problems, exercises, etc

Explains what makes a good essay and offers advice on the steps necessary to write one.

Four stories of teen parents accompanied by exercises providing practice for the reader in writing checks and in meeting the real challenges of living within a tight budget.

A collection of games, tricks, and puzzles which illustrate the capabilities of a calculator.

Presents simple directions for using a calculator to play games, and some intriguing problems to solve which have surprising answers.

Examines the wonders of dirt, where it appears, what life it contains, and how it can be used. Includes activities such as making a sand sculpture, a mud cake, and a hydroponic garden.

Discusses how to use specific reference titles and how to teach the research process.

Presents activity sheets and other resources for nine information literacy and technology research projects for grades 6-9, covering such topics as careers, mystery stories, environmental art, biomes, the death penalty, and early-twentieth-century America.

Uses baseball situations, facts, and statistics in problems involving arithmetic, fractions, decimals, and percentages.

Presents ninety activity sheets for students in grades 3-8 that teach skills required for productive Web searching, including alphabetization, category sorting, vocabulary, Boolean logic, and others; also includes electronic versions of the worksheets on a CD-ROM.