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Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 2: Counting Techniques and More

Download math lessons for high school students focusing on probability, mutually exclusive and overlapping events, and recognizing independent and dependent events.

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Grades 6-8 Math Activity Set 1: Financial Literacy

Download financial literacy activities for middle school students and teach them about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.

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Grades 3–5 Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore traditional tales with free reading lessons.

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How to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids in Uncertain Economic Times

Economics professor Annamaria Lusardi shares insights on how to teach financial literacy in challenging times.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of traditional tales.

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Grades 1–2 Daily Reading Activities: Stories and Tales

Have children dive into traditional tales with five days of reading lessons for first and second graders.

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Grade 2 Math Activities: Animals

Using stories to teach children math is a fun way for them to learn math vocabulary.

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Grades 3–5 Daily Reading Activities: Animals

Have your children in Grades 3-5 explore the animal world with free reading lessons, updated throughout the week.

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Kindergarten actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Grados 3–5 actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Animals

Explore five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of the animal world.

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Grados 1–2 actividades de lectura: Animales

Vamos a proporcionarles lecciones de lectura que duran cinco días, y las cuales servirán para explorar el mundo animal con su hijo.

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Keep Class in Session at Home: Tips From ICLE Partner Weston Kieschnick

With schools closed, ICLE's Weston Kieschnick offers tips to keep the academic momentum going and ideas on what to focus on as children learn at home.

Weston Kieschnick
Associate Partner, ICLE

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Earth Day Lesson Plans: Teaching About the Environment

Use these Earth Day lesson plans to teach your students about the environment and sustainable practices in their daily lives.

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5 Social-Emotional Learning Strategies Teachers Can Use Now

Schools that integrate social-emotional learning into instruction equip students to persevere and master rigorous content. Start with these five tips.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Teaching Supreme Court Cases: Goss v. Lopez Due Process Lesson Plan

Download this Goss v. Lopez due process lesson plan to teach students about the 1975 Supreme Court case regarding the role of the Fourteenth Amendment in student suspensions.

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Coaching SEL Through Literacy: Ideas and Things to Look For

By folding social-emotional learning into instructional strategies educators already use to teach literacy, SEL begins to feel less daunting.

Sherry St. Clair
HMH Contributor

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March 2020: Celebrate a Holiday in Class Every Day

Have fun every day with these March classroom ideas for elementary students. Ideas range from fun facts to share with the class to more detailed school activities and lessons.

Onalee Smith
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