Catching The Best Of The Web: From Selection To Integration Match the resources you find with the units you teach right now. You can find generaleducational portals and starting points, thematic resources, pages for http://eduscapes.com/sessions/fish/fish1.htm
ALFY - TLC - Thematic Units You are here teach thematic units ABC. Internet Activities forABCs, Construct a Sesame Street ABC Train (PreK) Print Sesame http://www.alfypark.com.tw/teachers/teach/thematic_units/abc/abc2.asp
Extractions: View "Alphabet Action" or "Letter of the Day" and compare it to "ALFY's Flash ABCs". Discuss the similarities and differences. The children can then create their own individual ABC books by drawing pictures that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Action Letter of the Day Variation: Play the ALFY Circus Game, then view the other Animal Alphabet sites on ALFY. Compare the sites. How are they alike? Different? Make your own class version of an Animal Alphabet Book, or make a class animal alphabet mural. A is for Angelfish JayZeeBear's ABC Zoo Emmi's Critter ABCs ALFY Alphabet Hunt (K-2) Go on an ALFY Alphabet Hunt. Give kids one letter at a time and have a contest to see who can find the most icons on ALFY that begin with that letter. For example, start with "A" and have students search for and sketch every "A" icon they can find (airplane, apple, anteater, etc). Kids can also work in teams. "I Spy" Letter Games
ALFY - TLC - Thematic Units You are here teach thematic units ABC. Lesson Plans for ABCs,Alphabet Buddies (PreKK) Make cute, colorful crafts that feature http://www.alfypark.com.tw/teachers/teach/thematic_units/abc/abc3.asp
Skewl Sites - Site Index - TEACHER RESOURCES - Lesson Plans Index, The elementary teacher's onestop source for online thematic units, themeresources Boggle's World, A resource site for teachers who teach elementary and http://www.skewlsites.com/lesson.htm
Extractions: TEACHER RESOURCES - Lesson Plans Primary 100th Day of School Website Over a hundred teacher made ideas to help you celebrate the big day across the curriculum. A to Z Teacher Stuff Thematic Units Index The elementary teacher's one-stop source for online thematic units, theme resources, literature activities, lesson plans, and activities. Art Takes Time Learn about art and artists through the centuries Aunt Annie's Craft Page A feast of craft ideas for every season and special occasion. Boggle's World "A resource site for teachers who teach elementary and middle school English, ESL and EFL to kids." Book Units Collection of lesson, units, and activities for books CEC Lesson Plans A comprehensive, well organized compilation of lesson plans for k-12. Celebrating 25 Years of Learning with Arthur Dozens of reading, writing and math activities to use with Marc Brown's Arthur books.
Emints-kc: ALFY - Teach Learn Communicate channels teach, Learn and Communicate. Birds, Fractions, and Electricity What dothey all have in common? They're all new themes in our thematic units section http://www.more.net/lists/emints-kc/2000.06/0000.html
Lesson Plans - Thematic Units And Projects Elementary in Ohio have put together an impressive collection of links to thematicunits that teachers teach them Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Windows, and more. http://k-6educators.about.com/cs/lessonplansthe/
Home Page This company designs and creates complete thematic units for educators. Themes include dinosaurs, Category Reference Education Products and Services K through 12 to be able to purchase any of the books I recommend for the thematic units or literacy Howwould you like EVERYTHING you need to teach a unit on one of those http://www.whittskits.com/
