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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The lesson plan lets teachers help children create stories. The teacher starts the story and then calls upon individual children to add to the story one sentence at a time.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Concepts of Print, Reading with Children, Writing Development, Sharing Stories, Writing with Children, Stages of Writing Process, Communication, Listening Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this activity, each child takes the classroom stuffed bear, named Teddy, home for one night or over the weekend. Teddy goes home with a child along with a binder with paper, a pencil case, and a note explaining the activity to parents.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Writing Development, Writing Messages, Sharing Stories
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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In this simple activity or game, one child reaches into a bag or box and feels an object. Then the child describes the object in the bag to those listening.
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills. Reading and Language Arts — Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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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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This activity will help young children of differing ages develop a better understanding of the sense of touch as well as vocabulary used to describe different textures (e.g. rough, soft, smooth, bumpy, etc.).
Topics: Science — Science and Inquiry, Inquiry Process Skills, Physical Science, Materials Exploration. Reading and Language Arts — Vocabulary Development, Learning New Words, Writing Development, Writing Messages, Writing with Children, Communication, Listening Skills, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 2-5
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In this lesson, the children listen as the teacher reads From Head to Toe, by Eric Carle. Then the children make animal movements during the additional readings of the story.
Topics: Science — Life Science, Characteristics and Structures of Life, Living and Nonliving, Needs of Living Things, Plants and Animals. Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Communication, Listening Skills, Speaking Skills, Songs and Poems, Oral Language Development
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 2-5
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This activity suggests reading a rhyming poem/book aloud to children, re-reading it and encouraging them to "fill-in" the missing rhyming word by saying it aloud, and then later inserting the missing rhyme with a picture card. Even though the resource does not name rhyming books, books of this type are readily available in most every...
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge, Hearing Sounds, Phonics
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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This lesson plan provides children several experiences with labeling in the classroom to help connect print with a message. The activities explained by the author help children reach the point where they see themselves as "readers." This is an important step in attaining early literacy skills.
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge, Environmental Print, Vocabulary Development, Environmental Print
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 2-5
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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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In this beginning sounds activity, children take turns choosing a picture card from top of the pile and then moving a game piece to the next letter on the game board that corresponds with the beginning sound of the word represented by the picture on the card. The "pals" resource offers a game board to download,...
Topics: Reading and Language Arts — Reading, Alphabet Knowledge, Hearing Sounds, Phonics. Social Studies — Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities, Cooperation and Problem Solving
Resource Type: Lessons and Activities
Ages: 4-5
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You Can Find Great Science Books on ORC
In addition to the books in the REC Bookshelf, the ORC Science Bookshelf has some great picture books you can use to explore science concepts.
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