The
"City of Ember" book series, by Jeanne DuPrau, (2003) is a
science-fiction post-apocalyptic fantasy series loved by students and educators
alike. Many elementary, intermediate and middle schools are incorporating City
of Ember books into their classroom curriculum. With the release of a movie
version students can read and study the books and follow up with the film
version for comparison. Here are free printable City of Ember book activities,
movie study guides and lesson plans.
The series chronologically is City of Ember, People of Sparks, Prophet of Yonwood and Diamond of Darkhold. Not all have been made into film so there are movie study guides only for City of Ember. But there are book activities for all books. Here are free printable lesson plans for teaching the City of Ember book series. Lesson Planet is a pay site with some free book activities to print. Here arefree printable City of Ember lesson plans. Scholastic also charges for many of their printables. But here is a City of Ember book discussion guide to print free.
This
free printable lesson plans kit includes story maps, worksheets, book
activities, character webs, comprehension questions, movie study guides, vocabulary,
grammar, symbolism, cause and effect, analysis and application questions,
synthesis and evaluation questions, book activities, games, reading response
rubrics, charts, quizzes and more. The City of Ember books are a dystopian
series that tells of a people that has suffered depletion. They've gone
underground, to re-emerge at a given time in the future. City of Ember is
Orwellian science fiction, reminiscent of 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and The Hunger Games series by Suzanne
Collins. Use book activities and movie study guides for units on science
fiction.
Money
math, banking and finance are some of the most practical math applications.
Students learn real-world math lessons by writing checks, balancing checkbooks
and managing debit and credit cards, savings and checking accounts. To help,
here are free printable blank checks, play money, check register forms, banking
slips, deposit slips and withdrawal slips. Use to teach hands-on money math
lessons Use for consumer math classes, special education lesson plans and
homeschool math activities.
DL-TK
has several pages of pretend free printable blank checks and banking slips for play. There are two free
printable check varieties, using the American "check" and Canadian
"cheque" spelling. Both are available to print in color or in black
and white. Visit Free Stuff 4 Kids for free printable blank checks for play and for math lessons. Use these
in combination with free printable play money. These links provide free printable play money
in denominations of one, five and ten dollar bills. Use these free printable checks to set up a classroom bank, preschool math
learning center or token economy. Use banking slips and play money to teach
economics, math skills, banking, counting changes and money math lessons.
Money
Instructor has many free printable money math lesson plans, blank checks, play money, banking slips and
money math lessons and worksheets. Not all printables are free but there is a
nice selection of free printable samples. Print free banking slips, deposit
slips, withdrawal slips, check registers and checking account slips. Money
Instructor has interactive money math lessons, check writing, check endorsing,
checkbook balancing tutorials also. It is recommended that teachers of
economics, consumer math, life skills, special needs, accounting and personal
finance subscribe to these sites. This link will take you directly to a page
of free printable
practice blank checks.
Biology
science activities naturally focus on living things. Teach students about
botany and plant biology in spring science activities. As students watch nature
awakening all around, they observe plant biology and plant structure--seeds,
roots, stems, buds, leaves, flowers and fruit--first hand. Teach kids about
botany for Earth Month in April. In May and June, students can explore flowers
and more mature plant structure. Here are links and websites with hundreds of
free printable spring science activities on botany, plants, trees, plant
biology and flowers. Get free printable spring science coloring pages,
worksheets, charts and diagrams.
The
Teacher's Corner has free printable biology science activities and botany lesson plans. Plants and trees
cover enormous area to study that you will want to check out these websites and
see which have materials specific to what you need. Activities cover edible
plants, medicinal plants, toxic and unsafe plants, plant biology, finding and
naming plants native to your area, biomes and much more. Visit Enchanted
Learning's science homepage for general biology, spring science activities andfree printable lesson plans on trees, plants, botany and plant
biology.
Parents,
do you get a little queasy when your child tells you she needs help with her
science project? Does the school science fair give
you panic attacks? There's always that cool dad who comes up with awesome science projects that leave your little bean plant looking pathetic. Then
there's that creative mom who makes other parents look like losers. Well fear
not--here's a list of free printable science experiments, science projects and science crafts to knock
that science fair out of the universe! Teach your kiddo valuable science
lessons with these STEM activities (STEM activities cover science, technology,
engineering and math--what was called in the old days science experiments).
Home
Education Resources is a really comprehensive website with tons of free printable science projects and STEM activities. lesson plans and learning
materials for teachers and homeschoolers. This page has 24 free printable
science experiments for third or fourth graders on up. You can use them for
younger grades if the instructions are read and explained to the students.
There are experiments on color, light, physics, forces and motion and health
activities. Use for a basis for science fair projects.
TSL
Books has over forty free printable science lesson plans,
experiments and STEM activities
that could be used as science experiments. Choose from many different concepts:
animals, habitats, biomes, plants, seeds, mammals, ocean life, weather,
butterflies, five senses, motion, vehicles, fuels, planets, farm animals,
whales, savanna life and more. There are cut and paste activities, puzzles,
crossword, booklets, matching, coloring pages, mazes and more. Use these
materials to assemble a science fair display.
Paper
Toys has free printable paper models of vehicles, buildings and artifacts.
Print and make these 3D paper crafts to use in science projects for a
technology and science fair. This site has even morefree printable paper models to make for engineering science projects.
ABC Teach has complete units with free printable science
experiments and ideas for
science projects. Scholastic has morefree printable science
experiments. And Enchanted Learning
is always a good source for free printable materials for science projects and STEM activities.
