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Fire Safety Resource Center: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Fire Safety

Teach valuable lessons about fire hazards, fire safety, and fire prevention with standards-based lessons and helpful articles.

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Columbus Day: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Columbus Day

Young explorers can report on the discoveries they make through web quests, mathematical challenges, and descriptive writing.

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Pumpkins: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Autumn Themes

These cross-curricular activities help students develop key skills by studying one of this season's most celebrated crops.

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Hispanic Heritage: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Hispanic and Latin American; Hispanic Heritage Month

These activities provide multiple ways for your class to delve into a study of Hispanic and Latino culture.

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Halloween: Everything You Need

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Halloween

Your class can celebrate Halloween with these educational tricks and treats!

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Teaching Ideas for September

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  • Apples: Everything You Need
  • Resources to help you teach all about apples, from the life cycle of an apple tree to a fluency play about Johnny Appleseed.

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  • Fall: Everything You Need
  • Autumn-themed lessons, activities, and classroom resources that cover a variety of subjects and appeal to different learning styles

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  • Parent-Teacher Communications: Everything You Need
  • A collection of effective resources, ideas, and practices for keeping parents informed and involved all year long

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  • Community: Everything You Need
  • Help students discover, evaluate, build, and change their communities by using these lessons and resources.

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  • The Magic School Bus: Everything You Need
  • Use these resources to provide opportunities for hands-on learning with the Magic School Bus series!

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  • New Teacher: Everything You Need
  • Quick tips and ideas, checklists, and unit and lesson plans that will help new teachers excel

     

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  • Classroom Library: Everything You Need
  • Create an inviting classroom library that encourages each student to read and get tips on how to build your classroom library.

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  • Harry Potter: Everything You Need
  • These Hogwarts-inspired resources help students become wizards in all subjects.

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  • Weather: Everything You Need
  • Experiment with online weather tools, meet weather experts, track storms, and learn about earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and more.

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