Music Education Lessons: How Do Melody and Pitch Relate to Hearing?
What contributes to tone, melody and pitch and how come some people sing beautifully, hear and return music, and others seem tone deaf?
Continue ReadingPirate Theme Arts and Crafts, Games and Activities for Pre-K
Young children love to pretend and parade as pirates. Plan activities where your students sail to an imaginary island full of cross-curricular …
Continue ReadingGrade 2 Math: Using Maps to Illustrate Word Problems
Combine math, writing and art into a fun math project. Encourage math talk between partners as they work together.
Continue ReadingLearn about Emperor Qin's Terra Cotta Army
Thousands of life-size clay soldiers and horses stand guard over Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s tomb near the city of Xiân, China. Considered one of …
Continue ReadingLeap Year Day Activities for a Preschool Class
Leap Year Day only comes once every four years. Why not try some fun activities with the kids to make this day special?
Continue ReadingLearning How to Write Paragraphs: Grade 2 Reading and Language Art Lesson Plan
Start with a good book as a springboard. Add a graphic organizer. This combination will help students construct a perfect paragraph!
Continue ReadingOutdoor Play Space Assessment for Preschoolers
Children learn through play. Research supports this idea within the classroom, but what about out of it? What can teachers do to enhance students’ …
Continue ReadingWhy Play-Based Preschool Still Matters
The push for higher reading and math scores has led to schools pushing traditional academic instruction to the lower grades, specifically kindergarten …
Continue ReadingGrade 3 Multiplication Lesson Plan: Illustrating Multiplication
Just when students are feeling comfortable and confident about addition and subtraction, we introduce multiplication! Here is an activity to show …
Continue ReadingHelp Preschoolers Identify and Express Emotions Using The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
Actor and director LeVar Burton’s career has spanned television from Roots to Star Trek to Reading Rainbow. Burton has published his first children’s …
Continue ReadingHow to Help Prevent Reading Problems in Young Students
Children who start off poor in their reading abilities rarely catch up. With early identification and prevention strategies, children have a higher …
Continue ReadingPresident Abraham Lincoln Webquest: America's 16th President
President Abraham Lincoln is well known as the president who was in office during the American Civil War. But what else do your students know about …
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