Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.
ŕJust Plain FancyĚŇ is the story of a young Amish girl, Naomi, who longs to have something fancy in her life. But when an she finds an unusual egg that hatches into a peacock, she ends up learning a valuable lesson about an acceptable and admired kind of fancy.
"I’ve listed 100+ PBL ideas below to help get you started on the project-based learning journey. The ideas below that are hyperlinked will send you to the project that is already developed. Those that are not yet hyperlinked are some of our ideas for future projects. I can’t wait to share them out when they are finished. In the meantime, use them to get inspired and give you some ideas to start PBL with your students."
Project ideas are organized by Education Level, and the High School ideas are further organized by subject.
"The best internet safety lessons recognize the complexity of these topics and help students build the critical-thinking skills and habits of mind to navigate the dilemmas they encounter."
This site links in the best lessons for internet safety from Common Sense Media for K-12.
The K-2 Sample Schedules are sample schedules that outline advantages and considerations, to give leaders ideas about how to incorporate EL Education's K-2 Language Arts Curriculum (3 hours daily for Grades K-2) into a school schedule. Shows options for school days with 7, 6.5, and 6 hours of daily instruction. Also addresses significant modifications for a half-day kindergarten context.
This resource was created by Sun West School Division teachers to support integrating allareas of wellness in the daily lives of our students to enhance their well-being.This resource includes activities for each domain of wellness: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social. The activities are arranged by month, but feel free to adapt the order to your classroom's needs. Students can work on these projects independently, with their families, or as a class.The resource includes connections to learning outcomes for the Grade K-2 curriculum including the Treaty Education Outcomes.We have included a focus on goal setting and reflection in order to meet ELA Assess & Reflect outcomes, as well as the Health Decision-Making and Action Planning outcomes.
This writing continuum was created by Kenaston School (Nicole Duley and Cindy Menzies). It has taken the writing outcomes for Grades K-8 and organized them in a scope and sequence. This can be used to track individual student progress through the outcomes and follow the student through the grades to support in the implementation of the PeBL philosophy and the creation of personalized goals.
This document suggests what research and essay writing skills students should be able to perform at each grade level. These should be taught and practiced in ELA, but become more meaningful when other teachers expect the same standard of information and skill.
"All types of educators are bound to find something of use on KQED Education. Browse the classroom resources for access to high-quality videos, lesson plans, media creation ideas, and other standards-aligned content. Or read stories written and shared by other educators, and get inspiration and ideas for your classroom. Activities focus on creative use and analysis of media. For example, one teacher-created post describes how she used memes to teach media literacy. Another wrote about having students share their culture through media creation. While the site contains a mix of structured plans and ideas, it's easy to find activities that inspire forward-thinking instruction and encourage the development of a 21st century learning environment.
Check out the free professional development (PD) offerings as well: Teachers can earn certification as a PBS Media Literacy Educator by completing eight of the available modules. The site's pages are densely populated with activities, links to more KQED resources, and partner sites, but if you're willing to spend some time looking around, you'll find lots of high-quality materials." (Common Sense Media Review)
This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.
Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games!
Having students make quizzes on Kahoot! is a great way for them to extend their learning and benefit the entire class!
Kahoot! is an excellent formative assessment tool. You can give feedback to your students after each question as you play. Make learning a game show...your students will never have so much fun being assessed.
This site offers a collection of resources to help support learning while families are home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of in-class instruction. It will be updated as more resources are identified and there is new information to share.
Sections include: (for Early Learning and Primary Years through to Adult Learning)
- Weekly Home Learning Videos
- Activities
- Learning from Home
- Everyday Learning Activities (ideas for promoting learning in many subject areas and with many activities)
- Resources (including educational programming from museums, science centers, zoos, artists, storytellers and others on a wide variety of topics, activities, games, videos, books and reading, educational collections, hands-on activities, languages, math, outdoor education, science, natural and human history, special education, French resources, and much more)
- Keeping Healthy
Patricias Great-Grandmother comes to America as a child from Russia. She creates a quilt that is passed on from generation to generation. The quilt becomes an important symbol and is used in many of the familys traditional Jewish celebrations.
Explore this "Dear Dr. Mooney" series. Find articles on:
- Phonology - What’s That Sound I Hear?
- Morphology - Teach Your Students to be Word Detectives
- Syntax - It’s All About Understanding the Formula for English
- Semantics - Your Words Mean More Than You Think They Do
- Pragmatics - Doing Things with Language
Each article provides information, implementation strategies and links to related resources.
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
Now with ELA!
*Math K-12 (including "get ready for grade X to prepare") + college level
*Computing
*Science
*Arts, Business & Humanities
*Reading & ELA
*Life Skills - growth mindset, AI, financial literacy, SEL, safety, career
*Economics
A learning app for kids 2-7 years old.
Focussed on the whole child, interactive, fun, engaging, and free.
An adaptive path or independent learning path are available.
"Use Kialo to help students get to the core of the issues they’re discussing To put their knowledge into action.
To sharpen their critical reasoning skills
To demonstrate their understanding
To engage constructively with each other
Take your classroom discussions online, break down complex subjects for students, and shake it up with new types of assignments."
This education version is free for teachers to use!
In this 5-minute video a junior high school teacher discusses “Kick Me” a vocabulary lesson where students locate missing words to complete their analogies taped on their classmates’ backs. Students are given 10 to 15 minutes to find the answers so they move efficiently to complete the project.
Kids Scoop is News magazine that features standards-aligned activity packs for kids K-5.
Kid Scoop News magazine is available as a free PDF or print newspaper delivered to classrooms. This magazine can be shared with students to read at home or in the classroom. After students have read through the magazine, teachers might have them share out to the class something they learned or had a question about. This could kick off a discussion and might even lead to further research into some of the more interesting topics.
Beyond the magazine, teachers will find dozens of downloadable activities and lesson plans -- some free, some paid -- to slot into lessons. Many of these would work well as ways to kick off or cool down a class period. The resources for home-school connections offer helpful tips for communicating with parents about ways kids can use and benefit from Kid Scoop News at home.
The "Kids" section includes the following topics: Answers, How to Draw, Just Plain Weird, Puzzles, Scrub Squad, Write On
The "Teachers" section includes: Next on Kid Scoop, WWC Topics, Teacher Guide, Teacher Scoop, Standards, STEM News
The "Parents" section includes: Crafts, Recipes, Try This At Home
Made by a Grade 4 teacher in Saskatchewan. Kids Boost Immunity (KBI) provides dozens of classroom activities and teacher resources developed by health and education professionals.