Earth Day! By Jennifer Larrea Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle with this great lesson for elementary students. Each page is filled with colorful interactive activities for students to explore. This lesson was created by a TeqSmart-certified user.
	Earth Day By (our own) Lany Burnett This is a Notebook file with interactive activities to help celebrate Earth Day.
	Plants and the Environment By Anna Capuozzo This lesson emphasizes how recycling can help Earth’s environment. There are multiple activities related to both plants and conservation. This lesson was created by a TeqSmart certified user.
	Earth Day Exploration By Katina Lundenberg This interactive science lesson for elementary level students will investigate recycling and how students can celebrate Earth Day. A KWL chart and vocabulary practice are included. This lesson was created by a TeqSmart certified user.
	Diversity of Living Things By Aimee Burns Students will be able to: describe the difference between living and non-living things, identify what plants need to grow, and identify the parts of a plant.

Enjoy the Lessons!

There are four sections of the Forum.  In the “Learning Objects” sections, teachers can share ideas and comments regarding the Teq learning objects offered in the Teq Online Store.  The “Bragging Rights” section is a great place to share success stories with others.  We love to hear about all the great things teachers are doing with their SMART Boards!

If you find that you have some general questions or comments about SMART Board or Notebook Software use, check out the “Classroom Use” section.  In the “Tech Support” section, you will find questions, comments and ideas regarding hardware.

Check out the forum! It’s really a great resource to find and share ideas!

Download the lesson here (remember to log-in).

Visit the Downloads section in the Educator Resource Center (ERC) to download the Polar Express lesson and customize it to fit your classroom’s needs. Don’t forget to click on the attachments tab for a Word document describing how to use and edit the file. Happy Holidays!

You can download this file from our Educator Resource Center.

Continued success with all of your students.

In almost every search database there is a way to clarify and simplify a search in order to find precisely what a person is looking for. Additionally, since we as educators have to be more and more careful about what we expose our students to, it becomes much more important to censor out all the ‘bad stuff’ and focus in on what we need.

Below is a collection of Google words that, when used in the Google search bar at www.google.com, can narrow the search to only include information that is pertinent.

Word usage and their use in Google searches:

Source: www.googleguide.com

Our Courts is a website envisioned by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor that is dedicated to teaching students about 21st century civics. The website includes lesson plans, games and a place where students can send messages back and forth with Justice O’Connor.

While you’re teaching about goverment also check out Alex Kane’s Bill of Rights Lesson from our Educator Resource Center. This lesson describes and reinforces students understanding of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. After the lesson, go back to the Our Courts website and have students review what they learned by playing the Do I have a Right? game.

In response, we’ve created a New York State learning object — and, we’re offering this learning object free for a short time.

This learning object can be used to teach about:

• Major Cities
• Lake & Rivers
• Explorers
• Counties (can be toggled on and off)
• Geographic Regions
• Population Density Centers
• Native American Tribal Regions, and
• Relief Map

Along with having layers that can be turned on/off, several layers can be activated at the same time. This can help students match, lets say, population density centers with cities and/or with the relief map.

Click here to get this learning object while it is still available for free. Might we also suggest that, along with the New York State Learning Object, you could get the New York City Learning Object too?

We’d love to hear some feedback about this learning object, especially from those teachers who suggested it. They spoke, we listened.