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A Celebration of Young Poets (Grades 3-5)
Creative Communications is committed to providing resources for promoting
language arts in schools. A subscription is offered for Poetic Power, a
free newsletter encouraging poetry for and by students in grades 4-12. Also
available are poetry contests for students and language arts grants for
teachers.
http://www.poeticpower.com/
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Emmett Scott's Cartoon Corner
What do cartoonists do? What is the difference between spot drawings,
editorial cartoons, caricature, and animation? Find stories, puzzles,
drawing tricks, and art activities. Check out the creative play link for
creative ideas that will keep children busy for hours.
http://www.cartooncorner.com/index.htmlEquivalent Fractions (Grades 3-5)
Practice matching equivalent fractions, make flashcards, or play
concentration.
http://www.quia.com/custom/351main.html
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Gatefish
Indoor and outdoor activities for young children. Try making pasta people,
mobiles, grow garlic, sweet potatoes, make pinecone birdfeeders, or make a
crown or dalmatian ears. Includes lots of gardening tips to use with
children.
http://www.gatefish.com/activities/index.htmlGrowing Plants
Why are plants important? Grow plants from seeds, find out what plants need
to grow, learn the basic parts of a plant, and more in 7 lessons from
Educate the Children in the United Kingdom.
http://www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/classroom/science/unit1b.htmGrade Three Teachers (Grades 3-5)
This site is designed for 3rd grade teachers, students, and parents of
students in the third grade. Find online projects, thematic units, lesson
plans, activities, and ideas especially for third graders.
http://grade3online.com/
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Headbone Derbies (Grades 3-5)
Internet research adventures that will teach your students online research
tools. Choose from history topics, like "Escape to Freedom" or "Iz and
Auggie go to the Polls", or science topics such as ecology or Mars. Sign up
for free as a class or individual, and Headbone will keep track of the
score. (grades 4-8)
http://www.headbone.com/derby/eco/teachersguide/toolkit/
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The Learning Pod (Grades 3-5)
Help your students progress by taking online state practice tests, quizzes,
and working on games to help enhance basic skills for standard requirements
at each grade level.
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,2-21882,00.html
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The Math Magic Resources for the K-4 Teacher
Units on time, money, 4 basic operations, fractions, measurement, graphing,
and problem-solving for K-4.
http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/mathpageone.htmlMay Fifth Fun
Ideas for celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg/mayfifth.htmlMay Primary Mind Benders
Magic square, wordsearch, alphabet pyramid, and kite twin puzzles with
solutions included.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/primaryactivitymay.htmlMother's Day Activities and Projects
Especially for primary students here are art projects, stories, math, music,
science and social studies activities which tie in to a special day for Mom.
http://teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=Mother%27s%20Day&grade=primary
The Math Magic Resources for the K-4 Teacher (Grades 3-5)
Units on time, money, 4 basic operations, fractions, measurement, graphing,
and problem-solving for K-4.
http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/mathpageone.htmlMay Intermediate Mind Benders (Grades 3-5)
Find solutions for Crosspix, patterns, multiplication square, and match the
same hippos. Answers are included.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/interactivitymay.htmlMother's Day Activities and Projects (Grades 3-5)
Especially for 3-5 grade students, here are activities and projects in
language arts, math, music, science, and social studies, as well as art
projects which tie in to Mother's Day.
http://teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=Mother%27s%20Day&grade=intermediate
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Puzzle Page from Emmett Scott
Find the correct letters and help Peetie Heffer spill the milk, count the
flies, or search for stars. See if you can solve the puzzles and brain
benders!
http://www.cartooncorner.com/puzzlepage.html
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Syllabication Rules
Here are twenty rules to help students understand how to divide words into
syllables from Teacher2Teacher.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/syllablerulescharts.htmlThe Story of the Young Map Colorer (Grades 3-5)
What is the minimum number of colors needed to color a map with no colors
touching which are the same? Explore the mathematics of mapping.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/map/mpprstory.htmlScience WebQuests (Grades 3-5)
Over 200 WebQuests covering all aspects of science.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/science/Syllabication Rules (Grades 3-5)
Here are twenty rules to help students understand how to divide words into
syllables from Teacher2Teacher.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/syllablerulescharts.html
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TeAch-nology (Grades 3-5)
Over 50 links to social Studies lesson plans for grades 3-6.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/36/
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Vowel Helpers
Make vowel flash cards for students to practice at school or home. Includes
CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, VCE, vowel digraphs, R-controlled, and dipthongs.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/vowelhelpersmain.html
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Water Works! El Agua Trabaja!
Five lessons about the water cycle have been developed for young science
learners by a team of educators in Chicago. Many of these ideas will
motivate you to examine water use in your neighborhood.
http://www.chias.org/ipsd/2001/index.htmlWebQuests for Early Childhood
Are your first and second graders ready to tackle WebQuests? Here are over
a hundred WebQuests to motivate your students to learn more about some of
their favorite topics.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/early/
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Your Mission: The Last Mission (Grades 3-5)
Students are challenged to find a location for the last California Mission.
They work as a team to research the geography, native people, and natural
resources of the region. Here's a great alternative to the traditional
"mission model." Lots of additional resources are included.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/the_last_mission/Do you know anyone who might want a copy of this newsletter? Feel free to
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