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Two Minutes, Twice a Day: Oral Health Skills
Check out these four cross-curricular lessons to teach young elementary schoolers about the importance of oral hygiene! They will have a blast and learn a lot about caring for their teeth in the process.
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Getting to Know You Activities
Another school year; another set of growing minds to welcome. Get to know your newest scholars with a series of activities created by The Curriculum Corner. Pupils get creative and reflect on their personal favorites, family life, and...
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Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves
Give scholars the opportunity to discover their past with a collection from the Museum of Tolerance that highlights the uniqueness of every family's story. Learners gain insight through interviews, family tress, heirlooms, and oral...
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ABCmouse—Alphabet Jams!
Tap your toes and get your groove on with a set of individual alphabet letter songs by ABCmouse Early Learning Academy. Not only do the videos teach the letters and model their sounds, they incorporate a different genre of music into...
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Who's Your Hero?
Who is your hero? Kids will love to dive into this theme as you work through the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt unit on heroes. The materials can be used with the textbook or without, and come with options for English Language Learners, as...
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Algebra Math Puzzles
Need a break in the math cycle? Here are some fun math and algebra puzzles to keep your mathematicians learning, thinking, and even getting stumped a few times to encourage deeper thinking.
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Solve Problems Involving Multiplication of Fractions and Mixed Numbers (5.NF.B.6)
Watch how its done. The two resources in this collection use visual representation to model how to multiply fractions. One lesson focuses on simple fractions and the other on mixed numbers. A nice way to introduce the topic to allow...
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Discriminating Phonemes
Emergent readers will love these activities designed to help them understand basic phonemes. Find everything you'll need to create an engaging introduction to digraphs, consonants, and vowels.
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Bulletin Boards to Get You through the Year
It can be very tricky to find time to come up with rotating bulletin board ideas. Here is a collection that answers all your problems. From August to June, these bulletin board ideas are guaranteed to help get you through the year.
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Tone Worksheets: Poetry
So much of a poem's tone is determined by the author's word choice as it relates to the poem's meaning. Explore the concept of tone in poetry with a literary analysis unit, which includes an explanatory slideshow presentation and five...
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Ancient Egypt
Bring to life a study of ancient Egypt with this series of engaging educational resources. Providing information about the culture and history of ancient Egypt, these videos, activities, and lesson plans will make a great addition to an...
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Rock Out to Fractions and Decimals
Study Jams! resources provide different videos and practice problems to focus on a topic. This collection has a variety of different fraction, decimals, and percent videos that each focus on something a little different. Because the...
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Find the Area of Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and Polygons (6.G.A.1)
Before diving into the formulas for area, show where the formulas connect to the shape of the figure. The four videos look at different shapes and by decomposing them, they end up relating directly to their area formula.
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Photosynthesis: Just a Little Sunshine!
Brighten up your middle school unit on photosynthesis with a collection of worksheets and lessons, perfect for illuminating this brilliant topic.
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First Grade Writing Rubrics
Here is a set of three first grade writing rubrics designed to meet the Common Core writing standards for opinion, informative, and narrative writing pieces. They each include four levels of performance—beginning, developing, proficient,...
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Who Needs Pronouns? We do!
A collection of worksheets and videos is a great addition to your unit on parts of speech. Though the worksheets are designed for middle school, they would be applicable to upper elementary levels as well as high school classes in need...
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Synonyms and Antonyms: Beyond the Thesaurus
Using the same words over and over? Vary your vocabulary and your writing with a collection of lessons, activities, and worksheets focusing on synonyms and antonyms.
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How Will You Describe Me?
There are many ways to describe people. Their physical appearances, personality traits, and behaviors are a few examples. This also applies to characters in literature, and it is important for our children to be able to identify obvious...
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Volleyball Practice Plans & Drill Bank
Enhance volleyball lessons or team practice with a collection of videos that showcase a 14 and under beach volleyball team from Canada. The Volleyball Canada Beach Volleyball Drill Bank Series clearly demonstrates how to perform drills...
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Scientific Method
Get a detailed introduction to the scientific method with this collection that examines the process through song and reading comprehension, then apply knew found knowldge to an experiment involving ice cubes.
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So Many Similes
Take your simile instruction to the next level with this collection of videos, posters, webpages, presentations, and more. Designed for a range of skill levels and learning styles, the collection has an array of resources that fit the...
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The Engineering Process
Discover the ins and outs of the engineering process from Crash Course Kids series of 17 informative and engaging videos. Each video offers insightful details into the world of engineering, captivating animation, and kid-friendly humor...
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Classifying 3D Shapes
Get help when teaching 3D shapes in Geometry by using these resources to introduce classification, practice labeling, and apply this knowledge to other types of problems.
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Poetry is Not a Chryme
A poem: Here's a collection to share your love and affection of poetry. Steer your students in the direction of this collection on poetry. Incorporate this collection on poetry in the classroom, or during April to celebrate National...