20 Ways Teachers Are Getting Looking forward to STEM
Some of the greatest STEM-spiration for your classroom comes from fellow teachers. Read on for 20 ways applicants within the CITGO Fueling Education Sweepstakes are earning science, technology, engineering and math exciting and...
Awesome Earth Day Math and Science Projects
Celebrate Earth Day all month with one of these five engaging and collaborative Earth Day math and science integrated activities.
1. Lunch Math
Before Earth Day:
Invite students to organize, represent, and interpret their lunch into...
Free DVD or Watch Online: The Path to Nazi Genocide
The Usa Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is proud to offer the WeAreTeachers community this special opportunity to order a free DVD copy of The Path to Genocide to be used in middle and...
A Fun Earth Day Recycled Garden Activity
This is really a wild, fun, and free way to celebrate Earth Day! Your students will upcycle trash into beautiful flowers, while also practicing measurement.
1. Have your students collect paper scraps (trash) from...
10 Geometric Art Explorations for Math Learning
In the next activities, students use geometry vocabulary and explore math concepts including: measurement, area and perimeter, fractions and patterns!
1. Spiral Triangles
Create a spiral design using equilateral triangles! To create the design, start...
Online Activity: Earth Day Scavenger Hunt
Send your students with an online Earth Day scavenger hunt to learn about the ways we can all help protect environmental surroundings. Those sites included in the hunt are filled with facts that will...
20 Fun Methods to Start the School Day Using Your Document Camera
Rrrrriiiinggg! The bell just rang. Class has started. What now? As a teacher, you know that it can be a bit jolting if you dive along with a huge dose of academics. Your students...
10 Student-Created Books You Can Publish Before the End of the season
One of the best parts of teaching is seeing student writing develop over the course of the year, whether you're teaching kindergarten phonetic-spellers or essay-writing seniors. That's why developing a class book of writing...
LEGO(R), Writing and Winter Weather: A Cross-Curricular 1st Grade Lesso
The weather outside is frightful … meaning it’s here we are at some icy fun in your classroom! In my classroom, nothing creates winter excitement like my favorite cross-curricular Snowflake lesson (well, might...
Online Activity: Women's History Scavenger Hunt
Send your students on an online scavenger hunt to learn about notable women in history to help celebrate Women's History Month this March. The websites contained in the search are full of facts...