes outdoors and sketch some of the structures, or grow their own snow crystals and examine them using magnifying glasses or microscopes.
Grades
K - 6
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The Natural World as Inspiration: An Outdoor Art Show

Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.

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