Education - Curricula

A complete curriculum about the anatomy and physiology of (animal) cells designed for ages 10 to 16. The first half of the book is a 100-page student section with ten chapters that are written in a lively and engaging style, with occasional inserts of...

Education for SustainableDevelopment in the Caribbean: Pedagogy, Processes and Practices offers a unique perspective on educational approaches to creating asustainable world. Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson complement their theoreticaldiscussions with practical, "real world" engagements. Case studies and currentresearch ground teaching and learning for sustainability...

Classroom teachers often feel pressure to choose between using standards-based lessons and activities that engage their students' creativity and encourage personal expression. In Jump Write In , however, the experienced writer-teachers from WritersCorps offer numerous exercises that do both: build key standards-based writing skills...

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of...

Inviting multiple ways of critically engaging with literature, this text offers a fresh perspective on how to integrate children's literature into and across the curriculum in effective, purposeful ways. Structured around three "mantras" that build on each other--Enjoy; Dig deeply; Take action--the book is...

The rapid changes in the composition of school-age youth around the world have catalyzed a growing concern about how to address children's mental health and education. Grounded in this increasingly global perspective, The International Handbook of Consultation in Educational Settings is designed to provide...

Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students. Practical, classroom-based curricular examples illustrate how teachers can engage the local and still be accountable to the existing demands of federal,...

Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book AwardThis book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness...

Grammar Galaxy: Red Star (Volume 4) is a complete language arts curriculum for elementary students (fifth graders or students who have completed Yellow Star or its equivalent).Short, comical stories teach concepts in a memorable way. Students discover the havoc that ensues when the evil...

At the heart of Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf curriculum is the belief that a child from age seven to fourteen recapitulates the intellectual and cultural development that humanity as a whole passes through over time. Until now, the exact scheme of how the Waldorf literature...

The Nashoba's "I SEE" workbook is designed to gradually increase a child's ability to describe what he or she sees by first isolating, and then building upon, straightforward attributes such as size, color, shape, and texture. By viewing the environment as a series of...

Refuting the myths that black youth are unable to excel at academics and are limited to careers in professional sports, rap music, or drug dealing, this motivational book aims to engage teens by bridging the gap between school and hip hop culture. Topics such...

Creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives, and hands-on examples show how teachers can promote the values of community, justice, and equality while building academic skills. A great resource for new and veteran K-12 teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs.Author: Wayne...

High-stakes tests, school violence, and frenetic schedules can make for a stress-filled classroom. But you can maintain a purposeful and supportive learning environment at all times with the comprehensive approach from this book. Discover classroom-proven practices for every grade level and subject: Link your...

In Taking Religion Seriously Across the Curriculum, Warren A. Nord and Charles C. Haynes chart a middle course in our culture wars over religion and public education--one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper...

How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they've developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to 3rd...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science? approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and culture. Glen Aikenhead, an expert in the field of culturally sensitive science education, summarizes major worldwide historical findings, focuses on...

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is an exciting and suspenseful book about Nobody Owens, a boy orphaned when his family is murdered. To keep him safe from the man who killed his family, Nobody is taken in by the residents of the local...

Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional development of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on the issue,...

Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students' daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents' interests, knowledge, and new literacies. Attention is given to how race, gender,...

This book provides teachers, librarians, and education methods professors with strategies, lesson plans, and activities that enable them to use literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction. With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced,...

A must-have for any teacher transitioning to the Common Core State Standards to ensure their lesson plans meet the new standard's requirements. Use this handy guide for correlating existing lesson plans to the new standards, for new lesson plans, or as a quick reference...

How do you know if students are with you at the beginning, middle, and end of a lesson? Can formative assessment offer a key to better teaching and learning during instruction? What if you could blend different formative assessment moves in your classroom, with...

Curriculum design experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have reviewed thousands of curriculum documents and unit plans across a range of subjects and grades. In this book, they identify and describe the 25 most common problems in unit design and recommend how to fix...

Designed to promote reflection, discussion, and action among the entire learning community, Educating Everybody's Children encapsulates what research has revealed about successfully addressing the needs of students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups and identifies a wide range of effective principles and...

Different regions of the world are making increasing demands for educational reform, especially when institutions are dissatisfied with the level of proficiency of their graduates. Since the realization of how important English education is to global success, reform to English education is becoming progressively...

This Social Studies for Primary School workbook for grade two compliments The Bahamas Ministry of Education curriculum. The book covers three themes. It has clear graphics and grade level reading.Author: Cynthia O. SmithISBN-10: 1515306828ISBN-13: 9781515306825Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2014Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize:...

This unit study offers many wonderful activities to use while having students read the book, but the book is not included. The entire unit also offers the ability to create a lapbook if you print out some of the pages. There are between 6...

The last decade have seen a newfound interest in the clinical applications of the psychedelic substances; LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, ayahuasca and ketamine, which haven't been seen since the pre-prohibition days. Back then, these substances were widely used as an adjunct to psychotherapy in...

This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative fiction authors...

The best-selling Differentiating Instruction With Menus series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess...

The best-selling Differentiating Instruction With Menus series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess...

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book. Rather than addressing research and theory about music...

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the book, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. It includes: 20 Daily Lessons Short answer study questions Multiple choice quiz questions Vocabulary worksheets...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the play, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for Romeo and Juliet. It includes: 21 Daily Lessons Short answer study questions Multiple choice quiz questions Vocabulary worksheets for each reading assignment 3 detailed...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston. It includes: Daily Lessons, Short answer study questions, Multiple choice quiz questions, Vocabulary...

Essentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. It includes: Daily Lessons, Short answer study questions, Multiple choice quiz...

A gifted education Legacy Award winner, Social-Emotional Curriculum With Gifted and Talented Students provides a thorough introduction to methods for developing social-emotional curricula for use with gifted and talented learners in the school setting. Including overviews of strategies that work for implementing social-emotional strategies...

Education is currently a foremost concern for many Americans. Education, however, is about more than teaching children skills for earning a living and how to function in life. It is really a means of transmitting both a culture and a heritage. William Irwin Thompson,...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

The Portia Curriculum is a complete program guide that can be used with any assessment tool. To make adding objectives even easier, quick find codes have been added from the VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R and ESDM assessments. Program supervisors will employ the industry standard assessment tool...

At Plain and Not So Plain Academy we believe that learning at home should be an enjoyable time between you and your child. Not something that they dread because they have hundreds of repetition problems to do over and over again. Plain and Not...

Apologetics for Tweens is a one year curriculum with weekly scripture and apologetics lessons for 5th through 8th graders. It is the result of 13 years working with Christian youth at a Baptist church, particularly ages 10-14. As a homeschool teacher, parent, grandparent, children's...

Nature exploration is fundamental to young children's curiosity, discovery, and sense of wonder--it supports their growth in all developmental domains. In this collection of engaging articles from NAEYC's journal Young Children, teachers of children from infancy through age 8 will learn about using nature...