Teach Students About Architecture and Building With This Free Guide from the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has some neat resources for teachers and students. One of the resources that I...

Webinar Recording - Empowering Elementary Learners With Technology

Earlier today I posted a list of alternatives to Kerpoof  which is shutting down on April 15th. Shortly after I posted that list Beth Hollan...

A Last Minute Thanksgiving Activity for Elementary School Students

If your school is not one that has given students this week off, these last two days before the Thanksgiving holiday can be tough. Here'...

The Whiz Times - News Stories & Quizzes for Kids

The Whiz Times is a news site designed for kids. The site features a wide array of news stories covering everything from serious stories ab...

5 Great Activities from Read Write Think

If you're an elementary school teacher who has not bookmarked Read Write Think, you absolutely should do that today. Read Write Think pr...

Study Jams - Elementary Math and Science With Music

Study Jams is a Scholastic website designed to help elementary school students learn and review math and science information through songs...

Students Will Enjoy Creating Fiction Stories With These Story Starters

Scholastic Story Starters is a great tool that students will enjoy using to create short, creative fiction stories. Scholastic Story Starte...

Two Easy Ways to Send Digital Greeting Cards

I started receiving holiday greeting cards in the mail this week. I'm sure that many of you have started to get them too. I remember whe...

XO Lesson Plans Aligned to Common Core Standards

XO Plans for You is a wiki developed by OLPC for the purpose of sharing elementary school lesson plans aligned to Common Core Standards. To...

Teaching Kids News - Short Lessons About the News

Teaching Kids News is a news site developed for use in elementary school and middle school classrooms. Teaching Kids News features timely a...

Games for Teaching Students About Balance and Stability

Rumble Blocks and Beanstalk are educational games developed and produced by DARPA's Engage Program . The games are designed for elementa...

Fetch! Lunch Rush! - An Augmented Reality Math Game

Fetch! Lunch Rush! is a neat use of augmented reality to create a mathematics lesson for young students. The free iPhone app (it also worke...

How to Make a Meerkat

National Geographic Education has a fun puppet building activity that I recently Stumbled Upon . Build a Meerkat is a lesson designed for s...

If You Were President Lets Kids Be the President

If You Were President is a nice, short activity from Scholastic through which elementary school students can learn about budget balancing b...

Listen to Dinosaurs Talk About Themselves

DinoDatabase.com has a great little feature called If Dinosaurs Could Talk . In If Dinosaurs Could Talk  you will find twenty audio recordi...