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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Question and Answer Books through Guided Research
   This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Students use KWL charts to guide their inquiry and publish their results in a collaborative question and answer book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digging Up Details on Worms: Using the Language of Science in an Inquiry Study
   This lesson, in which students research worms in order to create a classroom habitat, incorporates reading and writing across content areas as well as math and science activities.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
   Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Four Simple Steps to Small-Group Guided Writing
   Students will go batty about the three writing strategies they learn in this lesson centered on Nicola Davies' Bat Loves the Night.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
   Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students
   Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Protecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
   Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
   Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
    Frogs often appear as the main character in fiction stories, but what do students really know about frogs? Students find out in this lesson in which they research real-life frogs.

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