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STANDARD: National Standards for History (The National Center for History in the Schools) Era 10, Standard 1: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present). Understands recent developments in foreign and domestic politics. Standard 1B: The student understands major foreign policy initiatives. This lesson accompanies the article for student reading on the next page. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this article, students will learn ...

Let me start this article with a hopefully obvious disclaimer: Do not, under any circumstances, tell your students (or your colleagues, administrators or anybody else) that this is based on a drinking game. Let them figure that out for themselves when they're in college, where they'll have a distinct advantage over their classmates because of the probability skills you're going to ...

What it is: Picture Book Maker is a fun little online picture book creator (bet you couldn’t have guessed that from the name!). What makes this picture book creator unique is the great illustration elements that students can use in their story. The illustrations look hand drawn with crayon and can be adjusted to fit the story. Each picture has actions, ...

What it is: Link Up is a web app that helps kids link words to categories. Each game requires two categories with six linked words each. Once you have created a game you can save it to access at a later time or to share with others. Students use Link Up by dragging links between categories and words. The game is ...

What it is: I love online activities that students can take part in, but because most of us don’t have the luxury of a 1 to 1 school setting, good old paper manipulatives are winners in the classroom. Fantastic Flexible Foldables is a collection of mini math books and games that you can print out and create with your students. You ...

Swine Flu Vaccine Arrives Go to the next page for the accompaniment article for this lesson. STANDARD: National Health Education Standards (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Standard 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this article, students will learn about: • The resurgence of swine flu, also known as ...

Below are some teacher resources for teachers interested in Take a Veteran to School Day. None of these are written in stone—we're counting on you to take what will work for you and adapt it as you see fit. We know that there is a tremendous difference between the little ones in kindergarten and high schoolers. However, all ages and ability ...

STANDARD: National Science Education Standards 5–8, Earth and Space Science Content Standard D (National Research Council): As a result of activities in grades 5–8, all students should develop an understanding of Earth in the solar system. Click here for the accompanying article for student reading. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this article, students will learn about: • How NASA scientists use technology to ...

On October 9th, two U.S. space probes will crash into the moon’s surface. A terrible disaster? Hardly. In fact, it will be exactly what NASA scientists planned. They hope the crashes will answer an important question: Is there water on the moon? Click here for the teaching guide for this lesson On a Crash Course In the 1990s, lunar probe pictures ...

Real student comprehension of math happens with hands on learning. Give your students an opportunity to learn and test their new math skills with free online games. TheApple has partnered with iPlayMath Games to bring you the best math games on the web. Click the grade level below to find free math games. Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th ...

Kindergarten Save The Ducklings [photo:80837] Save the Ducklings is a part of The Galaxy Series K-1 book (page 27). It is a counting, addition, and strategy game for 2-4 players or teams. The object of the game is to save the most ducklings by collecting the most counters. The game requires two standard dice for each group, an 11x17 piece of ...

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Find the accompanying article here. National Standards for Civics and Government (Center for Civic Education) Standard 3: Principles of Democracy. How Does the Government Established by the Constitution Embody the Purposes, Values, and Principles of American Democracy? What is the place of law in the American constitutional system? LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this article, students will learn about: • The significance of ...

How can a new justice affect the Supreme Court? When the Supreme Court begins its fall session on October 5th, its newest member, Sonia Sotomayor, will be present as the Court’s first-ever Hispanic justice. In a happy coincidence, she will join her fellow justices during the heart of Hispanic Heritage Month, a month set aside each year between September 15th and ...

TheApple created the US State Capitol IQ quiz to test how much you know about the current debate about capital cities of the United States. Here's the answers! h4. Don't cheat! If you haven't taken the US State Capitol IQ quiz yet, go take it first! See answers on the next page... [page] 1) Wyoming: Laramie Cheyenne - Correct answer Boise ...

On the next page, you will find the answers to the quiz: What's Your Weird Vocabulary IQ? If you haven't taken the quiz yet, start it now. Next page: Answers [page] 1. The Twilight books could be renamed: Crepuscular 2. An azure shirt is: Light blue 3. An ailurophiliac loves: Cats 4. A totally optimistic person is: Sanguine 5. Being the ...

TheApple and Worksheet Library have partnered together to support teachers. Below are some free downloads to sample the great wealth of information that Worksheet Library has to offer. Grade K-2 Worksheets Sight Words Matching Contains 4 worksheets that require students to draw a lin from the sight word to a picture. Download free worksheet (4 pages) 1st Grade Dolch Words Dolch ...

iPlay Math Games is an outstanding collection of printable math games for grades k-12. Math games can be searched by grade level or skill. These math games are printable pdf files and can be played with common items (dice, cards, and other manipulatives). iPlay Math Games helps students build math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percents, ...

The Carbon Cycle Game is a free online game that teaches students about how carbon cycles through the Earth system. It is appropriate for 4th-9th grade students learning about the carbon cycle. As students play the game, they will learn that carbon cycles naturally through living and non-living parts of the Earth system in a complex, non-linear way, that burning fossil ...

Geo-mysteries are fun interactive mysteries about rocks, fossils, and minerals from the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Students can choose one of three Geo-mysteries to solve: The Mystery of the Floating Rock, The Mystery of the Broken Necklace, and The Mystery of the Golden Cube. Students work to help Rex the dinosaur solve the geography mystery by watching a short video clip, ...