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HeartPower! Online - American Heart Association - Grades 0
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HeartPower! Online is a curriculum-based program about heart health. The site provides educational information about nutrition, physical activity, living tobacco-free, and how the heart works. The curriculum guide is loaded with printables, lesson plans, stories, songs, games and other science-based resources organized according to grade level. There is no fee or registration for this site. Just click and go!
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The site is so simple, you can utilize the entire pre-prepared curriculum and lesson plans or just add pieces of it to your current curriculum. Integrate the lessons into your language arts component as cross-curricular activities. The pre-K to 1st grade activities and curriculum are available in Spanish. Choose the Spanish version for ESL/ELL lessons or enrichment activities. The Spanish version would be a great supplement for secondary Spanish teachers. Have your science or health class create a Heart Health wiki or use Mapskip (reviewed here) to map out walking landmarks for your community. |
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| Game Classroom - Big Purple Hippos LLC - Grades 0
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Find free interactives in Math, Logic, and Language Arts using this colorful site. Choose your grade level (K-6) and then your specific topic. Some examples of topics include: Time and Money, Problem Solving, Reading and Comprehension, Range, Mean, Median, and Mode, Grammar, Literature, and countless others. Find help in the homework help section along the right side of the site. You may also do a more generalized search by using the links for “Popular,” “Math,” or “Language Arts.” Many of the activities have been created by other sites or educators (you may even notice some familiar characters, such as Big Bird). Some activities may have ads appearing beside them. Students should be advised to ignore these ads.
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Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Make it a kinesthetic “center” for students to explore using your interactive whiteboard. Use these activities to strengthen skills, provide practice, and identify weaknesses. For example, use math games that teach graphing, analyzing, and counting. There is a wide variety of topics here, so be sure to peruse this site before your new unit or lesson! Using examples on this site, students can create their own homework help using a wiki, blog, or other site to help others. Allow students to “rate” the games using stars or smiley faces and comment on how the game helps them learn. Play a variety of word and other language arts games. Be sure to list this link on your class website or wiki for students to access both in and out of the classroom. |
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| Easter Activity Idea Place - Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. - Grades 0
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Although this site is not aesthetically pleasing, they do a wonderful job providing a wealth of information on Easter. There are numerous crafts, songs, science lessons, math lessons, games, drama fun, and more! Activities are divided into several sections: Art, Easter Songs, Games, Science, & Math, Group Time Games, and Dramatic Play. This site is a must-have in any classroom of young children. Be aware: this site does includes some advertisements.
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If you are an art teacher, find some great seasonal activities here. In music class, project the songs on your interactive whiteboard or projector and have a class sing-along. Take advantage of the many FREE resources (ready to go and kid-friendly) at this site. |
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| I'm Reading! - Starfall Education - Grades 0
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I'm Reading! is the highest level of the Starfall.com reading activity levels. This site offers various books, with or without audio, and students can highlight the words of each read-along story at their personal pace. Through literature options such as plays, fiction/non-fiction, comics, Chinese fables, Greek mythology, and folk tales, students can experience a wide variety of literary genres. This site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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Have students work independently or in small groups to read the books. Students can read in a choral manner or as repeated readings in order to increase fluency. Students can take turns as characters in the easy-to-read plays and present the plays to the class as an extension activity. |
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| Dance With Snook - PBS Kids - Grades 0
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Get your groove on at this site with Snook (from the PBS show, Big Big World). Start by choosing your music from the numbers at the top, and then Snook will start to dance. Your challenge is to get "Bob" to imitate Snook's dance moves. You can also “create a dance” from your own combination of moves. This site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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Use this site on an interactive whiteboard or projector in your music class or even during your morning routine. Have students dance along with Snook as they guess the correct answers. This is a great movement activity for rainy days stuck in the classroom. You can also use it to practice following directions. |
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| Sleepover Planet - BBC - Grades 3
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This highly motivating website demonstrates step-by-step how to prepare a school musical. The website includes lyrics, drama vocabulary terms, musical notations, scenery, props, and an introduction to various types of music (including calypso). There is a Directors link that includes curriculum information, a glossary, and more. Use the website to teach your class about calypso music, drama vocabulary terms, and many other details pertaining to music and drama. This website requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Use this website to prepare a drama and/or musical with your students. Or pick and choose smaller segments of the website to incorporate into your lesson plans. If you plan to have students write and perform short plays as part of a social studies or interdisciplinary unit, this site is a great reference. Share this lively website with your students on an interactive whiteboard or projector (be sure to turn up the volume). |
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| The Art of Ancient Egypt - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Grades 4
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Lead your students on an exploration of the art of Ancient Egypt! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a treasure trove of lesson plans and activities built around their stellar Egyptian collection. The educational resources integrate Egyptian art into language arts, social studies, math, science, and visual and performing arts. This would be a terrific launch point for a gifted enrichment unit. Dig into the Resources area to get an overview of the printable worksheets, bibliographies, maps, and online features. Be sure to click on the Curriculum Connection area for specific lesson plans and activities for your students.
