January 25 is National No Name-Calling Day, designed to promote educational and creative activities aimed at ending name-calling, bullying and harassment in our schools. Download a free 45-page elementary lesson plan pack to help you.
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A new instrumental music program for at-risk preschool students in Osceola County, Fla., is aimed at helping develop language, motor, social and other skills to help prepare them for kindergarten. The students receive instruction from a professional violinist during 20-minute sessions held twice a week. “This project really isn’t about making them violin players, it’s [...]
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Instructional Strategies Used to Implement Differentiated Instruction One size does not fit all when it comes to educating our children. Fair does not mean equal in the classroom. For years, teachers planned the lesson and delivered it to all the students. After extensive studies about multiple intelligences and learning styles, brain based research (and some [...]
Filed under: Differentiated Instruction, Lesson Plans- Language Arts, Lesson Plans- Math, Lesson Plans- Science, Lesson Plans- Social Studies, Teacher Resources on September 15th, 2011 | No Comments »
Our featured Lesson Plan this week comes to us from Liz from Arrowhead Union High School in Wisconsin. Liz teaches 12th grade Creative Writing, Advanced Composition and Journalism (English). She says her students love this exercise and it uses English, math, problem-solving, group work and engineering skills! Thank you Liz for submitting this creative lesson plan [...]
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When we put the call out this week to invite teachers to be guest bloggers by sharing their ideas and lesson plans- the response was overwhelming! We decided to feature Authors Page (below) submitted to us by Liz from Arrowhead Union High School in Wisconsin where she teaches 12th grade Creative Writing, Advanced Composition and [...]
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Each week we find and share a lesson plan or classroom idea for teachers to use! We thought it would be fun to again share a lesson plan to focus on Saint Patrick’s Day (March 17). This lesson plan comes to us from HotChalk’s™ LessonPlansPage.com! This resource has over 4,000 free lesson plans including Science [...]
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St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated next week (March 17) but how much do we really know about the origins of St. Patty’s Day? Here are some quick facts about St. Patrick’s Day and Irish Americans from History.com: There are 36.9 million U.S. residents with Irish roots. This number is more than eight times the population [...]
Filed under: Classroom Exercises, Featured eBooks, Lesson Plans, St. Particks Day on March 10th, 2011 | No Comments »
Bring Science to Life with Ant Hill & Butterfly Pavilion Projects Science Fair Projects can be taken to a whole new level with products from our Living Creatures collection. Projects such as an ant factory, butterfly pavilion, animal games and puzzle sets, lady bug land, inflatables or petri dishes can be effective teaching tools to [...]
Filed under: Featured Products, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans- Science, Science Fair Sanity, Uncategorized on February 27th, 2011 | No Comments »
We found this week’s Featured Lesson Plans on The Hot Chalk Valentines Day Lesson Plans Page! This valuable online resource features over 4,000 free lesson plans, free online teacher tools and thousands of additional teacher resources! Featured Lesson Plans of the Week: Robot Valentine Mailbox By Jamie Rhodes Subject – Art Grade Level – K-8 Directions: [...]
Filed under: Lesson Plans, Seasonal, Uncategorized, Valentines Day on February 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Did you know that more than one billion Valentine’s Day cards are given in the United States every year? Of those, teachers get the most Valentine’s Day cards of anyone; children get the second most. No doubt that kids LOVE Valentines Day and bringing this fun holiday to your class can be a delightful learning [...]
Filed under: Lesson Plans- Social Studies, Seasonal, Valentines Day on February 5th, 2011 | No Comments »
