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- St. Patrick's Day
- Celebrate the holiday with activities, resources, and additional ideas!
- Teaching with Music
- Its not just for music teachers! Use song and sound to bring out the best in all students.
- Add Literature -- and Life -- to Content Instruction
- Building your lesson plans around literature adds richness and depth to your curriculum.
- The Best on the Net: Native Americans
- Resources to help you integrate timely themes into your lessons.
- Earth at Night
- Students use maps to identify the ten cities highlighted on an image of Earth at night as seen from space.
- Memorable Maps
- This "memorable maps" lesson provides students with a visual record of just how much they will learn about geography this year!
- Comparing Countries
- A graphic organizer helps students compare and contrast two neighboring countries.
- Global Economy: A Simple Activity
- Encourage students to discover how we rely on our global neighbors by collecting data about where in the world the goods we use every day are produced.
- Create a Country
- Students apply geography skills to create a map of an imaginary country.
- Map Lessons: The Route to Improved Geography Skills
- Five lessons help you celebrate National Geography Awareness Week.
- Letterboxing
- In this teaching activity, kids follow clues on an educational adventure.
- Use Editorial Cartoons to Teach About Elections
- Use the humor and visual power of comics to teach about the election.
- Up from the Roots
- Students create new words by combining root words and/or short words.
- Sound It Out
- Students match phonetic spellings with real spellings of words on a dictionary page.
- Using Dictionary Entries
- Students answer work sheet questions about dictionary entries.
- Guide Word Sentences
- Students write sentences using dictionary guide words, putting two guide words in the same sentence.
- Guide Word Game
- Students play a timed word game to locate guide words in a dictionary.
- My Own Picture Dictionary
- Students create a personal picture dictionary.
- Create a Word
- Students brainstorm new words for a class dictionary!
- Noah Webster and His Dictionary
- Students use library or online sources to create time lines about Noah Webster, who compiled the first American dictionary, and the development of dictionaries.
- All About Words: Dictionary Activities!
- Eight lessons for all grade levels celebrate Dictionary Day.
- Teaching about Popcorn
- 19 interdisciplinary lessons for grades K-9.
- Line-Up Review
- A high school reading teacher shows how his students verbally review what they have learned.
- Flags of Nations
- Students illustrate flags of countries where Spanish is the official language.
- Spanish in English
- Students create a glossary of Spanish words that are commonly used in the English language.
- Letters to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
- Students learn about and write letters to members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
- Famous Hispanics Hall of Fame
- Students write biographies of famous Hispanics.
- Travel Guides
- Students design travel guides for countries where Spanish is the official language.
- Spanish Phrase Picture Dictionary
- Students create a picture dictionary of common English phrases translated into Spanish.
- Lessons for Hispanic Heritage Month!
- Use these 8 lessons as a springboard for your students' exploration of Hispanic heritage.
- Entrepreneurs in the Classroom
- Interdisciplinary lesson ideas create exciting learning opportunities.
- Bullying Reality Quiz
- Students take an online quiz about school violence and create their own quiz on bullying.
- The Talking Stick
- Students use a "talking stick" to practice listening and communicating.
- Understanding Needs and Feelings
- Students learn about needs and feelings, then write an ending to a story showing how a child deals with his or her needs and feelings.
- The Average Kid
- Students determine the traits they have in common with other students in the class and create a visual profile of the "average" boy and girl in the class.
- Kids Bullying Kids
- Students anonymously complete a survey about their experiences with bullying, evaluate the results, and discuss solutions to the problem.
- Stop Bullying Now!
- Six activity ideas help you teach tolerance and prevent bullying.
- A Teacher's Back-to-School Supply List
- 27 things you do not want to forget.
- Getting to Know You
- Fun activities for the first day of school.
- Planning for Your First Day at School
- Tips for new teachers on how to start the new year right.
- Hot Activities for Celebrating Summer!
- Activities connected to food safety, roller coasters, and more!
- A Beginner's Guide to Integrating Technology
- Assess where you are and learn how best to take your first steps.
- Team Teaching
- Teaming teachers offer tips.
- Wind Up Learning as the Year Winds Down
- Activities for the last days of school.
- Father's Day
- Integrate ideas about fatherhood into your curriculum with these websites.
- Reader's Theater: Presenting Asian Folktales
- Transform Asian folktales into Reader's Theater scripts. (Grades 2-12)
- Build Listening Skills With Asian Folktales
- Use Asian folktales to test students' listening comprehension. (Grades K-8)
- Famous Asian Americans
- Match the names of famous Asian Americans to their accomplishments. (Grades 3-12)
- The Perfect Pet
- Choose the right pet for customers of an imaginary pet shop.
- "Pet" Project
- Build a proposal that will persuade a classroom teacher or mom and dad that it is time to take on a pet!
- Pet Perspective
- Explore the world from the point-of-view of a favorite pet.
- Pet Pellets
- Grades 3-12 create and design advertising for a tempting new pet food!
- Lesson Ideas for National Pet Week
- Honor dogs, cats and other pets with 5 interdisciplinary lessons for all grade levels.
- Smile Collage
- A collage of smiles is sure to spread happiness.
