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New Tech Network, which was founded 15 years ago, is taking its school-wide project-based model to national scale. The organization, which offers a paid program

There is a cute butterfly mobile for students to make.There are also more Spring craft projects on this website.

Recycling K-12 experiments & background information for lesson plans, class activities & science fair projects for elementary, middle and high school students. Great ideas for outside recycling experiments

How and Why I Promote My Articles on Diigo's Social Bookmarking Site Recently I decided to promote my articles through Diigo. Here is how and why I did it. Diigo is very educator friendly. They have educator accounts specifically geared towards getting K-12 teachers to use their service, so they have lots of educators who view and share their bookmarks.

This is a cute Claude Monet art project for 4th or 5th grade but would probably use watercolors instead of fingerpaint! Good for any 4th, th or 6th grade teacher.

Very interesting article; it calls to mind the original practices some students have come up with in various jobs which I have assigned for them to do around the classroom from organizing bookshelves to putting up boarders on bulletin boards and window frames. When I discover they are NOT executed as I would have thought to do the job, I give great thanks and praise, and restrain from changing to my preference! It reminds me of my mother's dislike of how I folded towels or loaded the dishwasher when I was younger - I refuse to show any exasperation over the student's creative execution of the task or project. (Although I must say I would NEVER encourage our middle schoolers to cartwheel into the library or any other classroom as a test of social acceptances of behavior as referenced in the article!)

You will find information on color mixing, art supplies, art room setup, glossary of terms, why you should teach art, 15 minute fillers and more. View lesson plans by medium or discipline here: Art Lessons By Medium.

Thought this was a good website for projects