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Posted by: Jill BurdettTheme: Art;Classroom Management;ESL;Games;Health;History;Math
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12 Date Added: May 20, 2012
IF you have not already seen this you should. GREAT resources for all primary teachers!! http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/google_search.htm?cx=partner-pub-6473552648755565%3A8447218298&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=perimetre&sa=Search

Online Lesson Plan Resources
Posted by: Asociacion CREARTheme: Art;Environmental Issues;ESL;Games;Health;Kinesthetic Activities;Math;Other
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: May 09, 2012
Print resources can be difficult to obtain, which is why we compiled an online reference of web sites that offer plenty of high quality information to build a curriculum and or lesson plan library. Almost all are free of charge. Also included are references to ESL curriculum building sites. Enjoy!
ESL: Basic Adjective Exercises
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: ESL
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: May 03, 2012
4 exercises covering common adjectives (physical descriptions and personality). Includes visuals. 2 printable worksheets.

Eating the Rainbow
Posted by: VE GlobalTheme: Health
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: April 19, 2012
A fun lesson using a rainbow as a guide to teach children to taste a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables for better health.

Computer Fundamentals: 2 Lesson Plans
Posted by: VE GlobalTheme: Technology
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: April 19, 2012
Attachment 1: Computer Fundamentals: Using Microsoft WordAttachment 2: Computer Fundamentals: Touch Typing

Empathetic listening (en Español)
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: Other
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: April 16, 2012
When someone is trying to communicate with you or you are trying to encourage someone to talk, you don’t always have to contribute insightful advice to the conversation; sometimes, all people want is to talk, and you just have to be a good listener. Short responses reflecting on the emotions attached to the speaker’s words (or body language) are a great way to listen in an effective and empathetic way. *Examples of empathetic responses*Examples of words that express emotionSPANISH TRANSLATIONS

Teaching Tolerance, Latin America
Posted by: Alyssa HoyleTheme: Art;Cross Cultural Exchange
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: April 04, 2012
A reading/ art project to foster cross-culture exchange and tolerance.

Building a window garden with reusable plastic bottles
Posted by: Garden City CollegiateTheme: Environmental Issues
Age Group: k-6;6-12 Date Added: April 01, 2012
Building a window garden with 2L plastic bottles.

Teaching Technical Documentary Photography Skills: Focusing
Posted by: OmprakashTheme: Art;Cross Cultural Exchange;Technology
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: March 29, 2012
We envision this being one of the first lessons taught in a photography workshop, if not the very first. Please feel free to modify or incorporate this plan into any other lesson plan ideas you may have.

Tipos de poemas para niños
Posted by: Michelle NewmanTheme: Art;Cross Cultural Exchange;Womens Empowerment;Other
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: March 24, 2012
Explanations and examples of a few fun and simple types of poems for students who have little experience with poetry. (in Spanish)

Quetzaltrekkers Profile and Evaluation Report
Posted by: Robin LattimerTheme: Other
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: March 15, 2012
A summary of Quetzaltrekkers' services and suggestions for growth

EDELAC Profile and Evaluation Report
Posted by: Robin LattimerTheme: Other
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12 Date Added: March 15, 2012
An overview of EDELAC's services and suggestions for further support and growth

Self-empowering name artwork
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: Art;ESL;Womens Empowerment
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: March 06, 2012
An art project I did with a group of girls ages 4-16: Write out the names of each participant and instruct them to write positive words describing themselves using each letter in their name. I think it was very empowering for the girls to think about how awesome they are!

Volunteer Work Hours Log
Posted by: Robin LattimerTheme: Other
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: February 29, 2012
An Excel Spreadsheet that will allow volunteers to keep track of the hours they have worked, their expenditures, their completed tasks and future steps.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education for Students and Teachers
Posted by: Morgan PerlsonTheme: Art;Environmental Issues;ESL;Games;Health;Theater;Other
Age Group: k-6;6-12 Date Added: February 10, 2012
Healthy Water, Healthy Habits, Healthy People. Clean water, proper sanitation and good hygiene form a solid foundation for a student’s health education. This activities guide is designed to enable teachers to take an active role in making a real difference in the lives of children and their families. Its pages are filled with engaging ways to impart an understanding about how common water-borne and hygiene-related diseases are spread. In addition to learning how to protect their health and that of their families, students will gain a healthy respect for the important water sources on which we all depend. Available in English, French, Kiswahili and Spanish.

