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Grades 6–8 Remote Learning Summer Science Activities: Great Outdoors

Explore a variety of learning activities to engage your child in scientific exploration of the great outdoors.

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13 Fun Black History Month Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students

Download these fun Black History Month activities for elementary and middle school students to teach your class about African American history.

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

Jennifer Corujo
Shaped Editor

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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set: Measures of Central Tendency and More

Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.

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Grades 6–8 Remote Learning Summer Science Activities: Up in the Sky

Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage students in objects in the sky.

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Grades 9–12 Remote Learning Summer Science Activities: Up in the Sky

Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage students in objects in the sky.

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Grades 3–5 Summer Reading Activities: Family Time

Discover five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of family and spending time together.

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Math Meets Entrepreneurship: How Is Math Used in Business?

How is math used in business? Watch the "Math Meets Entrepreneurship" episode of HMH's Math at Work web series to find out!

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You’ve Got Mail: How to Teach Email Writing to Students

Learn how to teach email writing to students and focus on proper email etiquette so they can ask questions and send greetings to teachers, school staff, and even parents.

Sally Doulton
Teacher, Manhasset Secondary School, New York

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Accelerated Learning Techniques for the Classroom

Need to catch kids up or move them forward? Try these research-backed accelerated learning techniques.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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3 First-Day-Jitters Activities for Back-to-School

Ease the first-day-jitters! Explore three first-day-jitters activities that you can implement in your first grade classroom year after year.

Amanda Rack
First Grade Teacher, Knob Hill Elementary School

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Fun 3rd Grade Math Games & Activities for the Classroom

Try these fun 3rd grade math games and activities in your classroom! These 8 games, activities, and puzzles will help your students love learning math and see how 3rd grade math ideas show up in the real world.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

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Conferring Is Differentiated Instruction: How to Hold Student Writing Conferences

Writing conferences are one-to-one conversations and give teachers a crucial opportunity to meet each student’s individual needs.

Carl Anderson
Author and Literacy Consultant

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Grades 3–5 Summer Reading Activities: Fun and Games

Explore five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of sports, games, and puzzles.

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Grades 1-2 Remote Learning Summer Science Activities: Up in the Sky

Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage your child in objects in the sky.

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Grades 1–2 Summer Reading Activities: The Great Outdoors

Discover five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of nature all around us.

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Number Sense, What It Is and How to Develop It with Students

Singapore Math thought leader Andy Clark discusses the importance of developing number sense and shares classroom strategies.

Andy Clark
Math in Focus Grades 1-Course 3 U.S. Consultant and Course 2-Course 3 Writer

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How to Calculate Social Media Engagement: A Math Activity

Download these free math activities for students to teach them how to calculate the engagement of both real and fictional Instagram users.

Ally Zmijeski
Associate Learning Architect, Math

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Grade 4 Math Activity Set: Food in Space and More

Empower students in Grade 4 to sharpen their multiplication, division, and measurement skills, and better understand decimals and fractions, with instructional resources ideal for at-home learning.

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