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Here's a wonderfully creative selection of easy-to-do story starters, games, gimmicks, patterns, experiments, arts and crafts, and writing activities.Thematic units include popular topics ranging from "awesome creatures" to the weather.Includes varied educational activities, recommended books and other educational resources that work across the curriculum.For use with grades PK-3. ... Read more

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Hands on activities for a school media specialist
This is a keeper for the school media specialist who likes to use activities and games to connect books and the preschool to primary classroom curriculum. Topics covered include: bears, plants, weather, bugs and fish. A chart in the back which notes recommended grade levels and thepart(s) of the curriculum to which the skills relate, can assist the mediaspecialist as he/she plans with the classroom teacher.The teachers willappreciate the suggested activities they can use in their classroom,outside, and in gym!Another nice feature is the listing of "othermedia" you can access for the topics, including some web sites. Notonly will cooperative teaching be enhanced, children will be workingcooperatively also through hands-on, team experiences. ... Read more

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Ready-made, flexible lessons especially for librarians
Recommended for grade levels K-5, Stretchy Library Lessons: Seasons & Celebrations is one of the Stretchy Library Lessons series, each volume of which presents ready-made, flexible lessons especially for librarians with little preparation time. Stretchy Library Lessons: Seasons & Celebrations has 10 ready-made lessons, one for each month of the year from August through May. Created by an elementary educator of over 30 years' experience, each lesson has one 20-minute activity and two to six additional activities that can be arranged to fit one's time frame appropriately. Each lesson includes a grade range, a statement of purpose, list of materials, items to prepare in advance, additional materials needed and appropriate resources. Highly recommended especially for school, public and children's librarians. ... Read more

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A favorite wonderful resource!
I looked up this book just now because Iwanted to see if it's still in print before mentioning it in an article I'm writing for my homeschooling website. I think it's absolutely wonderful - just a small book, but packed with great ideas. Here's something I wrote about it awhile back:
One little book is just too amazing to part with: Help Your Child Learn Number Skills --- by Usborne Publishing. It covers the basic things a child generally covers in the elementary years, but probably covers them in a much more effective way than a text or workbook or program could. In the introduction, it says:

"Many parents question their ability to help their children with mathbecause they were not very good at the subject themselves at school. Thisbook is not about sitting down and doing sums with your child, however. It isaimed at helping children develop a positive attitude to math and there is plenty you can do to encourage this in an informal way. Many basic mathematical ideas can be picked up naturally and at an early age in normal daily life. Throughout the book the emphasis is on helping children to think for themselves and to find their own solutions to mathematical problems. Childrenlearn better this way and remember more of what they have learnt. They also learn best if they are having fun, which is why there is so much emphasis on learning through play and games." ... Read more

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A guide for parents, teachers, and students, this reference book contains fun activities for students learning dictionary and thesaurus skills.Includes workbook sheets with perforated pages and a bonus section of skill-building exercises. ... Read more

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This guide has been completely updated with all of the latest technological advances to provide an exciting, alternative approach to teaching first-year television production to high school students. A combination of class instruction and independent video action projects based on the concept of thematic mapping prepares students for a year-end video competition. The projects borrow knowledge from other academic subject areas to teach media and visual literacy, broadcast history, video production skills, and multimedia animation. Available in both teacher and student editions.

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Good Stuff for Anyone
Very few books have been written for eduacators concerning TV Production, which also are offered as teacher and student books, not to mention a website that is kept up-to-date.
Kenny has hit it right with this book.You can teach at any HS level, presenting topics as you feel they need to be, in accordance with the experience your class already has in production.As it changes, this book still remains the best way to approach a rather detailed, and changing, subject.
If you're looking for a book-set that has it all, and keeps a website that changes with the times, this is definitely what you are looking for. ... Read more

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Designed to help users build both math and spreadsheet software skills.As users work with spreadsheets, they will be learning much more than software commands.Users will learn to use spreadsheet software as a tool for solving real-life mathematical problems.Business and consumer math problems dealing with payroll, inventory, installment purchasing, and other day-to-day situations are introduced in initial chapters and reviewed in later chapters to provide increased retention. ... Read more

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Picture Books Plus
Nespeca, Sue McCLeaf and Joan B. Reeve. 2003. Picture Books Plus: 100 Extension Activities in art, Drama, Music, Math, and Science. Chicago: American Library Association.

Picture Books Plus is an excellent resource that provides curriculum extensions to picture books. It is a must-have book for teachers, librarians, and adults who work with preschool children. The books and extensions selected are appropriate for children in preschool through grade 3. The book adeptly covers five major curriculum areas - art, drama, music, math, and science - and provides extensions to 100 quality picture books. The authors, Nespeca and Reeve, state that "extensions provide a natural tie-in to various areas of the curriculum...most importantly, extensions motivate children to read and, thus, promote the love and joy of sharing books."(pg. xi).

The first chapter provides an in-depth coverage on the importance of sharing picture books with children and how adults can appropriately share picture books with children. Since illustrations are an important aspect of picture books, the authors provide a detailed explanation of the various visual elements, formats, and different types of media used in generating illustrations for picture books. This information is helpful in choosing good quality picture books for reading to children.

Each chapter is very well organized and structured. The authors provide a concise and informative background on the key elements of each curriculum area. Information is provided in bullet format rather than narrative so that they main points stand out to the reader.Each chapter includes twenty picture book selections with a short annotation followed by the extension. Each extension is explained meticulously with step by step procedures. The authors also provide variations and alternative techniques of creating the same extension. The authors also note the possible risks or mess any extension might create to prepare the adults before conducting the extension. Each chapter also provides recommendations, bibliography, and any additional videos or music recordings that could be used as extensions. Each curriculum area has been given careful consideration and the extensions provided are very innovative.

The content is very thorough and pretested for the convenience of educators who use this book. There are numerous possibilities in this book, covering all the vital curriculum areas that teachers and librarians can find in one place. Although, the drawing of the extension pieces or final product is clear and detailed, providing actual and colorful pictures would have made the content more appealing and attractive. Overall, the book is an invaluable resource to the teachers, librarians, and other educators who are constantly looking for ways to connect reading and meaningful activities that will reinforce the joy of reading in children.

By Akhila Bhat. ... Read more

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These practical and useful lesson plans promote teaching information and computer skills as an integral part of the middle school curriculum. Emphasizing the vital role shared by media specialists, teachers, and administrators in connecting students to the Information Superhighway, this new edition contains current goals, terminology, learning strategies, and resources that encompass the Information Age. ... Read more

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Presents a brief account of the renewed interest in skateboarding and describes a skateboard's various components. ... Read more