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Susan Kramer: Singing While Dancing to Learn Basic Math

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students will master basic rhythmic movements and incorporate songs and rhymes into math learning. Site provides sample music selections, songs, and accompanying movements for nine activities.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game

For Students Pre-K - K
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Score: Washington Elementary School: From Foot to Flight

For Students 3rd - 5th
The history of transportation in the United States is at the click of the mouse for specific modes. Activities and glossary are included. Geared toward primary students in content and navigation.
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Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Tesoros Enterrados

For Students Pre-K - K
En "Barbaroja, el Pirata", Tucker pierde su querido Lil' Squeakie luego de que sus amigos pasaran el dia enterrando tesoros en la arena. Clifford y Emily Elizabeth hacen su mision el encontrar el juguete tesoro de Tucker antes de la hora...
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Pbs: Rough Science: Island Power Plant

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to create electricity and your own electrical gadgets! Site provides users with information on how to make a battery, flashlight, buzzer an electric motor.
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Staten Island Children's Museum

Staten Island Children's Museum: Sensory Play

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Fun sensory activities to do at home with the family.
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemp's Parent's Guide: Write

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The author defines 11 steps children go through as they learn to write well, and provides suggestions of activities parents can do with their children to encourage the development of each of these skills.
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Digital History

Digital History: Ralph Nader and the Consumer Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written article by Digital History details the activism of Ralph Nader, and includes much information about the consumer protection movement.
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PE Central

Pe Central: Physical Education Lesson Plans: Pe Central

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An outstanding site for PE lesson plan ideas, Classroom Management ideas, health lesson ideas as well as ideas for field day activities. The lessons are broken down by grade levels. Ideas to teach a comprehensive physical education program.
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Your Therapy Source: 5 Ways to Develop Spatial Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Developing the skills to express and understand spatial skills are the first step in understanding spatial ability and awareness such as math skills, visual perceptual skills, and body awareness. Here are 5 activities to help encourage...
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Gympanzees: Hand/eye Coordination

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This page contains hand eye coordination exercises, games, videos, and activities for children and young people with all abilities and disabilities. Also includes a great video to encourage handwashing skills.
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The Henry Ford

Henry Ford Museum: Smart Fun Online: Model T Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This collection of lesson plans and activities are for fourth through eighth graders. Lessons revolve around the automobile and its place in American society, the Model T Ford, and Henry Ford.
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Handwriting for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, instructional activity ideas, and interactive activities.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: A Variety of Printable Handwriting Worksheets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this resource to print activities and worksheets for handwriting.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Transportation in Texas [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where young scholars refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. For this lesson, they examine transportation in Texas on the highways, at airports, and at...
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Bright Hub Education: Improving Spatial Awareness in Toddlers

For Teachers Pre-K
Parents and teachers can help young children develop spatial ability by using the following spatial toddler activities with their youngsters or students.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Robot Sketcher

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this awesome tool that animates a robot that contains sliding arms (like those used in hydraulics) and rotating arms like those used in rotary motors. The exploration asks students to consider how to find the area drawn by the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nxt Ball Shooter

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This activity helps students understand how a motor in a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot uses electricity produced by the battery to move a robot to do useful work in the form of throwing a ball. Students relate the concepts of electricity and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Efficiency of an Electromechanical System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Lego motors and generators to raise washers a measured height. The work done by the motor-generator systems is compared with the energy inputs to calculate efficiency.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Deformation: Nanocomposite Compression

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn about nanocomposites, compression and strain as they design and program robots that compress materials. Student groups conduct experiments to determine how many LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT motor rotations it takes to compress soft...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Accelerometer: Centripetal Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work as physicists to understand centripetal acceleration concepts. They also learn about a good robot design and the accelerometer sensor. They also learn about the relationship between centripetal acceleration and centripetal...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gears: Lift It Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students learn about the trade-off between speed and torque when designing gear ratios. The activity setup includes a LEGO pulley system with two independent gear sets and motors that spin two pulleys. Each pulley has...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wide World of Gears

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In an interactive and game-like manner, students learn about the mechanical advantage that is offered by gears. By virtue of the activity's mechatronics presentation, students learn to study a mechanical system as a dynamic system under...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Power of Mechanical Advantage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a static image, but rather as a...

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