Classroom Activities

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Software

Crossword and Word Search Puzzle Makers. Make crossword puzzles or word search puzzles easily with these software programs. Try the free demos to see for yourself to see just how easy it is! Make sure to mention you are a teacher when you are ordering to get a 25% discount!

Teaching Tips/Resources

Website for teaching tips resources
Troll Activities Search

Lesson Plans

500 Free Lesson Plans
Computer Courseware and Lesson Plans
PBS Lesson Plans and classroom activities
Smithsonian lesson plans
Guide to several different categories of lesson plans
Schoolastic web site
Thousands of free online lesson plans
K-12 Lesson Plans
ABC Teachers Corner
Star Tribune Classroom Resources
Classroom activities

Internet Activities

Integrating technology into the classroom
Teaching about space
Online science classroom activities
Interactive classroom resources
Internet based K-12 activities

Teaching History

Classroom Activity sheets for US History
Teaching aids using documents from the national archives of the US
Abraham Lincoln
The Trial of Adolph Eichman
Harriet Tubman
Ancient Egypt
Women's History
Ancient History (many topics)

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Save hours of work! Most teachers have made their own crossword or word search puzzles and know how hard they are to make. Use these programs to make puzzles on any topic in just a few minutes! Try it now for free!

Teaching Science

Natural/Earth Science

Planetary Geology
Rock Detective
Earth science classroom activities
Water
Growing pumpkins in the classroom
Rain Forests
Teaching about the gypsy moth
Teaching about hurricaines
Tree rings and climate changes
Biological clocks
Ethnobotany
Teachers Guides about Marine life from Sea World and Busch Gardens
Bats in the Classroom
Endangered Species
Insects in the Classroom--bugs as teaching tools
Teaching weather--activities, experiments and investigations
Exploring the environment
PBS Living Edens teacher's resources
Wetlands activities
Dinosaurs activities
Air classroom activities
The Pacific Rim activities
Genetics activities
Ocean surface topography from space
Natural science information and activities
Teaching osmosis using an egg

Space Science

Teaching about pathfinder
Lesson Plans from NASA
Classroom activities in meterology
Teaching about space online activities
Solar learning activities
Mysteries of deep space
Exploring Mars
Exploring Planets--25 activities
Teaching about Astronomy
Teaching about planets and physics

People in Science

Leonardo DaVinci
Albert Einstein
More on Einstein
Galileo
Marie Curie

General Science

Understanding and drawing how machines work
Science Classroom Activities
The Science Center
Exploring Science in the classroom
Pre-school & Kindergarten science activities
Structures around the world
Robotics
Science education activities
Science experiments and activities
Math & Science lesson plans and activities
General math classrom activities and projects

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Make a crossword or word search puzzle on any topic! Simply enter your word list, press a button and you are finished! Try it now!

Teaching Math

Hands on Math for Elementary
Graphing Calculator classroom activities
Texas Instruments math activities
Accounting classroom activities
The mathematics of knots
Math & Science lesson plans and classroom activities

 

Teaching Literature

To Kill a Mockingbird
Where the Red Fern Grows & Summer of the Monkeys
Children's literature activities
Children's literature site
Lesson Plans for Childrens books (searchable index)

 

Teaching Foreign Languages

Spanish
ESL or EFL activities
Internet Activities for Foreign Language teaching
German
Games and activities for teaching foreign languages
Bilingual/ESL Plans and Projects

 

Teaching about Social Studies

Discovering Democracy
Guide to religions of the world
Teaching about India
About Canada
Australia
Teaching Tolerance
Women's History

 

Holidays

Groundhog Day, Valentines Day, President's Day
Easter activities
St. Patrick's Day
More St. Patrick's Day
Cinco de Mayo
Mothers Day
Fathers Day
4th of July
Halloween and Post Halloween
Thanksgiving
More Thanksgiving
Christmas Science Activities
Grandparents Day
Earth Day
Johnny Appleseed
Guide to holidays (worldwide, religions, historical, etc.)

 

Other

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters
Discussing Terrorism

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