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Classroom Management Start the year off right with ideas from Ed World’s special “classroom management” archive.

Ideas for All Year Long If you’re looking for ideas you can use all year long, we’ve got some great ones for you. Recording the school year in pictures, a year of special events, a classroom book club, fun games and “quick-tivities” for awkward moments… Those are just a few of the ideas you’ll find here.

The Homework Dilemma Is homework a problem for you, your students, or their families? Our archive of homework tips offers ideas you’ve never considered. Turn homework from a dilemma to a delight with these tips and special programs.

Spelling Ideas Looking to beef up your spelling program this year? You’ve come to the right place!

Back-to-School Icebreakers 100+ icebreaker activities for getting to know your students.

Class Rules Ten activities involve students in setting rules.

Be sure to check out our Back-to-School Archive for more activities and tips for the first days of school.

Hurricane Watch! Activities designed to help your students understand this powerful force of nature.

Lesson Plan of the Day See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.

Friday Fun A yearlong project creates a great end-of-year memento.

Learning Game of the Week “Math BINGO” reinforces essential skills.

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science Do some chemistry magic with cabbage juice.

Writing Bug You see a classmate being bullied by two other students. What would you do?

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane This week: “Tic Tac Toe” teaches adding 3-digit numbers.

Tech LP of the Week Students analyze several classrooms at their school, interview teachers, research pets, and make informed recommendations about which pet is right for each classroom..

Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Transportation
Back to School

Rhyme Time
Each week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents a new rhyme for your early childhood classroom. This week:
My Home

Bulletin Boards That Teach Classroom Monopoly -- This bulletin board rewards positive behaviors all year long.

From the Math Machine Follow the Stars is a fun Web site for teaching about patterns. (Grades PreK-2)

Teacher Lessons
Teacher Lesson #1 Create a "Me" entry for a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas...
Teacher Lesson #2 Students create a new holiday worth celebrating.

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Buffalo.
Ele-Middle Edits Tarzan, Labor Day, Jesse Owens…

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt September Hunt #1.
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #1.

Vocab-u-lous! Words that begin with C.

5-Minute Fillers Volume 10.

Work Sheet of the Week “Root Words” -- practice with prefixes, suffixes.

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists:
Best Books for Teaching About...
Grammar
The Human Body

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