I absoluetly love this website. You have to visit it if you have young children or neices and nephews. Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use our Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom or child's needs. The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. I actually did this with my 7 year old grandson. We did the detective search to see how "Cole" was eating and helped him pick out nutricious food in the lunch line at school. We were also able to print out a worksheet that shows how many teaspoons of sugar are in your soda drink. We will be doing the test this week. Children will have fun doing the investigation while learning about science adnd healthy snacks.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

This website discusses how to use cooperative learning techniques with pre-schoolers. It focuses on teachers concerns about using cooperative learning with low status students who will not participate and/or that high status students will take over the group. Teachers must create groups that are equitable so that all students participate fully and use multiple-ability strategies (Cohen, 1998) if cooperative learning is to work. Teachers also need to convince students of three things: That different intellectual abilities are required in cooperative learning, that no one student has all of the abilities needed, but that each member of the group will have some of the abilities (Cohen, 1998).

The easiest way to create a WebQuest with more than 165.4 thousand users. I really like this website as you can create a brand new webquest or adapt and enhance existing webquests. There are some great learning webquests for pre-schoolers. The ones I viewed are "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" for art and music lessons and Science for Preschoolers. They have over 100 templates to use and target every subject. I will definately be using the Webquest now and in the future.

I really like this website as it features a whole curriculum from K - 12 but a lot of the lesson plans can be adapted for the Head Start Program. It offers teacher resources, thematic units, seasonal activities, health and nutrition lesson plans. If you haven't found this website I would highly recommend it to you.

This website offers a hands-on curriculum that includes lesson plans for listening skills, preschool education and social skills for young children 3 years old and up.

This website has great lesson plans for physical education and wellness curriculum It is in alignment to ECERS, healthy environments, nutrition and includes lessons for family and community involvement.

Art activities, worksheets for the Head Start Program In one lesson students complete a variety of activities related to the Maurice Sendak book "Chicken Soup With Rice." They identify the months of the year, identify words starting with the letter J, explore online illustrations created by Maurice Sendak, and create a rhyme using a class list of rhyming words.

Outdoor time Spending time outdoors is more than just a free-play recess, but can teach kids about teamwork, sharing and how to interact with each other. Some Head Start lesson plans for outdoor time can include playing a sport, such as kickball or soccer, organizing a marching band or running through an obstacle course on the playground. Other outdoor activities can include identifying trees, plants, animals and insects that are located on the school's property. This sight offers everything for the Head Start Teacher with lesson plans for language, cognition, motor development and social and emotional development .

There are a lot of links in this website about continuing education for teachers along with Lesson Plans, TV program and web content and Digital Service. I like PBS because it always has a lot of fun ideas to make teaching fun for the student.

This website offers online workshops for teachers that include topics such as Parent/Teacher relationships, teaching tips, discipline plans and suggestions. There is a lot of information on this website that is very interesting.

This website offers Graduate credits and innovative courses through accredited higher learning. It offers workshops that are engaging and relevant for the professional development of teachers. They also offer a lot of different resources.

This website has so much to offer the teacher. Enhancing learning with FREE lesson plans and educational resources. It also has a Widget Library, live Webinars, online courses and the Standards Alignment.

This web site offers free videos and video summaries, webinars and help for teachers to improve themselves and student learning. Also offers strategies of the week and PD 360 degrees.