Fresh Ideas for Opening Day
Have you done the same first-day-of-school activities for years? Toss out those stale ideas! If you're looking for fresh ideas, these five lessons might fill the bill. Included: Students discover their learning strengths, create magnificent works of art, have fun following directions, more.
More Back to School Ideas
Be sure to check out our Back-to-School Archive for more activities and tips for the first days of school.
Substitute Survival
Ten fun activities for subs (and regular teachers too).
Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days: Monday A puzzle race builds cooperative group work skills. (Grades K-8) Tuesday Have fun making up new words, writing definitions for them. (Grades 3-12) Wednesday Fun activity reinforces estimation, number lines, mean, median, more. (Grades K-12) Thursday Ten strategies for creating lively debates in the classroom. (Grades 3-12) Friday Read slaves personal accounts of slavery; write a slave's account of freedom. (Grades 3-12)
See more Lesson Plans of the Day.
Learning Game of the Week
Read the Teacher's Mind game reinforces vocabulary, more.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: Fishing for Division Facts.
Friday Fun
Older students and younger buddies team up for yearlong fun.
Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
You can tell a person's shoe size without looking at his or her foot.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Special Activities for Back to School and More Make a Bulletin Board Friendship Quilt We Fit Together A Citizenship Flag Patriotic Pretzels Healthy Teeth Experiment
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web. From the Math Machine Time to Move is a fun Web site for teaching measurement and sorting. (Grades 1-2) From the Science Machine
Use Energy Vampires to explore the topics of energy and electricity. (Grades 2-6) From the Reading Machine I Spy City reinforces vocabulary. (Grades K-4)
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1
Use a popular children's book to alleviate first-day-of-school jitters. Teacher Lesson #2
Game teaches number line; positive, negative numbers. Teacher Lesson #3
Fun activity teaches importance of continuity in writing. Teacher Lesson #4
Students write text for wordless picture books.
More Lesson Ideas Sudoku Puzzles Book Report Makeover Backpack-tivities (Homework Activities) Technology Lesson Plans
Bulletin Boards That Teach You Fit Right In! -- It takes every student to complete this back-to-school bulletin board puzzle.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 20.
Month of Fun: August
See some timely, fun, and educational Web resources for kids: Matthew Henson Cloze Activity (Grades 3-5) Presidents & Vice Presidents Matching Game (Grades 4-12) Wacky Web Tales: Summer Reading Report (Grades 3-12) Ramadan: Crescent Moon Coloring Page (Grades K-2) August Word Search (Grades 3-6) Left Handers Cloze Activity (Grades 4-8) Science Prefixes and Suffixes Matching Game (Grades 6-12)
Just for This Month!
See our August Month of Fun, August Word Search, and August Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this months holidays and special days.
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 weeks themed booklists.
Best Books for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions
Best Books for Teaching About...The Alphabet
See more great books for students and classroom teaching themes.
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Arts & Crafts Supplies
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