Extractions: Whitt's Kits Welcome to the Whitt's Kits web site. We are a company designing thematic and literacy kits for educators. So glad you've stopped by! Looking to engage parents as partners in education? Need help as a new teacher? Have to teach a unit new to you? Want a thematic unit? Would you like to have everything you need to decorate your bulletin board, engage your students and share good literature? You've come to the right place. Grab a cup of something warm or cool, pull up a chair and sit down ... What can you find here? Literacy Kits ~ Would you like a way to facilitate parents as partners in education? Check out these kits filled with games, crafts and activities for parents to do with their children. (Animal ABC Lit Kit) Creative Cut-Outs! LET ME DO THE WORK!! Come take a peek at some great ideas for calendars, patterning, bookmarks, cards, YOU NAME IT!! Inexpensive die-cuts, ready for you to use Are you a "scrapbooker"? Take a peek here at what we have JUST FOR YOU !! We have paper, die-cuts, stickers, pages.... come on in! Say "Hi" and receive a set of bookmarks & directions
ESLhome - Thematic Units www.ESLhome.org thematic units. If you like to teach ESL through thematicunits, this should be your first stop for supplemental resources. http://home.earthlink.net/~eslteacher/units/
Thematic Units Unitlink.htm. thematic units Integrating the Curriculum (Vardell,1995) http//serv1.ncte.org/teach//Vardell9069.html. thematic units http://www.lr.k12.nj.us/ETTC/archives/thematic.shtml
MommySchool.com Search Results Primary thematic Unit Fairy Tales thematic units from teacher or more literaturebasedunits with lesson reproducibles that reach and teach grammar, vocabulary http://www.mommyschool.com/search.asp?c1=reading
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Ten Key Reasons To Use Thematic Units NCTE teaching Ideas thematic units http//ncte.org/teach/Vardell9069.html A reprintdetailing one teacher's method of using thematic units and ideas in the http://www.techtrekers.com/Thematic.htm
Extractions: Using the Net to Create Thematic Units What is a Thematic Unit? According to www.funderstanding.com - "Thematic instruction is the organization of a curriculum around macro "themes." Thematic instruction integrates basic disciplines like reading, math, and science with the exploration of a broad subject, such as communities, rain forests, river basins, the use of energy, and so on." Ten Key Reasons to Use Thematic Units 1. Increases Effective Use of Computers and Technology 2. Compacts the Curriculum 3. Demonstrates the Interdisciplinary Nature of Learning 4. Increases Student Interest in Learning and Time Engaged 5. Expands your Assessment Strategies 6. Utilizes Collaborative and Cooperative Learning 7. Focuses the Learner on the Mastery of Objectives 8. Integrates Word Processing Skills into Creative Activities 9. Models for Students the Resources Used in Research 10. Can Safely Control Web Access for Students This Thematic Unit Model is based on those found in Chapter 13, "Literature and the Curriculum: A Thematic Approach," of Legacies: Using Childrens Literature in the Classroom by Liz Rothlein and Anita Meyer Meinbach HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996.
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Extractions: Free Stuff! Free Unit (gr K-3) Free Unit! (gr 4-8) Puzzle of the Day! Cartoon of the Day! ... Free Catalog Teaching Units Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Science (gr.4-8) Art (gr.4-8) Music (gr.4-8) Christmas Concerts (gr.k-8) Social Studies (gr.4-8) Language Arts (gr.4-8) Novel Studies (gr.3-8) The Goods Secure Check-Out Your Shopping Cart Other Stuff Questions 'n Answers Contact Us Lynx Favorites Vera Trembach Webmaster Each unit contains everything a teacher needs to teach a complete 3-4 week unit - including teacher objectives, student objectives, reproducible student work sheets, integrated lesson plans, review activities, enrichment activitities, and complete informational content. You can use these units with complete confidence : Rainbow Horizons Publishing has been providing theme-based, teacher friendly units and lesson plans for elementary teachers internationally since 1987. Each unit is written by educators for educators! We have just added several new teaching units to our website. Browse or search our online catalog for these units today!
