study and teaching

An exploration of creative thinking and its classroom application in grades four through eight, providing guidelines for integrating the investigative and inventing approaches within science and across the disciplines, and including reproducible activity sheets and awards.

Provides teachers with practical suggestions for teaching and assessing mathematics in the classroom.

A collection of teacher-directed and independent activities for primary-level students on number concepts, which covers place value, multiplication, and division, provides guidance for teachers, and lets teachers plan by children's needs or grade level.

The story of the mapping of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. Includes related activities.

Presents an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to teach upper elementary school students about proper nutrition and the importance of physical activity. Includes a CD-ROM.

Explains to teachers of grades 3-8 how to start a Reading Detective Club, which teaches reading strategies through special mystery cases that students are asked to solve. Includes thirteen reproducible pages and case analyses for teachers.

Presents more than two hundred science activities for elementary students, covering such topics as the senses, animals, germination, chemical changes, electricity, evaporation, rocks and minerals, and the solar system.

Contains thirty-three strategies for using poetry in the elementary school classroom with each section providing a description of the strategy, vignettes telling how the strategy has worked, a list of more ways the strategy can be adapted, and examples of student work.

Introduces the different kinds of poetry and the mechanics of writing poetry, providing an opportunity for the reader to experience the joy of making a poem.

A girl named Magnificent Mind, who has trouble listening in class, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach her strategies for paying attention.