Learning Experiences
Here on the Learning Experiences page you can browse lessons, activities, open explorations, learning games, and more. Many of the learning experiences are appropriate for the inclusive classroom, too. Use any or all of the drop-down boxes to describe the kind of learning experiences that you need. Go to the Ohio's Early Learning Content Standards page to browse the standards and lessons that address them. Remember, you can also find what you need using the search box at the top right corner of the page.
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This excellent lesson plan features patterning activities based on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, a book with repetitions of sounds and pictures. By reading and acting out the book's story, children learn about word patterns in literature.
Topics: Mathematics — Algebra, Patterns and Sequences
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, children enjoy a variety of activities that give them experience in recognizing, describing, and extending repeating and numerical patterns. After some group activities, the children work at activity centers to further investigate patterns.
Topics: Mathematics — Algebra, Patterns and Sequences
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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The Literacy Center features web-based interactive literacy activities for preschool-aged children. Designed to support early reading skills, the activities provide opportunities for children to learn colors and color words, letters, numbers, phonemes, shapes, writing, and high frequency words.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Numerals, Geometry, Flat Shapes. Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge
Resource Type: Games, Parent Resource
Ages: 4-5
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This instructional unit provides many opportunities for children to read, write, recite, and listen to poems. Children identify the figurative language, rhyme, and repetition used in poems and begin to understand the elements of verse.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Children's Literature, Poetry, Communication, Songs and Poems
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this Pre-K activity children name things or animals that fly, discuss how they move, and categorize them into groups such as size, speed, living thing or machine. The activity is related to Double Tibble Trouble from the Arthur PBS TV series.
Topics: Science — Physical Science, Forces and Motion
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this activity for 3 - 5 year olds, children grow bean plants and explore the basic needs of plants with parents or teachers. Related children's literature includes Clarissa is Cracked from the Arthur series and One Bean by Anne Rockwell.
Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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This web page describes simple activities to use with children after seeing the TV show episode, Arthur's Mystery Envelope, or listening to one of the Arthur books about the senses. In the activities, children try to identify unseen objects by using their senses of touch, hearing, and/or smell.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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In this water displacement activity, the children devise a plan to help the crow in Aesop's fable, The Crow and the Pitcher, raise the water level in the pitcher. First the children experiment using marbles to raise the level of water in a container.
Topics: Science — Science and Technology, Understanding Technology, Equipment, Tools, and Materials, Scientific Ways of Knowing, Scientific Processes (e.g. questioning, predicting), Physical Science, Materials Exploration
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities, Parent Resource
Ages: 3-5
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In this 9-lesson unit, children explore the four models of addition (counting, sets, number line, and balanced equations) using dominoes. They also learn about the order (commutative) property for addition, the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, and the result of adding 0 (additive identity).
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Numerals, Adding, Subtracting
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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Prior to actually engaging in the structured activities found in this six-lesson unit, young children will require opportunities to establish a basic familiarity with coins by incorporating their use into unstructured play. In the unit lessons, children explore the relationships among pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Adding, Subtracting, Money
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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You Can Find Great Math Books on ORC
In addition to the books in the REC Bookshelf, the ORC Mathematics Bookshelf has some great picture books you can use to explore mathematics concepts.
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