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K-2 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Playground Physics Push Lab - Motion, Force, and Outdoor Measurement Fun

Investigate pushes, pulls, motion, direction, and measurement in K-2 science with hands-on object tests and evidence-based observations.

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6-8 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Urban Garden Blueprint - Planning a School Growing Space for Food, Pollinators, and Community

Design a grades 6-8 school garden using ecosystem science, plant research, area calculations, spacing, biodiversity, and community needs.

The Admin Angle Featured

The Admin Angle: Better Paraeducator Deployment

Help school leaders deploy paraeducators strategically with clearer roles, training, schedules, supervision, and support for student independence.

Blog Featured

Student Accessibility Crews: Kids Making Learning Materials Easier for Everyone

Learn how Student Accessibility Crews help students improve captions, visual directions, tech guides, and learning materials for clearer access.

Parent Tips Featured

Parent Tips: When Your Child Says They Hate Reading—Finding the Real Barrier

Help parents find the real reason a child hates reading, from decoding and stamina to book choice, screens, confidence, and comprehension.

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9-12 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 9-12): Architectural Acoustics Studio - Designing a Space for Sound, Performance, and Precision

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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 5 (Grade 8 Theater): Character Objectives and Obstacles

Teach Grade 8 theater students objectives, obstacles, tactics, relationships, conflict, and clear character choices in partner scenes.

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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 4 (Grade 8 Theater): Improvisation from Prompts

Introduce Grade 8 improv with prompts, Yes, and, character objectives, clear performance choices, and ensemble collaboration.

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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 3 (Grade 8 Theater): Ensemble Focus and Trust

Build Grade 8 ensemble theater skills with lessons on focus, trust, rehearsal discipline, movement, timing, and purposeful physicality.

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Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 2 (Grade 8 Theater): What Makes Theater Work?

Build Grade 8 theater vocabulary with lessons on actors, audience, story, conflict, design, technical elements, and performance analysis.

Grade 8 Theater Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade 8 Theater): Welcome to Grade 8 Theater

Introduce Grade 8 theater with ensemble norms, respectful risk-taking, rehearsal expectations, audience behavior, and intentional performance choices.

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3-5 Lesson Plans Featured

Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5): Spy School Geography - Cracking Codes with Maps, Coordinates, and Landforms

Turn grades 3-5 geography into a spy mission using maps, directions, coordinates, symbols, scale, landforms, and map evidence.

The Admin Angle

The Admin Angle: Rethinking MTSS Meetings

Simplify MTSS meetings with shorter referrals, focused data, clear intervention cycles, and faster decisions that improve student support.

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Sensory-Smart Learning Zones: Designing Classrooms for Focus, Regulation, and Inclusion

Create sensory-smart classroom zones that support focus, movement, collaboration, and regulation for more inclusive learning environments.

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6-8 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 6-8): Soundtrack to a Novel - Using Music to Analyze Mood, Character, and Theme

Engage grades 6-8 ELA students in a literary soundtrack project using music, mood, character analysis, theme, and textual evidence.

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K-2 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades K-2): Animal Builders Blueprint Challenge - Habitats, Structures, and Creative Problem-Solving

Explore animal habitats through a hands-on STEM challenge where K–2 students investigate nests, webs, burrows, and hives, then design and build their own animal structure models.

Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade K Counselor): Kindergarten Counselor Celebration

Celebrate Kindergarten counseling skills with feelings, calming tools, friendship, problem-solving, safe choices, trusted adults, and school success.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade K Counselor): Look How I Have Grown

Celebrate Kindergarten growth with before-and-now reflection, feelings, calming tools, friendship skills, school confidence, and small goals.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 34 (Grade K Counselor): Classroom Helpers and Leaders

Build Kindergarten helper and leader skills with strengths, belonging, kind choices, classroom routines, listening, and helping actions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 33 (Grade K Counselor): Safe, Kind, and Respectful Choices

Review Kindergarten safe, kind, and respectful choices with picture sorting, body boundaries, helpful actions, and adult-help decisions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 32 (Grade K Counselor): Friendship Skills Review

Review Kindergarten friendship skills with kindness, sharing, taking turns, listening, inviting others, and good friend reflection.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 31 (Grade K Counselor): Feelings and Coping Review

Review Kindergarten feelings and coping with emotion words, calm-down toolbox tools, feeling-to-strategy matching, and trusted adult help.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 30 (Grade K Counselor): Problem-Solving Practice Stations

Give Kindergarten students problem-solving practice with stations, puppet role-play, safe choice sorting, peer scripts, and adult-help decisions.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 29 (Grade K Counselor): Who Can Help Me?

Review Kindergarten trusted adults and help-seeking with problem-to-adult matching, big feelings, school needs, and safe support words.

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Kindergarten Counselor Units

Unit Plan 28 (Grade K Counselor): Responsible Choices in the Classroom

Teach Kindergarten responsibility with classroom choices, listening, cleanup, safe material use, helping classmates, and small school goals.