Teachiing HIV transmission to children
Posted by: godfrey ogomaTheme: Health
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: February 09, 2012
Teaching kids about AIDS and HIV is essential to preventing the spread of the disease. The level of understanding will vary from grade to grade, so your approach must vary as well. While young children will understand sickness and disease, they may not easily comprehend methods of disease transmission.

Managing Classroom behavior
Posted by: godfrey ogomaTheme: Classroom Management
Age Group: k-6;6-12 Date Added: February 06, 2012
It happens all the time. A teacher, full of great love for kids, meets his or her students for the first time. Half the class doesn’t listen. A few snicker out loud. The teacher feels discouraged. Is the answer more prayer? Does the teacher need a more dynamic personality? Is this just the way it will always be with kids? Here are some suggestions to smooth the way
Recycling Assembly
Posted by: Asociacion CREARTheme: Environmental Issues;Games
Age Group: k-6;6-12 Date Added: January 31, 2012
A one-hour dynamic assembly on the garbage we make and how we can user the 3 R's to help create less garbage! (In Spanish)

Stream Morphology
Posted by: Sarah MoyeTheme: Environmental Issues;Kinesthetic Activities
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: January 24, 2012
Stream MorphologyObject: To teach the kids about how flowing water changes land forms and the impact humans have on that process

Paper Plate Masks
Posted by: Sarah MoyeTheme: Art
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: January 24, 2012
Animal masks are a fun way to let kids be creative and have something to take home and play with! We made these on our day talking about animals and how they interact... After making the masks, we had them play tag, where each animal that was a 'predator' had to tag its 'prey' that it would normally hunt in its environment. Then, we had them switch roles and the 'prey' got its chance to be the 'predator.'

Pre-schoolers, Juniors, and Teenagers: Are, Have, Can/Can't, Need, Like...
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: Classroom Management;ESL
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 31, 2011
Characteristic of pre-preschoolers/infants, juniors, and teenagers including skills and weaknesses, can and can't dos, needs, and likes.
"Sólo para chicas" (carteles inspiradores)
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: Womens Empowerment
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 31, 2011
Inspirational posters taken from the book, "Sólo para chicas" by Ashely Rice (2002). Display in girls classrooms to remind them: "Una chica en el mundo es algo maravilloso...".

HAND WASHING AS A WAY OF PREVENTING INFECTION
Posted by: Pascal MititiTheme: Health
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 30, 2011
Proper hand washing habits can leads to prevention of communicable diseases both in both children and adults.

Lifestyle Diseases are Preventable
Posted by: Pascal MititiTheme: Health
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 30, 2011
How you treat your body determines how you enjoy your life.

Writing Correction Symbols
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: ESL
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 23, 2011
A teacher's key of correction symbols used in order to identify a student's errors without correcting their work for them. Give a copy to the students-- students can go back and self-correct their mistakes with the guidance of the correction symbols (identifying the specific areas of their mistakes).

ESL: Stages of a recpetive skills lesson (listening and reading)
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: Classroom Management;ESL
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 23, 2011
Staging of text based language presentations and receptive skills lessons.

English: Future Tense Timelines and Formulas
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: ESL
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 23, 2011
This form describes future tenses in English with helpful examples, formulas, and timelines. A great reference sheet for teachers to have handy while teaching the future tenses.

Phoneme Kids
Posted by: Isabelle KrausTheme: ESL;Games
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: December 20, 2011
This is a fun activity designed to give practice in using the phonetic alphabet. Students must already be familiar with the main parts of the body and some clothing items (shoe, sock, shorts).

Classroom Transitions
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Classroom Management
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 09, 2011
Transisitons to use consistently between activities.

