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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
Animals A to Z: Eagle.
Ele-Middle Edits
Jimmy Carter, Peanuts, Mount Rushmore

Writing Bug
Story Starter
A friend took a video game from a store without paying for it. What do you do?

Coloring Calendar
October Calendar
Plus 25 ideas for using the learning calendar.

Build a Fab Vocab
Vocab-u-lous! Activity
Words that begin with G.

Hunt the Fact Monster
Primary Hunt
October hunt #1
Ele-Middle Hunt
Hunt #5

Math Cross Puzzle
Math Puzzle # 19
Time (days, weeks, months, years); and multiplication by 3-digit numbers.

Geography A to Z
All Around Europe
Tour #1

More Printables
Work Sheets from TLS Books
Two dozen freebies created just for Ed World.
Work Sheets from Teacher Created Materials
100+ printables for all subjects, grades.
Phonics Word Search Puzzles
A puzzle a week all school year long.
Sudoku Puzzles
Challenge students with number fun.
Work Sheet Library
See our entire library of free printables.

Celebrate Dictionary Day
Build skills every day -- and on Dictionary Day! Dictionary Day commemorates the birth of Noah Webster (October 16, 1758), who was the father of the American dictionary. Celebrate the day by planning a dictionary scavenger hunt, playing Scrabble, creating a classroom dictionary, or any of the dozens of other ideas presented on this special Education World Lesson Planning page.

Explore the Explorers
Land ho! From Columbus to Cousteau... Education World has discovered great sites, lesson plans, and new ways to help you and your students as you explore the world of the explorers. From the New World to new worlds in space, travel with us as we share a boatload of teaching ideas. Included: Dissecting Columbus, celebrating Lewis and Clark, exploring Americas westward expansion, much more.

Fall Lessons
Looking for fall lessons? Weve gautumn!

Fire Prevention Week
Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With! -- that's the message of Fire Prevention Week 2010 (October 3-9). This year's campaign is designed to educate people about the importance of smoke alarms and encourage everyone to take the steps necessary to update and maintain their home smoke alarm protection. Included: A firehouse full of cross-curriculum activities and fire-related Web sites for Fire Prevention Week.

Hispanic Heritage Month
Ideas, resources for teaching about Hispanic culture.

Popcorn
Add a little pop to your week -- popcorn, that is. These lesson plans are sure to engage students as they create popcorn timelines, maps, and graphs; do popcorn science and math; explore popcorn history and nutrition; and munch leftover popcorn snacks too.

Bullying Prevention Week: October 4-10
Education World offers ten lessons designed to teach students to respect diversity and resolve differences peacefully. Included: Activities to teach about empathy, anger management, and effective conflict resolution. For more bullying resources, be sure to visit our Bullying Archive.

More Timely Lesson Themes
Apple Lessons
Quotation-a-Day
Writing Sonnets in Middle School

Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days:
Mondays Lesson of the Day
Students win this game by matching words on the teachers list. (Grades 2-12)
Tuesdays Lesson of the Day
Note-taking graphic organizer makes researching easier. (Grades 3-8)
Wednesdays Lesson of the Day
Students aim to hog all the cards as they practice math skills. (Grades K-12)
Thursdays Lesson of the Day
Hands-on activity demonstrates how continents, oceans formed. (Grades 6-8)
Lesson of the Day
Investigate the cause of the Great Chicago Fire (October 8, 1871). (Grades 6-12) See more Lesson Plans of the Day.


Friday Fun
How many words can your students create with seven Scrabble letters?

Learning Game of the Week
Guess the meanings of unfamiliar words in Dictionary Game.

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: The Missing Facts teaches multiplication facts.

Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
Discover the true meaning of "biodegradable."


From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank


Special Activities for This Week
Sorting Leaves
Leaf Match
Leafy Mobiles
Pumpkin Graph
Make a Mini Pumpkin

From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web.
From the Science Machine
Use Sharks: Myth and Mystery to explore the topic of biology. (Grades K-12)
From the Reading Machine
Name That Play reinforces comprehension and recall. (Grades 10-12)
From the Math Machine
Long Line o' Math Cats is a fun Web site for teaching basic operations and problem solving. (Grades 5-12)

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1
Aesop's fables as a backdrop for citizenship, letter-writing lessons.
Teacher Lesson #2
A fast-paced BINGO-like game for reviewing spelling words.
Teacher Lesson #3
Compare Cinderella to the native tale The Rough-Face Girl.
Teacher Lesson #4
Great Kapok Tree and Three Little Pigs teach about conflict.

More Lesson Ideas
Sudoku Puzzles
Book Report Makeover
Backpack-tivities (Homework Activities)
Technology Lesson Plans

Bulletin Boards That Teach
All-Star Effort -- This best-work bulletin board changes every week or two throughout the year.

5-Minute Fillers
Volume 27.

Month of Fun: September
See some timely, fun, and educational Web resources for kids:
Johnny Appleseed Word Jumbles (Grades 2-5)
SAT Word Synonyms Game (Grades 9-12)
In the House/En la Casa Matching Game (Grades 3-12)
Solar System Trading Cards (Grades 5-12)
Power Football Math Game (Grades 3-8)
Build a Dinosaur (Grades K-5)
Apples Word Search Puzzle (Grades 3-8)

Just for This Month!
See our September Month of Fun, September Word Search, and September 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...The Life Cycle

Best Books for Teaching About...Math Concepts

See more great books for students and classroom teaching themes.

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This Week's Feature
Awards and Incentives
Award medals, ribbons, and trophies. Plus certificates and preprinted pencils. All perfect for rewarding students for classroom or schoolwide achievement. See a complete selection in the Education World MarketPlace.

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