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Phone Book Math Did the phone company just deliver new phone books to your door? Don't throw out the old ones -- ask students to bring them to school. Those old phone books offer opportunities for lots of valuable math practice. So, let your fingers do the walking to great math lessons.

Hold a Read-In Eight themes for reading fun. More great ideas too.

Quick-Tivities Ten lessons that can be done in 10 minutes.

Harry Potter Use the book or movies as an opportunity to write Harry Potter haiku.

Poetry Ed World’s themed page offers dozens of ideas for incorporating poetry in your lessons.

Financial Literacy Help get students started on the road to financial responsibility.

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

Friday Fun Students in every grade learn as they create ABC books.

Learning Game of the Week “Find It Fast!” is a fast-paced review game for any subject.

Vicki Cobb’s Show-Biz Science Play with static electricity.

5-Minute Fillers Volume 3.

From the Math Machine Cookie Dough is a fun Web site for teaching place value and the spelling of number words. (Grades K-5)

Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks Math Games With Joanne and Jane This week: “Multiplication Dice Toss.”

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...
Games
Oceans

Writing Bug My happiest day was the time I ...

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