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Getting it Straight with Latitude and Longitude Skills

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Teachers can help students learn latitude and longitude skills using games and other motivating activities.
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Curated OER

Snail Mail vs. E-mail: Let the Challenge Begin

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Compare past and present forms of written communication with a fable to guide your pupils in discovering the benefits of various forms of written communication.
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Student Handouts

Absent Students Tracker

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Keep a record of who was absent in each class period. The page provides a place to note your class name and date as well as boxes for writing down names for each period.
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ESL Kids World

Daily Routines

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
What is a daily routine, and how can it be important for our growth and development? Introduce youngsters to their daily routines and habits, from the moment they awake in the morning through their meals and bedtime.
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Poofy Cheeks

Back to School

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
A new school year means building relationships with a new group of interesting, unique young children. Get the process started with this simple survey that asks for students' basic information as well as their favorite subject,...
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Education World

My Favorite Things

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Celebrate your students' individuality with this simple back-to-school worksheet. Offering six sentence frames asking for students' favorite subject, book, lunch, and more, this activity will help break the ice during the first days...
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Calm in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore conflict resolution.  In this character development lesson, students decorate paper plates to use as puppets. Students role play scenarios in which classroom problem solving is practiced.
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People for Peace Project

Get Your Angries Out

For Teachers K - 3rd
Help your little ones manage their big feelings. A therapeutic worksheet from Dr. Lynne Namka's The Mad Family Gets Their Mads Out guides kids through checking their emotions and breathing through their anger, and eventually...
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Achievement Strategies

Fishbone Map for Cause and Effect

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Class members can outline a topic or text with this graphic organizer. There are spaces provided for causes, details, and results.
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Education.com

Back to School Calendar

For Teachers K - 5th
From the first day of school until the last, keep your class running smoothly with this set of calendar templates. Including both a monthly and a weekly calendar, as well as a project description page, these resources are useful...
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Organizing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read given information and identify the main ideas and specific detail of the story. In groups, they read a historical title and create a "book talk" for each one, summarizing the story. In addition, students create a...
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Curated OER

Judges in the Classroom: Unfair of Deceptive Sales Practices

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers learn to judge fair and unfair sales practices. They read, discuss, and work through hypothetical situations to evaluate whether the sales practices were deceptive or unfair. Handouts are included.
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Classroom Management Tips For A Great Year

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Classroom management lesson plans can give teachers and students the information they need to kick off the year right.
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Project-Based Learning and the Arts

For Teachers 1st - 4th
What's so great about Project-Based learning? Read to learn how projects can help kids apply higher-order thinking skills, conduct thoughtful investigations, and make cross curricular connections. This short article includes five...
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Making the Impossible, Possible

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
With budget cuts galore, skip the bake sales and create a project with Donors Choose.
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Best Websites to Explore the Common Core

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Are you familiar with the Common Core State Standards, but want to dig deeper? Check out some of these helpful websites.
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All Things PLC

A Balanced and Coherent System of Assessment

For Teachers K - 12th
Assessment is key in any professional learning community (PLC). Check out this graphic that details the types of, frequency of, and purpose of various types of assessments used by PLC teams.
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Lesson Ideas for Comparing and Contrasting Content

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Here are three lesson ideas to help students learn how to compare and contrast information in any content area
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Pairing Up: The Importance of Peer Partners

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Encourage relationships between classmates with varying academic and social needs.
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Using Games to Reinforce Vocabulary Development in English Language Learners

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Practical ways to implement games and activities into whole-class and sheltered English language development time.
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How to Celebrate Digital Learning Day

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Leverage technology to boost student engagement and achievement.
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PBIS World

Behavior Specialist Referral Form

For Teachers K - 6th
Make sure your school's behavior specialist is well-informed by filling out this form when you refer an individual to him or her. The form provides a checklist of behaviors, an academic checklist, and a list of environmental factors to...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 8

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 9

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Here's a workshop for teachers that rocks the academic world! Using earthquakes as a medium for instruction, educators learn about crosscutting engineering with science. Fun, hands-on, collaborative exercises encourage participants to...