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 lesson uses environmental print from the children's surrounding community. Through artifacts, photographs, visual displays and class books, students are provided opportunities to practice their reading skills and view themselves as competent readers and users of print.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Concepts of Print, Environmental Print, Vocabulary Development, Environmental Print. Social Studies — Geography, Neighborhoods
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This activity can help young children understand what a map is and what it can show. It begins with the teacher tracing both hands and encouraging the children to name the parts of the hands and the differences between the hands.
Topics: Mathematics — Geometry, Spatial Sense, Positional Words. Social Studies — Geography, Maps
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This lesson will help young children develop their skills related to collecting, recording, and interpreting data. Children listen to a story about freckles, such Freckle Juice by Judy Blume, and then tally how many of their classmates have or do not have freckles.
Topics: Mathematics — Data, Gathering Data, Representing Data in Tables and Graphs, Using Data, Mathematical Thinking, Communication, Representation. Social Studies — People in Societies
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This very familiar game of tic-tac-toe is often a favorite activity for children. There are a myriad of applications for such a game.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting. Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
Resource Type: Games
Ages: 3-5
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This counting game is a simple, but fun way for children to practice counting and one-to-one correspondence. A number cube is used to determine how many blocks to stack on the game board.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting. Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
Resource Type: Games
Ages: 3-5
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In this activity, children look for instances of environmental print--words, signs, and symbols--in their school and as they go for a "word" walk around the neighborhood by their school. During the walk, the class discusses the various examples they encounter, and the teacher snaps pictures of them.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words, Environmental Print. Social Studies — Geography, Directions, Maps, Neighborhoods
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this game, children develop their numerical thinking by counting objects. As part of the game, the children use a spinner or number cube, which also allows them to practice number recognition.
Topics: Mathematics — Numbers and Operations, Counting, Numerals, Mathematical Thinking, Number Sense, Using Manipulatives, Reasoning. Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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In this activity, the children are involved in making full-size paper representations of themselves to display. The teacher can make use of the paper cutouts numerous times, for example, to discuss the senses, have the children observe how they are similar and different, or do arithmetic (count the legs, eyes, etc.).
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development. Social Studies — History, All About Me
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 3-5
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In this lesson, children place a picture of the school on a map of the community and then place other familiar buildings, too. They then are led to describe how to get to each location.
Topics: Social Studies — Geography
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this lesson, the children begin by singing about places in their neighborhood. It culminates as the teacher leads the children in making the first "chapter" in a book showing favorite places to play in the community.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Concepts of Print, Children's Literature, Informational Text/Nonfiction, Songs and Rhymes, Comprehension, Responding to Stories, Reading to Children, Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development. Social Studies — Geography, Neighborhoods, Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
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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