Outdoor Play/PE Activities for Pre K and K students
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 09, 2011
A collection for outdoor/physical education activities and a gross motor skills checklist.

Hygiene, Nutrition and Cooking Activities for Pre K and K Students
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Health
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 09, 2011
A collection for hygiene, nutrition and cooking lessons (recipes) in English and Spanish for pre k and k studnets.

Dramatic Play Activities for Pre K and K students
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Theater
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 09, 2011
Dramatic play activities based on developmental milestones for 3-6 year olds. Lessons provided in Spanish and English and are intended to support concept development in other subject areas.

Pre K and K Science Lessons and Learning Goals
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Environmental Issues
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 09, 2011
A collection of Science activities (Spanish and English) aimed at teaching 3-6 year olds.

Math Lessons for pre k and k students
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Math
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 08, 2011
Math Lessons support specific learning goals. Developmental milestones are provided.

K and Pre K Reading Lessons for Teaching English or Spanish
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: ESL
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 08, 2011
Reading Lessons geared towards teaching Spanish. Includes developmental milestones for 3-6 year olds.

81 Art Lessons For pre K and K Students
Posted by: Lacey WorelTheme: Art
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: December 08, 2011
Art Lessons geared towards using recycled, inexpensive or found materials for ages 4-6. Differentiate when necessary. Spanish prompts provided.
Tengo derechos!
Posted by: Isabelle Kraus
Age Group: pre-k;k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: October 22, 2011
Children's rights poster

Teaching emotions
Posted by: Sarah MoyeTheme: ESL;Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
A simple game for learning English vocabulary words for emotions

Teaching to large groups of children
Posted by: godfrey ogomaTheme: Classroom Management
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
Tips for teaching to a large group of children

Dealing with Autistic Children
Posted by: godfrey ogomaTheme: Classroom Management
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
Notes on how to facilitate positive learning experiences for autistic children

Managing Classroom Behaviour
Posted by: godfrey ogomaTheme: Classroom Management
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
Suggestions for how to prevent discipline problems and deal with disruptive children.

Green stars, red squares, golden time!
Posted by: Jill BurdettTheme: Games;Art
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
A tool for motivating students to behave in class

Number Squares / Snakes!
Posted by: John MayTheme: Math
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 16, 2011
a really simple tool for helping kids learn basis concepts in Maths

Energizers 2: For children aged 8-12
Posted by: Laura AvramTheme: Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 15, 2011
Second series of energizers - designed for smaller children!

Songs for Children in Spanish
Posted by: Laura AvramTheme: ESL;Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 15, 2011
5 songs for children that were popular amidst the children at Seeds

Outdoor Games
Posted by: Laura AvramTheme: Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 15, 2011
Four very fun outdoor games to play with children

Resources for Teaching Health Principles to Children
Posted by: Lauren OdmanTheme: Health
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 13, 2011
Teach dental health, basic hygiene, and HIV prevention

The Website that All Teachers Need to See!
Posted by: Jill BurdettTheme: ESL;Games;Math;Environmental Issues
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 13, 2011
Website full of teacher resources

Treasure or junk?
Posted by: Jill BurdettTheme: Games;Environmental Issues
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: October 13, 2011
A game for kids to learn about recycling

The Box
Posted by: Jill BurdettTheme: ESL;Games
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: September 18, 2011

The Floods at Domkhar
Posted by: Health-IncTheme: Cross Cultural Exchange;Current Events
Age Group: k-6;6-12;post-secondary Date Added: September 18, 2011
Attached document includes first-person accounts of 2010 floods in Ladakh, north India

Four health education books in Ladakhi and English
Posted by: Health-IncTheme: Current Events;ESL;Health
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: September 16, 2011
Four books are attached that help Ladakhi students learn English and health principles

Useful websites for teaching children
Posted by: Jennifer TurnerTheme: ESL;Games;Art
Age Group: k-6 Date Added: September 15, 2011
These are the sites that I have found most helpful while teaching Kinder class at Hogar de Esperanza in Peru.