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Includes: A mathematical environment - Word problems and logical reasoning - Measurement - Numbers and operations - Probability and statistics - Time and money - Geometry and spatial thinking - Patterns and number charts - Estimation, calculators, and microcomputers - Careers - Organizing a family math class.

Describes many of the pitfalls involved in implementing and managing a multiage program and shows how to avoid them.

Includes: Literacy learning in a home day care setting - A natural curriculum - Teachers and children: partners in learning - A day with dinosaurs - Supporting literacy development on the first day in first grade and throughout the year - Teachers and students as decision makers creating a classroom for authors -- Mind games discovering poetry through art - Making learning real for intermediate kids - Units of study in an intermediate grade classroom - Learning together in the resource room - Whole language in the ESL classroom - Language learning through family history - Learning on the job whole language in a middle school remedial program - We call it good teaching - Whole language starting new converstions.

Includes: The theme study approach - Large scale theme studies - Specialized theme studies - Yes, but what about. Houses, history of buildings, stones to bricks, math, theater, Evaluation, discipline.

Includes: Why response journals? - Getting Started - Replying to students' responses - Dealing with problems - Assessment - Activities related to response journals.

Includes: Poetry -- Traditional literature -- Picture Books -- Author study -- Nonfiction. Fairy tales, Fables, Stories emphasizing setting, Stories emphasizing relationships, Arnold Lobel, Exploring trees.

Lists by age group the books that kids choose as their favorites.

Contains over 150 exciting hands on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic life science concepts and facts. Includes: Plants and Seeds - Animals - Growing and changing animal life cycles - Animal adaptation - Body structure - The Five senses - Health and Nutrition. Footprints, tracks, pets, birds, earthworms, eggs, butterflies, teeth, hibernation, bones, nails, muscles, eye, sight, smell, hearing, touch, food, diet,.

Contains over 180 exciting hands on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic physical science concepts and facts. Includes sections on: Nature of Matter - Energy - Light - Sound - Simple machines - Magnetism - Static electricity - Current electricity. Hydrometer, solids, liquids, gases, condensation, Potential and kinetic energy, gravity, shadow, friction, leverage, pulley, magnets, circuits, electromagnet.

Contains over 165 exciting hands on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic earth science concepts and facts. Sections on Air - Water - Weather - Earth - Ecology - Above the Earth - Beyond the Earth.