Salsa Spanish offers free Spanish lessons for younger kids in Kindergarten and lower elementary. Each lesson contains a video of puppets and costumed characters. You, the teacher, do not need to know any Spanish to teach these lessons! A full teacher’s guide for each episode is available, free. The lesson plans include scheduling suggestions and black line masters (drawings), correlating…
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Free Nature Illustration Course: Begins February 21, 2023
The University of Newcastle offers a nature illustration course once or twice each year. The first year the course came out, I took it alongside our teenager. We really loved it! The course covers botanical illustration, but goes so much deeper than just showing you how the teacher draws objects. Instead, you are encouraged to draw the object as you see it! Also,…
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Art Study: Adolphe Millot’s Butterflies (Papillons). Free Coloring Pages and Original Art to Download
Scientist and artist Adolphe Millot illustrated many natural wonders, from minerals to birds, from insects to butterflies. As he was an epidemiologist, Millot was accurate in nature illustration. His paintings were used in encyclopedias in France in the late 1800s. These are Adolphe Millot’s papillons, or, butterflies. I created hand-drawn coloring pages from adolphe Millot’s Butterflies Adolphe Millot is one…
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Free Shakespeare Study Guides for 13 Plays!
This is a great freebie, that keeps getting better: 13 free study guides on 15 different Shakespeare plays. Each study guides is about 40 pages each. WHAT ARE IN THE FREE SHAKESPEARE PLAY STUDY GUIDES? The study guides include historical information, Shakepeare’s language, and much more about each play. The illustrations are in full-color and the activities in the guides are engaging….
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Create a Paper Globe for Learning Geography & Geometry: Free Template & Pattern
We’re always searching for unique ideas for teaching. It’s rather easy to think of creative ways to teach geography: globes and maps are fascinating things. But teaching geography and geometry in one creative exercise? That takes a bit of ingenuity – or, an artist who also likes coding. Thankfully, the artist who created a paper globe template is also a…
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