teaching

Contains step-by-step instructions and templates for creating twenty different bulletin boards that showcase students' work.

Presents fifty-five gardening projects for children, with recipes, reading recommendations, creative projects, and language arts activities for each lesson.

Presents one hundred eighty reproducible cartoons for grades four through six that help students develop vocabulary skills.

Contains a story in which twins Hugh and Louis Abernathy try to cheer up Carmen Rosa Pe?a--who is unhappy because she cannot locate a book in the library and her younger sister is going to be in the same classroom--while taking part in Mrs. Skorupski's Great Dewey Hunt; and includes instructional strategies and reproducible pages for a lesson about the Dewey Decimal System.

Patty Lee tries to become the top reader in the fourth grade class by reading more books than the other students, but Carmen Rosa Pena decides she wants to win the contest instead.

Offers teachers and library media specialists advice on the best ways to work together to integrate the latest technological resources into classroom curriculum.

Presents a series of activities that demonstrate the value of mathematics in the real world, featuring problems encountered by people working in a range of fields, including a banker, truck driver, disc jockey, engineer, nurse, and others.

Studies the theory of multiple intelligences and discusses how teachers can use the theory to structure lessons, help students learn, and use music, movement, and imagery to teach.

Presents reproducible activity worksheets that introduces traditional research resources to students in the three through sixth-grade classroom.

Identifies and explains the teaching applications of Weblogs, Wikis, Really Simple Syndication feeds and aggregators, social bookmarking, online photo galleries, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, and features examples from teachers around the world.