Sometimes you find interesting things in places you don’t expect.  While browsing I happened on the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising website for high school and college educators.  At first I just expected it to be a site students could use for research on the fashion industry, but I soon realized its greater potential. [...]

You can win a year’s supply of tissues from the tissue company Puffs. The catch is that students have to turn in UPCs during the 2010-2011 school year in order to win the tissues for the 2011-2012 school year.  The other catch is that each school has to designate a school representative who keeps track [...]

Here’s a creative art contest for students in grades K-12.  Teachers have to register their classes for students to particpate and in addition, must submit each student’s entry form, parent consent form, student doodle, student title for doodle and student supporting statement.  The topic is “If I could do anything, I would …”  What a [...]

If one of your friends is a favorite among students, have your students practice writing praise by participating in Panera Bread’s Rising Above student essay contest.  Students must submit a 100-200 word essay on why his or her teacher deserves to be recognized.  Essays must be submitted at a store or online by March 31st. [...]

If your students have access to computers and you want to have your class compete against other classes in a math contest, take a look at  the American Math Challenge.  It’s an online math contest that takes place in early November.  The practice week is November 2-8 and the Online Challenge is November 9-16.  There [...]