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Extractions: Javascript is either disabled or not supported by this browser. This page may not appear properly. Blocks 4 Reading Pat Cunningham's Four Blocks Site Reading Curriculum Guide (you will need Adobe Reader to view) Reading Lady Four Blocks Goodies Deb's Four Blocks Cheryl Sigmon's Website ... Halloween (including spiders and bats) Insects Japan Martin Luther King Jr. Mother's Day ... Winter Holidays Teacher Helpers Teacher Pages These are pages made by teachers and educators. They showcase what is being done in their classroom and school! Where You Can Come to Get Ideas for Your Classroom!!! Unit Ideas Where you can get ideas for specific units! 100th Day All About Me Back to School Bubbles ... Halloween (including spiders and bats) Insects Japan Martin Luther King Jr. Mother's Day ... Teacher's Page Search Pages Search for a topic you are studying! ABC Teach Activities for Kids Animal Links AtoZ Teacher Stuff ... Links 2 Learning 4 Educators Four Blocks Check these sites for more information on the Four Blocks Framework Blocks 4 Reading Pat Cunningham's Four Blocks Site Reading Curriculum Guide (you will need Adobe Reader to view) Reading Lady Four Blocks Goodies Deb's Four Blocks Cheryl Sigmon's Website ... Weekly Lesson Plan Template.doc
KinderLit - Thematic Units science, and social studies. Each theme packet varies in the materialsand activities as well as the time needed to teach. All of them http://www.kinderlit.com/thematic.htm
Extractions: In our classrooms, much of the learning revolves around a theme, which can be teacher-generated or child-initiated. Themes are integrated across the curriculum to include reading, language, mathematics, science, and social studies. Each Apples Galore Includes the KinderLit book, My Apple Step Book (quantity) (quantity) Out of This World! Bears Bears Bears Includes the KinderLit book,
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Extractions: Purchase Each KinderLit book title comes with the pages to reproduce a book for each child in your classroom. Included also are complete directions for each page and pictures of finished pages. The children usually work on one page per day reinforcing the concept taught in your group lesson. Through this process children are actively involved in their own learning and see themselves as learners, readers, and writers long before they begin a formal reading program. Classic Titles Use these all-time favorites in your classroom! Click Here Basic Skills Teach curriculum through our KinderLit basic skills books. Click Here Author Studies Activities and KinderLit books to teach your children about Eric Carle, Ezra Jack Keats, Mercer Mayer, and Leo Lionni. Click Here Thematic Units Integrate your curriculum with our KinderLit units! Click Here Class Book Ideas This packet includes book ideas for expanding your class library! Click Here Home New Books Conventions ... Contact Us All material on this site:
Re: Rock Around The Clock Math I also love to teach thematic units, but I haven't this year because I share a classroomwith a veteran teacher who teaches morning Kindergarten, and I don't http://zubov.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/LESSONS/3835.html
Extractions: Welcome Follow Ups Post Followup Collaborative Lesson Archive ... FAQ What do you already know about Old Rock'N Roll? What would you like to learn? Play a cassette like, "Rock Around the Clock" and ask the children what types of things did they talk about? Ask them if they know what a jukebox is and show them my small toy one that really plays rock'NRoll What kind of clothes do you think they wore in the 50's and 60's? Do you think learning about telling time, rhyming words, finding places on a globe, counting by 10's, making snacks, making books, learning about vowels, and dressing up will be fun to learn, while studying about Old Rock'N Roll? I usually introduce a new unit by displaying wonderful books and cassettes about the unit, going over them with the children, give them some background information, introduce new centers, the children help choose their own spelling words, we form a web to find out about what we are going to learn, and many times I introduce the background info., using puppets.
Innovative Teaching - Online Units It is on a topic you teach. Early Childhood thematic units http//www.sbcss.k12.ca.us/sbcss/specialeducation/ecthematic/index.htmlA dozen units, many http://surfaquarium.com/newsletter/units.htm
Extractions: Let's see what we can do for your staff! Finding a good unit you want to use in your classroom is like Christmas all over again. It is on a topic you teach. It brings in all kinds of creative ideas so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. And there's a plethora of resources from which you can pick and choose. Not only that, you can easily adapt it to fit into your existing treasure chest of strategies for instruction. With all of this in mind, here's a hotlist of great units spanning the grade levels. I listed the big guns up front, in case you weren't aware of them, but the bulk of this issue is devoted to gems that are hidden across the Web. Thanks to Jerry B for his recommendations. Enjoy! First, the big names in online units. Visit these sites for extensive archives of lessons and units. All have free access but some may require you to register:
