Creativity Portal Writing Prompts

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Reading/Language Arts, Writing | Posted on April 28, 2010

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Creativity Portal Writing Prompts is geared toward the upper elementary to middle school students, but the site offers a nice collection of ideas sorted by topics.

Lightning Bug Writing Help

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Reading/Language Arts, Writing | Posted on April 27, 2010

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Lightning Bug is a site that helps students write stories from beginning to end.

Women’s Day Magazine Essay Contest – Get Supplies for Schools

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Art, Educational Resources, Grants, Writing | Posted on April 13, 2010

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Women\’s Day Magazine Essay Contest – Win Supplies for Your School

Woman’s Day magazine, in collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, is sponsoring a contest for one lucky school to win more than $1,000 worth of art supplies, offices supplies (pens, pencils, notebooks, etc), and other resources to help students achieve.

How to Enter:

Anyone can nominate a school—parents, teachers, even kids. To enter, write an essay of 250 words or less explaining why your school needs supplies. Be sure to include your name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail address, as well as the name and address of the school, the principal’s name and his or her phone number.

Mail your Essay to:

Woman’s Day School Giveaway
Woman’s Day
1633 Broadway, 42nd floor
New York, NY 10019

Deadline:

All entries must be received by April 26, 2010.

Researching/Graphing Lesson

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Lesson Planning, Math Resources, Social Studies Resources, Technology, Writing | Posted on March 18, 2010

Tech Happy Blog – Research/Graphing Project

The Tech Happy Blog has a great research/graphing activity designed for third graders.  In addition, examine other content on this site.  Good stuff!

Education Buffet

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Early Learning, Educational Resources, Math Resources, Reading/Language Arts, Writing | Posted on March 1, 2010

Education Buffet

This site is for elementary school teachers, parents and children with a focus on kindergarten, first and second grade. It can also be used for English language learners, regardless of what country they may hail from. The links below provide interactive, online activities, games and worksheets for kindergarten, first and second graders in reading, writing and math.

KidBlog.Org Web Site

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Blogs, Writing | Posted on January 4, 2010

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Kidblog Web Site

Kidblog is different. Kidblog.org is built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most out of the blogging process.

 Kidblog was built out of the need for a safe and simple blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all blog activity within the classroom blogging community.

Kidblog’s advanced privacy features put safety first:

  • Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and student accounts.
  • Visitors’ access can be resitricted to class members or guests with a password.
  • Spam filters block unsolicited comments from outside sources.

Presentation Pyramid

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Digital Storytelling, Educational Resources, Graphic Organizers, Writing | Posted on December 7, 2009

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Presentation Planning Pyramid

This is an excellent planning tool to use for students or adults!  When planning a presentation, it’s easy to overwhelm the audience with too many slides and too much information.  This tool helps keep you focused and limits the message to the essential idea.

How to do Research Tutorial

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Assessment, Desktop Publishing, Educational Resources, Lesson Planning, Writing | Posted on December 1, 2009

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How to do Research web site offers a student friendly step-by-step introduction to doing research from planning to publishing.

Expo Writing Center

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Reading/Language Arts, Writing | Posted on November 20, 2009

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Expo Writing Center from Scholastic has writing lessons by grade level.

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