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I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

I personally think that reading is a huge part of improving English proficiency. Reading logs helps children keep track of their own improvement and also work towards a reward. When I was a kid we got a free personal pan pizza from pizza hut.

Physical activity is being over shone by the heavy emphasis on standardized testing. A great way to keep children active is to incorporate movement into your academic lesson plans. This is a great website that lets you filter-search your lesson plans and best of all, it's free!

This is a YouTube video titled "Being a Good Citizen Narration". A book like this is one I would read to my students to teach them what being a good citizen means and ways they can be good citizens themselves (social studies standard 1.2.3).

This site contains a variety of software programs that are free downloads for registered schools and classrooms. It also offers a KidsCorner with a wide selection of games, and a number of content specific games. Click on a tab for Preschool, USA, world, animals, vocabulary, languag arts, health, science or math to access the games.

Read about current technologies available for your classroom. Get ideas for classroom projects and grants. Additional tabs on this site provide tools and templates, a subject data base of class projects and activities, free worksheets on a variety of topics, holiday ideas, standards and a section called School Notes that provides a free webpage tool for teachers.

A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. This website would be great for my government students to understand that everything they hear on television or that comes from the elections is not necessarily a fact.

A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. This website would be great for my government students to understand that everything they hear on television or that comes from the elections is not necessarily a fact.

A Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. This website would be great for my government students to understand that everything they hear on television or that comes from the elections is not necessarily a fact.

This is a very simple lesson plan perfect for a quick activity!

This is a very simple lesson plan perfect for a quick activity!

This is a website containing templates for daily lesson plans for art education. I like daily plans because it's easier to maintain rather than planning a week ahead may lead to disappointment if things don't turn out as planned.

This is a website containing templates for daily lesson plans for art education. I like daily plans because it's easier to maintain rather than planning a week ahead may lead to disappointment if things don't turn out as planned.

This is also a daily lesson plan, but for five subject areas instead of just one! Because it has room for five subjects, it has less room for a more detailed plan for each subject area, though. This lesson plan template is a good one to use for outlining your day in general and for quick reference to throughout your day.

Discovery Education partners with districts to deliver a customized suite of tools to accelerate student achievement. Find out more about our digital content, professional development, assessment services, digital textbooks, and dynamic educator community today.

Discovery Education partners with districts to deliver a customized suite of tools to accelerate student achievement. Find out more about our digital content, professional development, assessment services, digital textbooks, and dynamic educator community today.

Discovery Education partners with districts to deliver a customized suite of tools to accelerate student achievement. Find out more about our digital content, professional development, assessment services, digital textbooks, and dynamic educator community today.

Physical activity is being over shone by the heavy emphasis on standardized testing. A great way to keep children active is to incorporate movement into your academic lesson plans. This is a great website that lets you filter-search your lesson plans and best of all, it's free!

Physical activity is being over shone by the heavy emphasis on standardized testing. A great way to keep children active is to incorporate movement into your academic lesson plans. This is a great website that lets you filter-search your lesson plans and best of all, it's free!

Use this link to search by grade level, subject and theme for classroom activities on a variety of topics. Resource lists with many sites are listed under every topic. There is a little something for everyone here from a wide collection of instructional units.

This published college professor offers a free on-line file cabinet of classroom activities. Click on a folder by subject area to access a list of free activities. Materials for sale are also referenced.

Make this turkey craft with your young child to get into the Thanksgiving spirit! Using a few household items, such as an old tissue box, a toilet tissue tube, and construction paper, your child will make an adorable turkey craft that can serve as a special Thanksgiving decoration or a cute centerpiece for the dinner table. This activity goes with: K.1.2 Identify people, celebrations, commemorations, and holidays as a way of honoring people, heritage, and events.

This is a guessing game where students give clues to their partner who attempts to guess their number. This is a fun a simple game for 2nd graders. i like this site because it provide rating for each activity on the site.

To cover science standard 1.4.3, I would love to have my students build this ant habitat in a jar for the classroom. From this, students could observe the lifestyle of an ant and all the hard work they do. Drawing a replica of what they see in their jar would be a great art activity to combine with this idea.

Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

Diving into problems in education and how we as a country can change our model to improve this.

Sometimes it is hard for kids with special needs to use their fingers. Some of these apps discussed on this site help students use their fingers by tracing letters or spelling their name on a tablet. This site offers apps for math, reading, matching, spelling, memory, and more. Special education kids might need a little bit more stimulation during their learning instead of pencil and paper. Touch tablets allow them to stay interested by learning hands-on and seeing rewards visually.

eSchool News current edition. Title Article: Alabama is using a new exam from ACT Aspire to make sure students as young as third grade are on a path to college or career readiness. See also app of the week, free science observations through webcam for marine biology, and curriculum, IT, and professional development tabs

Want a creative way to get your kids eating more vegetables? Put on a veggie puppet play starring colorful carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower. It's a great way to teach your kids about the benefits of eating vegetables and the importance of a healthy diet. This activity goes with the standard: 4 Indiana Academic Standards for Health & Wellness KINDERGARTEN Standard 1 Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. Students acknowledge personal responsibility for health promotion and/or risk reduction. They describe healthy behaviors to prevent or reduce their risk of injury and/or illness. Students list the components of health as emotional, physical and social. K.1.1 Name healthy behaviors.

This is a great site tool for teachers creating lesson plans. In this site it gives lesson plans for all grade levels. These templates are very helpful. Check it out

This site is a great resource for all types of lesson plans, but this particular link brings you to unit-specific lesson plans. It relates with step 2 of the DID model "state objectives".

This site is a great resource for all types of lesson plans, but this particular link brings you to unit-specific lesson plans. It relates with step 2 of the DID model "state objectives".