Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...

Teachers turning into students? It's not Freaky Friday! It's a thoughtful workshop that teaches participants how to plan professional development for staff. Third in a 15-part series, the workshop provides a platform for the other...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ideas for engaging learning activities. Ideas for class warm-up activities are provided for language arts and math.

In this activity, students use the CBL 2 to collect temperature data as a sensor warms up in a cup of water. They find an appropriate mathematical model for the resulting data set.

Warming Up To SimCalc MathWorlds (for the Calculator)

This site features some background information and a satellite image of the Gulf Stream that you can analyze using information also given at the site. There is a link to an activity about the formation of eddies along the Gulf Stream as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A daily language arts daily warm-up activity is provided on this resource. This resource assesses 17 critical language arts skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let this brief warm up activity get your students going with analogies.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let this brief warm up activity get your students on their way towards understanding connotations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Your senses are important especially when you need to describe an experience. Let this brief warm up activity get you started.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let this brief warm up activity get your students started with clipped words.

In the gym, set up a "fitness race track" where students can both run and participate in a variety of exercises like push-ups, crunches, and jump roping. A great warm-up activity to precede a sport or physically-demanding activity.

Primary Resources provide pdf and html documents for lessons that include: warm-up activities, dance & gymnastics, invasion games, striking & fielding games, net/wall games, fitness & athletics, outdoor & adventurous...

Young scholars observe demonstrations, and build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect, the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming, and the implications of global warming theory for...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a writing warm-up activity for students. Rectangles with key words present direction prompts

Find ideas for water fitness and aerobics at this website. While in a pool, you can use kickboards, water jugs, fins, and water resistant equipment as you participate in a variety of activities: a warm-up, stretches, cardiovascular...

This Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep site shows you how to proof something by showing that it is false. This look at indirect proofs includes a practice and a teacher resource page, which features a warm-up activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write for an extended period of time. Students will engage in this silent writing activity to building their stamina and to increase their creativity.

Do you think natural materials also heat up in the sun, or only man-made materials? Do this activity to find out.

Students create and observe a greenhouse effect model and discuss the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves and the Earth.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find a variety of worksheets, booklets, conversion charts, warm-up activities and more on measurements. There is even one activity that could be used in a French language class which...

The lesson discusses sequences. Students learn about finite sequences, infinite sequences, and sequences with patterns. The resource consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This SMART Notebook resource can be used as a warm-up activity. Each slide will stimulate verbal responses on ways to begin sentences. Students will then start their own sentences with nouns, verbs,...

This husband-wife team conduct an online workshop that teaches you how to research and write a biographical sketch--a story about someone's life that tells a lot about who that person is or was. Along the way, you'll find research and...