News for Kids
Schools Serve Healthful Lunches on 'Meatless Monday'
In Baltimore, chicken nuggets and burgers are off the menu on "Meatless Mondays."
Learning Game of the Week
"Silence" is an ordering game -- without the talking.
Friday Fun
Students in every grade learn as they create ABC books.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Special Activities for Learning About Bats, More...
Where Are You?: How Bats Find Their Way
Bats and the Food Chain
Comparing Bats and Birds
Let's Write Bat Poems
Make a Classroom Bat Cave
Make a Batty Snack
November: A Giving Month
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web.
From the Science Machine
Use Air Junk to explore the topics of biology, air quality, and health. (Grades 3-8)
From the Reading Machine
Punctuation Paintball reinforces punctuation and capitalization. (Grades 1-8)
From the Math Machine
Tangram Game is a fun Web site for teaching students to recognize and manipulate shapes and for problem solving. (Grades K-6)
Tech Lesson of the Week
Foliage Tracker
Students track leaf changes, input data found at one Web site into another, and then graph foliage changes with a free online tool.
The Math and Science Corner
Wendy Petti's Math Cats
Halloween Math
Halloween is a time for math fun -- for measuring pumpkin waistlines; drawing spiders with coordinates; categorizing costumes; and graphing candy counts.
Go Figure!
Can you use the 16 squares to create a new pattern? Beware! It's harder than it looks.
Double Trouble
Adding and subtracting to 18; adding double digits.
Math Mnemonics
Area of a circle.
The Science Lab
I Can Create Lightning
A demonstration of static electricity and how it's involved in lightning and weather.
Vicki Cobb's Show-Biz Science
Do some chemistry magic with cabbage juice.
The Writing Center
Student Essays Describe Perfect School
Students in Sue Chanda's class envision a perfect school with more technology, smaller teacher-student ratios, more electives, and a later starting time.
The Weblog Class
Hilary Meeler's students blog their way to better writing skills.
The Wall Inspires Letters to Veterans
Inspire students to write letters to veterans.
'Indescribably' Excellent Descriptions
Engage students in writing "indescribably excellent" descriptions.
Writing Bugs
Describing Winifred Witch
Winifred Witch was a sight to see! She...
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
Choose a weird headline, be a news reporter.
The Reading Room
Cathy Puett Miller:
Improving Fluency in Struggling Readers
There is much more to fluency than speed. We need to look at teaching and assessing fluency as a triangle with three important sides...
Reader's Theater
Dancing With the Nursery Rhyme Stars
It's a battle of fancy footwork as nursery rhyme characters face-off in a dance contest.
Reading Feature
Creating a Classroom of Writers Using the "Meet the Author" Collection
The words of real authors might be just the inspiration your students need to help them through the painstaking writing process.
More Lesson Ideas
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
Gallery-walk activity helps students define, respond to stress.
Teacher Lesson #2
Calculate discounts, sales tax on a classroom shopping spree.
Teacher Lesson #3
Paper Bag Book Report combines literacy, community service.
Bulletin Boards That Teach
Will This Turkey Be Dressed By Thanksgiving? -- Challenge students to read a specific number of books before Thanksgiving break.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 23.
Just for This Month!
See our October Month of Fun. This week:
-- Pablo Picasso Coloring Page (Grades 2-5)
-- What Time Is It? Quiz (Grades K-2)
-- Baseball Word Unscramble (Grades 3-5)
-- Virtual Jack-o-Lantern (Grades PreK-3)
-- Algebra Vocabulary Matching Game (Grades 9-12)
-- President John Adams Coloring Page (Grades K-4)
-- Halloween Word Search (Grades 3-6)
Plus! October Word Search, October Coloring Calendar, and create your own work sheets for this month's holidays and special days.
Emma McDonald: The New Teacher Advisor
Become a Task Master
As a new teacher, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the number of activities and tasks that fill your time. It's all too easy to let your tasks control you. That's where time management comes in.
 Joe Martin: The Teacher Motivator
Imitate to Motivate
Think back and remember your favorite teacher. Reflect on everything about that teacher that made you admire and respect him or her. Now, I want you to pretend to be your favorite teacher.
Eric Baylin's Songs to Brighten a Teacher's Day
Oh, the Substitute Is Comin' in Today
Just getting ready for a substitute is at least double the work of getting ready for your own class. Even then, you never quite know what's going to happen. Surely, it's material for a song!
Ken Shore: The ABCs of Bullying Prevention
Bully-Proofing Your Classroom
Prevention is, at its essence, a process of education, and many of the lessons students need to learn to dissuade them from bullying must come from you. Dr. Ken Shore offers teaching strategies you can use to bully-proof your classroom.
Fred Jones's Tools for Teaching
Escaping the Paper-Grading Trap
The more adept you become at building work-check into teaching, the more responsibility students take for quality control, and the more your evenings are freed up for lesson planning.
 Leah Davies: The Teacher Counselor
Rewards in the Classroom
Even though children who enter school are often inclined to be either intrinsically or extrinsically motivated, a worthwhile goal for educators is to foster intrinsic motivation in children.
