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Easter Egg Word Problems: Practice Addition
Spring into math practice with Easter Egg Addition, a standards-aligned K–5 word problem game featuring Easter eggs, baby chicks, chocolate bunnies, and more. Students choose their grade band (K–1, 2–3,…
Sneak Peek: Our New Storm Simulator
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Make a Greek Salad With Yummy Veggies
Build the Dish: Greek Salad is a standards-aligned, interactive math game for K–5 students celebrating Greek Heritage Month. In this hands-on digital activity, students build a traditional Greek Horiatiki salad…
Educators’ Guide to Cherry Blossom Festivals
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Instant Lesson: March Madness for Math
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Close Up with Rita Levi-Montalcini: A Scientist Who Refused Every Boundary
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Quoits: Ancient Greece Ring-Toss
Celebrate Greek Heritage Month with this standards-aligned interactive game for grades K–5. In Play It, Learn It: Quoits, students throw a ring toward a target peg called a hob —…
French Language Day Matching Game
Celebrate French Language Day with this interactive French-English vocabulary matching game designed for K–5 students! Players click a French word and find its English match across three differentiated grade levels…
Your Amazing Brain Series: Senses
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Nutritious Food Coloring Pack
Reinforce the five food groups with this printable coloring pack, perfect for National Nutrition Month! Each page features a food from our Sort Your Food! sorting game, with a fun…
All Buzzer Beater Math Games
Step onto the court and let the math begin — Buzzer Beater brings the thrill of March Madness right into your classroom with four fast-paced games covering addition, subtraction, multiplication,…
Buzzer Beater Division! Mad Halves and More!
Buzzer Beater Division brings the intensity of March Madness to the classroom, where students race the clock to conquer division facts from equal sharing all the way to full fluency!…
Buzzer Beater Multiplication: Play Now!
Michael Jordan dunks the ball in the 1988 Slam Dunk Contest Author: Charles Cherney Buzzer Beater Multiplication brings the thrill of March Madness to skip counting and multiplication practice for…
Nutritious Food Sorting Game!
Drag, drop, and sort your way to nutrition superstar status — from apples to lentils, every food finds its bowl! 🥗 Built for K–5 learners, this shiny kitchen counter challenge…
Meet Bonnie St. John: Paralympic Medalist, Rhodes Scholar, and Trailblazer
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Beat the Buzzer Addition! Practice Here!
Buzzer Beater Sums is a March Madness-themed math game that challenges K–2 students to solve visual addition equations using basketball emojis. Players count emoji groups, type their answer, and race…
Top 5 Crafts to Celebrate National Craft Month
Top 5 This Month™ Crafts for National Craft Month! 🌸 National Craft Month · March 2026 🌸 Top 5 This Month™ Crafts 🎨 Five hands-on crafts from This Month™ that…
Cupcake Math: What Happens When Yummy Treats are Shared?
Lucky Differences is an interactive St. Patrick’s Day subtraction game for kindergarten and first grade students, built around the fun theme of a leprechaun giving away shamrock cupcakes — making…
Instant Guide: St. Patrick’s Pattern Games
This instant guide supports K–5 educators in using St. Patrick’s Day pattern recognition games to build algebraic thinking through repeating patterns. Students explore shamrocks, gold coins, and rainbows through four…
Silenced Voices, Hard-Won Votes: An Instant Guide to Women’s Suffrage
This Month’s™ Instant Guide to Women’s Suffrage centers the stories of Black, Native, and Asian women who fought for the vote — from Harriet Tubman and Ida B. Wells to…
Word Search: The Dentist’s Dictionary
Celebrate National Dentist Day on March 6 with The Dentist’s Dictionary, a standards-aligned interactive word search from This Month designed for students in Kindergarten through 5th grade. Three differentiated grade…
Audio Book Review: “Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut”
Photo courtesy of Agate Publishing The barbershop is a place like no other. In “Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut,” written by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C.…
Polka Dots Everywhere! Discover the Amazing Work and Life of Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most recognized living artists in the world, celebrated for her immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, polka dot sculptures, and participatory installations that invite audiences to…
St. Patrick’s Pattern Builder
