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Scope and Sequence:



Research Project:

The student will research their favorite holiday symbol and present a posterboard on it in class. [|Research Project]

Good Books that I would recommend for your project: [|My Shelf]

Lesson Plan Exercises: 
 * = Lesson 1 ||= Telling Time ||
 * = Lesson 2 ||= Animal Husbandry ||
 * = Lesson 3 ||= Weather Effects ||
 * = Lesson 4 ||= Holiday Traditions ||
 * = Lesson 5 ||= Farm Life ||
 * = Lesson 6 ||= Show and Tell ||
 * = Lesson 7 ||= Fire Escape ||
 * = Lesson 8 ||= Walking Alphabet ||
 * = Lesson 9 ||= Bake Sale for Charity ||
 * = Lesson 10 ||= Field Trip to Zoo ||

To the Students:

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If you are feeling upset or discouraged relax and take a breather!

Educational YouTube Videos:  

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1. Life on the Farm: This video is important for students to watch because it shows the real life responsibilities farmers must attend to daily.

2. States of Matter: This video shows a visual of gas, solids, and liquids, and how ions interact with one another.

3. Alphabet Road: This is a fun video for students to connect letters of the alphabet and animal sounds to a farm.

4. How to Teach a Child Math: This is a great video for parents on how to bring home math studies for your children. This video shows how parents can create visual aids to help their child "see" math in their head.

5. Wakko's 50 State Capitols: This is a fun animated song that your child will enjoy to help them learn Geography of the 50 states.

6. Yakko's Universe Song: This song helps the student connect their individual placement in our Solar System.

7. Schoolhouse Rock No More Kings: Great Social Studies video to help the student visualize the beginning of America, and why settlers left Europe in the first place.

8. A Noun Person, Place or Thing: This Schoolhouse Rock video shows a connection between Language Arts (nouns) and their usage in real life.

9. Conjunction Junction: This helps the student understand conjunctions in literature and why they are important.

10. Time lapse of Plants Growing: This is a great visual aid to help students relate the connection between seeds and plants, and that plants really are "living."

11. Bill Nye the Science Guy: A fun science video explaining magnetism.

Let's count together!
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Let's practice counting by 5's all the way to 100!

Now we can create our own voice recording! Make sure to turn down the volume!:

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Directions

CHECK OUT my fun, interactive GoogleEarth game about The Seven Wonders of the World! Just begin by clicking on the folder called "The Wonders of the World" and read about each wonder with descriptions, pictures, and videos.



My Home-Made Photo Story

The ABC's of Colorado. I can show the kids how to make their own ABC photo story so they can associate the letters of the alphabet with their favorite picture.

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Using my Web 2.0 tools I can teach my students fun and creative ways to enhance their learning with technology:

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This lesson is designed to help kids understand seasons and weather and what is associated with the season. I will ask each student to create their own video with music about the seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall, and ask them to put the pictures in chronological order. Then, find pictures on the internet of each season and what they associate with the season. For example: a student could post a picture of a sun, and then the next photo displayed would be a picture of a hot dog for the summer season. This will help the student understand the order of the seasons, what type of weather happens during that season, and what people generally associate with the season. The tool will change the learning environment because the student can be very creative in how they want to make their video. The video is a creative way to memorize the order of the seasons and help the child understand what type of weather generally happens during each season.

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This lesson is designed to help the student make connections between animals. I designed this example of the food chain to show my students that humans are on the top of the food chain and every animal is connected. This will help the student understand the connection between animals and how they benefit humans. This tool will change the learning environment because it will allow the students to clearly make connections between different subjects. The student is able to brainstorm ideas with this easy tool and you can add pictures for the visual learner.

Guidlines to create these web tools

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This is an example of a timeline that students are going to create in class using this timeline application and important events in their lives! My timeline shows students "Women in History". Take a look at my timeline and then we will create our own.

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Making Flashcards

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This flashcard tool can be useful to help the kids practice their math skills. Here is an example of what we will be using in class. We are going to create math problems (either adding or subtracting) and create 10 different flashcards and the answer and put it on our classroom website!

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Take a look at the world in a different view:

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It is important for students to realize that everyone has their own personal view on their world. This project fits into my study of animals Scope and Sequence because not only does it show students the animals habitat, but also how the animal lives on a daily basis. These videos push a child's mind out of its boundries and shows them different perspectives of the world. Animoto is a unique and critical learning tool because it is easy, fun, and creates ways for students to make their own video and be able to enjoy their finished project.