This Old Lounge
If your teachers' lounge leaves something to be desired, learn from expert Evette Ríos and talented teachers and community members who have donned their tool belts and remodeled their lounges affordably.
 Principal Turns Bat Presence Into Teachable Moment
Bats typically are not welcome indoors, and when bats in a school gymnasium raised concerns about potential attacks on students, a principal turned to a biologist to give the school and greater community an education about these misunderstood winged mammals.
Heimlich Training for Staff Can Be a Life-Saver
The family of a boy who choked to death in an elementary school cafeteria was recently awarded $5 million in a lawsuit against the district. The news of that award has spurred many schools to focus attention on training staff in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver. Included: Share these stories with staff and students.
Partners for Student Success
Money Fun: Investing in Families and Math Skills
Each year, students and families come to share a night of family fun that really "adds up." The night includes games such as "Crack the Safe," which requires students to guess the amount of candy in a safe, to "Roll Down the Debt," a dice game about place value.
Keeping in Touch With Families
For many parents, a phone call from a teacher means trouble. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Strategy of the Week
The Responsive Classroom
The Responsive Classroom® approach emphasizes social and academic growth through morning meetings, organized play, guided discovery, and academic choice.
Classroom Management Article of the Week
Let's Cooperate!
Cooperation starts at the top! Teachers who use cooperative learning in their classrooms have developed techniques that make the most of this method, and they share them.
Template
Of the Week
Center Signs
Are you ready to set up your science and social studies centers? These signs will help.
Larry Ferlazzo's Best...
The best way to teach people to read is to provide them with accessible and high-interest text. Check out the interesting and accessible stories at these top 14 sites for teaching beginning readers.
Mr. Marsala's Home Page
Vince Marsala's high school Web site becomes an essential classroom tool.
Encouraging Teacher Technology Use
In some schools, staff technology use nears 100 percent; in others, it is virtually non-existent. Discover how schools can encourage -- or discourage -- staff technology use.
Top 10 Reason's to Use a Blog in the Classroom
The top 10 reason's to use a blog in the classroom as produced, written and directed by a high school communications technology class.
Alma Rowe's Gadget of the Week
Glogster
A nifty web 2.0 tool that allows you to create electronic posters.
What can you do with SchoolNotes? Check out Mrs. Brown's Brainy Bunch.
Featured Site Reviews
Check out this week's site reviews:
National Geographic Prehistoric Timeline
An interactive timeline explores the approximately 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence.
Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts
Interactive presentations and animations explore how neurons work and what actions they perform.
NSTA Science Objects
Science learning activities help teachers build content knowledge.
Explore our Site Review Archives for more great sites. You also can keep up with our latest reviews by signing up for our Site Review Newsletter.
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Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
For a book from one of the major education associations -- the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) -- this is a relatively compact book of under 200 pages that offers nine categories of instructional strategies, along with the research and statistics to back up their efficacy. Among the nine are Summarizing and Note Taking; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic Representation; and Cooperative Learning. The emphasis in the book is on elementary instruction. Written by Robert Marzano and others.
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
This is one of the modern classics in education, first published to much bru-ha-ha in 1987. The author, E.D. Hirsch, argues that education is suffering because we lack a strong common "bank" of cultural knowledge -- i.e., what every American should know. He even goes so far as to include a list, a huge list of 5,000 essential items of knowledge. Seen at the time as a conservative, even reactionary text, Hirsch argues that it is precisely those less advantaged students who would benefit from schools focusing more on getting these basic 5,000 items into every kid's head.
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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)
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Friendly Feud (All Subjects, grades K-12)
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Profound Thoughts on Parenthood
Middle and high school teachers will surely relate...
There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or forbid your children to do it.
Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents.
Kids really know how to brighten a household; they never turn off any lights!
You know the only people in this world who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like trying to shovel the driveway during a blizzard.
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
Biggest Lie
Two boys were arguing as the teacher entered the room. "Why are you arguing?" the teacher asked.
One boy answered, "We found a ten-dollar bill and decided to give it to whoever tells the biggest lie"
"You should be ashamed of yourselves," said the teacher. "When I was your age I didn't even know what a lie was."
The boys gave the ten dollars to the teacher.
Look at All the Love!
"Mommy! Mommy!" shouted Gabriel as he ran in after school, "my teacher loves me!"
"How do you know that?" asked his mother.
"She sent me kisses," he replied. "Just look at all these X's all over my spelling paper."
Little Johnny Strikes Again
Teacher: If you had one dollar and you asked your father for another, how many dollars would you have?
Little Johnny: One dollar.
Teacher (shaking head): You don't know your math.
Little Johnny: You don't know my father.
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Bats in the Classroom
Substitute Survival
The Wall - Write to vets at local hospitals. (Grades K-12)
Shop the 
This Week's Feature
Math Fact Practice
Free Work Sheets
Coloring Calendar
Geography A to Z
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