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Will There Be a White Christmas This Year?: Students use historical weather data to create a color contour map.
Holiday Necessities in the Classroom and at Home: Lesson plans, activity ideas, shopping & spending advice, and more.
December Holidays: Grades 3-12 research holidays and create a comparison chart.
What's in a Name?: A lesson for all grades explores the Native American roots of U.S. state names.
Thanksgiving Placemats: A Community Service Project: Work with your local shelter, food kitchen, or nursing home to brighten everybody's Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Feast: Grades 3-5 and 6-8 read charts and learn where Thanksgiving foods are grown.
Wall of Peace: Celebrate Veteran's Day with this activity for all grade levels.
"War of the Worlds": A Broadcast Re-Creation: Grades 6-12 investigate the Golden Age of Radio and this 1938 broadcast.
Silly Pumpkins: Just for Fun (or Fund-Raising): Have fun -- and raise funds -- with pumpkins. Get decorating ideas too!
Create a Word: Celebrate National Dictionary Day (Oct. 16) with this lesson for all grade levels.
Going Nuts for a New Grade: Students create a bulletin board that features their work and gets them to consider "resolutions" for the new school year.
Mother Nature Has Her Say: Prepare for the change of seasons with this creative writing lesson for all grades.
For the Beans: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a science and social studies activity.
Charting the Three Branches of Government: Students practice chart making skills while learning about government.
Best of the Icebreakers: Ten creative, teacher-tested ideas help you start the school year strong.
Fun Activities Get the School Year Off to a Good Start!: These activities help you get to know students and their strengths.
Hang a Flag Mural: Create a mural that offers a patriotic greeting to visitors of your school.
25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers!: 25 teachers tell their secrets.
Building on Biographies: Ten ideas bring real-life stories into your curriculum!
Turn Them Loose - Let Them Teach: Setting up a debate about the hazards of taking drugs.
Connecting Kids and Soldiers: Concrete suggestions for helping U.S. troops abroad.
Thinking About Our Troops: A handful of ways for kids to connect with America's soldiers serving around the globe.
The Wall Inspires Letters to Veterans: Eve Bunting's moving book, The Wall, inspires students to write letters to veterans at local veterans' hospitals.
Mapping Your State's Role in the Vietnam War: Teach the significance of Memorial Day by creating a map showing the hometowns of your state's Vietnam War dead. A stunning visual reminder!
Memorial Day Shoebox Parade: Create a timeline of U.S. conflict and a Memorial Day Shoebox Parade to commemorate soldiers who fought for freedom.
Call In the Reinforcements: Using older students who do not use drugs as role models.
Practice Saying No: Applying the effective anti-drug strategy of practicing drug refusal.
Dealing with Boredom As an Excuse: Opening the discussion about drugs and helping students focus on activities other than taking drugs.
Celebrate With Silhouettes: Students help create keepsake silhouettes, frame them, or use them to make a special Mother's Day card.
The Best Gift, for Shoe-er!: Grades PreK-5 turn an old shoe into a memorable planter that's a terrific gift for Mother's Day or any other occasion.
As Good as Gold: Students create a Mother's Day Coupon Book, full of coupons that can be exchanged for special services rendered by students.
Make a "Memories of Mom" Memento: Grades 3-8 create a book of collected "memories of mom" as a very special Mother's Day gift.
Poetry Author's Visit: You play the expert with these tips on working with beginning poets.
Earth Day WebQuest: Working in teams, students search for the most serious environmental problem facing Earth today.
Visiting Authors: An author every school can afford to bring in -- you!
Online Math Facts Games: Online math-facts games for friendly classroom competition and at-home practice. (Grades K-8)
Multiplication BINGO: Adapt the BINGO game to reinforce multiplication table skills. (Grades 3-8)
Saved By the Bell: This fast-paced team game is a fun way to practice math facts. (Grades K-8)
Math Fact War: Adapt a traditional card game to practice math facts. (Grades K-8)
Math Facts Race: This fun math race reinforces math facts in a very visual way. (Grades K-8)
Five Games for Teaching Math Facts: Rote drill is a proven tool, but it is okay to have fun too!
Education Not Incarceration: A week-long unit in reading/writing/language arts that explores the connection between education cuts and increased prison funding.
T-Shirts to Dye For!: Students create natural dyes from plants.
Nuts for Peanuts!: Peanuts spur all kinds of classroom activities -- from making timelines and snacks to investigating how peanut plants grow and estimating the number of peanuts in a large container!
Eggshell People: Students turn empty eggshells into eggshell people with grass "hair." Then they measure hair growth and write eggshell people diaries or stories.
Plant Seeds of Learning: Three classroom lessons bring plants to life.
Make a Music Video: Students bust a move, creating a video for a familiar campfire song.
Bring Women's History to Life in the Classroom!: Interdisciplinary activities ideas for all grades.
Show-Biz Science: Snow Job: Make snow from a cup of water on a very cold, dry day.
Presidents Picture Book: Students create a picture book of the U.S. presidents.
Presidential Powers: Students study the section of the Constitution that refers to the executive branch and write a proposal for a new power for the president of the United States.
President for a Day: Students imagine they are president of the United States for one day! What would they do? What would their day be like?
Presidential Monuments: Students create a new monument for a U.S. president.
Presidential Time Line: Students create a time line about the presidents of the United States.
Straight from the Heart!: Celebrate the Valentine holiday with lesson ideas for all subjects.
Classroom Activities To Get Kids Talking About Books: A list of classroom activity ideas to get K-6 students talking about what they read.
The Best K-12 Freeware: 19 of the best freeware programs on the Web for K-12 teachers.
Profile Posters: Learn more about your students than just their names with this exercise in self-expression.
The "No Zeroes" Policy: Boost student productivity with peer pressure and positive rewards.