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Inauguration Day Every four years on January 20, a president takes the Oath of Office during an inauguration ceremony. This week, Education World offers ten activities to help your students learn about and commemorate this special day.

Martin Luther King, Jr. The life of American hero Martin Luther King, Jr., offers many teaching opportunities. This week, Education World presents cross-curricular and cross-grade lessons that teach students about King's life and legacy. Included: More than 20 lessons, countless teaching resources.

Teaching About Respect Get the new year off to a great start by teaching about respect. If your students lack it or could stand to learn more about it, we offer five lessons to get them talking and thinking about R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Included: Have a Respect Popcorn Party.

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Mini-Lessons to Fill a Few Minutes
Anytime Activities for Subs

Lesson Plan of the Day See lesson plans posted on recent days. Search for lessons by subject.

Learning Game of the Week Review parts of the body with “Human Body Simon Says.”

Friday Fun In this engaging activity, students make and defend their choices.

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane This week: “What’s The Difference?” teaches subtracting 3-digit numbers.

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science Bubbles show a few new wrinkles when it's frigid outside.

Rhyme Time: Poems for Early Childhood
This week, early childhood editor Sue LaBella presents…
January Snow
Early Childhood Teaching Themes
Beginnings Mark the beginning of a new year with fun.
Winter Arts Instill the love of arts as you welcome a new year.
Wintry Weather If the cold is keeping students indoors, make the most of it.

Bulletin Boards That Teach We Made It Through 100 Days -- Arrange 100 items to create the number 100.

From the Math Machine Jumping Math Cats is a fun Web site for teaching problem solving. (Grades 4-12)

Writing Bug Describe snow to someone who has never seen snow.

Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plans
Teacher Lesson #1 Celebrate Poe's birthday (Jan. 19), improve paragraph writing.
Teacher Lesson #2 A motivating way to review spelling words.
Teacher Lesson #3 Use a Venn diagram to compare two Poe classics.

Every-Day Edits
Primary Edits Animals A to Z: Manatee.
Ele-Middle Edits Ellis Island, Betsy Ross, Alaska…

Fact Monster Hunts
Primary Hunt January Hunt #2.
Ele-Middle Hunt Hunt #16.

Vocab-u-lous! Martin Luther King Jr. Day words.

5-Minute Fillers Volume 27.

Work Sheet of the Week “Family Profile” -- real-life math activity.

Best Books for Teaching About…
Each week, Education World presents our Editors’ Choices for the best books for teaching about popular classroom themes. Check out our choices and add your own recommendations to the Readers’ Voices section of this week’s themed booklists:
Best Books for Teaching About...
The 100th Day of School Martin Luther King

Just for This Month! See our January Month of Fun, January Word Search, and January Coloring Calendar. PLUS! Create your own work sheets for this month’s themes: Winter, Martin Luther King, Jr.….