- A Laugh and a Half: Students Make Funny-Poem Mobiles
- Grades K-8 find their favorite funny poems -- and write their own -- to hang from a smile-mobile.
- Diamond Poems Across the Curriculum
- Students build vocabulary skills, teach parts of speech, and have fun with diamond poems.
- Save the ___ Story Board
- Students play "webmaster" and design a site that will help to save an endangered species.
- Web of Life
- Investigate endangered species and how they impact the environment to complete a "web of life."
- Tracking the Wild Ones
- Use statistics about endangered species to learn more about the extent of this global concern.
- Species Charades
- Introduce young students to the variety of endangered species with a game of charades.
- Wild and Wonderful Lessons About Endangered Species
- Four interdisciplinary lessons for grades preK-8.
- Kids Can W.R.I.T.E.
- Writing activity ideas for all grade levels.
- Nutrition on the Net
- Wrap up National Nutrition Month with these resources for all grade levels.
- Take-Your-Pick Puzzle
- Pick and choose from a wide range of ready-to-use online puzzles.
- It All Adds Up
- Students exercise addition and thinking skills with number puzzles.
- Anagram Family Time
- In this puzzling activity, students unscramble four anagrams and figure out what the four words have in common.
- Operation: Math
- Given a series of numbers and an answer, students figure out which math operations must be performed.
- Seven-Letter Scrabble® Spell-Off
- How many words can students create with seven Scrabble® letters?
- Puzzles and Brain Teasers
- Practice math and language arts skills five days a week.
- Where's the Boss? -- A Scripted Play About the Iditarod
- This "Readers Theater" script tells the story of one Iditarod musher and his loyal sled dog team.
- Mush! Tracking Travelers on the Trail
- Students get to know Alaska and the Iditarod route as they track mushers' progress on a map they create.
- Everybody Is a Winner in the Iditarod
- A primary source document answers students' questions about Iditarod winners.
- Sunrise, Sunset: Quickly Go the Days
- An Iditarod mapping activity illustrates why Anchorage, Alaska, has less daylight than cities in the continental United States.
- Follow the Leaders
- Track the progress of a musher and dog team in this lesson that includes all curriculum areas.
- Iditarod Brrrreathes Life Into Tired Curriculum
- When the race is in full swing, these 5 lessons tie it to your curriculum.
- The History of Dentistry
- Learn about dentistry's ancient roots. Student work sheet provided.
- Making a TV Commercial for "Brighty-Whitey" Toothpaste
- Create a new brand of toothpaste that's sure to sell!
- Which Toothpaste Do You Use? (A Graphing Activity)
- Collect data about favorite toothpastes. Bar graph work sheet included.
- Dental Health Month Lessons
- Sink your teeth into these interdisciplinary lesson ideas for all grades.
- Deciphering Morse Code
- Students write and decode messages using Morse code, as Civil War soldiers might have done.
- Drafting the Gettysburg Address
- Students compare and contrast Abraham Lincoln's drafts and final version of the Gettysburg Address.
- A Flag Divided
- Students learn about the flags of the Union and Confederacy, explore the symbolism of those flags, and create flags of their own.
- Civil War Time Line
- Students develop time lines of various events that took place during the Civil War.
- The Civil War
- Four lesson plans help students learn the causes and costs of war, plus much more.
- A Shadow of Yourself
- Learn about the sun by measuring your shadow throughout the day.
- Marmots (Groundhogs) Of the World
- Use a graphic organizer to organize groundhog family information.
- Where Is Punxsutawney Phil?: A Groundhog Day Tag Game
- Catch Phil before he goes back into his hole!
- Find the Hidden Hibernators
- Find the hidden hibernators in this word search puzzle.
- Groundhog Day: (Punxsutawney) Phil Your Day With Fun
- Find four lessons and dozens of teaching ideas for all grade levels.
- Positively Respectful
- Create a positive environment by teaching students in grades PreK-8 to show respect and share compliments.
- RESPECT Popcorn Party
- Grades PreK-8 enjoy a lesson that reinforces respect by celebrating examples of it in your classroom.
- Simon Says "Who Are You?"
- Grades PreK-5 play a variation of Simon Says to highlight people's similarities and differences.
- Everybody Is Unique: A Lesson in Respect for Others
- A lesson in respect for others' unique qualities for grades PreK-8.
- Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Lessons) Just for You!
- Fourlessons help students begin thinking and talking about respect.
- Celebrate the 100th Day of School
- Try these 100 math activities.
- Gold Rush California and Its Diverse Population
- A lesson on immigration and diversity for grades 6-12.
- Vocabulary Toss
- Reinforce vocabulary for grades preK-8 with this game combining reading and basketball skills.
- Hot Seat
- A student in the "hot seat" asks questions to discern the secret word.
- Mind Reader
- Students in for grades preK-8 use clues to figure out the "mystery word."
- Erasing Relay
- A fast-moving game for grades preK-8 provides practice in recognizing grade-appropriate vocabulary.
- OOPS!
- A fun game for grades pK-8 provides word recognition, vocabulary, and spelling practice.
- Word Walls Build Vocabulary, Spelling, Writing Skills
- 5 lessons inject fun word learning games into your teaching.
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