active learning

"Abigail James, author of the bestselling Teaching the Male Brain, presents this accompanying compilation of middle school language arts and math lesson plans for educators teaching boys. These lessons are based on James' gender research and are applicable for both coed and all male classrooms. Grammar, literacy, algebra, and geometry lesson plans cover the subjects where boys' brains differ the most from their female classmates. These lesson plans offer specific strategies for improving the subject areas where boys often fall behind in by identifying a common weakness of typical boy learners, describing a strategy for working on this weakness, then providing specific examples of that strategy in action"-- Provided by publisher.

The author describes the process she developed as an elementary teacher for using major classroom projects to enable integration of the curriculum through social studies.

Explains how design projects, such as designing a building, product, or city plan, can be used to teach students K-12.

Describes field-tested techniques teachers may use to engage students from kindergarten through high school in active learning, each with a descriptive overview, step-by-step instructions for implementation, ideas for advancing students beyond surface-level thinking, and suggestions for adapting the techniques to specific contexts and content areas.