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Try these fall activities for elementary students in your classroom that put a twist on common fall themes.
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Get students reading, writing, and learning more about the importance of literacy with these 2022 International Literacy Day activities.
Alicia Ivory
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Try these back-to-school getting-to-know-you activities to help students discover more about their classmates on the first day of class.
Alicia Ivory
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Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.
Jordan Friedman
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Introduce your students to the five competencies of SEL with these writing and journal prompts for elementary, middle, and high school.
Ali Habashi
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Design a parade or write a limerick for St. Patrick's Day this year with these writing and journal prompts.
Ali Habashi
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Teacher and award-winning poet Toney Jackson joins us for a special lesson on how to write rhymes in the classroom.
Ali Habashi
Shaped Editor
Ready for a fresh start in your classroom? Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new with our fun New Year's activities for students.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor
Celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa with 12 holiday classroom activities, games, and crafts for elementary and middle school students.
Jordan Friedman
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These 12 Olympics activities for elementary and middle school students will let them sharpen their math, social studies, and writing skills.
Alicia Ivory
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Give a lesson on the significance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day with these Pearl Harbor activities for elementary and middle school students.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
Use these National Hispanic Heritage Month activities and lesson ideas to honor Hispanic American contributions and influences in our society.
Daniel Poremba
Senior Tier II Specialist, HMH
Find free teaching resources. Explore fun classroom activities, lessons plans, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids to keep learning and growing at grade level.
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Want to help your students develop their organizational, analytical, and research skills? Teach them how to write an expository paragraph.
Alicia Ivory
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Teaching kids how to write a persuasive paragraph consisting of their opinion and supporting sentences puts them on the right track to being an effective communicator.
Alicia Ivory
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Fourth-grade teacher Perry Hollins shares tips for teaching current events through an SEL lens.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
Use these educational activities for elementary school to explore different topics in reading, math, and science and add an element of fun into your lessons.
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Introduce students to Black innovators with these Black History Month writing prompts and guide them into a particular type of text, such as personal narrative, informative, or persuasive.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
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