teaching

A collection of activities including reproducible pages, teacher notes, synopses, discussion questions, and comprehension assessments, designed to help students understand five works by author Gary Paulsen.

Presents several cross-curriculum activities for teaching elementary students about the Renaissance; covers language arts, math, science and technology, social studies, art, music, and life skills and includes reproducible pages and a bibliography.

Practical ideas, strategies, and how-to's teach children how to improve their persuasive writing skills.

Describes a day in a teacher's life, covering what they do, what tools they use, how to become a teacher, and other related topics, and includes color photos, a quiz, and a picture glossary.

Presents reproducible activity worksheets that teach math, science, art, music, life skills, and language development through a number of classic nursery rhymes.

Describes in simple terms the training and duties of a teacher.

Examines strategies for starting and finishing social studies projects.

Provides standards-based, mathematics teaching strategies and graphic organizers designed to enhance the writing skills of students in first through eighth grade, and includes examples as well as a CD with customizable templates.

Offers advice to educators on how to reach twenty-first-century adolescent learners, providing resources for the content areas, and including vignettes and examples.