study and teaching (middle school)

Provides advice on using brain-friendly strategies to develop the writing skills of students and discusses how to create a brain-compatible classroom, integrating test preparation with instruction, and other related topics.

Explains how to teach health-related fitness in middle and high school; presents more than fifty instructive activities on aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, combined component training, body composition, self-management and goal setting, and active-lifestyle planning; and includes charts, task cards, work sheets, and other reproducibles on CD-ROM.

"This book covers the subject of chemistry as taught to students in middle-school, including topics such as Matter, the Periodic Table of Elements, Phases of Matter, Gas Laws, Mixtures, Molecules and Compounds, Chemical Reactions, Acids, Bases, and Salts, Nuclear Reactions, and Environmental Science. There are short quizzes throughout the book. Contains an index"--.

Reproducible activities, biographies of real people, and background information help students learn about how Native Americans live.

Describes a classroom literacy project that encourages third through eighth grade students to read and write about chess, while also learning how to play; and provides lesson plans, over one hundred chess diagrams, parent letters, and other useful information.