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Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "To Sum It Up" teaches adding 3-digit numbers.
News for Kids
Check out our weekly news stories -- "ripped from the headlines" -- for classroom use.
Learning Game of the Week
"Wacky Word Play" reinforces thinking skills.
Friday Fun
Older students and younger buddies team up for yearlong fun.
Vicki Cobb's Show-Biz Science
Gravity -- the force that's with us.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
My Name Is...
My Name Is... #2
Back-to-School Bus
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Baby Animals
Community Helpers
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web.
From the Math Machine
Planet Blaster is a fun Web site for teaching basic computation or algebra. (Grades 2-7)
From the Science Machine
Use Flower Pollination to explore the topics of biology and flowering plants. (Grades 3-12)
From the Reading Machine
Synonym Toast reinforces vocabulary, synonyms. (Grades 3-12)
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
Compare California's population in Gold Rush times to today.
Teacher Lesson #2
Older students create ABC books for younger students.
Teacher Lesson #3
Review spelling-word lists with this game.
Teacher Lesson #4
Reinforce math skills with Jump Rope Math.
The Math Corner
Wendy Petti's Math Cats
Math Heroes
How much richer an appreciation our students might have for mathematics if we share with them the budding of new ideas in math heroes! It all begins with "I wonder...."
What's for Lunch?
Can students figure out which meal goes to which restaurant customer?
Integrating Math Across the Curriculum
Are you having trouble integrating math with literature, geography, art, or music? Discover how one teacher brought her love of running into the classroom and, in the process, integrated all areas of her curriculum.
Math Games With Joanne and Jane
Place Value Snap: Place value 1 to 100. (Grades 3-6)
Math Mnemonics
Roman Numerals for 1, 5, and 10.
The Writing Center
Mr. Cover's Class Reviews
In response to his students' lack of enthusiasm for nonfiction reading, Millard Cover introduced "Mr. Cover's Class Reviews," a project in which students become product testers and reviewers and publish their findings online.
Letters to Home
Alicia Harman's letter-writing lesson opens lines of communication between school and home.
Writing Bugs
The Best Advice
What's the best advice you ever received?
A Special Gift for a Special Friend
If you could give one friend a special gift...
A "Typical" Day
Then and Now
Celebrate Grandparents Day with this fun comparison writing activity. (Grades K-8)
Report on a Reporter
Invite a news reporter to visit class; write a news report about the visit. (Grades 3-12)
The Reading Room
Cathy Puett Miller:
The Use of Multiple Groupings to Improve Student Achievement
Multiple groupings are an effective way to deal with diversity in interests, abilities and learning styles: No child learns in only one way; no two children learn the same way.
Reader's Theater
Victor's Victuals
An encounter with a lunchtime bully leads one boy to join the crusade against hunger. But can Victor's new perspective turn Bull around too?
Reading Feature
Male Teachers Show that Real Men Read
A library media specialist thought posters showing real men reading and men talking about the benefits of reading could be just the thing to encourage more boys to pick up books. The Real Men Read program is so successful that it has spread to other schools.
Bulletin Boards That Teach
Classroom Monopoly -- This bulletin board rewards positive behaviors all year long.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 20
Just for This Month! See our September Month of Fun, September Word Search, and September Coloring Calendar.
Carlton Ashby's The Power Is In You
Doing More With Less
I am blessed to have the opportunity to travel to Kenya each year to work with teachers there. I go there to teach teachers, but I return to my classroom inspired by how they make do with so much less than I can imagine, and hoping to model the lessons they have taught me.
Leah Davies, The Teacher Counselor
Teaching Perseverance
Albert Einstein once said, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." Working through challenges when the going gets rough is a life skill that teachers can teach. Included: Ten activities for teaching about perseverance.
Ken Shore: The Classroom Problem Solver
Ten Mainstreaming Strategies
With the increased prevalence of mainstreaming, educators often find themselves teaching students they have little preparation for dealing with. These strategies can help.
Fred Jones's
Tools for Teaching
Bell Work
"Bell Work" is the work that separates the world of the classroom from the world of play. Discover hhow Bell Work can add teaching and learning time to your day.
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Be Prepared
Preparation is the key to being a successful teacher. The more thought and effort you put into your lessons and your job, the better teacher you will be.
Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Seems Like We Were Never Gone
There ought to be a manual to soften the abrupt shift from summer to a new school year. Maybe I'll write it one of these days. In the meantime, here's a song.
 Joe Martin: The Teacher Motivator
Teachers Must Earn Students' Respect
That is one of the most basic principles of successful teaching -- and one of the most difficult lessons for new teachers to learn: to get respect from students, you have to earn it.
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog
Embracing Technology With "Eyes Wide Open"
On your way to learning improvement; watch for not only what technology will do for teaching and learning but what it will undo.
 Bernie Poole: Reflecting Poole
Free Online Teacher Tools
A few of my favorite online teacher tools -- including Classroom Architect, BlogMeister, Survey Builder, Timeline Builder, Web Scrapbook, and Web Collaborator.
Student Spellers Earn Dollars for School
While looking for ways to raise money without spending money, a retired teacher heard about a spell-a-thon at another school and brought the idea to her former colleagues. Pledges students earned for correctly-spelled words yielded $15,000 for the school. Included: Suggestions for organizing, promoting a spell-a-thon.
