Editor's epicks for April

by Kathleen Alape Carpenter

From the Archives:

• Earth Day activities
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec032100.html
• Earth Day & Recycling activities
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec032399.html
• Alternatives to Field Trips
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec030700.html
• Teaching Map Skills
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec032800.html
• Earth/Eco books (annotated list)
  http://teachers.net/archive/envirobks.html
• Going Buggy! Insect theme
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec041399.html
• April Themes
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec033099.html
• Supporting Families in Crisis
  http://teachers.net/archive/ec011999.html
• Helping the ESL Student in Your Elem./Middle Classroom
  http://teachers.net/archive/
  elem_ms061699.html
• Disarming Bullies
  http://teachers.net/archive/
  taking_the_bully012501.html
• The End of Homework
  http://teachers.net/archive/
  kralovec111500.html
• Looping
  http://teachers.net/archive/
  looping060700.html
• School Legal Issues
  http://teachers.net/archive/law060600.html
• Running on Ritalin
  http://teachers.net/archive/docdiller.html

From the Teachers.Net Lessons Bank:

• Earth Day/Earth Protectors
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/281.html
• Earth Day
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/404.html
• Earth Day compilation
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1225.html
• Measuring the Earth
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1824.html
• Earth's Atmosphere
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1437.html
• Rainforest theme
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/405.html
• Air Pollution
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/2823.html

• Ecology/Garbage plants
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1097.html
• Making paper
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1088.html
• Arbor Day cloze
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/2273.html
• Learn About War Through Personal Stories
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1901.html
• Papier Mache Easter Basket
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons
  /posts/1657.html

Teachers.Net Resources

• Teachers.Net Earth Day/Eco Chatboard at
  http://teachers.net/projects/earthday
• Patriotic Flag Cracker recipe
  http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB02
  /recipes.html
• April showers rainbow recipe for the classroom
  http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02
  /recipes.html
• April crafts
  http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02
  /crafts.html

Other Helpful Sites:

• National Center for Children Exposed to Violence
  http://www.nccev.org
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency free materials
  http://www.epa.gov
• National Arbor Day Foundation
  http://www.arborday.org/index1.html
• May Day traditions
  http://geocities.com/Athens/
  Delphi/2453/may_day.html
• Celebrating May Day
  http://www.umkc.edu/imc/mayday.htm
• Construct a May Pole
  http://www.allspecies.org/bbs1
  /messages/270.htm