What’s on the Thanksgiving menu at the Learning magazine blog? We’re presenting a fantastic feast of freebies—with a special giveaway for dessert. Read on!
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Let’s start with dessert first: submit a comment to our blog by midnight on Monday, November 29, and you’ll be entered in a random drawing to win a very timely book: A Kid’s Guide to Native American History from Chicago Review Press. It features more than 50 activities, games, and crafts that you and your students can use to explore native American cultures. Submit your comment today! (Update: Congratulations to Darlene, who is our winner! Darlene, we hope you and your students enjoy the book!)
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On the hunt for holiday activities? You’ll find plenty of free, teacher-created activities at Thinkfinity.org. Visit for last-minute Thanksgiving ideas like Packing the Pilgrim’s Trunk or December activities like Send a Smile: Make a Card for a Special Occasion. You’ll find dozens more activities to keep students busy through November and December—and all year long! Click here now!
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Put this on your wish list: Red Chair Press offers a 12-book Funny Bone Readers set with a FREE eBooks CD! These books help children develop good character through funny characters and silly stories, all while making connections to their own actions. Click here now to learn more!
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Acer America is giving away netbooks and notebook computers! To enter, K-12 schools create a YouTube video or an essay with pictures using Google Picasa or Fickr and explain how these resources would help students gain 21st century skills. Plus school personnel take a multiple-choice quiz on the difference between notebooks and netbooks. To get all the details, click here or visit https://professional.us.acer.com/edu/campaign/Mobile_Technology_Platform_Challenge/. The contest ends January 14, 2011.
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Could you be the Magic Tree House Educator of the Year? One lucky teacher will win two autographed sets of the entire Magic Tree House series (one for herself and one for her class library), $500 worth of children’s books from Random House, a $500 gift card for classroom supplies, a trip to the 2011 International Reading Association convention to meet the Magic Tree House authors, and a Skype school visit with the authors. The contest is open to teachers in grades 1-4. Contest entries must be received by January 14, 2011. For more information, visit www.magictreehouse.com/teachers-educator_of_year.
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Get students thinking about the environment with the Find Your Footprint contest from National Geographic and Procter & Gamble. Students in grades K-6 research their school’s environmental footprint and brainstorm ways to cut waste. The winning classroom gets a prize valued at $36,000, including five Promethean interactive whiteboards, $1,000 in National Geographic materials, and more. Entries are due December 3, 2010, so get started today! Details are at www.nationalgeographic.com/findyourfootprint.
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Hope your holiday feast is just as tasty as these freebies and contests! Don’t forget to submit your comment for a chance to win our prize!
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This book sounds like a keeper for every classroom. It also looks like a book you can use with all age groups. Susan
I love the thinkfinity site. The book sounds great for all ages. Happy Thanksgiving Karen.
These look like neat resources ! Thanks for sharing them.
Thanks, Darlene! Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! 🙂
Thank you for all of the great information!
Wow! Thanks be to thee whomst giveth such abundant
resources from which to choose! Happy Thanksgiving!