Spacing Out Activity Guide

Spacing Out Activity Guide
Author: Stephie McCumbee
Publisher: Boys Town Press
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1934490784

Lessons for Common Core and Social Skill Development “Pay attention!” If your students’ minds are wandering, teach them skills to stay focused and reach goals. More than 20 classroom-friendly lessons include behavior management tools that teach kids how to complete tasks successfully and on time. The activities in this book support Common Core and Academic literacy standards and are designed to accompany the Spacing Out! picture book. Using the story as a stimulus, students will explore making predictions, comparing characters, cause and effect, sequencing, and making story maps. Discussion questions relating to the story help students develop critical thinking skills and determine the positive outcomes for completing tasks, and the negative consequences of becoming distracted. Additional activities reinforce social skill development for setting goals, identifying things to work on, coping with distractions, and celebrating success. The activities are appropriate for K-5 classroom and can be used with individuals, small groups, or large groups. Educators will appreciate the easy-to-use activities, with step-by-step instructions, lists of materials, worksheets, and answer keys. The CD includes ready-to-print worksheets, handouts, and reward coupons.

Is There An App for That? Activity Guide

Is There An App for That? Activity Guide
Author: Bryan Smith
Publisher: Boys Town Press
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193449075X

Give children skills to resist negative peer pressure and value their own strengths and weaknesses. This companion to the Is There an App for That? picture book offers 20 classroom activities designed to teach and reinforce the skill of “Accepting Self.” Use the activities to teach students the difference between staying true to themselves and making changes in order to fit in with peers. Students in grades K-5 will celebrate similarities and differences, identify positive influences, and learn to value their own opinions. Activities include step-by-step instructions, lists of materials, worksheets, and answer keys. Activities that support Common Core learning initiatives are identified. A CD includes ready-to-print forms and handouts.

Physical Best Activity Guide

Physical Best Activity Guide
Author: Physical Best (Program)
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0736081186

This comprehensive health-related fitness education program is back and better than ever! Developed by top-level physical educators, this third edition will help students gain the knowledge, skills, appreciation, and confidence they need to lead active, healthy lives, regardless of physical and mental abilities or disabilities. Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels has been used with much success across the United States, and for good reason: The text contains 70 easy-to-use instructional activities, ranging from noncompetitive to competitive and from less demanding to more demanding. It also includes activities that allow for maximum time on task. All the instructional activities address the national physical education standards, dance standards, or health standards. This new edition retains the best activities from previous editions and offers new ones from outstanding teachers throughout the United States. You will learn how to adapt the activities for all students, regardless of skill level or disability, and students will learn how to set realistic goals, manage their activity levels, and remain healthy throughout their lives. In addition, this text offers the following features: * A "Combined-Component Training" chapter combines aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility into single activities. * A CD-ROM contains a wealth of reproducibles, including charts, posters, signs, station cards, handouts, and worksheets, many of which can be adapted to meet your needs. * A section of Internet resources helps you develop your own special events. Physical Best Activity Guide: Middle and High School Levels, developed by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, can stand alone or be used in conjunction with Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness: The PhysicalBest Teacher's Guide, Third Edition, and Physical Best Activity Guide: Elementary Level, Third Edition. It can also be used with Fitnessgram®/Activitygram®, an activity assessment and computerized reporting system, and the Fitness forLife resources for middle school and high school. Fitness for Life is a comprehensive program promoting lifetime health-related fitness.

The 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Book Companion Guide for Parents & Educators (8 Keys to Mental Health)

The 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Book Companion Guide for Parents & Educators (8 Keys to Mental Health)
Author: Signe Whitson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0393711838

A leader’s manual, with helpful tools, tips, and background information, for adults guiding kids and students through the anti-bullying lessons of The 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Book for Kids & Tweens The 8-12 age range marks a critical window of time in the social and emotional development of kids, one in which adults are still highly influential. The 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Book Companion Guide for Parents & Educators, enhances the role of parents and educators in helping young people navigate challenging social dynamics and overcome bullying. As a “leader’s manual” for The 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Book for Kids & Tweens, it provides helpful guidelines and vital background information for leading kids and students through each of the activities and lessons. Organized around the groundbreaking principles of 8 Keys to End Bullying, the two-book 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Program for Kids & Tweens builds key social-emotional skills in readers ages 8-12, empowering them to cope with conflict and end bullying in their communities and schools. Younger kids can complete the activities with a parent or teacher's guidance, while older kids can complete the activities independently.These simple activities cultivate (1) assertiveness, emotion management, and friendship skills in kids vulnerable to bullying, (2) problem-solving skills for kids who witness bullying, and (3) empathy and kindness skills in kids who are likely to bully their peers. Books are available individually or as a set.

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book

The LEGO BOOST Activity Book
Author: Daniele Benedettelli
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1593279337

At last, fans of the LEGO BOOST robot building kit have the learning resource they've been missing! Enter The LEGO BOOST Activity Book: a full-color guide that will help readers learn how to build and code LEGO creations that move, explore their environment, grab and lift objects, and more. The LEGO BOOST kit lets younger builders create fun, multifunctional robots by combining bricks with code, but it doesn't come with a manual. With the help of this complete guide to the LEGO BOOST set, you'll be on your way to building and programming BOOST robots in no time. You'll begin your exploration by building a basic rover robot called MARIO to help you learn the fundamentals of the BOOST programming environment. Next, you'll add features to your rover to control its movement and make it repeat actions and react to colors and sounds. Once you've learned some programming basics, you'll learn how to program your robot to do things like follow lines on the ground, scan its environment to decide where to go, and even play darts. As final projects, you'll create two complete robots: BrickPecker to help you organize your bricks and CYBOT, a robot that talks, shoots objects, and executes voice commands. As you advance through the book, optional lessons aim to deepen your understanding of basic robotics concepts. Brain BOOSter sections let you dig into the math and engineering behind your builds while a host of experiments seek to test your skills and encourage you to do more with your robots. With countless illustrations, extensive explanations, and a wealth of coding examples to guide you, The LEGO BOOST Activity Book is sure to take you from beginning builder to robotics whiz and give your robot-building brain that needed boost!

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Fourth Edition)

The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Fourth Edition)
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0393253635

Is your child getting lost in the system, becoming bored, losing his or her natural eagerness to learn? If so, it may be time to take charge of your child’s education—by doing it yourself. The Well-Trained Mind will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school—one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child’s mind and comprises three stages: the elementary school “grammar stage,” when the building blocks of information are absorbed through memorization and rules; the middle school “logic stage,” in which the student begins to think more analytically; and the high-school “rhetoric stage,” where the student learns to write and speak with force and originality. Using this theory as your model, you’ll be able to instruct your child—whether full-time or as a supplement to classroom education—in all levels of reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music, regardless of your own aptitude in those subjects. Thousands of parents and teachers have already used the detailed book lists and methods described in The Well-Trained Mind to create a truly superior education for the children in their care. This extensively revised fourth edition contains completely updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, cutting-edge math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges. You do have control over what and how your child learns. The Well-Trained Mind will give you the tools you’ll need to teach your child with confidence and success.