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Through the CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative (LPDI), Florida educators are developing high-
quality, standards-aligned instructional resources for publication on CPALMS. This growing collection of
original lesson plans represents Florida educators’ best work. All the components of a very thorough
lesson plan can be accessed with just a few simple clicks through this page and through the iCPALMS
web apps. The lesson plans developed through the LPDI use a backward design approach that helps
teachers to think about standards-driven instruction with the end in mind. The lessons are aligned with
the instructional shifts in the math and ELA standards and offer a fresh and engaging approach to the
content. The assessment pieces are thorough and usually include a learning scale, rubric, or answer key,
and in some cases samples of student work. Each submitted lesson is reviewed by facilitators, peer
educators from across the state, and subject area experts prior to publication on CPALMS. This review
cycle provides feedback to the participants and ensures that the best quality lessons are created and
shared. Click here to learn more about the CPALMS LPDI or scroll down for the list of all the available
lessons in this collection.

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Dog or Cat...What is Your Point of View?

Second grade students will have an opportunity to respond to a prompt based on the point of view of
one of the characters from the book I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat by Donald Hall. Students will write...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 2
Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Becoming a Butterfly: Reading and Writing about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

In this lesson students will read the informational text The Life Cycle of a Butterfly by Lisa Trumbauer in
order to understand the 4 stages of a butterfly's life. Students will use elements of...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 2

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Enrique's Ruined Carpet

In this activity, students use an apartment layout to find the area of carpeted floor by decomposing
complex shapes into rectangles and triangles. As students critique each others' reasoning, they...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 6

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Ripples of the Great Depression: 1930s to today

In this lesson, students will gather information on aspects of the 1930s and the Great Depression
including how they are linked to current issues and events, then create a presentation based on their...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 9, 10

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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A Christmas Memory

In this lesson, students will read the autobiographical story "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
and watch a film version, determining what was emphasized in each account. Students will then write...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 7

Intended Audience: Educators

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Could a Wolf Really Blow a Pig’s House Down?

In this lesson, students will be animal investigators on a mission to learn all about pigs and wolves. With
prompting and support from the teacher, students will read an informational text about pigs...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science

Grade Level(s): K
Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Is it Energy?

Third grade students will be participating in a close reading of informational text about energy and how
it's measured in this integrated science/reading lesson. They will learn new science...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science

Grade Level(s): 3

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Tasty Algebra: Using toasted O cereal to find the missing factor in a multiplication equation.
In this lesson students will use Cheerios to solve multiplication equations relating 3 whole numbers from
world problems that include missing factors ranging from one through ten. Students will also...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 3

Intended Audience: Educators

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Forces: Gravity

This lesson demonstrates how students can compare and contrast multiple texts about the same topic
to understand how gravity pulls objects to the center of the earth.

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science

Grade Level(s): K

Intended Audience: Educators

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An Investigation of Angle Relationships Formed by Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal Using GeoGebra

In this lesson, students will discover angle relationships formed (corresponding, alternate interior,
alternate exterior, same-side interior, same-side exterior) when two parallel lines are cut by a...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 8

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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Build Your Own Water Cycle Model

In this lesson, students will investigate the steps of the water cycle. They will describe each step of the
water cycle and the state of matter that the water is in during each step. Students will...

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Subject(s): Science

Grade Level(s): 5
Intended Audience: Educators

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Shake it up around the world

ResourceID: 39599 This lesson will allow students to investigate the location of earthquakes and
volcanoes throughout the world and determine how they relate to the tectonic plates.

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Science

Grade Level(s): 6, 7

Intended Audience: Educators

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Clue Bags: Biography Edition

In this lesson students will use biographies to research individuals important to American history. The
students will then create "Clue Bags" based on key details about the different individuals to...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 1

Intended Audience: Educators

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Text Detectives Investigate Meat Eating Plants

In this lesson, students will identify the text features of non-fiction books and use several informational
texts on meat-eating plants to answer text dependent questions. Students will become "text...

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Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 1

Intended Audience: Educators

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Pricing The Twelve Days of Christmas

Students will discover how much the items in the classic song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," would
cost in the current year; and then they will update the list for modern times.

Primary Resource Type:

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Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 6, 7, 8

Intended Audience: Educators

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The Body is Your Universe

In this lesson, students will work in groups of two or three to read an article about one of the major
human body parts. They will create a list of facts related to their body part and turn them into...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science

Grade Level(s): 2
Intended Audience: Educators

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Fun With Compound Words

In this lesson, students will learn to identify, create, and determine the meaning of compound words.
They will participate in a series of engaging center activities to practice using compound words.

Primary Resource Type:

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Subject(s): English Language Arts

Grade Level(s): 2

Intended Audience: Educators

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What time is it?

Students will learn to tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks.
Primary Resource Type:

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Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 1

Intended Audience: Educators

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Ten-Hut!

This lesson allows students to gain insight into how to use place value when adding larger numbers. The
focus is on using students using both their bodies as well as math manipulatives to solve...

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 1

Intended Audience: Educators

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Intersecting Medians and the Resulting Ratios

This lesson leads students to discover empirically that the distance from each vertex to the intersection
of the medians of a triangle is two-thirds of the total length of each median.

Primary Resource Type:

Lesson Plan

Subject(s): Mathematics

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Intended Audience: Educators

Collection: CPALMS Lesson Plan Development Initiative

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