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After exploring the various activities, students can create their own Egyptian-inspired artifacts for a classroom museum. Invite other classes for a student-docent tour of the museum. Discuss the stylized Egyptian figures that communicate ideas and stories and ask students to strike poses which others try to decipher. Students can add contemporary items to a time capsule and bury it somewhere on the school grounds to be discovered by future archeologists. Discuss why items in the time capsule might mystify people in the future. |
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| Kids Online.net - Mike Barnard - Grades 0
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Check out the many educational pages at this totally free site. It is easy to navigate with the left hand column ready to click. You will find a dictionary of computer terms, lessons on the parts of a computer, web building, and more. Use the site search engine to explore the learning possibilities, including cool math, science, and social studies fun. There are many additional resources, too: “World Places,” “Arcade,” “Story Time,” and many more. There are activities about computers and technology, L.A., math, science, social studies, and others. Several welcome student contributions. Many of the activities require FLASH. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Doing a report on a foreign country? Check out the World Places to see if an entry has been submitted from a foreign student. If not, perhaps a student in your class can submit one for an unreported country. Use this site as an opportunity to discuss the question of WHO wrote the material. If it is written by a student, should we treat it as “trustworthy” as we do an encyclopedia or web site with adult authors and “credentials?” This accessible site gives you an opportunity to discuss reliability of web sources in a way your elementary students can understand, since students are invited to submit content.
Many of the activities are perfect for an interactive whiteboard or projector.
Some notes of caution: You will not want to turn your students loose at this site since there is a chat room link. (Chat room, called Kid's Club, requires sign-in and password, though.) Also, do not confuse this site with www.kids-online.COM (another online chat room portal for children and not affiliated with this educational site). You should also obtain written parent permission before allowing students to submit their work to for online publication. |
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| Room 108 - John Rickey - Grades 0
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It’s worth your time to explore some of the over 400 pages of educational activities for primary children linked from this site, created by a first grade teacher, John Rickey. No fees or passwords are required. Activities, games, and stories engage the young viewer with hours of learning fun. Make sure you open the activities into a new window tab, as many of them do not automatically do this for you (RIGHT-click on each link and choose “Open in new window”). This makes finding “Home” much easier. There are interactive stories and other L.A. activities, music, science, math, social studies, puzzles, art, and more. There are items “for sale,” but you need not even look there. This site has something for everyone. This site requires Flash and Java. Get them from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Check out the “Free Stuff for Teachers” section for free downloads of graphic organizers and other printables. Math teachers, don’t miss all the electronic flash cards available. Don’t miss the oodles of science experiments and social studies projects to go along with your standards. Many of these activities are perfect companions for your interactive whiteboard or projector. Activities would also well on individual computers or as learning centers for cooperative learning groups.
Be sure to include a link to this website in your class newsletter and teacher webpage for students and parents to find at-home practice help. Have students write a "game review" of portions they find and like; then post the reviews on your teacher web page, as well. |
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| Zoom Playhouse - PBS Kids - Grades 1
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More than 40 complete play scripts of the mini-dramas featured on Zoom Playhouse appear on this site. Each play includes casting, stage directions, and props. A photo shows the Zoom cast from this popular educational show. A link on the side allows you to search to see what the local PBS station has on its docket for today, and a daily "highlight" focuses extra attention on one selected script. Some of the script stories include Anansi, Beeping Sleauty, Oliver, Stone Soup, Three Little Bears Cha Cha Cha, and numerous others.
