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Teachnology

Teachnology: End of Year Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Enhance lessons at the end of the school year with the help of these resources. Teachnology provides many worksheets, activities, suggestions for report card comments and more.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Back to School Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachnology provides some excellent resources for teaching a theme unit on back to school or to use as fillers at the beginning of the school year.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Our Big Backyard: How Does Our Local Ecosystem Change During the Year?

For Students 9th - 10th
Get students observing the environment around their school with this activity. In this lab experiment, students keep a journal containing written observations and digital pictures of how local flora and fauna change during the school year.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tracking the Sun: Observing the Path of the Sun Throughout the Year

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Over the course of the school year, students 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.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Friends: School Is Out for the Summer!

For Students K - 1st
Now that school is out for the summer, children have many new adventures and experiences. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: Collection

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
As teachers, students, and families enter an uncertain school year with new routines, both in-person and virtual, PBS LearningMedia offers this special collection of flexible resources to support learning from anywhere. Find videos,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that gives some pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Supporting New Principals in the Early Years

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The first year for a new principal can be a daunting and lonely job. Supporting new principals with strong induction programs, ongoing mentorships (possibly for several years), and forums which encourage principal interaction with...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Welcome to the First Day of School!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Prepare for your students first day of school with these inviting activities. This site features several great ideas for teachers to incorporate in their beginning of school lessons.
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Read Works

Read Works: School: How Has It Changed?

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how much schools have changed throughout the years. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Through the Years With a Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore, observe, and record the life and nature in their adopted "one small square" throughout the school year. As they collect data, they make predictions and inquiries in regards to weather, temperature, and phenology.
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BBC

Bbc: Week of 9 1 14: u.s. Schools to Have Non White Majority

For Students 9th - 10th
During the 2014-2015 school year, American public schools are projected to have more students than ever of non-white ethnicities, and Caucasians will be in the minority for the first time.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Back to School Planning Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Multiple back to school resources. Includes icebreakers, quick first day ideas, and unit plans.
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Other

Missouri School of Journalism: Pictures of the Year International

For Students 9th - 10th
For more than 65 years, the Missouri School of Journalism has sponsored the Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competitions. View the current year's winning photographs in the Winners Gallery, and see past winners in the...
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Other

Edublogs.org: The Best Resource for Planning the First Day of School

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A blog, written by Larry Ferlazzo, provides information and online resources from his book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, on getting the school year off to a good start.
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Other

First School Years: Literacy: Phonics: Vowels: Sort the Long and Short 'E' Words

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site contains a sorting activity through which students can practice identifying pictures with either a long or short 'e' vowel sound.
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Read Works

Read Works: Should School Be Year Round?

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: All About Me & the School Experience Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Great idea for the beginning of the year. Uses the book Clifford's First School Day by Norman Bridwell as the starting place for students to make their own book about going to school.
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Read Works

Read Works: Will You Go to School This Summer?

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the pros and cons of year-round school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Year Round School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This in depth look at Year-Round education provides an solid, objective look at the pros, cons, and instances of this approach in practice. An excellent list of references can be found at the bottom of the page.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Rethinking Schools: An Introduction to New York City's Experience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Only half of New York City's public school students complete high school in four years, one- third of all 9th graders fail, and fewer than 40% of students in large, low-performing schools graduate. To address student needs and thereby...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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US Department of Education

Usde: Getting Ready for College Early

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. Department of Education provides a Handbook for Parents of Students in the Middle and Junior High School Years to help them to prepare for college.
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Employment Spot

Employment Spot: Back to School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Perhaps it's time to consider further education or training. In today's job market, the competition is fierce. Applicants are more qualified and better educated than their counterparts of only a few years ago. Many times, the only way to...

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