Free Printable Paper Folding, Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers, content maps, information flowcharts and diagrams, content webs and story maps all refer to visual aids created by teachers to help students organize information into understandable patterns. Here are free printable graphic organizers, visual aids and content maps. Graphic organizers were a product of special education classrooms but such visual aids are useful with general education students as well. Special education teachers know the importance of making lessons hands-on, multisensory, interactive, individualized and broken down into manageable, bite-sized pieces.

Eduplace has over 35 different free printable graphic organizers and visual aids. Graphic organizers can be used to teach a variety of content area material. There are free printable KWL charts and diagrams (Know-Want to Know-Learned), story maps, observation flowcharts (for science), word webs, cluster maps, ISP charts (Information, Sources, Pages), E-Charts, T-Charts, flowcharts, spider flowcharts, clocks, Venn Diagram, Tree charts, 5 Ws Chart, Inverted Triangle chart, KWS charts (What I Know, What I Want to Know, Possible Sources), Ice Cream Cone Chart, Sandwich chart, sequencing charts, ladder charts, story maps and webs, planning charts, wheel charts and many more free printable graphic organizers. These free printable graphic organizers are available in Spanish also.

Super Teacher Worksheets has over 20 free printable graphic organizers. Free printable Venn diagrams, column charts, story maps, charts and diagrams webs, content webs, paragraph organizers using hamburger and flower models, wheel charts and diagrams, and much more. ABC Teach has free printable graphic organizations, story maps, flowcharts, content diagrams, content webs and other visual aids, KWL charts and diagrams, information and content maps and worksheets. Enchanted Learning has free printable graphic organizers and visual aids galore. Get pie charts, Venn diagrams, story maps, content flowcharts and diagrams and more.

Free Printable Habitat Dioramas- Science Activities

For hands-on science lesson plans, you can't beat habitat dioramas. Students explore concepts interactively, making 3-D scenes. Shoebox dioramas (scenes set up inside boxes tilted on their sides) help students visualize concepts. Diorama activities work very well for literature, social studies, animal habitats and life science lesson plans. Use animal habitats dioramas in life science lesson plans to help students understand how creatures interact with their environment.

Animal habitat dioramas can be made with found objects and recycled trash. Or here are free printable animal habitat dioramas from Crayola. Use these animal habitat coloring pages in hands-on science lesson plans. Printable dioramas give high success and help special needs and easily frustrated students create science projects they feel proud of.

The American Museum of Natural History has free printable animal habitat dioramas and science activities for different biomes. Look for "make it" and "coloring pages" links. From there, print backgrounds and creatures. Check out printable games and puzzles and lesson plans, too.

Exploring nature has
free printable animal habitats coloring pages. Students can color and cut out and arrange in 3D shoebox dioramas. Or that could be the backdrop and they could glue plastic animals and plants in the shoebox base.

First Palette has free printable dioramas: Habitats or biomes include coral reef, African savanna, polar biomes, rainforest and Paleolithic dinosaur habitats. Free printable animal coloring pages are available at First Palette too. There are insects, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians in different biomes. Have kids color and place in the proper environment. This teaches sorting, classifying and symbiotic relationships. Have kids explore KPCOFGS--kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species--concepts too.

Free Printable World War One/ World War Two Lesson Plans for Veterans Day

Free Printable World War 1 and WW2 Activities Free printable military and World War history activities. Soldiers, vehicles, uniforms, battles, campaigns. Print coloring pages, battle maps, worksheets, games, puzzles, vocabulary crosswords, charts and fill-in the blank diagrams. 

Here are free printable activities to help your children or students explore the history of our two world wars. You can print over 100 interactive lessons on World War One and World War Two. There are free printable coloring pages of battle scenes, vehicles, soldiers, uniforms, weapons and military insignia. You can print puzzles, games, word searches, crosswords, fill-in-the-blanks, charts, maps and other activities.

Edupics has a lot of free printable military coloring pages. 

Super Coloring Pages has many World War Two and World War One printables. There are many very realistic free printable military vehicles. Print tanks, half-tracks, trucks, troop carriers, battleships, destroyers, bombers, fighter planes, gun carriages, armored cars, motorcycles and more.

The Holiday Zone has a page of free printable activities for Veteran's Day. Print coloring pages, military word searches and crossword puzzles and other military and world war two worksheets. The Holiday Zone helps us explore our nation's involvement in both world wars. It preserves the memory of those who served and what they were fighting for. The holiday zone includes songs, poems, books, movies and other educational resources to help educators teach lessons on World War One and World War Two.

