Learn About Decembers Multicultural Holidays
Do your students celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Three Kings Day? Maybe they celebrate St. Lucia Day or Ramadan. Chances are your class includes students who observe more than one of those events. Whether that is the case or not, December offers great opportunities for teaching about our multicultural world. Included: Handfuls of timely teaching lessons and resources.
Celebrate National Inclusive Schools Week
Ideas for recognizing this special week, December 6-10.
Whiteboards Stimulate Student Learning
Start with a clean slate -- introduce mini-whiteboards to your classroom. Students love working on their own whiteboards; and it's a great way to keep an entire class actively involved in a lesson. Education World offers five lessons to engage students in learning with whiteboards. Included: Tips from whiteboard users, plus whiteboard alternatives.
Vocab-u-lous!
Challenge your middle-grades and high-school students to build a fabulous vocabulary. (Grades 5-12)
More Timely Lesson Ideas Word Wall Active-ities Following Directions Lessons Teaching About Thanksgiving Then and Now Native American Heritage Month Fifty States, Five Lessons Bullying Awareness Lessons
Lesson Plan of the Day
See lesson plans posted on recent days: Mondays Lesson of the Day Reading an essay about teen issues inspires reflective writing about ones own life. (Grades 6-12) Tuesdays Lesson of the Day Conduct interviews with historic figures in a TV talk-show format. (Grades 3-12) Wednesdays Lesson of the Day This powerful activity will help bury students I cant thoughts. Thursdays Lesson of the Day Students locate dictionary guide words in this timed team game. Fridays Lesson of the Day
Stuck indoors? Set up a net, blow up a balloon, and play balloon volleyball.
See more Lesson Plans of the Day.
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane
This week: Squeeze Play teaches place value.
Friday Fun
Adapt this active game for any math skill you are currently teaching.
Learning Game of the Week
Puzzle game promotes thinking skills and cooperation.
Vicki Cobbs Show-Biz Science
Create a "properties of light" holiday display.
From Our
Early Childhood
Activity Bank
Celebrating Decembers Special Days Sharing Dreidels Make a Kwanzaa Drum Make a Dreidel Nifty Necklaces Celebrate Kwanzaa Perfect Piatas Joyful Jars (Ramadan) Delightful Diyas (Diwali) Las Posadas Cookies Make an Edible Menorah Kwanzaa Fruits
From the Learning Machine
Explore the coolest resources on the Web. From the Science Machine
Use Kinetic City to explore the topics of biology, the body, fitness, and health. (Grades 3-5) From the Reading Machine Hugo Cabret: Write Your Own Word and Picture Stories reinforces writing. (Grades 3-8) From the Math Machine Multiplication Mystery is a fun Web site for teaching factors and multiplication. (Grades 3-5)
Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans Teacher Lesson #1 Students "discover" the concept of volume. Teacher Lesson #2 Students earn bonus quiz points for following foreign-language directions. Teacher Lesson #3 Learning about the life and poems of Emily Dickinson (birth date: December 10).
More Lesson Ideas Sudoku Puzzles Book Report Makeover Backpack-tivities (Homework Activities) Technology Lesson Plans
Bulletin Boards That Teach The Gift of a Helping Hand -- Celebrate the spirit of giving with this December bulletin board.
5-Minute Fillers
Volume 36.
Month of Fun: December
See some timely, fun, and educational Web resources for kids: Explore Mars Game (Grades 3-6) SAT Vocabulary Matching Game (Grades 9-12) Mark Twain Word Search Puzzle (Grades 6-12) Hanukkah Online Dreidel Game (Grades 3-8) Candy Cane Coloring Page (Grades PreK-1) Christmas Around the World Matching Game (Grades 5-12) Funny Fill-In: A Holiday Letter (Grades 3-6)
Just for This Month!
See our December Month of Fun, December Word Search, and December 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...Fables
Best Books for Teaching About...Ancient History
See more great books for students and classroom teaching themes.
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Awards and Incentives
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