Plate Tectonics--Rock Your World Hands-On Activity

Plate Tectonics--Rock Your World Hands-On Activity
Author: Sarah D. Giese
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1425878067

Make geography fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of geography.

Hands-On History: Geography Activities

Hands-On History: Geography Activities
Author: Sarah D. Giese
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425803830

Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.

Hands-On Science and Technology, Grade 4

Hands-On Science and Technology, Grade 4
Author: Jennifer Lawson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-08-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553791797

Hands-On Science and Technology, Grade 4 Ontario Edition Project Editor Jennifer Lawson This teacher resource offers a detailed introduction to the Hands-On Science and Technology program (guiding principles, implementation guidelines, an overview of the science skills that grade 4 students use and develop) and a classroom assessment plan complete with record-keeping templates. It also includes connections to the Achievement Levels as outlined in The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8 Science and Technology (2007). This resource has four instructional units: Unit 1: Habitats and Communities Unit 2: Pulleys and Gears Unit 3: Light and Sound Unit 4: Rocks and Minerals Each unit is divided into lessons that focus on specific curricular expectations. Each lesson has curriculum expectation(s) lists materials lists activity descriptions assessment suggestions activity sheet(s) and graphic organizer(s)

A Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze

A Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze
Author: Carla Mae Jansen
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre: Geochemical cycles
ISBN: 9781735042701

A Dinosaur Made Me Sneeze is a rip-roaring adventure traveling the rock cycle, cruising through time, and landing home in time for dinner! This incredible story introduces changes through the Earth's history, three types of rocks, and more! Watch out for asteroids and volcanoes along the way!

Hands-On Earth Science Activities For Grades K-6

Hands-On Earth Science Activities For Grades K-6
Author: Marvin N. Tolman
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2006-03-24
Genre: Education
ISBN:

With more than 150 exciting hands-on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills and basic science concepts and facts, this book is the perfect complement to any elementary school science program. Activities in the 'Earth Science' volume covers air, water, weather, earth, ecology, gravity and flight, and celestial bodies. The updated editions include an expanded 'teacher information' section for all of the activities, enhanced user friendliness, inquiry-based models and cooperative learning projects for the classroom. Projects use materials easily found around the classroom or home, provide science fair ideas at the end of each section, link activities to national science standards, and include other new material. annual National Science Teachers Association meeting, has taught elementary science methods courses at Brigham Young University since 1975.

ENC Focus

ENC Focus
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1994
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them

The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them
Author: Daniel L. Schwartz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 039370940X

Selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, this book offers superior learning tools for teachers and students, from A to Z. An explosive growth in research on how people learn has revealed many ways to improve teaching and catalyze learning at all ages. The purpose of this book is to present this new science of learning so that educators can creatively translate the science into exceptional practice. The book is highly appropriate for the preparation and professional development of teachers and college faculty, but also parents, trainers, instructional designers, psychology students, and simply curious folks interested in improving their own learning. Based on a popular Stanford University course, The ABCs of How We Learn uses a novel format that is suitable as both a textbook and a popular read. With everyday language, engaging examples, a sense of humor, and solid evidence, it describes 26 unique ways that students learn. Each chapter offers a concise and approachable breakdown of one way people learn, how it works, how we know it works, how and when to use it, and what mistakes to avoid. The book presents learning research in a way that educators can creatively translate into exceptional lessons and classroom practice. The book covers field-defining learning theories ranging from behaviorism (R is for Reward) to cognitive psychology (S is for Self-Explanation) to social psychology (O is for Observation). The chapters also introduce lesser-known theories exceptionally relevant to practice, such as arousal theory (X is for eXcitement). Together the theories, evidence, and strategies from each chapter can be combined endlessly to create original and effective learning plans and the means to know if they succeed.

The Naked Future

The Naked Future
Author: Patrick Tucker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1591847702

“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating. He shows how scientists can predict your behavior based on your friends’ Twitter updates, anticipate the weather a year from now, figure out the time of day you’re most likely to slip back into a bad habit, and guess how well you’ll do on a test before you take it. Tucker knows that the rise of Big Data is not always a good thing. But he also shows how we’ve gained tremendous benefits that we have yet to fully realize.