Conversation Heart Activities for Valentine’s Day
Conversation Heart candies are those sweet-talking, heart-shaped confections that have kids of all ages enjoying the sayings and munching for years. …
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Tooth Talk: Dental Health Care Month
February is National Children’s Dental Health Month – a great time to sink your teeth into a study of dental health. According to the CDC (Center for …
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3 BOO-tiful Halloween Containers for Kids
Your students will love these ideas for making Halloween containers from recycled materials. They are fun to create and functional. A perfect place …
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Are Snakes Shifty or Maligned?
By all account’s snakes are shy, nervous and fast. There are more than 3,500 species and twenty percent of the snakes of the world are dangerous to …
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Tracking Animal Migrations
Finding Their Way Think about this: would you be able to find your way out of unfamiliar woods? Obviously, animals don’t have maps or a GPS (Global …
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What Are the Elgin Marbles?
To find out what the Elgin Marbles are we have to first examine ancient history. The ‘cradle of the western world’ is a saying used to describe …
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Box (and Sea) Turtles Know Home
In the 1960s baby aquatic turtles called hatchlings were all the rage. You could order them from catalogs and mail order, where they were packed in …
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Beaver Wars: The Virtues of the Animal North Americans Fought for Centuries
Characteristics Beavers (Castor canadensis_)_ are some of the largest rodents and they can grow to be about 40-inches long (102 cm) and can weigh up …
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Games and Puzzles in Mathematics for the Elementary Classroom
Number Fun Give mathematics a creative touch by using your senses to experience “hands-on” number fun. We are all familiar with giving a child a “feel …
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Storytelling: 7 Ways to Tell A Story
Read Me a Story The most common form of storytelling is reading books. Select books that tell stories about people, places, history, and events. …
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