University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"
Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What to Purchase"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students' understanding of different types of writing and their own writing for different purposes. Good site.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "You Tell Me"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Helps with students' comprehension skills, higher-order thinking skills, knowledge and inference skills, grammar and usage. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Had Power"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students metacognitive skills, higher-order thinking skills, and makes students more aware of their environment. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Wasn't Me"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to use their knowledge and metacognition, as well as helping students implement reading, writing, and thinking connections...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Womanhood"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to become more aware of the role of women in society, and promoting appreciation for the contributions of women.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Not What It Seems"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes enhancing students understanding of metaphors, creative writing, and using life experiences to create poems and writing pieces.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What If?"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting student interest in history and helping students understand how the past influences the present.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Feelings"
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity focuses on a student's feelings in providing them with a sense of self-discovery and understanding of their value. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education: My Name Is Me
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. The purpose of this activity is to build students' awareness and appreciation of who they are through enhancement of their skills. Good resource.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...
Other
Smekens: Integrate Information Across Diverse Media Formats
Read about strategies to help students integrate information across diverse media formats. Includes video. [4:18]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Supporting Ideas Quick Guide
Supporting Ideas Questions: These questions ask you to identify the supporting ideas and specific details mentioned in a passage. What does the passage say? Perhaps the most basic task of the Praxis Core Reading Test is recognizing...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Creating Text Sets for Whole Class Instruction
Learn what makes a strong English language arts (ELA) curriculum by creating text sets for the whole-class instruction.
Other
Search Engine Showdown: Learning About Searching
This resource provides a brief overview of different types of internet search strategies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pre Algebra Problem Solving
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains manipulatives for creating addition and subtraction problems using positive and negative numbers. There is an example problem which teachers can use to help design their own...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shape Sudoku
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sudoku puzzles are fun for all ages. To complete a puzzle there must be one of each shape in a row, column and quadrant. It's a great way to teach strategies while the children are solving the puzzles.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Strategies to Meet Challenges
[Free Registration/Login Required] Challenge is another word for problem solving. In this flipchart students are given the four strategies for problem solving: Explore, plan, solve and reflect.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Test Taking Strategies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for use while discussing test-taking strategies with students. There are several assessment questions to evaluate their understanding.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Problem Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart works with word problems and strategies to solve them. There are a number of problems to practice solving.
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Class Flow: Division of Integers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the strategies for dividing integers.
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Class Flow: K Addition and Subtraction Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains vocabulary, strategies and various activities for K-1 Addition and Subtraction.