teaching

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.

Explains the tools, schooling, and work of teachers.

Describes the daily lives of ordinary people in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides reproducible reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary, math, critical thinking,geography, art, drama, and cooking activity pages.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

Offers a definition of differentiated instruction, and provides principles and strategies designed to help teachers create learning environments that address the different learning styles, interests, and readiness levels found in a typical mixed-ability classroom.

Bored with living in a New York lighthouse at the turn of the twentieth century, sixteen-year-old Eliza seeks a teaching position away from home.

A guide for teachers which shows how to use different styles of graphic organizers--visual representations of knowledge--for teaching and learning, planning, instruction, and assessment in kindergarten through eighth grade classrooms.

A curriculum guide for an alphabet picture book introducing basic research concepts to elementary students.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.