Use these free printable activities to create a complete booklet of interactive lesson plans to explore world war one and world war two. This booklet makes a great unit supplement for history. Perfect for homeschool, classroom units and military holiday observances. Libraries, VFW, American Legion and historical museums may want to use these resources for military displays. Children learn best when they are actively involved in their learning. Free printable activities are an excellent source of hands-on learning.

Green Earth Lesson Plans: Dr. Seuss The Lorax

Dr. Seuss celebrates his birthday on March 2. We celebrate Seuss in March with National Reading Month and Read Across America. For good Seuss fun, why not read "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" and make oobleck What's Oobleck? It's Seuss for Goop-Slime-Silly Putty-Gak Splat-Flubber. Those are commercial names. But you can make your own. 

But watch out. Oobleck has a mind of its own as Bartholomew finds out (he's the lad who had hat trouble in Seuss's 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.") Here are oobleck recipes. Stretchy, noise putty Oobleck (fondly referred to by kids as "farting" putty.) Mix in zippered plastic bag, equal parts liquid laundry starch and white school glue. Liquid laundry starch is located with laundry supplies. A common brand is Sta-Flo. It's a light blue milky substance. Mix with fingers till glue is blended in and there is no tackiness. Kneading makes Oobleck rubbery and bouncy. Galactic glitter Oobleck. Give Oobleck a glam makeover. Add a little glitter to the noise putty recipe. This is the same recipe for Silly Putty or Flubber. Keep fresh in refrigerator stored in plastic bag. Glow in the Dark Oobleck. Make Halloween Oobleck by adding a little glow powder or luminescent fact paint to the Oobleck. Take it outdoors or shine a black light on it. Mystery oozing Oobleck: Blend small amounts of water in powdered cornstarch. The Oobleck moves back and forth between liquid and solid states of matter. It "melts" with warmth of your hands hardens as it cools. Touch and it melts. Like Bartholomew's oobleck it seems to have a life of its own. Mix directly on a table. Spills dry and vacuum up easily. Here are more science recipes and homemade art supplies made f

Free Printable Stations of the Cross Lesson Plans, Lent Activities

In the Catholic liturgical calendar, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday continues for 40 days up through Holy Week, the Easter Triduum and Easter. Catholic Christians try to imitate Jesus with prayer, fasting or sacrifice and almsgiving (charity). A Catholic prays the rosary and Stations of the Cross on Friday (and as often as possible).  Here are free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages to guide Lenten devotions.

 Each year during the Lenten when our family was homeschooling, the children drew images, one for each of the Station of the Cross. We used these images to guide Lenten devotions and prayer. We created Stations of the Cross in our home and yard, placing the images in order along a path. One year we hung them in the hallway. This way we had our own Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross, or Way of Sorrows). The children would begin each Friday in Lent praying the Stations of the Cross. Older children can draw Stations of the Cross coloring books for younger children to color. Or you can use free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages. A favorite source was the Fr. Lovasik coloring books series. Here are free printable Stations of the Cross coloring books. Print a booklet for CCD, VBS, religious education classes, Catholic school, homeschooling and family devotions.

Catholic Kid offers free printable Stations of the Cross coloring books and prayer devotional guide. This is a fifteen page booklet covering each of the 14 Stations of the Cross. The liturgical prayer used at station is printed on the front cover and is repeated at each station. Children may color all the pages in their coloring books at once, or you may use Stations of the Cross coloring books as daily Lenten calendar countdown to Easter activities. Children might color one page each day for Lenten devotions. Here are other free printable Stations of the Cross activities from Catholic Playground. 

Web Archive has free printable Stations of the Cross coloring pages drawn like Victorian church stained glass.  These images are quite small, but could be printed for a flip book or enlarged and printed as quarter or half page coloring pages. Traditionalists will love the neo-classical black and white artwork. St. John the Baptist Religious Ed has loads more free printable Catholic coloring pages for the mysteries of the rosary (Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous Mysteries), Easter, Lenten, Bible and other Catholic themed coloring pages). 

Extend Stations of the Cross Lenten devotions and activities by assigning children to compose a prayer or response for each station. Preschool through first grade children might write one word or phrase to represent each station. Grades 1-2 might compose a one sentence prayer. For grades 3-5 assign one or two paragraph Lenten devotions and prayers. This makes good type 1 writing activities. Adjust the length of the prayer to suit the needs and abilities of the child. Some may wish to write their prayer as a poem, song or haiku. Don't make prayer or writing seem like chores or children will dread doing them. 

Special needs children might draw or act out each of the stations of the cross. Children could compose sign language or dance in response to the each Station of the Cross. The objective of this activity is to encourage children to respond to Our Lord's passion, death and resurrection. Encourage children to respond in whatever form they feel most comfortable with.