Teacher Resources

ESL:

Matching Books & Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6

- Nancy L. Hadaway and Terrell A. Young
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. --from publisher description

Literacy:

Inclusive Literacy: Lessons for Early Childhood - Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis

A collection of one hundred literacy lessons designed to introduce, develop, and help children practice literacy skills and concepts. The lessons also include adaptations for children with special needs and for second language learners.

I See What You Mean: Visual Literacy K-8 - Steve Moline
Some educators may view diagrams, pictures, and charts as nice add-on tools for students who are visual thinkers. But Steve Moline sees visual literacy as fundamental to learning and to what it means to be human. --from publisher description

Math:
Dice Activities for Algebraic Thinking - Chet Delani and Mary Saltus
 "Activities ... created to engage students in developing fluency with the mathematical concepts of square number, square root, prime number, factorials, summation, integers, and exponential notation"--P. iii (for grades 5-8)

Geometric Constructions and Investigations with a Mira™
- Ernest Woodward and Thomas Hamel
Reproducible book features 21 lessons. Each lesson includes full teaching notes, answers, and reproducible transparency and worksheet masters. Lessons include an introduction to the MIRA™, reflections of lines and triangles, symmetry, and congruence(for grades 6 and up)

Mira™ Math Activities for Elementary School
Look at geometry through a child’s eye. The many illustrated games and puzzles use the MIRA™ to introduce concepts of symmetry, congruence, parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, and other ideas.

MIRA™ Math Activities for High School
A sequenced review of transformational geometry with the MIRA™, starting at a 7th grade level and moving upward. Topics include properties of perpendicular lines, reflection, symmetry, and motion.

Science & STEM:
Hands-On Engineering: Real-World Projects for the Classroom - Beth L. Andrews
The author presents 26 projects--each with a teacher's guide, photocopiable worksheet, and additional project ideas--for which students use design and engineering methodologies to investigate and build their own solutions. (for grades 4-7)

Bringing Outdoor Science In: Thrifty Classroom Lessons - Steve Rich
Presents more than fifty science lessons for grades K through 6, arranged in six units: greening the school, insects, plants, rocks and soils, water, and in the sky. (for grades K-8)

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy
- Jessica Fries-Gaither and Terry Shiverdecker
Provides guidance and resources for using nonfiction text to teach science in grades three through five, including instructions for eight units, an annotated list of books, student worksheets, and more.(for grades 3-5)

Teacher Resources - STEM

 Integrating Engineering & Science in Your Classroom - Edited by Eric Brunsell"To help you blend authentic and meaningful engineering activities into your teaching, this volume's 30 chapters have been compiled from Science and Children, Science Scope, and The Science Teacher, NSTA's journals for elementary through high school. The activities apply to life and environmental science, Earth science, and physical science and work well in traditional classroomas as well as in after-school programs." --from NSTA catalog

 Math Work Stations: Indpendent Learning You can Count On, K-2 - Debbie Diller

A guide to math stations in kindergarten through second grade, providing math vocabulary resources; literature links; suggestion on materials to include; ideas for modeling, differentiating, and assessment; reflection questions; and other resources.

 

 The Everyday Science Sourcebook: Ideas for Teaching in Elementary and Middle School
- Lawrence F. Lowery
Fully updated with content selected to build on the AAAS and National Science Education Standards, this new edition is full of hundreds of entries that can spark your thinking the next time you need to fill in a gap in your curriculum, add a fresh element to your textbook lessons, or extend and enrich hands-on activities. Six broad content categories provide the framework for the main body of this book: Inorganic matter; Organic matter; Energy; Inference models; Technology; and Instructional apparatus, materials, and systems. --from back cover

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Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning
- Richard H. Moyer and Susan A. Everett
A compilation of articles previously published in Science Scope. Includes fourteen activities that explore engineering's role in the office, kitchen, bathroom, electricity, and outdoor recreation.

New Activity and Idea Books

Basic Language Arts G.A.M.E.S.
Cover essential, standards-based skills. Perfect for centers, tutoring, remediation, enrichment, and assessment. G.A.M.E.S. can be played individually or in groups. Includes 15 full-color file folder, resealable bag, and envelope games; two reproducible assessment worksheets for each game; a cross-referenced skills matrix, and self-checking answer keys. 

Basic Math G.A.M.E.S.
Cover essential, standards-based skills. Perfect for centers, tutoring, remediation, enrichment, and assessment. G.A.M.E.S. can be played individually or in groups. Includes 15 full-color file folder, resealable bag, and envelope games; two reproducible assessment worksheets for each game; a cross-referenced skills matrix, and self-checking answer keys. 


All Around the Neighborhood
There’s a huge world for children to explore within their own communities, and this book provides the perfect place for them to start. Use the reproducible building fronts and vehicles to create a familiar neighborhood setting then let your students’ imaginations do the rest. From their own homes to fire stations to construction sites, social awareness is taught in conjunction with a variety of new concepts and vocabulary words that draw upon children’s interests. Includes 10 mini-books, seven file-folder games, 60+ reproducible patterns, 80+ literature links, and a wealth of cross-curricular activities to reinforce each new concept. Supports NCSS and NAEYC, standards.

Start Young! Early Childhood Science Activities
Offers a wealth of simple educational activities designed to use right away with even the littlest scientists. The book includes a chapter of helpful background on the latest thinking about effective ways to introduce science in early childhood. But the bulk of the book is two dozen articles compiled from Science & Children, NSTAs award-winning journal for elementary school teachers.

Activities Linking Science with Math 5-8
A hands-on guide for pre-service and in-service elementary and middle school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of study, including visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math.

Classic Classroom Activities: The Oxford Picture Dictionary Program 









Activities Linking Science with Math K-4
A hands-on guide for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of studyincluding visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math.

New Science and Math Activity Books

More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 - Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Presents fifteen lessons that use fiction and nonfiction picture books to teach about physical, life, earth, and space science, following the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study's 5E instructional model and featuring exploration questions.

Cartoon Corner: Humor-Based mathematics Activities
Ways to use cartoons in the classroom -- Algebraic thinking -- Fractions, decimals, and percent -- Geometry and measurement -- Holidays -- Numbers and numeration -- Ratio and proportion -- Data analysis and probability.