Susan Traugh

While my hope is that most of you hard-working teachers have this winter break off to rest and renew yourselves, in case you are still fighting the good fight, here is a social skills lesson on Celebrating Christmas. While I try to be inclusive in all my lessons, this one comes from Celebrating Holidays which looks at appropriate ways to honor the ten national holidays—one of which is Christmas. If you and yours celebrate some other other—or no holidays—please know that I am

Holiday treats can be difficult if you have food allergies or need to eat gluten-free. You can help your students attain valuable cooking skills and open up their creativity by having a cookie bake-off for the holidays while honoring December’s Gluten-Free Baking Week. Start with the Basics Whether your classroom is blessed with an oven or you just pull in your trusty toaster-oven, this recipe is so easy and fool-proof that nearly any student can feel successful engineering t

Between Thanksgiving and New Year, 25,000 people will be injured in alcohol-related traffic accidents. In 2017, 885 people died in December from alcohol-related crashes.* These numbers are part of the reason that December is designated at Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Month. Help your students use their awareness to change the trends and begin to curtail drunk and drugged driving—not just in December—but all year long. Begin by Looking at the Numbers Scram Systems provi

With the holidays comes “cold and flu season.” Everyone is locked inside, windows are closed, and germs are everywhere! How appropriate that this is also National Hand-Washing Awareness Week! For, research shows that one of the ways to stop the spread of the cold and flu viruses is to regularly and correctly wash our hands. Teaching our students proper hand-washing is a vital adult living skills to keep them healthy and germ-free. How to Use this Free Lesson Use the short, c