Mapping Mom's Heart - A simple but delightful craft that can also serve as a Mother's Day card.
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY03/crafts.html

Mother's Day Butterfly and Poem - Child's painted handprints form a colorful butterfly. A short but lovely poem adds the right touch of love any mother will love.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1061.html

Mother's Day Tea and 2 Delightful Recipes, one for an aquarium cracker to accompany the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni (or any book about fish), and a recipe for an edible bird's nest.
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY02/recipes.html

Island Fever Mother's Day - All the tips you'll need to put on a tropical-themed Mother's Day event in your classroom.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/434.html

Bath Salts Recipe for Mother's Day gift - What special lady wouldn't enjoy a nice relaxing soak in a hot bath, softened with a dose of perfumed bath salts prepared and presented by a special child in her life?
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/408.html

Mostly Mother's Day, but you'll find other May ideas and activities in this transcript FULL of ideas contributed by teachers during a live Teachers.Net chat.
http://teachers.net/archive/ec042500.html

More May Ideas shared in live chat, including some for Mother's Day
http://teachers.net/archive/ec042799.html

From the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank

Careers (Kindergarten-Primary) Adaptable to ESL (Elementary). Students learn career-related vocabulary by constructing books using the Brown Bear, Brown Bear pattern. http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1037.html

Career Exploration (Secondary) High school seniors understand their own personality type and the personality types of others; students learn how to work with people with different personality types; students become aware of personal values and interests; to enable them to make career choices based on interests, values, and personality. Includes link to personality test. http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2766.html

Math Stations (Elementary) Game stations used to reinforce the multiplication facts for learning stations or games “ready to go” for a substitute teacher to use. http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/869.html

Homeless or Luxurious - A Lesson on Practical Economics (Middle-Secondary) Students select at random a US city, are assigned a certain amount of money for their living expenses, then research online to see how well they could live on the allotted budget, in the process filling out a living expenses form. Embedded within the lesson are many concepts related to the economic facts of life.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1807.html

Edible Topographical Geography (Elementary) How to create a topographical map students will remember, using edible materials.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1299.html

Passing, Trapping and Heading Soccer Skills (Middle-Senior)

This lesson includes help with teaching 3 major skills necessary to being a successful soccer player.
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1022.html

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