This newest addition to the best-selling GIANT Encyclopedia series expands the scope of the series by offering complete lesson plans. Written and created by teachers, The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans has more than 250 complete lesson plans, covering topics from colors and numbers to seasons and nursery rhymes. Each lesson plan is complete with learning objectives, a circle or group time activity, book suggestions, snack ideas, five learning center activities, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays. With easy-to-use lesson plans for more than an entire school year, this book belongs on every teacher's bookshelf!

Includes indexes.

All about me -- Animals -- Birds -- Celebrations and other fun things! -- Colors -- Dinosaurs -- Farm -- Food -- Friends -- Gardening -- Health and safety -- Insects and bugs -- Literacy -- Nature and the environment -- Numbers -- Opposites and things that go together -- Our community -- Outer space -- Pets -- Seasons -- Senses -- Shapes -- Starting school -- Teddy bears -- Transportation -- Weather -- Zoo.