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Use these very short plays with your class for extra reading practice and to teach them what a "play" is. Either project the plays on an interactive whiteboard or print the plays for your class. Divide your class into small groups and assign each group a different play. Then have the students present their plays to the class. What an excellent activity to practice reading and speaking skills. Students will begin to understand character development by seeing them act out their lines; use these plays as a jumping off board for talking about key elements in drama. ESL/ELL students always benefit from reading, speaking, and acting out the same words; the context of a play makes it easy and fun for everyone.
Another ideas: encourage your students to write their own mini-plays after they've tried out a few of the ones here or select scripts that survive well in an audio-only format and have students record them as podcasts for home listening and sharing with others. |
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| PBS Arthur - PBS - Grades 0
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If Arthur and his friends sit on your bookshelf, then bookmark this interactive and safe PBS website. The site offers numerous activities, polls, information about your favorite Arthur characters, and many other educational activities. Some examples include, "Elmwood City Map," "Facts and Opinions," "Supermarket Adventure," and numerous others. This site requires Flash. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Make sure you click the 'Parents and Teachers' link at the bottom left column of the homepage. There, you will find lesson plans, activities, book lists, and more. Nearly all of these activities are ideal for an interactive whiteboard or projector. When reading Arthur books in your classroom, extend the learning through these activities. From healthy eating tips to Arthur Trivia, the possibilities at this website are endless. The games are conducive to individual or cooperative learning. |
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| Readers Theater - Educator's Circle - Grades 2
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This collection of Readers Theater resources has lots of hints and teaching tips on how to use this timely technique. ELL students and, indeed, any student will enjoy reading, hearing, and acting out the words as a way to increase and demonstrate their fluency. Links to both books and online sources for readers theater texts include plays and other writings at a variety of levels.
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Invite your students to perform in small groups or even to go further and actually present one of the mini-plays included here with costumes and more. Reasders Theater adapts perfectly to audio podcasting, as well. Why not rotate among your various groups as you record a weekly podcast for parents and other classes to hear? You can use simple tools, such as this one. |
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| Aaron Shephard's RT (Reader's Theater) Page - Aaron Shephard - Grades 3
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This page provides lots of info and resources for using reader's theater in conjunction with plays, manuscripts, and folktales. Besides displaying Shephard's books for sale, click on Aaron's Extras to find scripts for plays and tales you can use in the classroom. Other offerings include worksheets, examples of scripting sheets you can use or learn to do it yourself, tips for using RT, and links to other references. You can search among the many materials available by genre, country, historical period, theme, etc.
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Use this website to find hints on how to dramatize the literature or folklore you're studying in the classroom. ESL students will find using Reader's Theater particularly helpful as they can read, speak, and listen to the materials and have more chances at comprehension. Similarly, students who are visual or oral learners will benefit from the multi-sensory presentations. |
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| ARTSEDGE: Mixed Media Messages: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - The Kennedy Center - Grades 2
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This website provides a detailed lesson plan about recycling. The lesson plan challenges students to examine the process of recycling and then create mock television commercials. For the commercials, students are asked to focus on the benefits of recycling and to design a backdrop for the stage set created with recycled materials. The lesson plan is well organized into six 45-minute learning periods, however a teacher could easily simplify the material and adapt for what works with their students. Beware - the first link is not active (Eekoworld), however the second link provides the teacher's guide for the inactive link and you can access the Eekoworld activity directly from the teacher's guide by clicking on the words Eekocreature or Eekohouse. This site requires Flash. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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This lesson plan is a perfect addition to Earth Day activities. The detailed lesson plan/unit provides detailed descriptions, online web resources, standards, assessments, rubrics, and more. Be sure to check out the left-hand column that provides additional information for teachers about the standards, handouts available, and more. |
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| Renaissance: The Elizabethan World - Maggi Ros - Grades 4
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This site has links to everything you ever wanted to know about the Elizabeth world from a Compendium of Life in Elizabethan England to Heraldry to the transcripts of the trials of the Earls of Essex and Southampton. It also includes a link to a list of more than a hundred recommended sites for the Renaissance and Elizabethan times.Teachers of everything from world history to Shakespeare will find something to mine at this site. The Compendium of Elizabethan Life is especially interesting to those students who want to know "how things worked" 500 years ago in the time of Will Shakespeare. While this is a great research sourcefor Shakespeare, it is also good for drama, literature, and history for all sorts of activities.
