News Spotlight: What We Forget When We Remember 9/11
More than 100 million Americans have been born since September 11, 2001 — meaning for a growing share of the country, 9/11 isn’t a memory but a history lesson. As…
Read Aloud: 14 Cows for America
14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy, written in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah and illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez, is a picture book for grades 2-5 that tells the…
Wormly’s Back to School Sentence Practice
Kick off the new school year with Wormly’s Back to School Sentence Practice! Students in Kindergarten through 5th grade read a sentence with a missing word and use context clues…
Read Aloud: An Ode to Underwear
Ode to Underwear by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Abigail Burch, turns a taboo classroom topic into a laugh-out-loud read aloud for Pre-K through Grade 2. The rhyming picture book leans…
Animal, Plant, or Fungi? A Life Science Classification Game
Classifying living things is one of the oldest puzzles in biology, and it’s still one of the trickiest for students to reason through, because appearances lie. A mushroom looks nothing…
Instant Lesson: How Do We Classify Living Things?
How do scientists decide whether something is an animal, a plant, or a fungus? This Instant Lesson walks K–5 students through the reasoning behind biological classification, with content that shifts…
Wormly’s World Back to School Crossword Puzzle
Welcome back to school with Wormly the tortoise! This interactive crossword puzzle helps students in Kindergarten through 5th grade practice essential back-to-school vocabulary — from simple words like sun and…
Rock Paper Scissors Instant Lesson for PreK–5
Rock Paper Scissors takes ten minutes, needs nothing but a smartboard and a child’s own hands, and works three developmental processes at once. The countdown builds impulse regulation as children…
Rock Paper Scissors Game for PreK-5th Classrooms
Play Rock, Paper, Scissors on Your Smartboard World Rock Paper Scissors Day lands on August 27, and this free smartboard game turns it into a whole-class activity. One child stands…
