10 FREE Things for October
Here are some resources to help you this month.
- Posters and Calendars
- Cabot Cheese Posters
Check out these six posters about eating right. - HP Creative Studio
Use this Web site to create your own downloadable color calendars. Add your own photos or use the graphics provided.
- Cabot Cheese Posters
- Teaching Kits and Magazine
Teaching Tolerance Products for Educators
- Materials that promote social justice, including story and musical anthologies, short documentary films, DVD, and VHS, and sets of lessons, such as The Power of Words (10 lessons)
- Subscription to a magazine, published twice a year, that profiles educators, schools, and programs promoting diversity and equity in inspirational and replicable ways
- Materials that promote social justice, including story and musical anthologies, short documentary films, DVD, and VHS, and sets of lessons, such as The Power of Words (10 lessons)
- Technology
IPlayMathGames.com
Now a completely free site, IPlayMathGames has math games and worksheets (that you can store on your hard drive) using cards, dice, and other manipulatives. Find math skill-building and reinforcing games and exercises for fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, geometry, and other math-related topics.
- Science - Weather and Climate
The Weather Channel Kids!
Access free, standards-based lesson plans in the Teacher Resources section of WeatherED. The educator resources are by teachers for teachers. Registration is required.
- Free Stickers
Carolyn Gundrum's (Holland, Michigan) Tip
"Are you inundated with address labels from every organization? I cut off the cute graphics and now have hundreds of stickers! They are a perfect size for rewarding kids!" - Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media
Edutopia
For a short time only, Edutopia is offering a free download of their book offering ways to bring new media into your classroom. Such as Break the Digital Ice, Find Your Classroom Experts, and Think Globally.
- Free Virtual Literature Circles
Jennifer Hunt's (Tucson, Arizona) Tip
"My students have been using a variety of free technology tools for work on their virtual literature circles. We set up our main website on Wikispaces, and the literature circle wiki can be found at wandawiki.wikispaces.com. Students not only created and collaborated on their wikis, but they used free technology tools to embed multimedia elements in their wikis, such as VoiceThread to create narrated slide shows, Wordle to create word clouds, Newspaper Clipping Generator to create simulations of newspaper clippings, the Morgue File and the Library of Congress American Memory to find copyright-free images suitable for the presentations, and EasyBib to create bibliographies and citations for the information and images not of their own creation.
We had a lot of fun creating our wikis, but we also worked very hard and learned some things the hard way as we went along. We're very proud of our published wikis and like to encourage others to visit and leave comments on the discussion pages."
- Equipment and Supplies
Donors Choose
Public school teachers can post online requests for equipment and supplies.
Supply Our Schools
Teachers in low-income school districts can register for classroom supplies.
Gold Star Registry
Parents, PTAs, and other community-support organizations are encouraged to make equipment and supply donations.
- Writing (Nonfiction)
Sharon Strock Tip re Authorwire
"Free worksheets, activities, and lesson ideas to use with nonfiction writing! Using Sy Montgomery's books (Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon, Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among the Snow Leopards of Mongolia, and more) encourage nonfiction writing that incorporates beautiful figurative language!"
- Recycled Materials
Freecycle
People from all over the world post books, CDs, electronics, and toys they're giving away. All you have to do is arrange to pick up the items.
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