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Create a Learning Environment That is Engaging, Fun, and Challenging With These Teaching Resources
Welcome Unique Teaching Resources!
This teaching website is the place for teachers to find engaging lesson plans and activities for their students, as well as colorful educational displays and materials to brighten up their classrooms.
Are you asking yourself, "What makes this teaching website unique?"
On Unique Teaching Resources you will find unique teaching ideas and resources that will create a spark of interest, creativity, and enthusiasm in your students.
From uniquely shaped book report templates that will engage your students in responding to literature with enthusiasm...
To unique cooperative group projects based on novels that you have read with your students...
To unique creative writing templates that will engage your students in all of the steps of the writing process ...
To unique animal and holiday themed sticker chart templates ...
To unique student awards and certificates that you can use to reward your students for their progress and success...
To unique bulletin board display resources that will capture your students' interest ...
To unique flashcard sets that will help your students master learning high frequency words ...
To unique powerpoint lesson plans that will involve your students in the lesson activity and capture their attention...
To unique writing templates for favorite student books that students will be eager to complete using their best effort...
From A to Z, on Unique Teaching Resources, you will find teaching resources that:
save you time
brighten up your classroom environment
enrich your curriculum
engage your students in learning
make learning fun and challenging for your unique students
Every child is unique, and as teachers it is our job to educate each of our students to reach his or her full potential.
In order to achieve this challenging task, we need to engage our students in the learning process. We should provide our students with high interest learning activities and a stimulating learning environment. Above all, I believe that learning should be fun and challenging.
The educational resources on this site are the result of twenty two years of teaching children around the world. I began my teaching career when I was 21 in Guam, and since that time I have taught in Florida, Virginia, Hawaii, China, Indonesia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
I began to create my own worksheets for units of study on my beloved old typewriter, as computers were not something that you would find in someone's house at that time, and certainly not in the classroom! I purchased my first computer during my third year of teaching, and I thought that being able to save a file and edit it before printing it out was the best invention I had ever seen! Well, I was hooked, and over the years I have been developing my own teaching resources to supplement the subjects that I have taught.
All of the resources that you will find on this site were developed by me for my students. They have been tried, tested,and refined over the years as I have used them year after year. I have been encouraged by many of my colleagues to publish my teaching resources and make them available on the Internet. As a result, I am combining my computer skills and teaching experience to create this website.
I am a Canadian born, American educated teacher who has taught overseas in a variety of international schools. Since there are some differences in spelling and grammar between American and British English, I have provided two copies of my resources for you to choose from: a standard American English version and a second version labeled UK version. If there are no differences in spelling and grammar in a resource, there is only one version available.
I hope that you have a fun and successful school year! Heidi McDonald
In this picture, I am in the middle and dressed up as Roald Dahl on our Roald Dahl Day celebration. My students are dressed as an Oompa-Loompa and Mike Teevee from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Please bookmark and return to Unique Teaching Resources often, as I will be continuously adding new teaching resources to my website.
If you have any ideas for teaching resources that you would like to see included on my website, please use my contact page to let me know your ideas and suggestions.
Thank you for visiting my website. Please be sure to check out all the pages on my website for a large variety of teaching resources that will engage your students in learning and save you valuable time.
Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
Creator and Site Manager
Unique Teaching Resources
Teachers Have Class is a monthly newsletter from Unique Teaching Resources. Each newsletter will contain useful teaching tips and strategies, as well as teaching resources and ideas related to themes that will occur during that month.
As a bonus to the subscribers of my newsletter, there will be access to free downloads for that particular month's theme (Ex: pumpkin calendar numbers, stationary, and worksheets for October) included in each newsletter.
These special free resources are only available to subscribers of Teachers Have Class. The links to the free downloads will be made available for the first 5 days after you receive your monthly newsletter. After that time, I will close access to those links and post those resources for sale on my website.
So, be sure to open your Teachers Have Class Newsletter when you see it in your e-mail inbox and download your free resources within 5 days of the date that it was sent to you.
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On this rest of this page you will find photographs of some of my teaching resources that are available on this website.
Above is a picture of my students in front of their cheeseburger book report projects. It is hard to get students excited about completing writing assignments about a book that they have just finished reading. With the book report projects that I have created, I have found that my students are excited and look forward to each new project that I assign to them.
Above is an example of my Dive Into The Parts of Speech Bulletin Boardgrammar display. This set comes with different fish styles for nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections. This set also comes with blank fish for you to use as accent pieces on your bulletin board and a five page title banner.
This is an example of a creative writing activity. Our Halloween Stories comes with an idea web, rough draft page, grading rubric, and final draft templates in color and black and white. A five page display banner is also included with this creative writing activity.
Above is my Genre Reading Pizza reading incentive chart. Students cut this pizza into 8 slices and glue one slice at time onto their plain pizza as they read each genre.
Above is my Puppy Reading Sticker Chart. There are six different colored dog charts in this set and two black and white templates. There is a five page title banner for you to use when you display these charts on your bulletin board.
Above are my Student ImprovementAward Certificates. In addition, I have many award certificates for various subject areas and school related matters.
Thank you for visiting my website. Please drop by for a visit again!
Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
Creator and Site Manager
Unique Teaching Resources
Reading Sight Words: Free Flash Cards and Word Lists Reading sight words is one of the basic building blocks of learning how to read. Here you will find free flash cards and word lists for the Dolch Words and Fry Words.
Mother's Day Lesson Plans: Unique Flower Templates To Make For Mom! On this Mother's Day lesson plans page you will find unique flower templates that students can make and write in and give their mothers a flower that they made, instead of a traditional card activity.
Awards and Certificates for Students Here you will find awards and certificates to give out to your students for reading, spelling, improvement, attendance, math, and so much more!
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About Me: Heidi McDonald A description about myself, my 22 years of teaching experiences around the world, and how I turned my "lemons into lemonade."
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Above is a picture of my students in front of their cheeseburger book report projects. It is hard to get students excited about completing writing assignments about a book that they have just finished reading. With the book report projects that I have created, I have found that my students are excited and look forward to each new project that I assign to them.