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Share this resource on your teacher web page for students to choose different research topics related to Elizabethan or Renaissance times. As you teach Shakespeare, bring up a daily "factoid," text snippet, or image on a projector to take students back in time before you start class. |
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| The Living Playbook - Randy Dixon - Grades 2
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In essence, this is a long web page full of ideas for different games-- long ones and short ones-- to enhance classroom activities. This site is especially good for teaching students basic scene-playing in drama classes or English classes where acting out scripts or scenarios is part of the curriculum. It is also helpful for loosening students up into relaxing a bit with the group or with cooperative learning classes where working with different levels is important.
One of the useful things about this site is the list of terms at the beginning of it, which give you and your students a common vocabulary when acting out scenes or plays. The site is actually a simple --and very long-- scrollable page (plain vanilla by today's standards). The games start with the title "The Playbook" about a tenth of the way down the page. This site also solicits more games as you think of them, so it is a way for students to get involved in thinking of new ones to play and, therefore, send to the creator of the site.
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Try a game a day or offer these as idea-generators for students giving classroom presentations during your drama unit. Give extra credit for those who write their own ideas for submission to the site. Your "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" fans will want you to share this link on your teacher web page for them to use at home, as well. Parents would appreciate the link for creative ideas for birthday parties with the younger set. If you run a drama club, this site will keep you busy for years! |
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| U.S. Plays for Kids - Drury University - Grades 2
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This site allows users to search for children's playwrights by state. In some cases, readers can find entire scripts of new plays. An alphabetical list of playwrights provides an alternative method of searching. Although this is not a comprehensive site of all play writers state by state, its monthly updates of new plays make it a source to check often.
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Teachers who want to put on plays written by a regional artist can quickly find links to free plays and contact information for the writers. Invite a local playwright to come or assist at your school's performance! |
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| Peace Games - Peace Games - Grades 0
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This site has links to games all designed to make the players aware of and work with others. It also promotes team building. Each category (Get-to-know-you Games, Fun Group Games, Community and Team-building Games, Running and Tag Games, and Theater Games) has clear directions, space requirements, supplies needed, and several variations. Players discuss questions listed at the end of the game directions in order to develop awareness of the group process, increase strategies to deal with frustrations and people not liked by all, and participate competitively without losing awareness of other players and points of view.
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Use in the classroom to develop group awareness and defuse potentially explosive situations among radically different personalities, ethnicities, income levels, etc. These would be great as first week of school activities! These can also help in developing a positive school environment and combating bullying. |
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| Vincent Voice Library - Michigan State University - Grades 3
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This amazing library, part of Michigan State's library system, offers information about speeches, recordings, and news broadcasts featuring over 100,000 famous and not so famous personages. Not all items are digitized, but many are available in MP3 format. Those that can be played on your computer will have the word "Listen" as a link to play the file. The serach tools are a bit cumbersome, but there are terrific primary sources here.
Requires Quick time. Videos require RealPlayer. Get these plug-ins from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Play a recording of a famous speech or video relevant to today's lesson as students enter the room (turn up your speakers!). Or have your students create multimedia presentations using these sounds in the background, such as portraits orf a decade, an author study, or a moment in history. |
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| Multicultural Theatre in Music - Iris R. Davis - Grades 4
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This curriculum unit is designed to help fourth and fifth grade students acquire musical and dramatic skills and knowledge. The lessons can be taught in the regular enrichment class and can be completed in less than 30 minutes. It will take approximately nine weeks to complete the entire unit. While this is geared to a music class, it is adaptable to literature, history, art, or drama. The history of the theater will help students to understand that personal beliefs and societal values influence art forms and styles. Identifying significant works of drama will allow students to understand the diversity of cultures and styles. Students will be able to recognize the aesthetic qualities of the arts and they will learn to act, analyze and respond to performances, evaluate the quality of performances, and demonstrate performance disciplines.
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The joy of units offered like this is being able to use them in their entirety or pick, choose, and adapt to your own classroom needs. If your language arts series includes a theme on creativity or drama, this is a natural extension of that theme.
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