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The Pledge of Allegiance - Hubbard's Cupboard
Grades
K to 0In the Classroom
Use this guide during the first week of school. Provide a slide show of snapshots of the flag being flown in various locations around our country using an interactive whiteboard or projector. Record your class saying the Pledge as the audio portion of the slides.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Sparknotes - Othello
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9 to 12tag(s): othello (2), shakespeare (98)
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Learning About Research and Writing using the American Revolution - ReadWriteThink
Grades
3 to 5tag(s): creative writing (123), writing (309)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free lesson plan as a way to study the American Revolution from an interdisciplinary standpoint. This lesson plan mixes creative writing and poetry with history as a way to relate different concepts concerning the American Revolution.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WordArt - WordArt.com
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4 to 12tag(s): images (271), vocabulary (252), word choice (12), word clouds (12)
In the Classroom
You must be able to copy and paste text or provide a URL to a page of text as well as determine parameters of more advanced word clouds. Alternately, these word clouds can be kept very simple. After creating the word cloud, be sure to save the image (or use a screen capture) to share with others. Another idea, use the url of the cloud or embed into a place to share such as blog, wiki, or site. This is a terrific visual tool to share on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Help students develop creative fluency by creating their own WordArt and ideas from scratch. Paste in a passage or URL for a political speech to visualize the politician's "message." Analyze advertising propaganda by visualizing the language used in TV or print ads. Create WordArt of historical texts of inauguration speeches as time capsules of the issues of the day. Use this site as a way to help students see and memorize text, especially visual learners. Use it also when writing poetry or reading passages of great literature to "see" themes and motifs of repeated words and images. Have students paste in their own writing to spot repeated (and monotonous) language when teaching lessons on word choice. Students will be surprised to see what words appear to be dominant. ESL and ELL students will eagerly use this site since word order will no longer be a problem for them. Have students work in groups to create word posters of vocabulary words with related meanings, such as different ways to say "walk" or "said" and decorate your classroom with these visual reminders of the richness of language. Collect thoughts about the class subject at the beginning of the year and then again at the end of the year to determine changes in thoughts about the subject matter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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EZSchool - EZSchool
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): grammar (140), japan (62), japanese (53), spanish (112), substitutes (25), vocabulary (252), writing (309)
In the Classroom
Reinforce learning with these supplemental materials. Your students may practice as much as they want - for free! Print worksheets to leave in a folder for emergency substitute lesson plans or for homework, provide the link on your classroom web page or wiki for students to easily access from any computer, and project the interactives and other learning activities on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Note that some websites may be blocked.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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openverse - Word Press - Creative Commons
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4 to 12tag(s): copyright (41), creative commons (28), images (271)
In the Classroom
Teaching students to understand and respect the copyright of digital information can be complicated and overwhelming. The first step in helping students understand digital copyright is to have them explore the terms of use and copyright for a variety of information. Create a scavenger hunt for students to find the terms of service and/or copyright for common websites. Once they realize that not all information is "free" for them to use, introduce the Creative Commons website and the symbols used to describe how the content is licensed. Use an interactive whiteboard or projector to demonstrate how to search using the CC search site. Perform searches that yield results that show several different types of licenses. Discuss each type using scenarios of how users can and cannot use information. As an extension activity for this site, students can create their own work and publish it using a Creative Commons license. The work can be as simple as using a digital picture or as complex as creating a derivative artwork, such as a collage or a "photoshopped" image. It can be published on a commercial site, such as Flickr, or on your school webpage. Make sure to follow any school guidelines before publishing student work. Perhaps you can create a class wiki of annotated creative images created by students with explanations of where they found the "parts" and how they created the original works from these parts. What an excellent model to share with future students, as well. Teachers will also appreciate being able to find images you can freely use on class web pages and in online project samples, etc. (with attribution).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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First Grade Backpack - Reading - Privately Published
Grades
1 to 2tag(s): reading lists (77)
In the Classroom
Be sure to explore the diffrent links on this site. This site also contains arithmetic, animal, and geography sections.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Don't Wake Kate - PBS
Grades
K to 2tag(s): disabilities (37), listening (119)
In the Classroom
This site is also useful for students as an activity that strengthens memory skills, concentration, and attention to detail. Include this game with others as part of your lessons about disabilities. As part of your overall unit on disabilities, ask students to use Book Creator, reviewed here to share ideas on how to adapt areas of your classroom and school for disabled students. Include student drawings, pictures, and writing projects in your ebook.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Interactive Audio Books Resources - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12tag(s): audio books (43)
In the Classroom
