Dear Education Leaders,

Welcome! This free weekly Lesson Planning newsletter features summaries of lesson plans recently published on Education World^®, the largest free, independent resource on the Web for educators. If you enjoy this newsletter, please feel free to forward it to others. If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, you may sign up at http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml. To unsubscribe, see instructions at the bottom of this newsletter. Education World remains a free resource thanks to the support of our advertisers -- so please click on ads of interest and visit our advertisers' sites. Thank you.

========================================================================

This week's newsletter is sponsored by PCI Education .

LET THE TEACHERS TEACH!

PCI Education has been developing materials for the special education and struggling learner population for nearly 20 years.  These materials are designed with special attention to reading level, age appropriate interest level and presentation, simplicity of directions, visual supports, font size, the number of activities on each page, and the number of practice opportunities provided for each skill. 

In addition to these products, PCI Education distributes materials from other publishers that are proven to be successful with struggling learners and are selected to allow for implementation of scaffolding strategies within the classroom. 

Click here for information.

========================================================================

This week's newsletter is sponsored by Lesson Club.

LessonClub.org is building a comprehensive compendium of peer reviewed, high quality lesson plans for K-12 educators. We are recruiting experienced teachers from every grade level and every subject. Help us in our effort to build our database by signing up on LessonClub.org to become a paid Contributing Educator.

=======================================================================

Volume 10, Issue 45
November 5, 2008

Thanksgiving
Are you teaching about the "First Thanksgiving" as it is written in many children’s books, or are you teaching about it as it really happened? This week, Education World helps put Thanksgiving in perspective and challenges students to "think about Thanksgiving.” Included: Ideas for teaching about Thanksgiving then and now.
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/thanksgiving.shtml

Veteran's Day
Veterans Day is a day of remembrance. Education World celebrates this special holiday with activities, music, and Web-based ideas to help the children in your classroom understand its significance.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson147.shtml

Lesson Plan of the Day
Click the link above to see dozens of recent Lesson Plans of the Day, including the five lessons below that were posted last week.
Measuring Up - Calculate the height of a tree. (Grades 3-12)
Book Celebration - Activities for all year long. (K-12)
"One-Minute Monologue" - Builds communication skills. (3-12)
Guess-timating Fun - Fun activity reinforces math skills. (K-12)
Spelling Counts - Create and solve spelling codes. (3-8)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/dailylp.shtml

News for Kids
Companies Racing to Build Electric Car
The Chevy Volt and Tesla Roadster are two electric cars that are on the drawing board.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/newsforyou.shtml

Best Books for Teaching About... Click the links below for some great books for teaching about these timely topics. Best Books for Teaching About... Oceans Best Books for Teaching About... The Senses Thank you for buying your books at the discounted rates offered in the EducationWorld/ SchoolNotes Book Store, powered by Amazon. Buying books from our bookstore helps us maintain Education World as a free resource for educators.

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Watch TV upside down on a piece of paper.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/
showbiz_science/showbiz_science035.shtml

Friday Fun
Use maps to locate the most unique place names around.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/friday/friday014.shtml

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks
Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Your Place or Mine?” teaches decimals.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/boxcars/boxcars008.shtml

Early Childhood Center
* Rhyme Time
This week's poem for Early Childhood educators:
Being Thankful
* Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Giving Thanks
More About Thanksgiving
http://www.educationworld.com/a_earlychildhood/newsletters/

From the Math Machine
Operation Order is a fun Web site for teaching order of math operations. (Grades 6-10)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/mathmachine/mathmachine025.shtml

Reader's Theater
Cooks Challenge
It's a battle of culinary creativity when a nursery rhyme character competes against a famous chef on a popular cooking show.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/reading/ReadersTheater/
ReadersTheater018.shtml

Bulletin Boards That Teach
Will This Turkey Be Dressed By Thanksgiving?
Challenge students to read a specific number of books before Thanksgiving break.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bullboard/bullboard014.shtml

From the Reading Machine
Fun City
The animation of this easy elementary game brings a touch of fun to the tough job of identifying mistakes in spelling. (Grades 1-3)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/readingmachine/readingmachine004.shtml

From the Writing Center

Ten Writing Prompts
Students practice their writing skills as they respond to a motivating prompt.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp249-03.shtml
Jamie Boston's Online Book Club
Parents, teachers, and students read and share ideas in an online book club.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature148.shtml

Writing Lessons
Write a Round-Robin Story
In groups of five, every student takes part in writing a round-robin story. (Grades 3-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp255-04.shtml
Persuade the Aliens
Be an alien. Persuade your master to adopt a custom you witnessed on Earth. (Grades K-12)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp255-05.shtml

Writing Bugs
Dear Veteran
Write a letter to a veteran in your city or town.
Solving the World's Problems
If you could solve any problem in the world...
Writing Bug
Three things I am most thankful for are...
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/writing_bugs.shtml

Go Figure
What's Your Angle?
Test students' knowledge of angles with this clever puzzle.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/math/go_figure/go_figure004.shtml

