LESSON PLANS
Week 19: Word analogies to sharpen students' thinking skills and prepare them for standardized tests.
A penny saved is a...penny that's no longer a penny?! Teach your students about the chemical compounds within a penny…
One word: Plastics Students study six types of plastic and make comparisons between them based on their physical and…
This lesson, to be completed after reading The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain, has students practice their journaling…
Improve students' breath control and posture with this lesson of singing exercises. Meets National Music Standard 1.
Examples of emotion similes, and a writing project for using them Learn about how to convey emotion in written…
Students create postcards that reflect a summer happening. They use a pen name to sign it and the rest of the class has…
TEACHING RESOURCE
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WORKSHEETS
Help students to go beyond a spell check by using this in-depth checklist for grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling…
This extensive list details books for both children and adults that deal with disabilities. The books are sorted by…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Looking for new ideas for using your Interactive Whiteboard? This list includes our Top 10 Whiteboard technology…
Follow these guidelines for conducting a Cultures Day event, where students teach each other about various cultures.
Illustrate some interesting dinosaur characteristics and give students a general overview of some of the amazing…
An overview of how to create meaningful performance assessments to measure student abilities and progress.
Students become familiar with the different types of poetry, including clerihew, diamonte, couplet, limerick, list…
DAILY WARM-UPS
Read about the history of women's rights in the United States. This printable warm-up includes a nonfiction passage…
This 2-3 class period unit includes lesson plans, graphic organizers, and a rubric for assessment. In the unit, students…
These rounding and estimation worksheets focus on rounding money, numbers, and decimals as well as estimating the sums…
BOOK GUIDES
The Newbery Award-winning book, Number the Stars, has educated many children about the bravery of the Danish people in…
LESSON
This printable explores context clues and how they can be used to help determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in a…
CLASSROOM TOOLS
Be prepared when you need to document parent contact and keep your documentation in one place and organized. Use this…
ACTIVITIES
Use this icebreaker activity to support your students to get to know each other. All you will need are small bags of…
Use this quiz as a way of assessing students' reading comprehension skills on the story Charlotte's Web. This…
The multiple-choice and written-response questions in this science exam will test students' knowledge and understanding…