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Leprechaun Pattern Detective
St. Patrick’s Pattern Detective is an interactive St. Patrick’s Day math game for kindergarten through second grade students, targeting core early algebra skills through pattern recognition and error correction. Students…
St. Patrick’s Unit Counter
St. Patrick’s Pattern Unit Counter is an interactive St. Patrick’s Day math game for kindergarten through second grade that develops students’ understanding of pattern structure by asking them to construct…
Shamrock Pattern Completion
St. Patrick’s Pattern Completion is an interactive St. Patrick’s Day math game for kindergarten and first grade students that builds pattern literacy through a fill-in-the-blank structure. Students are presented with…
Meet the Saints of March
Description: Discover the three saints of March — St. David of Wales, St. Joseph, and St. Patrick — through this richly illustrated teacher’s guide designed for K–5 classrooms. Explore the…
Lucky Sum St Pat’s Addition Practice
Lucky Sums is an interactive St. Patrick’s Day math game designed for kindergarten and first grade students, covering addition word problems with unknowns in all positions — result unknown, change…
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An Educator’s Guide to the Hindu Festival Holi
This teacher’s guide to Holi gives K–5 educators everything they need to bring the Hindu Festival of Colors into the classroom with cultural depth and authenticity. From the sacred stories…
A Teacher’s Guide to Rare Disease Day
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Follow the Humpback Whales Around the World!
Humpback Whale Migration | This Month™ 🐋 Humpback Whale Migration 🌊 Follow the amazing journey of humpback whales across the world’s oceans! 🗺️ Explore Whale Migration Routes Click on any…
Time Machine: Meet Black Innovators
Hi Teachers! If you think this preview is cool, check out the version that our PILOT Teachers Access here. It’s optimized for Smartboards!!! This version is NOT meant for iOS…
Find Your Perfect Coretta Scott King Award Winner!
While Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his civil rights leadership, Coretta Scott King was a powerful activist and advocate in her own right. A trained vocalist, author,…
Book Review: “Bottle Cap Boys”
“Bottle Cap Boys Dancing on Royal Street”, written by Rita Williams-Garcia and illustrated by Damian Ward, is an ode to New Orleans from cover to cover. Before the story even…
Black Children’s Book Week | Book Reviews
Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art Written by J.H. Shapiro | Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton What do old shoes, broken toys, and discarded dolls have in…
Book Review: “Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions”
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Book Review: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind“ Written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer | Illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon When a devastating drought stripped his family’s farm in Malawi of its…
Chinese New Year: Fire Horse Charm Craft
This hands-on charm craft is a beautiful way to celebrate Lunar New Year while building fine motor skills and creative confidence. Students cut, layer, and glue felt into a vibrant…
Plan a President’s Day Puzzle: Matching Fun!
The Presidents’ Day Matching Challenge is an interactive educational game where students match 10 well-known U.S. presidents with their most significant accomplishments. The game features three difficulty levels (K-1, 2-3,…
Spring Festival, Lunar New Year & Chinese New Year: A Guide for Educators
“` This comprehensive Teacher’s Guide to Spring Festival/Lunar New Year provides K-5 educators with equal coverage of Chinese, Korean (Seollal), and Vietnamese (Tết) celebrations, emphasizing cultural authenticity and age-appropriate teaching…
Add Up Lucky Money! Double-Digit Addition!
Bring Chinese New Year into your math lesson with this interactive partial sums game! Students practice double-digit addition by selecting two red packets and visually breaking numbers into tens and…
Teach About Carnival Around the World! An Educator’s Guide
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Download Coloring Sheets for Carnival Around the World!!!
🎭 Carnival Around the World 🎉 Explore carnival celebrations from different cultures! Watch videos, color festive designs, and play our exciting Tombola game. Mardi Gras New Orleans, USA 🖍️ Download…
Play Tombola for Carnival Celebration!
Carnival Tombola Game: Venetian Edition Experience the excitement of traditional Italian tombola with a vibrant Carnival twist! This festive number game brings the spirit of Venice’s famous Carnival celebration right…
What Were the Top Performers in the Year of the Snake?
