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 10-16) 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 2-8.
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.
Americas Civil War
Teach about the war that divided a nation and ended slavery.
Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-8
A special gift just for you: five lessons to leave behind when you take a day off.
More Timely Lesson Ideas Mothers Day Activities Cinco de Mayo WebQuest Fantastic Field Days Holocaust Remembrance Day (May 2) Arbor Day and Trees
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?
News for Kids Will Jordan Romero Make It to the Top of the World?
A 13-year-old California boy hopes to become the youngest person to scale Mount Everest.
Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
Which cleaner is really best?
Learning Game of the Week
Kids get to know each other with Fabulous Friends game.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: Make 20 teaches addition, subtraction to 20.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Fitness Fun for Fitness Month Tossing Gumdrops Make Up a Game It's an Obstacle, Of Course! Wall-to-Wall Fun Hoop Hopping Beach Bucket Basketball Just Moooooooooooove! Ring Around the Rosie
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web. From the Science Machine
Use Plane Smarts to explore the topics of aeronautics and chemistry. (Grades 2-6) From the Reading Machine Charlotte's Web: Make-Your-Own Comics reinforces writing skills. (Grades 3-6) From the Math Machine Jumping Math Cats is a fun Web site for teaching problem solving. (Grades 4-12)
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1
"Spur" interest in cowboy life, Old West. Teacher Lesson #2
Another fun game for math review, practice. Teacher Lesson #3
Animal adaptations spur creative writing.
More Lesson Ideas Technology Lesson Plans Mystery State Early Childhood Themes Phonics Word Search
Bulletin Boards That Teach The End! -- End the year by encouraging summer reading.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 6.
Month of Fun: May
See some timely, fun, and educational Web resources for kids: Matching Shapes Game (Grades PreK-K) Famous Asian Americans Worksheet (Grades 3-12) Pets Word Search (Grades 2-5) Cinco de Mayo Unit Activities (Grades 4-6) Nurses Coloring Page (Grades 1-5) Celebrating Wildflowers Word Search (Grades 4-7) First Aid Word Search (Grades 3-6)
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 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...Field Day
Best Books for Teaching About...Asian Heritage
See more great books for students and classroom teaching themes.
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Fitness Equipment
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