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Ms. Ross celebrates Valentine Day by teaching her class about heart health. She has a favorite heart-healthy lessons plan, which she integrates with a heart-healthy Valentine Day party.

At this school, the upper grades pair up with students in the younger grades to generate Valentine poems for loved ones. Each pair uses an interactive poem tool to get the creative juices flowing.

Barb offers suggestions for helping students who are not performing up to standard. She offers great advice for working with students, parents and administrators to get the job done.

To help the students with their writing, I have the children brainstorm for different parts of speech. I start by asking them to name nouns reminding them of proper and common nouns. As they call ...

If your middle school students tend to get restless during extended block scheduling periods, Ms. Vinco has an idea that may help. Her class plays a fun game that exercises their brains, lets them ...

In order to help her elementary students maximize their learning potential, Ms. Cook provides her students with brain breaks throughout the day. She uses a variety of activities to help them relax, ...

Ms. Daniel’s class participates in a birding event in which her students count birds, draw pictures, and write stories. The event is coordinated online, where students can enter results of ...

I have a class this year two-thirds of which are very active boys, most of whom are struggling readers, and I had been looking for ways to engage them and boost their progress.

At the beginning of each week, my students head a sheet of paper with the title Words of the Week. Every day I put a new word on the overhead projector. They copy it onto their sheet and we take ...

My students and I identify the cardinal direction of east based on the position of the sun during early morning. Once east has been established in the classroom, south, west and north can be located ...