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Overcoming Teacher Compassion Fatigue
Learn more about self-care strategies and overcoming compassion fatigue so you can take care of your students and loved ones!
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Set Up a Remote Learning Schedule for PreK-K Teachers
Get a 2-week planner and planning template! This collection is designed to give you ideas for teaching primary students with a remote learning schedule. We will share a variety of resources to explore.
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Words That Heal: Using Children's Literature to Address Bullying
Books can create empathy. Books can build self-esteem. Books can offer insight and coping strategies. Books can encourage anti-bullying. Books can heal. The five discussion guides in the "Words That Heal: Using Children's Literature to...
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First Day of Elementary School Activities
The first day of school can be daunting, especially for younger scholars. Instead, make the first day of school happy with these ice breakers, games, activities, and more designed to brighten your elementary learners' day!
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First Week of School Grades Pre-K-5
Nothing is more exhilarating and exhausting than the first week of school. Make those five days meaningful and rewarding for you and your scholars with a collection that offers informative reads, lessons, activities, and icebreakers that...
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Elementary School Ice Breakers
Break the ice with a collection of icebreakers for Kindergarten through fifth grade. Scholars get to know their new friends through various activities such as quilt design, personal interviews, cootie catchers, singing, a game of "Would...
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First Day of School Grades Pre-K-5
It's hard to believe that summer is coming to an end! Start the new school year with a collection equipped with a planning template, welcome and get-to-know-you activities, reading comprehension lessons, writing prompts, a rules...
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Back-to-School Grades Pre-K-5
Be prepared for a new school year with a back-to-school collection equipped with various resources to create a warm welcome for your incoming scholars. Gain perspective, tips, and recommendations, with an assortment of informative...
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Lions Quest SEL Mindfulness Resources: Grades Pre-K-2
Mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-management are the focus of a 10-activity collection for social-emotional learning. Young scholars practice breathing techniques to stay calm, identify their feelings, control impulses, build...
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Tools for Supporting Emotional Well-Being: Younger Children and Their Parents
A six-video series explores coping skills designed to boost social-emotional development in self-awareness, self-management, and mindfulness. Young scholars view informative videos that detail belly breathing, how to calm their minds,...
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Rockets Educator Guide
The 17 resources in NASA’s Rockets Educator Guide allow young scientists and engineers to engage in experiments as they examine images of more than 2,00 years of rockets. Scholars then read articles that provide an overview of the next...
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Core Competencies of SEL
Six short videos detail six competencies of Social-Emotional Learning—social awareness, self-awareness, self-management, relationship skills, responsible decision making, and future self. Videos stress the importance of social and...
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Classroom PE Games
If you're stuck inside on a rainy day for PE or want to give your class a brain break, try out these fun games and activities. Games include Lave Field, Animal Escape, Alphabet Aerobics, and many more. Each of the 20 activities in the...
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TeachEngineering: Earthquakes Living Lab
Seven activities make up the TeachEngineering: Earthquakes Living Lab Collection. Activities designed for grades K-8 include “Geology and the 1906 San Francisco Quake,” “Designing for Disaster,” and “The Theory of Plate Tectonics.”...
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Earthquakes Living Lab: Geology and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Class members look at two historical earthquakes: San Francisco, California, and Kobe, Japan. Pairs compare the two earthquakes and their impacts, then determine how engineers may use the information gleaned from previous earthquakes to...
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Earthquakes Living Lab: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Class members research the theory of continental drift, examine evidence of plate tectonics, connect this information to engineering, then write an essay on whether they support the theory of continental drift.
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Adventures in Chemistry: Experiments
Twenty-one Inquiry-based lessons provide young scientists with an opportunity to experiment with a variety of chemical reactions. Classroom investigators make observations, develop basic lab skills, and follow step-by-step instructions...
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Rockin' English Lessons: ABC's and Numbers
Get ready to sing loud and proud! Three versions of the alphabet song and two counting songs make up a collection created to assist young scholars learn their ABCs and 1,2,3's.
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On the Moon Educator Guide
The five lessons in NASA’s On the Moon Educator Guide challenge young engineers to design and build an air-powered rocket, a shock-absorbing system to protect two marshmallow astronauts, and a rubber band-powered rover. In addition, they...
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Expressing Emotions Through Art
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents a series of sequential lessons designed for primary school children that focuses on the ways artists depict or express feelings of caring and working together in works of art. To begin, young scholars...
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Animated Fables and Beginning Readers
Practice reading with children with a series of animated versions of a few of Aesop’s most famous fables: The Grasshopper and the Ants; Big Bug and Little Bug; A Toy for Spot; The Lion and the Mouse; and Ham with Jam?
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Nutrition - PreK - 1st
Whether it's about the food groups or how food is grown, children can have fun while learning about nutrition.
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Moon Munchies: Human Exploration Project and Engineering Design Challenge
NASA and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, or ITEEA, present young scientists with a challenge: design and build lunar plant growth chambers so that astronauts can grow edible plants on the moon. Class...
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Sanitation
Many diseases and conditions can be prevented or controlled through appropriate personal hygiene and by frequently washing parts of the body and hair with soap and clean, running water (if available). Good body washing practices can...