Free Teachers Count Posters

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Our “Behind Every Famous Person is a Fabulous Teacher” campaign, made possible by the generous support of Jones New York In The Classroom and featured in Time Inc.’s family of magazines, was so popular, that we were flooded with requests from teachers for poster version for their classrooms. With generous underwriting support from Scholastic, Inc., they available to teachers for free!

Just send us an email at info@teacherscount.org with your name, address, and which posters you want and we will send them out to you, absolutely free!

Go here to view the posters.

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Brain Facts CD or Book

Brain Facts is a 74-page primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience, Brain Facts is also a valuable educational resource used by high school teachers and students who participate in Brain Awareness Week.

A single copy of Brain Facts is distributed free of charge to SfN members and North American-based educators. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. You can request it here or download a free PDF copy.

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Free 1 year Premium membership to Smilebox

As a member of the Smilebox Teacher’s Toolbox program, you will receive a FREE annual subscription to our premium Club Smilebox service (a $39.99 value). This gives you unlimited access to more than 900 Smilebox designs. You can choose from thousands of music options or add your own music, email and blog your creations full screen without ads, print any page, burn your Smileboxes to DVD or save them as jpeg images for a photo frame. More designs are added each week. You will also receive special offers and a newsletter with great ideas on how to use Smilebox in your classroom.

It claims that space is limited so go here to sign up real soon!

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Free Classic Audio Books

If you are need audio recordings for classic books like Huckeberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this site has a collection of classic audio books.

Go here to look through the titles and download the audio books.

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Free Freedom's Song DVD and Lesson Plans

Farmers has joined with The Association for the Study of African American Life and History to create a documentary film, Freedom’s Song: 100 years of African-American struggle and triumph, that highlights significant milestones in the history of the African-American experience during the past century. It includes living testimonials designed to put a personal face on the actual historical events featured in the film.

The Freedom’s Song package is free to educators and includes a DVD copy of the film, engaging and thought-provoking lesson plans and an interactive web site that will be continually updated with audio and video content.

The lesson plans are targeted towards middle and high schoolers.

Go here to sign up and explore the website.

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Agricultural Research Activities for various grade levels

This is a part of the Sci4kids website. From a coloring page for the younger set, to a monster of a word find for the older kids, the content encompasses a range of student levels. It will not only help kids learn about agricultural research, but also strengthen reading skills and stimulate creative thinking!

Go here to see the various activities.

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Free printable maps from the National Geographic.

Here's another site you can print maps from. I do personally like these. You can chosoe for it to be detailed or simple and also whether to include the country borders or not.

Go here to get the printable maps.

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