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Falling into Autumn
As autumn arrives, crops are harvested and trees begin to shed their leaves, but not before displaying beautiful colors of orange, yellow, red, and brown. The temperatures become cooler and animals prepare for winter's cold. Use this...
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Safety and Kindness Online: Digital Citizenship for Middle and High Schoolers
We have always told our students that they could be anything they want to be, but never have these words been truer than in today's expansive digital world. Young users can be friends or bullies, gullible or skeptical, fake or...
CK-12 Foundation
Mean, Median, and Mode with CK-12 PLIX
Help middle schoolers find meaning in measures of central tendency with a collection of interactive math resources. Offering real-world contexts for investigating the mean, median, and mode of data sets, these digital activities make...
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Teaching Digital Citizenship
In today's world, knowing how to thrive in the digital realm is a huge asset. Check out these digital citizenship lessons covering everything from online collaboration to copyright law and protecting a digital reputation.
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Back to School - Elementary
Crisp apples, orange, and red leaves, and autumn sunsets - it must be time to go back to school! Welcome elementary students back to school with printables, lessons, and worksheets.
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First Day of School: Middle and High School
Welcome back! Make your new middle and high school students feel at home with a collection of classroom templates, printables, and activities designed to establish a supportive and collaborative classroom environment.
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Why with Bill Nye!
Find out Why with Bill Nye in a nine-video collection in which he details the science behind NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter. Although dated, the satellite was launched in 2011 and went into orbit around Jupiter in 2016; the science...
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Activities for the First Days of School
In the post-pandemic, post-remote-learning classroom, it’s more important than ever to develop a school community where students feel welcome and safe. The 10 resources in the Activities for the First Days of School Collection are...
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First Day of Elementary School Activities
The first day of school can be daunting, especially for younger scholars. Instead, make the first day of school happy with these ice breakers, games, activities, and more designed to brighten your elementary learners' day!
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First Week of School Grades Pre-K-5
Nothing is more exhilarating and exhausting than the first week of school. Make those five days meaningful and rewarding for you and your scholars with a collection that offers informative reads, lessons, activities, and icebreakers that...
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Whack-A-Math Game
From Together.Science (https://www.together.science) scholars learn algebra order of operations concepts while playing a game. Participants match numbers on the board by selecting the operations that combine the rolled dice to that...
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Elementary School Ice Breakers
Break the ice with a collection of icebreakers for Kindergarten through fifth grade. Scholars get to know their new friends through various activities such as quilt design, personal interviews, cootie catchers, singing, a game of "Would...
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First Day of School Grades Pre-K-5
It's hard to believe that summer is coming to an end! Start the new school year with a collection equipped with a planning template, welcome and get-to-know-you activities, reading comprehension lessons, writing prompts, a rules...
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Middle and High School Ice Breakers
A new school year, or a return from a long break, calls for an icebreaker. Help scholars get to know one another with a collection of icebreakers designed to meet the needs of grades six through twelve. Activities require pupils to...
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Back-to-School Grades Pre-K-5
Be prepared for a new school year with a back-to-school collection equipped with various resources to create a warm welcome for your incoming scholars. Gain perspective, tips, and recommendations, with an assortment of informative...
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Lions Quest SEL Mindfulness Resources: Grades 3-5
A collection of eight resources boost social-emotional learning competencies; mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-management. Each lesson begins with a breathing exercise, goes into its activity, then ends with a reflection. Scholars...
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Lions Quest SEL Mindfulness Resources: Grades Pre-K-2
Mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-management are the focus of a 10-activity collection for social-emotional learning. Young scholars practice breathing techniques to stay calm, identify their feelings, control impulses, build...
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Lions Quest SEL Mindfulness Resources
The eight resources in the Lions Quest SEL Mindfulness collection focus on mindfulness, self-management, and self-awareness. Participants learn how to practice mindful breathing to focus their attention and reduce stress, how to identify...
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Tools for Supporting Emotional Well-Being: Younger Children and Their Parents
A six-video series explores coping skills designed to boost social-emotional development in self-awareness, self-management, and mindfulness. Young scholars view informative videos that detail belly breathing, how to calm their minds,...
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SEL Mood Meters
Check in on how your students are feeling today with this mood meters collection.
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Pearl Harbor Classroom Activities
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech is the focus of a seven-lesson series that has young historians researching information about the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Using both an audio version of...
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Tools for Supporting Emotional Well-Being: Youth and Teens
The “Tools for Supporting Emotional Well-Being: Youth and Teens” collection is comprised of six videos that provide young people with techniques they can use to help them cope with anxiety and stress. The comic book-style videos are...