Introduces color words and recognition to students through shared reading, color song and rhyme, and guided activity. Students will sort color stickers into color coded worksheet that they create. Time permitting, students will also use an iPad app to identify and sort colors and sort pom-poms by color.
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This is practice for students to match beginning sounds to pictures. They will practice identifying the beginning sound and then finding the matching letter.
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How can we identify the expressive qualities of music through movement? Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
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This is a lesson plan for introductory science in the preschool classroom. Its an activity about the sun and the sun's effects on the earth. It includes a song, lecture, story time, poster creation, and student presentation.
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In this place-based lesson, students will dissect an apple fruit to learn more about its different parts. Includes activity instructions, extension activities, songs and rhymes, anatomy of an apple student worksheet, and sink or float student worksheet. NGSS: K-ESS3-1, 1-LS1-1 Time: 30 minutes Materials: "Apples Grow on Trees" or other book about apples, knife, cutting board, at least three apples, apple parts tray, and apple dissection worksheet.
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Introduces color words and recognition to students through shared reading, color songs, rhymes and fingerplays and whole group activity. Students will sort colored cereal onto color sorting mat handout. Time permitting, students will also use an iPad app to identify and sort colors and sort pom-poms by color using various materials. Extensions of lesson include: independent color recognition matching game and color games called Color Crazy and Monster Smash which are partner/group activities.
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Explore the sweet, slimy world of snails (and worms!) as you discover the difference between fact and fiction with videos, stories and games.
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Mix the letter B with other alphabet letters to make crazy words, and enjoy your own special recipe for family reading time!
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Mix painting and poetry with this colorful, rhyming preschool module that lets children express themselves with the power of words.
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Be an author! Write and illustrate your very own story by mixing up a simple recipe of WHO, WHERE, WHAT, and ENDING.
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Education Trauma-Invested Classroom Learning Environments Resource List ED 572 Trauma Informed Practices in Early Childhood This course will immerse students in theory, research and practice around best-practices in trauma informed practices for our youngest children (birth-8years). Using an ecological systems context, participants of this course will explore the causes and consequences of traumatic experiences within the context of developmental, psychological and neurobiological processes. Students will examine the meaning of trauma within a cultural context, and examine their own personal reactions and potential bias when it comes to their work with young children and families experiencing trauma.
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In the study of Child Development, physical growth is a complex process which entails learning about children's bodily movements and abilities. More specifically, gross motor skills are a type of physical abilities in which large muscle movements are exercised by young children during the early years of life. This is glimpse of what typical physical abilities children possess between ages 3 to 5.
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To provide children with a safe and nurturing learning environment and to maintain program effectiveness, teachers must incorporate observation, documentation and assessment into their daily routines. To truly be effective, teachers must develop skills and strategies that are grounded in best practices. This textbook covers topics such as observation methods and techniques, implicit bias, ethics of observation, quality, analyzing data, monitoring, screening and evaluation, meaningful curriculum, and using documentation and assessment to communicate with families.
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This four part web broadcast series is aimed at supporting early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) systems leaders with building capacity in personnel and families to develop trusting partnerships. The series features discussions of the role that data play in strengthening family-professional partnerships. Suggestions and resources for designing personnel and family development activities to support partnerships are also shared. U.S. Department of Education funded Technical Assistance Center - resources are free for online viewing.
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This document features progression pathways for the development of numeracy concepts. It can be used as a quick reference to isolate children’s learning along a particular pathway and determine the next steps in learning that would move children forward along a particular pathway
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Best practices for planning curriculum for young children, developed by the California Department of Education. This publication provides early childhood education program administrators and teachers with guidance and practices that support the development of partnerships with families and inclusion of children's cultural experiences as essential parts of planning curriculum.
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Instructional sequences are more coherent when students investigate compelling natural phenomena (in science) or work on meaningful design problems (in engineering) by engaging in the science and engineering practices. We refer to these phenomena and design problems here as ‘anchors.’Here is a tool to assist in determining if the elements of the anchoring phenomenon are strong or could use some additional thinking. Original works can be found at NextGenStorylines.org
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Cover Sheet Teacher Example
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Book List Topics:Identity MattersAmerican Indian VoicesVoices Around the WorldInclusive VoicesBoundary BreakersExpanding the Narrative
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