End-of-Year Reviews
Is review time a deadly bore for you and your students? Add a little fun to review time and you might be surprised. Games will spice up reviews, revive interest, and ensure retention. Included: Five activities for use in all subjects, all grades.
End-of-Year Projects #1
Keep students engaged til the end. Fill the final days of the school year with these lessons.
Spelling Power
Each May, students compete in the National Spelling Bee. But, in most classrooms, spelling is a yearlong activity -- and Education World has all the resources you need to spark excitement about spelling. Find spelling games and more to help students spell up a s-t-o-r-m.
Asian Heritage Month
Explore the culture, the people, the literature.
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 article, lessons, resources, and activities focused on PE.
Fantastic Field Days
Dozens of ideas, plus tips for field day success.
Memorial Day
What does Memorial Day mean to your students? Do they grasp its significance? Or the sheer number of American men and women who have died serving their country so the rest of us might enjoy freedom? Included: Five lessons help students understand the meaning of Memorial Day -- plus links to more than 2 dozen more lessons.
Childrens Book Week
Celebrate Book Week (May 12-18) with these activities, crafts, projects, much more.
Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.
Friday Fun
Create a favorite book on tape so others might enjoy it too.
Learning Game of the Week
Generate lists of words in the "Out of the Box" vocab game.
Tech Lesson of the Week Students create a home page or small Web site based on a theme related to a recent history or social studies lessons.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: "Dice Deluxe" teaches 3-addend addition.
Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
Bring yeast to life, and discover how they ferment.
Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents A "Friendly" Chat Early Childhood Teaching Themes Celebrate Friendship
Make a friendship fruit salad and more. May Flowers and the Five Senses
Integrate the senses as spring sprouts. Water
Learn about one of Earths most valuable resources.
From the Math Machine Line Jumper is a fun Web site for teaching about basic operations, negative numbers, and number lines. (Grades 1-7)
Bulletin Boards That Teach WOW, Watermelon! -- A fun end-of-year bulletin board gets students thinking about summer.
Writing Bug
What advice would you give kids who soon will be starting the grade you are now completing?
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1
Create, conduct surveys; report the results in graph and letter form. Teacher Lesson #2
Use popcorn to teach about fractions. Teacher Lesson #3
Seashells help teach about the importance of including detail in writing.
Every-Day Edits Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Zebra. Ele-Middle Edits Mount St. Helens, Dolley Madison, Crater Lake
Fact Monster Hunts Primary Hunt May Hunt #4. Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #34.
Vocab-u-lous! Words that begin with CL- blends.
5-Minute Fillers Volume 5.
Work Sheet of the Week
"Number Patterns" -- two complete-the-patterns activities.
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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