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- On the First Day of Christmas, My Teacher Gave to Me...
- "On the first day of Christmas my teacher gave to me..." plus more "Twelve Days of Christmas" activities.
- Moore vs. Livingston: Who Really Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"
- Who was the real author of 'The Night Before Christmas'? Students take a look at the facts and then decide.
- Heads Up for Headlines!
- Turn students into copy editors as they write headlines expressing the main idea of some de-headed news stories.
- A Better Class of Journalists
- Current events journals allow students to record and reflect on the week's news.
- Reporting Live from the 20th Century!
- Inspire students to create a newspaper reporting on some of the top 100 news stories of the 20th century.
- Working on the Slant
- Students compare how different newspapers handle the news of the day. Work sheet included.
- Weekly Math Challenge
- Turn a corner of your classroom into a Weekly Math Challenge center. Students earn special rewards for solving math challenges.
- Create a Graph Online
- A kid-friendly online graph-making tool allows students to create colorful bar, line, or pie graphs. This lesson can be easily adapted for use with any teaching unit.
- Math Magic
- Students impress others with their ability as they figure out a person's age with some simple math calculations. Included: Two math puzzles to exercise math computation skills!
- Fact-O
- The Fact-O game combines math fact practice with a game of chance and skill. Game sheet included.
- And You Thought Gasoline Was Expensive!
- A chart comparing the cost of a gallon of gasoline to the cost of gallons of other liquids -- mouthwash, house paint, fruit juice, and white-out, for example -- might make the cost of gas seem manageable after all!
- Following Directions: A Skill Worth Teaching
- Ever frustrated with students not following directions?
- December Concentration Game
- Build memory and attention-to-detail skills as students play this seasonal adaptation of the classic Concentration game.
- Happy Holidays from A Class Full of Angels
- This "Happy Holidays from a Class Full of Angels" bulletin board is sure to generate smiles!
- Counting Christmas Trees
- Students answer questions about a simple line graph that shows total Christmas tree sales from 1993 to 2000.
- Finding Your Way in the World Wide Web
- A fun grouping activity teaches about databases. Then students test kid-friendly search engines to find the best one.
- Word Processing Can Be Lots of Font!
- A fun poem activity helps reinforce basic word processing skills.
- Mousing Around
- Practice using a mouse and complete a "mouserobics" scavenger hunt.
- What's Inside My Computer?
- Students draw a picture of what they think a computer looks like inside, and then they explore more. (Adaptable for grades 3-12.)
- SPOOKtacular Lessons for Halloween
- From pumpkins to cemeteries, these 10 interdisciplinary lessons for all grade levels will get your students ready for Halloween.
- Guess Who's Coming to Our Classroom
- In lieu of traditional Halloween parties, many schools celebrate the season with other types of dress-up affairs. In this lesson, students help a new teacher who has designed such an activity but left out an important step.
- Literary Bash
- Design a classroom celebration that revolves around the literary work of your students' choice -- Harry Potter, for example!
- Monster Mash
- Kids play inventor/entrepreneur and create a "monster mash" in this open-ended, creative activity.
- Move Over Halloween - Here Comes Historical Figure Day!
- Students study historical figures and create an October holiday!
- Speedy Spelling Bee
- Teams of students work together in this spelling bee with a twist.
- Spelling Takes a Hit!
- Put the "active" back in spelling active-ities with this fun game!
- Detective Spellcheck Game
- Invite students to hunt for spelling errors in this game of spelling skill and quick reaction!
- Earn Spelling Points!
- More than 20 activities for spicing up your weekly spelling lessons!
- A Letter to Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Patricia MacLachlan's novel Sarah, "Plain and Tall" inspires students as they write friendly letters to Sarah from the point of view of Anna or Caleb.
- The Mail Race
- Invite students to write friendly letters and mail them to schools near and far. Then wait to see who responds, in this lesson combining language arts and geography.
- Story Characters Write to "Dear Abby"
- Students play the roles of a book character and an advice columnist in this activity involving writing friendly letters and solving problems.
- School "Rules"
- Activities for establishing classroom rules.
- Don't Waste a Minute!
- A wealth of quick activities to keep the learning moving!
- Invent a Great New Game!
- Using a combination of three or four pieces of game/athletic equipment, pairs of students "exercise" creativity by inventing fun new games.
- Bowling Math
- Students do the math to figure out the bowling scores, then keep score while they bowl a string!
- A Game for All (Sports) Seasons
- Students compete in a variety of sports depending on the season.
- Frisbee Baseball
- How many tosses of the Frisbee does it take to "hit" a home run? In addition to being great exercise, Frisbee Baseball offers valuable lessons in math and physics!
- H2O to Go
- A sponge relay race offers a cool challenge and a fun way to teach math (measurement) skills.
- Create a Class Yearbook
- How many phone listings can be found in the White Pages of the local telephone directory? Nobody could possibly count them all, but your students can estimate and find the average!
- Yellow Pages Ad-dition
- Students determine the revenue generated by sample pages from the Yellow Pages.
- 1-800-MATHFUN
- Students design posters featuring prominent phone numbers used to advertise fictitious businesses.
- Surname Survey
- Students use census data to answer questions about surnames in the phone book.
- Area Code Mathematics
- Grades 3-12 solve math problems based on a U.S. area code map.
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