This exciting text builds on students' natural curiosity about animals to provide opportunities for structured research. Each of the eight units presents a different animal or pair of animals including moths, butterflies, lions, tigers, koalas, kangaroos, elephants, frogs, toads, sharks, gorillas, giraffes, and penguins. In addition to interest-catching facts are activities that include fact-finding, analysis of information, and creative extensions. Grade 1-3.

Primarily Research

Children's Books

Leimbach, Judy

Education & Reference

Dandy Lion Pubns

Attractive reproducible worksheets and ideas for the  instructor will spark creative talent in young students. Enjoyable  activities introduce students to new skills in the areas of curiosity,  awareness, fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, imagination,  and perseverance. This comprehensive text provides an enjoyable, balanced  introduction to creative thinking. Grades 1-3.

Primarily Creativity

This book offers a concise but thorough introduction to ancient number systems. Students won't just learn to count like the ancient Greeks, they'll learn about the number systems of the Mayans, Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, and Hindu-Arabic, as well as quinary and binary systems. This valuable resource for math enrichment includes reproducible worksheets and explanations. Grades 5-8.

Can You Count in Greek - Exploring Ancient Number Systems

An emphasis on creative thinking skills in the classroom necessitates providing students with open-ended assignments and encouragement as they search for new answers. Unlike typical textbook questions that have a given right answer, creative questioning and thinking assumes that there may not be one right answer, but many possibilities. Primarily Creativity bubbles over with ideas to spark creative talent in young students. Get creative juices flowing with lessons in eight areas of creativity including:
<ul>
<li>curiosity, </li>
<li>fluency, </li>
<li>originality, </li>
<li>imagination, </li>
<li>awareness, </li>
<li>flexibility, </li>
<li>elaboration, and </li>
<li>perseverance.</li>
</ul>Each section includes an explanation on the skill, questions that foster this type of thinking, a list of tasks, and several attractive, reproducible worksheets. This comprehensive text provides an enjoyable, balanced introduction to creative thinking.

Primarily Creativity: Grades 1-3

Vydra, Joan

Routledge

Looking for a fast, easy way to turn your students into advanced problem solvers? Young students become members of the Detective Club by solving a series of short introductory puzzles. Primary students love working along with the young detectives in the book to solve six different mysteries. While solving the mysteries, students will gather information through decoding the message, sorting information, solving logic puzzles, and using inferential thinking. In order to reach conclusions, students will practice the following skills: organizing clues, combining and analyzing the information presented, using deductive reasoning, and using the process of elimination. Each of the six mysteries includes a teacher's guide with complete instructions for the teacher and answers to the puzzles. All mysteries are presented on attractive reproducible worksheets that include entertaining dialogue and clues needed to solve the mystery. This is a motivating format for teaching thinking while working on reading comprehension.

Detective Club: Mysteries for Young Thinkers (Grades 2-4)

Eckert, Sharon

Adequate preparation for the future requires that children are able to use more than a one-solution thought process; more than the right-answer, convergent thinking should be required by all in every classroom. The problems your students will face in the future will require differentiated thinking. An emphasis on creative thinking skills in the classroom necessitates providing students with open-ended assignments and encouragement as they search for new answers. 
Get ready for an explosion of creative thought when you use the ideas in this book. Your class will be overflowing with unique ideas as students brainstorm, make creative comparisons, find unusual uses, and problem solve. 
After an introduction to the four areas of creative thought (fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) and tasks to stimulate these particular skills, this power-packed text gives students a variety of situations on reproducible worksheets that integrate these skills. Use this as your entire creativity course or as periodic thought provokers. 
Get the creative juices flowing. Have an imagination celebration! 
Grades 4-7

Imagination Celebration: Adventures in Creativity

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Pr

The purpose of this book is to help busy classroom teachers provide enrichment for those students who quickly grasp the mathematical concepts being taught and are ready to move on to more challenging units. The units include challenging activities that will require higher level thinking and will broaden students' problem-solving skills. This book is a great resource for busy classroom teachers who need materials to extend learning opportunities for those students who quickly grasp the concepts covered in their grade level math curriculum. The book includes four units: place value, time and measurement, problem solving, and money. The units provide hours of activities that will allow students to work independently or in small groups to extend their knowledge and apply their skills. Each unit includes 13 to 14 attractive, reproducible worksheets and an assignment sheet, making this an easy way for instructors to provide challenging, enriching experiences for capable math students.

Math Extension Units: Book 1, Grades 2-3 (Math Extension Units, 1)

The purpose of this book is to help busy classroom teachers provide enrichment for those students who quickly grasp the mathematical concepts being taught and are ready to move on to more challenging material. The units include challenging activities that will require higher level thinking and will broaden students' problem-solving skills. This book is a great resource for busy classroom teachers who need materials to extend learning opportunities for those students who quickly grasp the concepts covered in their grade level math curriculum. This book includes four units: geometry, fractions, graphing, and problem solving. The units provide hours of activities that will allow students to work independently or in small groups to extend their knowledge and apply their skills. Each unit includes 13 to 14 attractive, reproducible worksheets and an assignment sheet, making this an easy way for instructors to provide challenging, enriching experiences for capable math students. This book also can be used for review and remediation with middle school students.

Math Extension Units (Math Extension Units, 2)

It is important that schools emphasize a problem-solving approach to mathematics beginning in the early years and continuing through high school. Students should learn to value the process of solving problems, as well as getting the correct solutions. The strategies in this book will help students reason, develop their problem-solving strategies, grow in their ability to communicate mathematically, and develop confidence in their mathematical abilities. Five different problem-solving strategies are carefully taught using teacher-directed interactive introductory lessons. A series of practice problems follow the introductory lessons for each strategy. The strategies include: 
<ul>
<li>using a manipulative or acting out a problem, </li>
<li>drawing a picture or diagram, </li>
<li>extending a repeating pattern,</li>
<li>making a table or list, and </li>
<li>choosing relevant information. </li>
</ul>Each strategy is first introduced through several carefully presented problems that include introductory group lessons and instructional notes for the teachers. Additionally, the last section of the book presents a variety of problems that give students the opportunity to apply the problem-solving strategies they have learned. This is the perfect supplement to any primary math program, as well as an excellent resource for a math center. All problems are delightfully illustrated and reproducible.

Primarily Math: A Problem Solving Approach, Grades 2-4

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Every student's favorite detective, Shirley Sharp, is back, and she's got four new mysteries she needs help solving. In More Adventures of the Detective Club, students work alongside Shirley and her new detective friends to solve logical reasoning puzzles, use inferential thinking, analyze clues, and crack the cases. Each of the four new mysteries includes a teacher's guide with complete instructions for the teacher and answers to the puzzles. Young students will love putting their deductive and critical thinking skills to the test in these fun and challenging mysteries

More Adventures of the Detective Club

Prufrock Press

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