A Puzzle a Day
A puzzle a day provides practice that pays! Puzzles exercise students' critical thinking skills while providing needed practice in math, spelling, and other areas of the curriculum. They make great bell-ringer activities too. Included: A year of daily puzzle activities.
Childrens Book Week
Celebrate Book Week (May 9-17) with these activities, crafts, projects, much more.
Asian Heritage Month
Each May we take time to recognize the special contributions of people of Asian and Pacific-Island heritage. The lessons here introduce students to famous Asian Americans and explore their origins and their literature. Included: Five lessons and worksheets.
Pet Week
Celebrate Spot (and Tabby) across the curriculum during this special week, May 3-9.
Fitness Month
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, but everyone knows that kids need physical education all year long. Thats why Education Worlds archive "teems with articles, lessons, resources, and activities focused on PE.
The Civil War
Teach about the war that divided a nation and ended slavery.
More Timely Lesson Ideas Mothers Day Activities Cinco de Mayo WebQuest Fantastic Field Days Arbor Day and Trees
Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.
Friday Fun
The "Four Corners game is a nice reward for a week of hard work.
Learning Game of the Week
Reinforce vocabulary skills with the "Secret Word game.
News for Kids
A boy in California was tired of his peers’ bad language, so he decided to do something about it.
Tech Lesson of the Week
Students interpret what a set of pictographs means and "write" a few sentences using their own pictograph system.
Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science
Touch two noses on your own face and discover something about perception.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Junior Star Traveler teaches adding, subtracting to 10.
Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents May's Rainbow Daisy Mae (Pet Week) Early Childhood Teaching Themes Water
Learn about one of Earths most valuable resources. Mothers Day
Are you set for Mothers Day on May 11?
Bulletin Boards That Teach Wall of Thanks -- Remember those who died serving their country.
From the Math Machine Connect the Numbers is a fun Web site for teaching number sequence. (Grades Pre K-K)
Writing Bug
If I could live in another country for one year
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1
A Jane Yolen dinosaur story motivates this tech integration activity. Teacher Lesson #2
This game teaches coordinate plane algebra. Teacher Lesson #3
Students develop a biography for a Beanie Baby.
Fact Monster Hunts Primary Hunt May Hunt #2. Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #32.
Every-Day Edits Primary Edits Edit info about animals from A to Z. Ele-Middle Edits New editing activities month by month.
Vocab-u-lous! Words that begin with CH- blends.
5-Minute Fillers Volume 3.
Work Sheet of the Week
"Stock Market -- teaches economics, math.
Just for This Month! See our May Month of Fun, May Word Search, and May Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this months themes: Memorial Day/Flag Day.
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