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Monday Morning Quaterback Spanish-English Quiz
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Monday Morning Quarterback Word Search
Why Word Searches Support ELA Learning Word searches build foundational literacy skills through engaging visual puzzles” – Dr. K. M. Schlatter Pattern Recognition & Word Consciousness: Scanning for words trains…
Monday Quarterback Memory Match
Play a game of memory and you may notice the great cognitive benefits, appearing quickly after several rounds. Start with the K-1st grade level, and work your way up. You…
Just Opened! The 2026 Winter Olympics!
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Bobsled Speed Challenge: Compare the Best Race Times for K-5th!
Students race bobsleds and award medals to the top three finishers by comparing race times, with the game automatically adjusting difficulty from whole seconds (K-1) to decimal tenths (2-3) to…
Grade Adjustable Lesson Plan to Accompany Bobsled Number Comparision Game!
Students use an interactive bobsled racing game to practice comparing and ordering numbers by analyzing race times and awarding gold, silver, and bronze medals to the top three finishers out…
It’s Your Turn! Make a Voice Recording Here!
This little recording studio can facilitate your classroom or home recording project. The recording is available immediately after you’re finished, but YOU need to save it to you computer or…
Freedom Quilt Coloring Activity
During the time of enslavement of Black people in America, quilts were created from scraps of fabric. These quilts became tools of resistance and pathways to freedom. Some say these…
History’s Calling!
This multi-media interactive learning experience “History’s Calling” has been optimized for school laptops, desktops, and smartboards. It is not meant to be used on iPhones or iPads or iOs devices…
An Educator’s Guide to Bus Boycotts: Lesser Known Heroes
Teacher’s Guide to the Montgomery Bus Boycott – The Untold Stories Teacher’s Guide to the Montgomery Bus Boycott The Untold Stories Beyond Rosa Parks Target Audience: K-5th Grade Educators Time…
Valentine’s Pattern Cards – Printable Set
Transform February math lessons into hands-on fun with these adorable Valentine-themed pattern cards! This ready-to-print set features 96 colorful cards with red hearts, pink roses, and purple chocolates that students…
Snowflake Bentley: Our January Read-Aloud Guide
Snowflake Bentley – Interactive Book Review January Read-Aloud Guide ❄️ Snowflake Bentley ❄️ By Jacqueline Briggs Martin Illustrated by Mary Azarian K-5 Classroom Resource From the Archives Grades K-1 Grades…
INSTANT Guide to the Artic vs Antarctic
Instant Guide to the Arctic vs Antarctic | This Month™ THIS MONTH™ 🧊 Instant Guide to the Arctic vs Antarctic 🧊 Exploring Earth’s Frozen Poles 👋 Choose Your Learning Level:…
Take the MLK Day Civic’s Quiz
MLK Day Civic Quiz – Test Your Knowledge! 🕊️ 📚 ⭐ MLK Day Civic Quiz Test Your Knowledge About Dr. King! Choose Your Grade Level: Kindergarten – 1st Grade 2nd…
How to Read January Temperature Charts: A Measurement Activity
Temperature Explorer | This Month™ 🌡️ Temperature Explorer 🗺️ Discover how temperatures vary across America in early January! 🗺️ Choose a City to Explore Click on any city in the…
Introducing Dr. Martin Luther King as a Lifelong Learner: A Teacher’s Guide
Dr. King: A Reader, Writer, and Lifelong Learner 📚 ✍🏾 🎵 Dr. King: A Reader, Writer, and Lifelong Learner Beyond the Dream: The Many Dimensions of Dr. Martin Luther King…
Rock Detective: Categorizing & Coloring Activity
Can you identify different types of rocks? It’s trickier than it looks – even geologists sometimes need tools and tests! In this activity, you’ll learn how rocks form and practice…
Shopping Cart Math! Half Off Challenge
January Sales Challenge 🏷️ January Sales Challenge! 🏷️ ✨ EVERYTHING 50% OFF! ✨ A This Month™ Activity Grades K-1 | Learn About “Half Off” Sales! 🎯 New Year Sale! Everything…
