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Free Educational Coloring Pages

Did you know the United States government has a site full of coloring pages?  But these aren't just any coloring pages, these pages are full of educational facts and provide a student an introduction into many different subjects.

How to Get this Freebie:  Go to the coloring pages menu for a full listing of all that is offered.  Below is just a sample:

• Agriculture, U.S. Department (USDA): farming, George Washington Carver, wildflowers of America, and many other subjects
• Commerce, U.S. Department :  weather, sea turtles, and the Pacific coral reef are among the available subjects
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): endangered species and other environmental topics
• Health and Human Services, Department of (HHS): health topics
• Interior, Department of the (DOI) : salmon and Yellowstone are two of the available topics
• Local/State governments :  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, North Carolina, Maine, Connecticut, and Louisiana are topics available
• from Marine Resources :  Mobile Bay, Salish Sea, Coastal North Carolina, and Chesapeake Bay
• from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) :  space topics, of course!

 Get out the Crayons (yes, some for you, too...we are never too old to color!), and enjoy coloring education!

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From Subway: A Free Health Kit for All, Including Homeschoolers (in your mail!)

Subway will mail a free health kit to teachers (including homeschooling teachers), while supplies last.  The 2010 kit  is not the same one as last year.

Subway writes, "Educators receive a FREE Random Act of Fitness for Kids, full of engaging classroom activities and tools to promote a healthier lifestyle."

You do have to sign up to receive the kit, since it is mailed to your address.

How to Get This Freebie: Fill out the simple form on the Subway Kids site.

For:  K-6th,  elementary grades

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Free Resources for Teachers, Including Standards-Correlated Lessons for K-12

The quality of free educational finds seems to be improving each year.  Today's freebie is definitely one of those high quality resources. 

SMART Exchange offers free downloadable lessons* and lesson plans for teachers (including homeschoolers).  There is a teacher forum on the site, where you can bounce ideas off other teachers.  You may upload content you'd like to share. And, best of all, there is a search feature built into the site where you can find lessons specific to your state's standards and specific to the grade(s) you are teaching.

The free resources are available in a dozen or so subjects, ranging from Citizenship to Math, and from English as a Second Language to Special Education.  Here is a screenshot of the most downloaded subjects (as of March 18, 2010):

03/20/10 Update:  A FreelyEducate.com reader asked how to view the files.  Mark @ SmartTech replied, "If you don't have Notebook software installed, you can use a free web-based viewer at http://express.smarttech.com to open and edit them."~ Thanks, Mark!

Are you from a non-US country?  If so, click on the small flag in the top right corner of the SMART Exchange site to view the site in another language.

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Thank you, Katherine, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us! Want to share one, too?  Just email me at freelyeducate@gmail.com. ~ Lori

For Preschool through 6th Grade: Free Curriculum in All Subjects

Today we have another one of those vast sites that offer something in many subject areas.  The Learning Site is primarily for preschool through about 6th grade.  You're going to have to visit it yourself to see all there is to offer you!

Here are a few screenshots of random pages within The Learning Site:

At least one area of the site (math) requires registration, including adding the author's name of a Harcourt textbook as a password.  Other than that area, and perhaps another that I haven't yet noticed, the site can be freely used, even without registration.

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Here are a few screenshots of random pages within The Learning Site:

At least one area of the site (math) requires registration, including adding the author's name of a Harcourt textbook as a password.  Other than that area, and perhaps another that I haven't yet noticed, the site can be freely used, even without registration.

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Thank you, Kathleen, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us! Do you have a resource to share, too?  Email me at freelyeducate@gmail.com

Free Health & Nutrition Curriculum for Kids from Dr. Katz

When Dr. David Katz was on The Martha Stewart Show last week, he mentioned his Nutrition Detectives CD.  If you'd rather not order the CD, you may access the materials online for free.  Here's how:

Health: Nutrition Detectives

Before the food companies started removing hydrogenated oils from foods, Dr. Katz (from the Yale University School of Medicine) taught us it was something to avoid.  His Nutrition Detectives curriculum (something we completed in a day), convinced our then-six-year-old peanut butter & jelly addict to switch from Jif to an all-natural peanut butter.  Without any nagging on my part!  How's that for easy?

