SMART Technologies
Smart: Capital Letters Days of the Week
Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence that uses days of the week in this SMART whiteboard activity.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do I Feel Today?
A story about the feelings children have each day of the week. Includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tracking the Sun: Observing the Path of the Sun Throughout the Year
Over the course of the school year, young scholars collect weekly data about the sun's position at a specific time of day, resulting in creating a figure "8" that shows the path of the sun called an analemma.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Pleasure Book of the Year by George Routledge and Sons
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pleasure Book of the Year by George Routledge and Sons [1870]. This is a collection of illustrated poetry representing each month of the year and activities for...
Scholastic
Scholastic Internet Field Trip: Calendar Math Activities
This website offers plenty of links for activities around the topic of calendar math using estimation, measurement, and computations.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Dating Game
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students an algorithm to find the day on which any date in the past or future, has or will land. The lesson begins with a manual "hammering out" of a few specified dates by...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Date Game
These programs display a given date and you need to calculate the day of the week on which that date occurred. DATEGAME keeps track of how many questions you answer and the percent you get correct.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Maps and Groundwater
This activity is designed to give students practice using a geologic map to understand how water shapes the land- and is stored within the land- in part of the Grand Canyon.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: The Stock Market Project
Students pick a stock that they would like to follow for a period of 2 weeks. Each day they look up the stock and chart its price. At the end of the two week period they graph their data using the graphing calculator. They compare their...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: October 2005 Calendar
[Free Registration/Login Required] A variety of activities all having to do with the calendar; days of the week, months of the year, Pledge, and counting.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teacher Appreciation Honors Our Teachers
With this collection of resources, students can find fun and create ways to honor the positive impact teachers have had on their lives.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Back to School Planning Guide
Multiple back to school resources. Includes icebreakers, quick first day ideas, and unit plans.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Geologic Maps & Earthquakes
This activity is designed to give students practice using a geologic map to assess the likelihood and location of a particular natural hazard- earthquakes- in California.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: Forces of Change: Worm Watch [Pdf]
Over a period of a week to ten days students observe the impact worms have on soil. Seven easily obtainable objects are all that is needed to complete this activity. 45 minutes are required for setup and some additional time for...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Capital Letters Months
Students will identify where a capital letter is required in a sentence relating to months in this whiteboard lesson activity provided by SMART.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Monday's Child
Do you know what day of the week were you born? You can find the exact day when you try this math challenge that explores problem solving with algorithms. Find out how scientist and statisticians use algorithms in their jobs. A one page...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: July Calendar
[Free Registration/Login Required] Daily warm-up activity/routine charts (Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem, days of the week, money, etc.) for the month of July.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Special Names
[Free Registration/Login Required] Through these activities, students begin to demonstrate control in the writing process.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: First Grade Math Calendar
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a calendar activity that takes place each morning. The students are introduced to a variety of standards. The students continue to build on their learning and the calendar becomes a...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Division:
Do you think you are a time expert? Let's put your skills to the test with this conversion activity. We are going to give you some crazy number of days and you need to turn it into a week value that is easier to understand. You're going...
Other
Ello: Listening Games
Listening games based on a range of every day, "authentic" themes: making a sandwich, hair, getting and giving directions, taking a phone call, holidays, etc. Listen to an audio description, then pick the picture that matches it. Geared...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Biking vs Driving
This exercise asks a series of questions about the benefits of biking to work one day per week instead of driving, stressing estimation and unit conversions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Imaginary Numbers? What Do You Mean Imaginary?
Is it any wonder that young scholars are suspicious? We lead, sometimes drag, them through Algebra I insisting they must follow the order of operations. We make them learn the "hard way" of doing an assignment one day only to show them...