Math Mnemonics
The Numerator Is Above the Denominator
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/mnemonics/mnemonics013.shtml

Tech Lesson of the Week
A Multimedia Journey
Students travel from one country to another, explore the sounds of the places they visit, and write a fictional account of the journey.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techlp/techlp062.shtml

5-Minute Fillers
Volume #20
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/fillers.shtml

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #1 Students design their own pictograph sentences on scraps of "buffalo hide."
Teacher-Submitted Lesson #2 Students take photos on a "digital scavenger hunt.”
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/index.shtml

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Hyena
Ele-Middle Edits Sousa marches, the Hope Diamond, Montana…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/edit.shtml

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt November Hunt #2
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #10
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml

Vocab-ulous!
Thanksgiving words. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/vocabulous/vocabulous045.shtml

Work Sheet of the Week
"Gettysburg Address” -- teach word meaning.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/worksheets/TCM/soc_sci_3_5.shtml

FROM OUR PRINTABLES LIBRARY

Animals A to Z
Reinforce capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar skills. (Grades 2-4)
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtml

Highlights for Children®
Hidden Pictures® puzzles, rebus stories, crafts, and more from the folks at Highlights.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/worksheets/Highlights/index.shtml

Phonics Word Search Puzzles
Thirty-six puzzles teach and reinforce phonics and spelling skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/wordsearch.shtml#phonics

Calculator Lessons
Twenty lessons to engage students as they use their TI-73 Explorer™ calculators.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/calculator_lessons.shtml

Just for This Month!
See our November Month of Fun, November Word Search, and November Coloring Calendar. PLUS: Create-your-own holiday work sheet templates.

Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
The Chaperone Song
On top of everything else -- the daily lesson plans, the faculty meetings, lunch duty, and more -- there are those “special” opportunities for teachers -- chaperoning middle- or high-school dances.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/baylin/baylin036.shtml

Dr. Fred Jones: Tools for Teaching
Learning to Give in Order to Get
To learn time management, students must have time -- time they desire; time they are willing to work for. Preferred Activity Time, or PAT, is the time you give students to give yourself the time to teach.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones015.shtml

Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Long-Term Planning Strategies
A little long-term planning can help keep you from getting overwhelmed and stressed out in the weeks ahead. Try this practical planning system to ensure a successful "next semester" for you and your students.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/mcdonald/mcdonald005.shtml

Ruth Sidney Charney: The Responsive Classroom
The Importance of Modeling
We have generated our hopes and dreams. We have constructed and displayed our classroom rules. We have shared our rules with parents. Now comes the interesting part, the part where we teach the rules.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/charney/charney003.shtml

Doug Johnson's Tech Proof
Free Is Good
If your bank balance is anything like mine right now, you’re looking for ways to save money. Here’s one means of economizing -- stop buying computer software. Check out this beginner’s dozen of high quality software available at no cost.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson015.shtml

Lorrie Jackson's Techtorial
PhotoStory
With only four basic steps, you can complete your first PhotoStory in just a few minutes. Let's get started; later we'll consider some classroom applications for the program.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial105.shtml

Alma Row's Gadget of the Week
Glogster
Glogster is a nifty Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create electronic posters.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/gadget/gadget012.shtml

The Principal Poet
Mr. Ivan, Education World's Principal Poet, presents this week’s poem, "All the Stuff I Know."
My grades can be misleading.
They don’t reveal all I know
About what’s real important.
So, let me show you so…
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/columnists/ivan/ivan008.shtml

Exceptional Event
Native American Museum Night.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/
exceptional_events/exceptional_events013.shtml

School Doodle
How to Impress a Saint
http://www.educationworld.com/
a_issues/school_doodles/school_doodles39.shtml

Template of the Week
A Turkey Template
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bullboard/
images/bulletinboard_november_turkey_template.doc

Strategy of the Week
Service Learning
Service learning offers students unique opportunities to learn responsibility, experience satisfaction, and provide benefit to the community as they acquire new skills.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy027.shtml

Featured Articles
The Thanksgiving PowerPoint Project
Nicole Nelson's kindergartners use technology to express appreciation at Thanksgiving.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/teacher_feature/teacher_feature014.shtml

Connecting Kids and Soldiers
Most teachers discuss the war in Iraq with their classes. Many find, however, that both they and their students want to do something more concrete to help U.S. troops abroad. What can you do?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/profdev/profdev060.shtml

Tips Library
Classroom Management: Creative Rewards
Behavior Management: Hall Passes. Victory Dance. RESPECT
Motivating Kids: Get Excited
Book Report Makeover: Grocery Bag Literacy
Homework Tips: Family Homework
Best Idea Ever: Handprints Across the World
Testing Tips: Testing Matters
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/management_tips/management_tips013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/behaviortips/behaviortips013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/motivation/motivation013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bookreport/bookreport013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/homeworktips/homeworktips013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bestidea/bestidea013.shtml
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/testing/testing013.shtml

==========================================================================

Sign Up for Our FREE Newsletters
Did you know that Education World has twelve free newsletters for educators? You're sure to find one or two just right for you! It's easy to sign up (and just as easy to unsubscribe if you don't find valuable ideas each week). Click here for a list of newsletters.
http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml#profdev

==========================================================================

This week, Education World reviewed three Web sites of interest to educators.