Here is the program description straight from the Nutrition Detectives site:

Drs. David and Catherine Katz are pleased to share their Nutrition Detectives program.

NUTRITION DETECTIVES® "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices"

Nutrition Detectives is an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices." They learn how to read food labels, detect marketing deceptions while simultaneously learning to identify and subsequently choose healthy foods. The program has been taught in schools throughout the country and data are currently being collected in Independence Missouri. There is opportunity to disseminate the program using a 'train-the-trainer' model, in which high school students are trained to teach younger students. The program is novel, creative, engaging, and efficient, imparting crucial information in minimal time.

By registering (email address; zip code) you will have free access to the following:

• Nutrition Detectives Slide Show [PowerPoint]
• Teacher's Manual/Curriculum Guide [45-page PDF]
• Children's Questionnaire [6-page PDF]
• Parent Intro Letter
• Parent Follow-up Letter
• Evaluation form for Nutrition Detectives

We are asking you to register so that we may track how many people/schools/organizations are using this program. It will also allow us to determine how effective the program was at your home, school or organization. If you do not want us to contact you, please check off the "Do not contact me" box below.

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Have a resource or giveaway to share?  Email me, Lori Seaborg, at freelyeducate@gmail.com

p.s. from Lori :  I haven't gotten the first bit of spam from them, and have used the site for almost four years.

Before the food companies started removing hydrogenated oils from foods, Dr. Katz (from the Yale University School of Medicine) taught us it was something to avoid.  His Nutrition Detectives curriculum (something we completed in a day), convinced our then-six-year-old peanut butter & jelly addict to switch from Jif to an all-natural peanut butter.  Without any nagging on my part!  How's that for easy?

Here is the program description straight from the Nutrition Detectives site:

Drs. David and Catherine Katz are pleased to share their Nutrition Detectives program.

NUTRITION DETECTIVES® "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices"

Nutrition Detectives is an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is "Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices." They learn how to read food labels, detect marketing deceptions while simultaneously learning to identify and subsequently choose healthy foods. The program has been taught in schools throughout the country and data are currently being collected in Independence Missouri. There is opportunity to disseminate the program using a 'train-the-trainer' model, in which high school students are trained to teach younger students. The program is novel, creative, engaging, and efficient, imparting crucial information in minimal time.

By registering (email address; zip code) you will have free access to the following:

• Nutrition Detectives Slide Show [PowerPoint]
• Teacher's Manual/Curriculum Guide [45-page PDF]
• Children's Questionnaire [6-page PDF]
• Parent Intro Letter
• Parent Follow-up Letter
• Evaluation form for Nutrition Detectives

We are asking you to register so that we may track how many people/schools/organizations are using this program. It will also allow us to determine how effective the program was at your home, school or organization. If you do not want us to contact you, please check off the "Do not contact me" box below.

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Subscribe to FreelyEducate here  

Have a resource or giveaway to share?  Email me, Lori Seaborg, at freelyeducate@gmail.com

p.s. from Lori :  I haven't gotten the first bit of spam from them, and have used the site for almost four years.

The BBC Learning Zone: Educational Videos in Many Subjects (UK only?)

(Note: A reader pointed out that these videos seem to be only available to those watching from the UK (I guess they are looking at our IP addresses?).  I wasn't able to view one either ("not available in your area," the screen said), but haven't yet researched how to get around that.  So, for now, this one seems to be just for you in the UK!)

If you like to use videos in your school, you'll probably love frequenting the BBC Learning Zone.  The list of available videos is so long I couldn't possibly justify taking the time to list them, and the subjects?  That's a very long list, too.  Just go to the BBC Learning Zone site and you'll see what I mean:

 
 
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(Thank you, Alice, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us!)

The Learning Site: Free Lessons in Many Subject Areas for Preschool - Elementary

Today we have another one of those vast sites that offer something in many subject areas.  The Learning Site is primarily for preschool through about 6th grade.  You're going to have to visit it yourself to see all there is to offer you!

Here are a few screenshots of random pages within The Learning Site:

At least one area of the site (math) requires registration, including adding the author's name of a Harcourt textbook as a password.  Other than that area, and perhaps another, the site can be freely used, even without registration.

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Thank you, Kathleen, for sharing this high quality, 100% free educational find with us! Do you have a resource to share, too?  Email me at freelyeducate@gmail.com