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Baicker, Karen

Schools & Teaching

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School

Tap into children's natural interest in coin collecting with cross-curricular projects and games such as "State Symbols," "Coin a Phrase," and "State 1/4's"-designed especially for the popular state quarters program. You'll also find reproducible templates for kids to design their own state quarters, fun facts for each state, a schedule of quarters' release dates, and more. For use with Grades 2-5.

Teaching With State Quarters

Teaching Resources

OverviewStudents learn about patterns, symmetry, multiplication, and more as they fold paper into fun and fabulous shapes! This standards-based resource offers more than a dozen engaging origami activities with easy-to-follow picture directions for students, math terms and teaching points, and reproducible templates. Table of ContentsIntroduction How to Use This Book Tips for Teaching With Origami The Language and Symbols of Origami Basic Geometric Shapes Reference Sheet Activities 1. Turn a Rectangle into a Square Math Concepts: shapes, patterns, symmetry, spatial relations (NCTM Standard 3) 2.  What a Card! Math Concepts: shapes, patterns, size, symmetry, spatial relations (NCTM Standards 2 and 3) 3.  Whale of Triangles Math Concepts: size, symmetry, shapes, patterns, spatial relations (NCTM Standards 2 and 3) 4.  Instant Cup Math Concepts: spatial reasoning, shapes, volume (NCTM Standards 3 and 4) 5.  Playful Pinwheel Math Concepts: spatial relations, pattern, symmetry, motion (NCTM Standards 2 and 3) 6.  Handy Hat Math Concepts: spatial reasoning, sequence, symmetry, scale (NCTM Standards 2 and 3) 7.  Box It Up! Math Concepts: multiplication, division, dimension (NCTM Standard 3) 8.  Noise Popper Math Concepts: measurement, shape, spatial reasoning, symmetry (NCTM Standard 3) 9.  Itty-Bitty Book Math Concepts: spatial reasoning, shapes, symmetry, fractions, multiplication, division (NCTM Standards 1 and 3) 10.  Jumping Frog Math Concepts: shape, measurement, distance, height (NCTM Standards 3 and 4) 11.  Kitty Cat Math Concepts: angles, symmetry (NCTM Standard 3) 12.  Floating Boat Math Concepts: shape, fractions, area (NCTM Standards 2 and 3) 13.  Page-Hugger Bookmark Math Concepts: shape, spatial reasoning, symmetry, congruence (NCTM Standards 3) 14.  Paper Airplane Express Math Concepts: symmetry, balance, spatial reasoning (NCTM Standards 3 and 4) Glossary of Math Terms

Origami Math

Children's Books

Sharks!

scholastic

Teachers can help students understand the election process (and get involved!) with these quick, easy, and engaging activities that teach about how we elect our leaders; the presidency; the rights and responsibilities of voting; the differences between local, state, and national government; and more. Includes a read-and-write mini-book, election time line, polling and graphing activities, poems, literature links, computer connections, and a BIG, colorful poster! For use with Grades 1-3.

Election Activity Book: Dozens of Activities That Help Kids Learn About Voting, Campaigns, Our Government, Presidents, and More

Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grades K–2.

Scholastic Success with Sight Words

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

From the concise, austere Mayflower Compact to enterprising Gold Rush advertisements, this whiteboard-ready collection of authentic documents captures students’ interest in the events and people of American history, spanning the colonial era through the late 1800s. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and interactive whiteboard activities that help students analyze and evaluate each document and understand it in the context of its historical period. Includes a CD with Promethean ActivInspire files. For use with Grades 4-8.

Primary Sources for the Interactive Whiteboard: Colonial America, Westward Movement, Civil War: 60+ Whiteboard-Ready Documents With Background ... Understanding of History (Teaching Resources)

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Help students understand the election process (and get involved!) with these quick, easy, and engaging activities that teach about how we elect our leaders; the presidency; the rights and responsibilities of voting; the differences between local, state, and national government; and more. Includes a write &amp; read mini-book, election time line, polling and graphing activities, updated and revised literature links and Web site connections, and a BIG, colorful poetry poster! For use with Grades 1-3.

The Election Activity Book: Dozens of Activities That Help Kids Learn About Voting, Campaigns, Our Government, Presidents, and More

Immigration then and now

Scholastic Professional Books

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from an NAACP pamphlet to Jim Crow-era signs—this collection of authentic documents will capture students' interest in the events and people of the Civil Rights movement. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and reproducibles that help kids analyze and evaluate each historical document. For use with Grades 4-8.

Civil Rights (Primary Sources Teaching Kit, Grades 4-8)

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Scholastic Teaching Resources

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