+
Lesson Plan
Spreading Gratitude Rocks

Values Survey

For Students 7th - 12th
What are the most important values a person possesses? Teens and parents take a collaborative survey and discuss what values are important to them. They return the signed form to the teacher to confirm they completed the activity. 
+
Handout
Blogger

Help with Reading

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Children's education doesn't have to end when they leave the classroom. Support parents with imporving their children's reading comprehension skills at home with this list of guiding questions.
+
Activity
US Department of Commerce

How Are Single-Parent Households Distributed Across the United States?

For Teachers 7th Standards
There sure are a lot of single-parent households in the country. After selecting one of four US regions to investigate, pupils create dot plots and box plots on the percentage of single-parent households with male parents and female...
+
Printables
Microsoft

Back to School Welcome Letter

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Here is a basic and organized template that will help get you started on a welcome letter for parents at the beginning of the school year. It will help guide you in considering the primary components to include your letter, such as...
+
Lesson Plan
Advocates for Youth

What Does It Take to Be a Good Parent?

For Students 7th - 12th
Are the teenagers in your class ready to become parents? Have them complete a few life-planning activities, including a parental interview, a role-play exercise, and the classic flour sack baby exercise, before allowing them to assess...
+
Printables
Freeology

Parent Contact Form

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Easily keep track of all parent contact with a simple form; just print it out, keep it by your phone or paper-clipped to the inside cover of your plan book, and jot down some quick notes any time you talk to or e-mail parents.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Easy Worksheet: Transforming Parent Functions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this transforming parent functions worksheet, students solve 4 multiple choice problems. Students describe the transformation of the power and logarithmic parent functions.
+
Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Six Ways to Effectively Use Classroom Volunteers

For Teachers K - 5th
Parents are often an untapped resource, offer them a variety of ways to help in your classroom.
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Shakespeare Uncovered

Henry IV, Part I: Does Father Know Best?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“Yea, there thou mak’st me sad and mak’st me sin/In envy that my Lord Northumberland/Should be the father to so blest a son--.” Henry IV, Part I, provides the text for a series of exercises that ask class members to examine the...
+
Printables
Curated OER

Weekly Progress Reports

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Keep parents and guardians informed of their charge's progress with an printable that includes both a checklist for behavior and subject area performance, and provides room for specific comments as well.
+
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Graphs of Power Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
There are parent functions, and then there are parent functions with a really interesting way to explore them. High schoolers are asked to graph different combinations of parent functions together and determine the point of intersection....
+
Printables
Curriculum Corner

RTI- Student Snapshot

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Record a learner's strengths, as well as concerns and parent input, on this handy RTI form.
+
Printables
1
1
Student Handouts

Student Information Sheet

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Stay in contact with the parents of your classroom with a student information sheet. It provides spaces for learners' information, including name, date of birth, photo, and class period. Two more sections have spaces for parent contact...
+
Unit Plan
National Center for Families Learning

The Summer Fun Summer Learning Poetry Unit

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Focus on poetry this summer to enhance those comprehension, fluency, and language skills with a set of resources intended to explore different types of poetry, specifically lyric poetry. The daily activities contain differentiation ideas...
+
Printables
1
1
Corner Stone For Teachers

Parent-Teacher Communication Log

For Teachers K - 12th
Communicating, and documenting that communication, is made a whole lot easier with this log. Instructors begin by creating a separate log for each class member, listing the phone numbers of the primary caregivers and other adult contacts...
+
Printables
1
1
Student Handouts

Classroom Newsletter Template

For Students Pre-K - 5th
Need a straightforward tool for communicating with parents? Use a newsletter template to jot down what you're working on in class for the week, It includes fields for concepts kids are learning in class, birthdays, books kids are...
+
Printables
Student Handouts

Guest and Visitor Sign-In Sheet

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
A handy sign-in sheet is the perfect addition to your parent conference or open house night. It provides three columns for names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
+
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Building a Quadratic Function Form

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
A simple tweak in the equation can mean big things for a quadratic graph. High school mathematicians look at the parent graph of a quadratic and incorporate three different changes to the function. The problems require explanations of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vocabulary 2c - Life Science: From Parents to Young

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This life science vocabulary list and definitions will be useful when teaching a parent and offspring unit. Some nice ideas are included in the plan about the word origins, word structure and definition testing methods. There is also a...
+
Printables
Busy Teacher’s Café

Classroom Newsletter Template

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Keep your classroom parents in the loop with a cute newsletter format. It includes fields for what kids have learned that week, as well as any news, upcoming events, student of the week, reminders, parent tips, book notes, spelling...
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

From Ben’s Pen to Our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...
+
Printables
1
1
Curriculum Corner

Meet the Teacher Event

For Students 3rd - 6th
Don't waste time making your own sign-in sheet! Instead, use this set of Meet the Teacher Night sign-up and sign-in sheets. The resource includes a sign-in sheet, volunteer preferences sign-up sheet, a parent information sheet, and a...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Resistance to Parents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine family life issues. In this interpersonal relationships lesson, students discuss typical resistance to parents from teen children. Middle schoolers also discuss options for children dealing with difficult or...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Parental Accountability and Public Policy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate parental responsibility for the actions of their Students. They compare the responsibility in the State of Washington and the rest of the country.

Other popular searches