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Lesson Plans - 1st Grade

The Story of Ping

Aim: To demonstrate how stories may provide insight into a culture
Aim: To enable students to use effective thinking strategies before, during, and after a story.
Motivation: Students will be invited to travel to China using the wings of their imagination. Through pictorial example, map, globe, and song, the words related to China are introduced. The principle

Writing Italics

Exercises for fine writing. (warm up)
Pupils are asked to do exercises with fingers, for example, pretending to play the piano, typing, climbing along a rope. (5/10 minutes)
They copy on a ruled paper for first grade specially created for them, the letters of the alphabet, uppercase and lowercase letters, in italics.
They should not be in a

Inventors And Inventions 2: Air And Space

Students will understand the following:
1. They can conduct an experiment in which they change the size, weight, and wing structure of paper airplanes to see how each plane flies.

Liftoff Into Space

Students will

* Understand the history of the space race and space exploration as a whole.
* Create a timeline detailing important events in the history of space exploration.
* Write a descriptive article about an important event in space exploration.

People And Space

Students will understand the following:
1. For preservation of food and space-saving storage, astronauts on space missions eat dehydrated foods.
2. Dehydration means “removal of water.”
3. Dehydrated foods can be consumed by mixing the food with saliva from the eater’s mouth or by adding water.