Workshops Nip Behavior Problems in the Bud
When a number of parents expressed frustration over not knowing how to handle their child's behavior at home, one principal designed a workshop program to support them. Strategies to help parents help children become better students were presented.
Going Back Green: Eco-friendly School Supplies
It's time again to stock the classroom with supplies -- and the choices you make can make a difference. Discover some unique and planet-friendly must-haves for this school year.
A Week in the Life of...
Penny Lowe's fifth graders chronicle their year -- and the resulting books become treasured family mementos.
Wire Side Chat
See Me After Class:
Advice for Teachers by Teachers
New teachers often feel as though they need to do everything right -- and end up feeling as though they're doing everything wrong. Roxanna Elden shares advice on surviving the first year of teaching.
Strategy of the Week
SLANT
The class participation strategy known as SLANT is a simple, easy-to-remember technique for helping students increase their contributions to -- and benefits from -- group instruction and class discussion.
From Beginning to End: Making Memories the Whole Year Through
Experienced educators share how they enrich their classes with projects and activities that take students from the beginning of the school year to the end -- while creating memories that last a lifetime.
A Web 2.0 Approach to Internet Safety
An effective school-based strategy to address the issue of online safety should include six key components. How is your school doing?
From the Education World Tech Team
Get Ready to Integrate Technology
Members of the Ed World Tech Team offer advice to help you take the best advantage of technology in the coming year.
Tech Classroom Spotlight
What Did You Do in School Today?
Kathleen Eveleigh's daily update gives parents and kids something to talk about.
Newsletters 'R Us
Copy and paste this free content into your teacher or school newsletters.
The ABCs of Student Success D is for Determination
Caught on the Web Word Builder (All grades)
Fun Facts Volume #3
Parent Newsletter Template Back to School
Math @ Home Drawing to Scale
Parent Pointers Providing Homework Support
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Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years
This book from Teachers College Press applies the project approach to teaching, which has traditionally been associated with the middle grades, to early childhood education. This can not only energize and focus early childhood lessons, but also lay a foundation for inquisitive thought that students can benefit from for the rest of their school years, even for the rest of their lives.
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Teaching Science for Understanding: A Practical Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
We all know that the United States has to "play catch-up" with science and math teaching, compared to other countries, and this book is a serious attempt to contribute positively to that effort. Science may be especially susceptible to passive, direct-instruction styles, and this author instead advocates active, inquiry-based learning. A unique feature of this book is a set of excerpts from popular science textbooks along with suggestions for making the content contained in those books come alive for students.
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The Best of LEARNING GAMES
If you enjoy Education World's weekly LEARNING GAMES feature, you'll love this book! Education World and the National Education Association (NEA) have joined forces to create a handy, pocket-size booklet of more than 30 of our most popular learning games. PLUS an extra bonus -- ten more games for classroom fun!
These classroom games span the grades and the major subject areas -- and inject a healthy dose of fun into the serious business of teaching and learning. Looking to fill the end of a hectic day with something fun and educational? Looking for a great reward for students that will make valuable use of free time? Looking to reinforce basic skills with a fun activity? These games will fill the bill!
Included in this 80-page booklet you'll find these games and more:
Math Facts Race (Math, grades K-8)
You Can Count on Spelling (Math and Language Arts, grades K-12)
Find It... Fast! (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Concentration Review Game (All Subjects, grades K-12)
The Dictionary Game (Language Arts, grades 3-8)
Play Ball: A Major League Review Game (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Friendly Feud (All Subjects, grades K-12)
Plus 35 more games!
The Best of LEARNING GAMES is part of the Teacher Treasure Series, an NEA Professional Library Publication.
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First-Grade Proverbs
A first grade teacher collected old, well-known proverbs. She gave the kids in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. Here are some of the proverbs her students created.
Better be safe than... punch a 5th grader.
Strike while the... bug is close.
It's always darkest before... Daylight Saving Time.
Don't bite the hand that... looks dirty.
A miss is as good as a... Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new... math.
The pen is mightier than the... pigs.
A penny saved is... not much.
Two's company, three's... the Musketeers.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and... you have to blow your nose.
Children should be seen and not... spanked or grounded.
When the blind leadeth the blind... get out of the way.
Torf Luck
I had an eighth grade student come and tell me that he missed three homework questions because he did not know what "torf" meant. I informed him that I did not know what it meant either. He showed me on the board where he had gotten that word. The board read: T or F.
Bio Fashion
Luis: What do fashionable biology students wear?
Mother: I don't know.
Luis: Designer genes.
Little Johnny Strikes Again
Little Johnny: Teacher, would you punish me if I didn't capitalize letters on my homework?
Teacher: No, I'd just mark you down.
Little Johnny: Oh, I didn't think you believed in capital punishment.
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Ideas for All Year Long
September 11
Classroom Management
Road Trip - Map a sports team's next road trip. (Grades 3-12)
Remember, by shopping the 
Coloring Calendar
Geography A to Z
Each week, Education World presents our Editors' Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers' Voices section of this week's themed booklists.
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