A School Project for Edible Landforms: Edible Landfills
Making edible landforms is fun and will inspire kids to step into a different level of learning. Eat and explore!
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How It All Began: The First Thanksgiving: A Webquest for Elementary School Students
The first Thanksgiving in America is well known, but it is also associated with the Harvest Festivals in the UK and the Thanksgiving celebrated in …
Continue ReadingSimple Art Activities for the Kindergarten Classroom: From Color Mixing to Clay Tiles
Need inspiration for some great Kindergarten art projects? Here are some ideas to get you started.
Continue ReadingTeach PEMDAS with Order of Operations Games
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally because she’s always out of order but she can really be a hoot. Early on in their educational careers, students …
Continue ReadingPlanning an Earthquake Webquest for K-12 Learning
Webquests are classroom-based lessons where students search for information online around a certain theme. As students are meant to be using …
Continue Reading3 Great Activities for Preschool Students: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
What could it be? Sometimes it looks like a tree and sometimes it looks like an ice cream cone. Your preschoolers will find out what it is when you …
Continue ReadingTeaching Order of Operations in 5th Grade
Order of operations is one of those math objectives that students need to learn and practice. If there are several different operations in a project, …
Continue ReadingA Fine Fine School by Sharon Creech: Lesson Plan for K-2
Let’s have school on Saturdays and Sundays! How about having school on holidays, too? And summer! Let’s go to school in the summer! Mr. Keene thinks …
Continue ReadingActivities and Vocabulary for Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse is a popular novel to use with upper elementary and middle grade students. Some words may be unfamiliar to students, or …
Continue ReadingAlliteration Poems by Shel Silverstein That Will Inspire Your Students
Students from kindergarten to fifth grade will enjoy the alliteration poems by Shel Silverstein. His verses universally appeal to students, and range …
Continue ReadingFifth Grade Lessons on Plants
Fifth graders have been learning about plants since kindergarten or first grade when they most likely planted seeds in a paper cup and watched them …
Continue ReadingLesson Plan for Teaching Order of Operations Problems
Can you get to work before you drive your car? No, there are steps you need to take. The same goes for teaching order of operations problems; …
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