American Immigration
Who have we got here?
http://educationworld.com/awards/2008/r1008-31.shtml

Girls Inc. Online
A cyberspace of their own.
http://educationworld.com/awards/2008/r1008-29.shtml

Tracking the Buffalo
The Smithsonian goes "where the buffalo roam."
http://educationworld.com/awards/2008/r1008-27.shtml

Each week, we ask readers to cast their votes in The Weekly Survey. Cast your vote in this week's question of interest to all educators.

This Week's Survey Question
On average, what percentage of your students' parents attend parent conferences?

Last Week's Survey Results
Which presidential candidate do you think has the better education platform?

Each week, Education World spotlights books of interest to educators. This week, read a brief summary of two more of our "top 50 books for educators."

Teaching Outside the Box
Subtitled, "How to grab your students by their brains," this paperback edition of LouAnne Johnson's well-reviewed book promises a lot of practical guidance for today's classroom teacher. Including a step-by-step plan to make the first week of school a success, the book's advice ranges across classroom management and motivational topics to strategies for teaching the reluctant reader. This is a book not only to read, but also to share with colleagues.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

Education: The Practice and Profession of Teaching
Yes, this is a textbook, costing $100 in paperback, not counting a companion book you can get by adding $20 and a package of online resources you can get from www.mylabschool.com. However, the book's fans claim its comprehensiveness and readability make it a worthwhile investment even outside the context of education courses. Case studies that start each chapter, a feature called "teachers and the law," and a guide to certification, are all special features of this most recent edition.
Click to learn more or to purchase this book.

Click the icon to the right to see more books and many other products that are available in the Education World MarketPlace.

==========================================================================

The Best of the WRITING BUG

If you enjoy Education World's weekly WRITING BUG feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet with 44 of the most popular Writing Bug story starters. Use these Writing Bug activities to engage your students in effective writing. Each writing prompt will spark students' imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and motivate their pencils.

Included: In this booklet you'll find these Writing Bug titles and many more:

==========================================================================

Education World now incorporates www.SchoolNotes.com ~ "everybody on the same page!" The leading school-to-home communications platform, with FREE pages for teachers and automatic notification of parents and students when new homework is posted!

For a modest $24.95 PER YEAR, upgrade to Personal Edition, "Super SchoolNotes," with thousands of resources linked to your state's standards.

Click here for more information.

==========================================================================

MORE FEATURES OF INTEREST!
Reader’s Theater More than two dozen scripts, perfect for the classroom.
Best Books for Teaching About… Booklists for 30 popular teaching themes.
Sign Up for Our Newsletters Ten free newsletters full of practical ideas.
Special Education Center Tools for the special education community.
Education World Techtorials Tutorials to take the terror out of technology.
Template Library A wide variety of templates to meet your needs.
Wire Side Chats Each week, Ed World chats with an expert in the field.
Printables Library You'll find great resources here. Hundreds of printables!
Meet Our Columnists From many corners of the "education world."
Teaching Themes for Early Childhood Sue LaBella offers teaching ideas for popular EC themes.
Stress Relief Kit Take a deep breath. Then take a look here for great reading.
Classroom Management 101 Real teachers share what they are doing to manage real classrooms.
News for Kids News of our world written with kids in mind. Teacher's Guide included.

==========================================================================

SIGN UP FOR OUR OTHER NEWSLETTERS

We hope you enjoy receiving this Education World e-newsletter. Did you know that Education World offers eight other FREE weekly newsletters?

Have you signed up to receive the...
Education World SITE REVIEWS NEWSLETTER?

Each week, Education World's Site Reviews Newsletter reviews three new Web sites of interest to PreK-12 educators. The weekly reviews spotlight some of the best resources on the Web for teachers and students. At least a couple times a month, we also shine the spotlight on a topic of wide interest to teachers; we present five or more great resources for teaching about that topic.

Would you like to see a sample of the Education World Site Reviews Newsletter? If so, simply click the link below:
http://www.educationworld.com/newsletters_images/sr_sample.shtml

If you would like to subscribe to the Education World Site Reviews Newsletter, simply click the following link:
http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml#reviews

If the Site Reviews Newsletter is not of interest to you, do you know somebody else who might benefit from it? Perhaps you could pass this information along to that person.

==========================================================================

If you enjoy this Lesson Planning Newsletter, please feel free to forward it to other teachers! If this newsletter has been forwarded to you, you may sign up for it -- and any of the other Education World newsletters -- at http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml.

==========================================================================

Education World®
http://www.educationworld.com/
newsletter-lessons@educationworld.com

Education World
1062 Barnes Road Suite 205
Wallingford, CT 06492

==========================================================================