Dearborn Public Schools
10 Tips for Incoming Freshman in High School
Everyone entering high school could use some helpful hints for their first few weeks. A list of ten tips guide new freshmen through social interactions, classroom dynamics, and extracurricular activities.
Curated OER
First Day Photo Frame
In this first day of school frame worksheet, students showcase photos of themselves as they decorate and cut out the 3 by 5 frame template to be used to attach their own photo to.
ReadWriteThink
Living the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
Inspire kindness in and out of school with a lesson that challenges scholars to perform 100 acts of kindness during the time between Martin Luther King Jr. Day to Valentine's day. Leading up to a celebration of friendship, learners...
Kelly's Kindergarten
August Daily Activities
You'll feel more than prepared for the start of the school year with this collection of daily activities for the month of August! From filling in numbers on a calendar or coloring patterns to solving addition and reading...
Curated OER
1,2,3 Art (First Day of School)
Learners participate in a first day of school survey. In this art activity, students answer three questions about art class, such as one thing they don't like about art class and their goals for art this coming year.
Illustrative Mathematics
Number of the Day
Daily routines not only help to manage classrooms, they can also provide students with rich opportunities for learning. This activity supports young learners in developing their number sense by counting up the school days on a class...
Curriculum Corner
Quick Literacy Centers for Back to School
Use a set of quick and easy to use literacy centers at the beginning of the year as you start to assess your students. The 13-page packet provides writing and reading activities with simple directions that allows new class members...
Curated OER
First Day Lesson Plan
Students participate in a first day icebreaker activity. For this icebreaker lesson, students are paired up and film their partner doing something unique. Students continue to film eachother while conducting a short interview.
Education.com
Back to School!
It's the first day of school and the class pet has gone missing! Children try to find the runaway rabbit in a fun hidden picture worksheet.
Curated OER
Work and Energy
The first activity may not work for your class if you don't have access to an open area of 30 meters and two cars of different masses, but the remaining activities can be used in any physics course. They all involve the investigation of...
Curriculum Corner
All about Me T-Shirt
Encourage learners to wear their interests on their sleeves, literally. Class members decorate a blank t-shirt with personal information, including their hobbies, favorite part of school, and details about their family and self.
American Statistical Association
Who Has the Longest First Name?
Name that statistic! Classmates each write their name and the number of letters in it on a sticky note to place on the board. As a class, they determine the median, mode, and range of the name lengths, and create a dot plot of the data....
Curated OER
Phil's First Day 1
In this Phil's first day of school worksheet, students describe what a friend is by listing adjectives, adverbs or phrases that begin with each of the letters in friends.
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The Billy Goats Gruff and the Days of the Week
First graders explore the days of the week. In this days of the week lesson, 1st graders listen to the story The Billy Goats Gruff, then act out the events by stepping on "rocks" that name the days of the week. Students must...
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Impulse, Momentum, and the Conservation of Momentum
What happens when two worlds collide? In the first of several activities, future physicists experiment with colliding ball bearings or Newton's cradle. Another activity requires the use of an air track with cars to examine collision....
Facing History and Ourselves
Dual Identities
Many of us have multiple identities. There's who we are at home, school, friends, and strangers. And often these identities come with different names. The third activity in the First Days of School series examines how names reflect...
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About School
In this first day of school activity activity, learners respond to 12 fill in the blank questions pertaining to the classes they are taking and teachers they have.
Facing History and Ourselves
Frame a Special Item
If you could frame something important to you, what would it be, where would you hang it, and why would you choose this particular thing to frame? These questions launch a lesson designed to help class members get to know each other....
Laura Candler
ABC’s of Me!
Young authors share all about themselves with this printable autobiography resource. Including 26 different sentence frames, one focusing on each letter of the alphabet, students write about everything from an adventure they...
PBS
Constitution Day
Travel back to 1787 as young scholars investigate the creation of the US Constitution. After first working in small groups to create sets of classroom rules, students go on to read a summary of the Constitution and watch a short video...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Using Historic Digital Newspapers for National History Day
Your learners will take a trip through history as they peruse through historic digitalized newspapers, reading real articles from such historical periods in the United States as the Temperance movement...
Scholastic
Point of View
The point of view in a story can dramatically change the story itself. Focus on finding the points of view in various reading passages with a language arts packet, which includes fiction and nonfiction text.
Peaceful Playgrounds, Inc.
10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
Curated OER
New Shoes -- First Day At School
Young scholars practice their reading comprehension skills by reading about the first day of school and new shoes. They practice reading on their own and saying new vocabulary.