Thinkfinity

 Thinkfinity makes it easy for educators to enhance their classroom instruction with lesson plans, interactive activities and other online resources. Thinkfinity also provides a wealth of educational and literacy resources for students, parents and after-school programs. All of Thinkfinity's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students. At Thinkfinity, you'll find primary source materials, interactive student resources and grade-specific research lists to help you tailor materials to meet your needs. Start exploring now! Explore the lesson plans on the Web sites that comprise the Thinkfinity Portal at http://www.thinkfinity.org.
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Sequencing stories is a skill that we practice throughout the entire kindergarten year. This Thinkfinity lesson uses fairy tales to teach sequencing. I really like the charts that the Thinkfinity lesson provided. They are fun for student's and easy to understand. This is a lesson that I can use to introduce sequencing at the beginning of the year, but also can be applied to other stories throughout the year and gives charts that can be used with any story. 
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This Thinkfinity lesson is a wonderful way to incorporate science into math and vice versa. I would use this lesson in the fall when we can gather leaves from the trees outside. The students will learn measurement and sorting in a fun and very hands on way. Students will use non-standard units of measurement to measure their leaves and then sort them using multiple attributes. Any lesson that incorporates two or more skills and can be used in two or more subjects is valuable. This lesson could really be used as part of an integrated thematic unit on fall and/or leaves.  I would like to continue to use Thinkfinity for all subjects. Some other subjects I will find lessons for in the near future are social studies, science, and some other lessons for reading. I would like to find social studies lessons related to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and famous black Americans for Black History Month. I hope to find additional reading lessons that focus on character and setting. In sciene our class will begin talking about animal life cycles in the spring. I am sure Thinkfinity will have some excellent resources on life cycles.
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The Thinkfinity website was easy to use and helpful. I found many different subjects and topics to choose from. I had to be careful when choosing lessons to incorporate into my kindergarten curriculum because any lesson usable in kindergarten was listed as K-2. Some of the lessons could be adapted to kindergarten but some 1 or 2 lessons were much to difficult for kindergarten. However, since I did feel as though I had a lot of lessons to choose from, it wasn't a problem to find lessons appropriate for kindergarten. I will use the Thinkfinity website in the future to help mainly with math and social studies lessons.
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