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Getting to Know Your Students -- Icebreaker Activities
Education World has been collecting great icebreaker activities from teachers for more than a decade. This year, we spotlight some of the best of the more than 150 ideas that teachers have shared. Included: Ten creative, teacher-tested ideas.

August Lesson
A month with no holidays? Have students make up their own!

Education World's Work Sheet Library includes hundreds of free printables for use across the grades and across the curriculum. You will find a sampling of our printables below. Visit our Work Sheet Library for a complete selection. Every-Day Edits Primary Edits Edit info about animals from A to Z. Ele-Middle Edits New editing activities month by month. Writing Bug Story Starter I'm really good at these three things Hunt the Fact Monster Students learn Internet searching skills as they search the Fact Monster. Primary Hunts Ele-Middle Hunts Build a Fab Vocab Vocab-u-lous! Activity Words that begin with A. Geography A to Z Places That Begin With the Letter T Can you name all seven places? Math Cross Puzzle Math Puzzle # 16 Rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds. Make Your Own Work Sheet Work Sheets for This Month Create an activity for any subject. More Printables Work Sheets from Highlights for Children Hidden pictures, rebus stories, more. Mystery State Use the clues to find the state. Backpack-tivities Involve parents in homework fun. Work Sheet Library See our entire library of free printables.

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.

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