Earth Day 2009
To recognize this special day -- April 22 -- Education World offers lessons that will engage students as they create maps of an astronaut's view of Earth, explore issues of junk mail and hazardous household waste, learn about endangered species, and much more. Explore the world of environmental issues with these Best Lessons on Earth (Day)!
Library Week
Celebrate Library Week (April 12-18) with dozens of book-themed lessons and activities from our archive.
The Holocaust
Just in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day (April 21), Education World provides ten lesson plans. Included: Activities to involve students in creating time lines and ABC books, writing poetry and letters, and learning about Anne Frank and Holocaust rescuers.
Math Fun Volume #2
April is Math Awareness Month. This week, we share the second of four volumes of "Math Lessons for Math Month. Kids will love practicing their computation skills with these six "active-ities. In fact, they'll beg to do the lessons again and again.
Poetry Month
Turn your students into well-versed poets.
Arbor Day
Many states -- 34 in all -- celebrate Arbor Day in April. But trees can sprout classroom lessons any time of year. Go out on a limb and present these lessons about measuring trees, reading a color key map, creating a "good behavior tree," and more.
More Timely Lesson Ideas "Think Spring Projects and Lesson Ideas ESL/ELL Lessons Spelling Up a S-T-O-R-M
Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.
Friday Fun
Unscramble the four anagrams. What do they have in common?
Learning Game of the Week
Review many skills with the "Concentration" Review Game.
News for Kids
Scientists have discovered thousands of dino footprints in the U.S. Southwest.
Tech Lesson of the Week
In this lesson, which encourages students to think about the sounds of poems, students use lip-syncing software to produce an animated talking head.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Baseball Three teaches multiplying 2-digit numbers.
Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
This experiment will help students understand fog "clearly."
Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents Little Sammy Seed Early Childhood Teaching Themes Our Excellent Earth Earth Day
A chant, activities, and resources for Earth Day (April 22). A is for April -- and Alphabet
Activities that start with an A. The Library
Celebrate books during Library Week (April 13-19).
From the Math Machine Time to Move is a fun Web site for teaching measurement and sorting. (Grades 1-2)
Bulletin Boards That Teach Fishin for Addition -- This bulletin board offers math practice fun for individuals or small groups of students.
Writing Bug
Then I saw the strange-looking bottle behind the box
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1
A game that builds vocabulary and provides a fun break too. Teacher Lesson #2
Pictures inspire haiku writing and sharing. Teacher Lesson #3
Students write a diary from an animal's perspective.
Every-Day Edits Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Warthog. Ele-Middle Edits Duke Ellington, Anne Sullivan, Uganda
Fact Monster Hunts Primary Hunt April Hunt #4. Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #30.
5-Minute Fillers Forty volumes of activities!.
Vocab-u-lous!
Words that begin with Z.
Work Sheet of the Week
"Dialogue -- practice writing conversations.
Just for This Month! See our April Month of Fun, April Word Search, and April Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this months themes: Easter, April Showers (umbrella), Spring Flowers.
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