Mark this one in your professional favorites AND share it on a class web page for access by students and parents. The helpful reviews suggest ideas for ways to use the audio books in the classroom or outside of school to reinforce literacy skills, improve English skills, or study literature in new ways.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Grammar Gorillas - Pearson Education
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): grammar (140), parts of speech (39), speech (66)
In the Classroom
Use this during station rotation time in your classroom. Put a link on your website for students to use at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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1984: Study Guide - Shmoop
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): debate (37)
In the Classroom
This is a terrific site for a teacher who works with Orwell. With procedures, weblinks, directed discussion questions, adaptations, and extensions, this site offers anything you might want in teaching this book. The related links provide many options for a debate activity, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Seventh Sanctum: Writing Generators - Steven Savage
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6 to 12tag(s): creative writing (123), writing (309)
In the Classroom
These ideas could be grouped thematically or at random for students. You might even choose a category, print the generated results, and distribute them at random among your students or post them on your class web page for students who get "stuck" starting a writing assignment at home. Doing stories of this nature could create a great bulletin board/publishing opportunity for students. Have students create a multimedia writing assignment by writing a blog entry or contributing to a class wiki on one of the prompts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pulitzer Center - Global Gateway - Pulitzer Center
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Share the Pulitzer Center Education site on your interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce students to powerful global stories, investigative journalism, and real-world issues. Teachers can use the collection of articles, videos, lesson plans, and multimedia resources to supplement instruction in social studies, science, English Language Arts, geography, journalism, and current events. The site encourages students to explore complex global topics such as climate change, human rights, migration, public health, and access to resources through authentic reporting and firsthand perspectives from journalists around the world. Resources can spark meaningful classroom discussions, research projects, debate activities, and cross-curricular reading and writing connections through statistics, maps, interviews, and analysis of informational texts. Teachers might use a featured topic as the basis for inquiry-based learning, digital storytelling, blog writing, podcasts, or collaborative projects that help students build empathy, media literacy, and critical thinking skills. The site also makes an excellent resource to share with families to encourage thoughtful conversations about world events beyond the classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Stationery - PrimaryGames.com
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K to 5tag(s): holidays (282), printables (35), themes (16), writing (309)
In the Classroom
Print stationery for students to use when publishing final copies of writing assignments. Make the link available from your teacher web page to encourage writing at home! Encourage your more techno-savvy students to create their own curriculum-connected "stationery" using borders from the clip art in your word processor. Then save the bordered "blank" files from these student-made versions for the class to use on computer writing assignments.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Shakespeare - Mass. Instit. Technol.
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9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (98)
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Sparknotes - Much Ado About Nothing
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9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (98)
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Persuasion Map - IRA/NCTE
Grades
6 to 10tag(s): persuasive writing (49), writing (309)
In the Classroom
This tool is very useful in getting reluctant writers to consider using persuasive language. Demonstrate/model first as a cooperative exercise on your interactive whiteboard or projector. It is easy to see the arguments when laid out in the map, and students will enjoy using the computer to construct their arguments. It is handy that the map can be printed and is then available for the student while writing the actual essay.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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News for You Online - New Readers Press
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4 to 10To read/listen to the articles, you must put in an email address. Tip: rather than using your personal or work email, create a free Gmail account to use for memberships. If you plan to have students register individually, you may want to create your own Gmail account with up to 20 subaccounts for each group of students (by code name or number) within your classes. Here is a blog post that tells how to set up GMail subaccounts to use for any online membership service.
tag(s): news (223)
In the Classroom
Have students make a vocabulary list of new words they see/hear from the stories each week. Include a story from NFY every week to present a slightly different take on the television news or paper news headlines. Have your students create their own "headline" news and video the projects! Share the videos using a tool such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poems to Make, Watch, (and Hear) - BBC
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): poetry (195)
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Use this site on the interactive whiteboard or projector as an introductory activity to poetry. Play one or more of the clips on the interactive whiteboard as a way to hook student interest. Have a class discussion or journal reflections afterwards for students to respond to the topic.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lewis and Clark - LA Purchase Vocabulary - Myvocabulary.com
Grades
4 to 10tag(s): lewis and clark (15), louisiana (6), louisiana purchase (6), vocabulary (252)
In the Classroom
Use this site to reinforce and support vocabulary as you study Lewis and Clark. Share the word puzzles on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students create their own word activities from the same vocabulary list, such as matching or ranking challenges for their peers to try on the interactive whiteboard.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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