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President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, established a committee in 1954 to plan a Veterans Day observance. This day honors all veterans of the United States and is held each year on November 11 with a somber ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. A wreath is placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and followed by a parade of colors. In 2015, the United States and the...
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Upright and Three Rivers was compiled for two audiences, both adult Christian book clubs and Christian School/Homeschool students. It includes two appendices, the first of which provides facilitating, devotional study questions for book clubs or personal reflection for the 34 chapters of the book, and the second of which provides comprehensive supplementary lesson plans for each of the 34 chapters. The content is very serious subject matter about...
123) Change the World With Service Learning: How to Create, Lead, and Assess Service Learning Projects
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Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum. This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding Service Learning projects with students like no other book does. Change the World with Service Learning is a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach,...
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Creative Block Play covers everything you need to encourage a child's development in a variety of domains through block play. This book is full of photos that illustrate block play in real classrooms and stories from teachers who have successfully used block play to encourage children's development in a variety of domains.
125) How to be Brilliant at Electricity, Light & Sound: How to be Brilliant at Electricity, Light, Sound
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How to be Brilliant at Electricity, Light and Sound contains practical activities will help children to acquire knowledge and understanding of electrical circuits, the everyday effects of light and how we see, and how sounds are made.
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Host of the Unapologists Podcast, teacher, writer and former professional magician Vito Michienzi has spent his life focusing on connecting with young people.As the education field continues to get flooded with guides on what makes the best practice for engaging students, Vito takes a step back and asks the most important question:What really matters?If you're feeling overwhelmed by the resources out there and feel uncertain about yourself as a teacher,...
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Create a new approach to balanced literacy grounded in research-based best practices. This book infuses best practices of the new balanced literacy model through the lens of Common Core, with support on read-alouds, guided reading, language and literacy centers, word walls to language walls, independent reading and writing, and classroom libraries. It also provides the "how" for novice and veteran K-8 teachers, administrators, school literacy teams....
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Black History Month is a time when all Americans celebrate the rich African American culture in our society. It was Carter G. Woodson, an African American historian, who began a weeklong celebration, called Negro History Week, in 1926 as a way to honor Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Now schools, libraries, churches, and communities find special ways to honor the contributions of African Americans during the month of February. One of the best...
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Learn how to connect your curriculum planning to children's interests and thinking. With this book, educators will discover a systematic way for using documentation to design curriculum that emerges from children's inquiries, what they wonder, and what they want to understand. Get strategies for designing a classroom environment at the start of the year to facilitate emergent inquiry curriculum. Each chapter guides teachers to document and reflect...
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These activities will stimulate children's interest in language and how it works and help them to become confident and positive spellers. The activities include: learning the vowels and consonants; the four step method; spotting the mistake; 'y' for 'i' and 'ee'; regular and irregular plurals; growing new words from roots; spelling puzzling w-words; learning the 'ough' pattern.
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Help to develop your pupils' investigation skills using the attractively laid out worksheets in How to Sparkle at Science Investigations. Using familiar contexts, the sheets provide opportunities for children to develop their observational skills, make measurements, plan and carry out investigations, and draw conclusions from their results. Worksheet themes include: Mr Happy and Healthy; what do plants need to grow?; is it see through?; which hat...
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This book contains exciting, fun classroom experiments to help teach scientific investigation. The activities require a minimum of preparation and only the simplest of science equipment. Each activity provides opportunities for children to develop their skills of scientific enquiry. The easy-to-use layout will make this an invaluable book for all primary school teachers.
133) Mentalidad de Indagación: NUTRE LOS SUENOS, EL ASOMBRO Y LA CURIOSIDAD DE LOS ALUMNOS MÁS JÓVENES
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Latin America translated version - Utiliza la curiosidad como una herramienta poderosa para inspirar el amor por el aprendizaje en los estudiantes.
Desde los primeros años, nuestros hijos son naturalmente curiosos; exploran el mundo que los rodea a través del juego, la imaginación y el descubrimiento. Construyen significado, crean comprensión y comparten sus conocimientos sin inhibiciones. Es a través de este proceso como encuentran alegría...
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The Common Core State Standards initiated major changes for language arts teachers, particularly the emphasis on "informational text." Language arts teachers were asked to shift attention toward informational texts without taking away from the teaching of literature.
Teachers, however, need to incorporate nonfiction in ways that enhance rather than take away from their teaching of literature. The Using Informational Text series is designed to help.
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Playing Is Learning
The research is clear: Play is a
critical part of the learning process for young children. Early childhood
educators have the opportunity to deeply and meaningfully scaffold children's
learning by curating and organizing the "stuff" children love to play with
most. With this book, discover ideas for both familiar and new play materials
and how those materials support the cognitive, social and emotional, and
physical learning...
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Teaching Off Trail describes the transformation of Peter Dargatz, a national board-certified teacher, and public school coordinator, from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. It shares his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simultaneously offering strategies for readers to implement Peter's unique teaching philosophy to increase opportunities for play, creative expression, and personalization...
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This teacher resource is designed to accompany and extend the Stewie Scraps series of reading books. The worksheets explore and develop children's understanding of each book in turn. The teacher's notes explain the tasks and give suggestions to help foster reading, writing and comprehension skills.
138) Teaching ESL Conversation and Speaking Collection (Intermediate-Advanced): Lesson Plans & TEFL Conve
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Have better TEFL classes with the Teaching ESL Conversation and Speaking (Intermediate-Advanced) Collection. It's designed for English teachers all over the world. The Teaching ESL Conversation and Speaking (Intermediate-Advanced) Collection consists of three books: Scatter Sheets for Intermediate-Advanced Learners (complete lesson plans focused on vocabulary) ESL Conversation Games and Activities67 ESL Conversation Topics (more complete lesson plans)...
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"This book is Kath Murdoch's masterpiece. It is immaculately researched, carefully argued, elegantly written, beautifully produced, and above all, incredibly useful and practical."-Guy Claxton, author of The Future of Teaching
In Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning, world-renowned inquiry expert, Kath Murdoch, draws on decades of experience to offer a thorough, practical guide to supporting young learners' investigations into their passions,...
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With new chapters and updates from early childhood leaders Deb Curtis and Margie Carter invite early childhood educators to learn the art and skill of observation.
The art of observing children is more than merely the act of watching them-it is also using what you see and hear to craft new opportunities in your classroom. This resource provides a wealth of inspiration and practice. It will help early childhood educators learn to observe in new ways,...
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