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Free Thanksgiving Fun Activity eBook for Preschool, Kindergarten, and Lower Elementary

Simple Schooling, a popular epublisher, is offering their Thanksgiving Fun Book free right now.  It's a 23-page activity ebook for K-2nd. 

How to Get this Freebie:  Download the free Thanksgiving activity ebook here.  No credit card requested. *

Limited Time Offer

Especially for preK-2nd grades

*Please let CurrClick know if you have any download problems -- their customer service is excellent.

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Free Curriculum for Elementary Students (really worth checking out!)

Okay, listen up, you'll like today's free educational find if you are teaching to the elementary grades.  Lesson Pathways used to be a subscription site, but on February 24th they decided to switch to offering their valuable site for 100% free, no catches at all. They say they're hoping to, like Twitter and Facebook, monetize the site through high traffic and ads.  Thankfully, the site isn't full of ads at all.   But I'm sure it will be full of high traffic, once the word gets out!

What is Lesson Pathways? 

Here is their description of the site: "We've found the very best online lessons, projects, games, and activities for K-5 students and we've assembled them into ready-to-teach, weekly topic units. [We offer over] 900 FREE weekly topic units; pre-screened, high quality, online resources; and an easy-to-use Planner, allowing you to customize your child's curriculum or supplement."

My favorite thing about the site is that planner. I have each student set up in the planner so that I can create a custom curriculum and assignments just for that child.  

You can use Lesson Pathways to create your own homeschool or classroom curriculum.  You may choose to assign a weeklong unit to one student, or assign a 36-week learning plan on a core subject (for example, math) for an entire classroom grade level (eg. Science 4).

Any catch?

You do need to register, but, if you want to, you can register with your Facebook account so that you're not giving out any other information.  Or you can register with your email address, like I did. It's quick easy, and spam-free to register.

See what you think by visiting Lesson Pathways.  The following are a few of the testimonials from the Lesson Pathways site:

	KimberlyC says:  "I have been searching high and low for ideas without having to buy a "boxed" curriculum. So far I am liking what I am seeing."
	jollygreengiant93 says:  "Thank you! I have had such trouble finding quality science information for my 1st grader. This is exactly what I was looking for!"
	bmw29 says:  "This really takes the headache away from planning fun yet educational activities to go along with our lesson plans."
	Katy says:  "This is such an unbelievably wonderful program. I have everything I need to start."
	StacyJ says:  "Finally, the exact curriculum I wanted with the same type of activities and resources, but it's already been pulled together for me! Thanks! " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe to FreelyEducate here Keep up with FreelyEducate tweets (Twitter) here: @freelyeducate

Free 900-page Unit Study & Lapbook Project on The Book of Virtues

Have you ever heard of the Book of Virtues by former Secretary of Education, William Bennett?  It was published in 1993, but is on its way to becoming a classic, probably because it is made up of classics.  "A Treasury of Great Moral Stories," the Book of Virtues contains stories written centuries ago, from Biblical stories to political speeches and many stories from literature. 

 

Today's free educational find isn't the Book of Virtues.  You'll have to buy that one (click on the book above).  Today's freebie is a 992 page (!) ebook on the Book of Virtues that contains a daily schedule and many worksheets.  The Book of Virtues Project is for those who would like to learn from the book as a unit study or lapbook project.  Here are a few screenshots from the book:

 If you'd like to read more from the author of The Book of Virtues Project, you may visit her blog at Shiver Academy.

If you'd like to download the entire ebook directly, all 18.93 mb of it (992 pages!), go here (I downloaded my copy this way).

If you'd like to download the ebook in pieces, you may do so from the author's Shiver Academy blog.  Look at the right sidebar, scroll down, and find a section that looks like this:

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Thematic Units and Lesson Plans for Free

Innovative Classroom offers Thematic Units, Lesson Plans and teaching tips for elementary grades. 

 
The Thematic Units are on the following subjects:

• Borneo
• Flight
• Peanuts

The Lesson Plans cover the following subjects:

• Social Studies
• History
• Physical Education
• Arts
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science

Interested in this free educational find?  Visit the Innovative Classroom.

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Free Unit Studies on Math, Science, History, Language Arts & More for Elementary

 
A 5th & 6th grade teacher at Mountain City ElementarySchool (Tennessee) created a site full of free unit studies on the following subjects:

• American History
• Book Units
• Social Studies
• Letter Writing
• Science
• Math
• Language Arts

There are also free unit studies based on themes:

• Apples
• Dogs
• Ancient Greece
• Survival
• Chocolate
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Rome
• Plants

Here's a link to the homepage of these free online unit studies.

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