Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Read Works
Read Works: Kick It!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different forms of martial arts and the benefits of martial arts training. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Kicked Out Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In "Kicked Out" by Beth Goobie, Dime is unhappy at home and moves in with her quadriplegic brother who helps her learn to love herself. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, discussion topics and teaching ideas.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Stream Study: Assessing the Relative Health of Streams
Students will collect invertebrate samples from three different streams using nets and kick-seines. They then identify what they have found and add the information to the whole class data. Afterward, students propose a new question about...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Small Sided Soccer Skill Baseball
This is an interesting activity where students use their soccer skills in a game that plays much like baseball. Players, while on offense and defense, are required to practice controlling, passing, and dribbling a soccer ball.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Time Is Money
By applying principles of industrial engineering and time management, you will learn how you can speed through your chores and still have time to kick back and relax. You will also learn that time-efficiency is not the only factor...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Turkey Touchdown
What's more Thanksgiving than turkey and football? What about turkeys playing football? Turkey Touchdown is a great way for kids to celebrate the holiday and practice their math facts. Kids will choose a level of difficulty, and then...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 1, 2, 3 Throw!
Lesson plan designed to help young students further develop the skill of throwing an object. The lesson focuses on throwing at targets as well as throwing while moving.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Supercharged Motorcycle Design
Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how collaboration kick-started their friendship- and shared dreams. [2:21]
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Kick Off Seed Explorations
This simple lesson plan is designed to have young students become more familiar with fruit seeds by identifying fruit that contains seeds/no seeds, gathering seeds from fruit, explaining the importance of seeds, explaining that seeds...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Soccer Tennis
Play a game of "Tennis," with a soccer ball! This website provides detailed guidelines for "soccer tennis" which can be varied depending on the skill-level of the students. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Throwing for Distance
Students able to do an overhand throw can work on improving their skill through this simple activity that requires balls to throw, a wall to throw against, and cones to mark a throwing position.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Watch Me Toss, Catch and Travel!
Week-long detailed lesson plan for early elementary physical education young scholars focusing on walking, marching, traveling, catching, and tossing.