active learning

Simple text and photographs present weather information, clothing choices, and activities for a hot day.

Simple text and photos present weather information, clothing choices, and activities for a cold day.

Examines teaching methods across the curriculum that help students learn, and describes how to implement those strategies into the regular classroom.

Provides strategies for effective group work in the classroom, discussing how to create interdependence and positive interactions, design challenging and engaging tasks, ensure accountability, foster interpersonal skills, assess learning, and other related topics; and includes examples.

Provides a description of the I-Search Curriculum Unit, a method by which instructors can teach middle school students to become active learners, looking at each phase of the program; and describes what is needed to design, implement, and reflect on I-Search Units.

Provides fifty creative, improvisational scenarios appropriate for sixth through twelfth-grade students, encouraging creativity, self-reliance, and analytical skills; and includes follow-up questions for each skit and tips to motivate students.

Provides information about alternative learning options for high school students, examining experiences teenagers can try while living at home, as well as opportunities for travel adventures and overseas study programs. Includes a list of resources.

Contains twenty lessons with reproducible worksheets to encourage reading skills and interest in libraries for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students.

Explains how teachers can use modeling, guided practice, collaborative learning, and independent tasks to effectively use classroom time and reach all learners.