Exquisite animal footage filmed around the globe and classic pop tunes combine to create a series of short educational and entertaining programs that will grab and hold students attention while leading them toward an understanding of animals, their behavior, and their habitats. Featured song: "Blue Savannah" by Erasure.

The first day of school can be overwhelming with new friends, new places and new experiences — especially for a special kitty named Clover. Enjoy the latest YourClassical Storytime episode, Clover Kitty Goes to Kittygarten, by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Hiroe Nakata, with music by composer Mel Bonis.

This is a lesson about community helpers! This is a lesson for preschool children. Citation for thumbnail image: Public Domain Dedication from openclipart.com

This is a Preschool learning activity about Community Helpers. It is designed to be done at home, on Preschool off-days, with assistance from an adult. Students will be working through a Google Slide presentation with videos teaching about 5 different community helpers, and taking notes and adding pictures about the Community Helpers they learned about. 

Children will learn how to correctly hold a book, notice the spacing between words, tie illustrations to text, and track the words with a finger. Children will demonstrate that reading is done left to right, top to bottom, and front to back.

The concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes.") are too complex for students in early and upper-level elementary school, but the foundational knowledge can be taught within existing curriculums and standards. This foundational knowledge will lead to understanding in later years. The author shows the correlation to the national science education standards, identifies misconceptions among elementary school students, suggests formative assessment probes, and identifies lessons and activities to make curriculum connections. The free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is based on the seven essential principles of the climate sciences.

Children will count out objects by touching the objects as they count them. Ask them to answer how many they counted. 

Mix the letter B with other alphabet letters to make crazy words, and enjoy your own special recipe for family reading time!

Children will make their own musical instruments, use those instruments to create and perform a musical piece for an audience. 

This article from ISTE explains how teachers can create a Makerspace at their school. A Makerspace is a place where learners can come together to create or invent things|either using traditional crafts or technology:.

Gemini is your AI-powered assistant for education. Go from a blank page to a first draft in seconds with Gemini in Docs. Here, an instructional coach creates a lesson plan template they can share with educators in their district.

In this activity, students familiarise themselves with asteroids. They discuss and build their own model asteroids. They learn how asteroids are formed in the Solar System. At the end of the activity, each student has their own model asteroid made from clay.

Children will help create some rules to feel safe in their environment. Children will be able to recognize and state rules they helped create.

Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.

Sabotage a play area and seek input from your child(ren) to help problem-solve a solution. Remove a preferred play item and ask them what they could replace it with. Ask them to tell you what they are planning to build and predict what the outcome will be. 

Research indicates that most standards documents articulate far more content than can be taught in the time available to K–12 teachers. In response, analysts at Marzano Resources sought to identify, as objectively as possible, a focused set of critical concepts for each K–12 grade level in the content areas of English language arts (ELA), mathematics, science, and social studies.

Help children recognize traditions they have in their own families and provide them with an opportunity to share part of that culture with others. Have child(ren) share a drawing, a photo, music they enjoy, food, etc. 

Children will move around in a designated area as they move like the animals in the story.

Children will listen to music and move their bodies to express the feelings of the music piece(s) presented.