Learning about People and Places educates young learners about famous places in the world and people belonging to different cultures. It explains interesting facts about our wonderful world through a lot of spot-the-difference, maze, dot-to-dot, and colouring activities, besides simple counting and writing exercises. Its easy-to-do activities promote creative thinking and problem solving among young minds, making the title a fun supplement to their textbooks, while acquainting them with various people and places of our planet. Other titles in the series Learning about Animals (ISBN: 9788179934333) Learning about Birds (ISBN: 9788179934340) Learning about Plants (ISBN: 9788179934357) About the author: Eman Chowdhary was born and brought up in Patna. Thanks to her professor parents, she started reading when she could barely hold a book properly! As the natural progression of this reading habit, she joined the publishing industry and has been there since!

Learning about Birds educates young learners about birds in an interesting, fun-filled format. It explains fascinating facts about blue jay, ostrich, dodo, and many more birds through various spot-the-difference, maze, dot-to-dot, and colouring activities, besides simple counting and writing exercises. Its easy-to-do, illustrated activities promote creative thinking and problem solving among young minds, making the title a fun supplement to their textbooks, while introducing them to nature through the world of birds. Other titles in the series Learning about Animals (ISBN: 9788179934333) Learning about People and Places (ISBN: 9788179934371) Learning about Plants (ISBN: 9788179934357) About the author: Eman Chowdhary was born and brought up in Patna. Thanks to her professor parents, she started reading when she could barely hold a book properly! As the natural progression of this reading habit, she joined the publishing industry and has been there since!

Learning about Animals educates young learners about the wonderful world of animals. It explains interesting facts about the members of the animal kingdom, such as their food, homes, classifi cation, special features, and so on through spot-the-difference, maze, dot-to-dot, and colouring activities, besides simple counting and writing exercises. These easy-to-do activities promote creative thinking and problem solving among young minds, making the title a fun supplement to their textbooks, while acquainting them with these amazing beings. Other titles in the series Learning about Birds (ISBN: 9788179934340) Learning about People and Places (ISBN: 9788179934371) Learning about Plants (ISBN: 9788179934357) About the author: Eman Chowdhary was born and brought up in Patna. Thanks to her professor parents, she started reading when she could barely hold a book properly! As the natural progression of this reading habit, she joined the publishing industry and has been there since!

Plants are an important part of our environment. They also add beauty and colour to our surroundings. Learning about Plants explains interesting facts about plants through spot-the-difference, maze, and colouring activities, besides various simple counting and writing exercises. These easy-to-do activities promote creative thinking and problem solving among young minds, making the title a fun supplement to their textbooks. At the same time, it acquaints them with the importance of plants and trees. Other titles in the series Learning about Animals (ISBN: 9788179934333) Learning about Birds(ISBN: 9788179934340) Learning about People and Places(ISBN: 9788179934371) About the author: Eman Chowdhary was born and brought up in Patna. Thanks to her professor parents, she started reading when she could barely hold a book properly! As the natural progression of this reading habit, she joined the publishing industry and has been there since!

Flowers add beauty to our environs. They play a vital role in enabling plants to reproduce. Their colours and shapes facilitate pollination, seed growth, and seed dispersal. Learning about Flowers highlights interesting facts about flowers through exciting activities, games, and puzzles. These easy-to-do activities promote creative thinking and problem solving among young minds, making the title a fun supplement to their textbooks. It introduces them to the amazing world of flowers and their significance in day-to-day life. Other titles in the series Learning about Animals (ISBN: 9788179934333) Learning about Birds (ISBN: 9788179934340) Learning about People and Places (ISBN: 9788179934371) Learning about Plants (ISBN: 9788179934357)

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education.

Fully revised and updated, this third edition of Action Learning in Practice covers the origins of Reg Revans's ideas, and looks at their development and application today. Over the last decade the move towards action-based organisational training and development has accelerated and action learning is now an established part of the education and development mainstream in large and small organisations.

This new book is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator to help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion, and cultural background. Authors Martha Caldwell and Oman Frame, both lifelong educators, offer a series of teaching strategies designed to encourage conversation and personal reflection, enabling students to think creatively, rather than stereotypically, about difference. Using the Transformational Inquiry model, your students will learn to explore their own identities, share stories and thoughts with their peers, learn more through reading and research, and ultimately take personal, collaborative action to affect social change in their communities. You’ll learn how to: Facilitate dynamic classroom discussions in a safe and empathetic environment Encourage students to think and talk objectively about complex and sensitive issues such as race, gender, and social class Help students cultivate valuable communication, critical thinking, and writing skills while developing their identities in a healthy way. Develop your teacher identity in a positive way to better support your students’ growth and self-discovery The strategies in this book can be adapted for any middle school or high school curriculum, and each chapter includes a variety of lesson plans and handouts that you can use in the classroom immediately. These resources can also be downloaded from the authors’ website: www.ichangecollaborative.com.

Now with SAGE Publishing! The bestselling Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices has been considered the standard for all educational administration textbooks for three decades. A thorough and comprehensive revision, the Seventh Edition continues to balance theory and research with practical application for prospective and practicing school administrators. While maintaining the book’s hallmark features—a friendly and approachable writing style, cutting-edge content, and compelling pedagogy—authors Frederick C. Lunenburg and Allan Ornstein present research-based practices while discussing topical issues facing school administrators today. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.

Contrary to the trend to do away with arts education as an unnecessary expense in schools trying to boost student test scores, this book promotes and explains the value of integrated arts instruction in furthering the accomplishment of curricular objectives and fostering student achievement. Accomplished library media specialist and arts instructor Kristin Fontichiaro discusses how drama, shadow puppetry, and podcasting can be used as tools to meet curriculum objectives in the K-8 media center. By concentrating on the process of creating a piece of drama or puppetry or a podcast, as opposed to the goal of performance, and by infusing the arts with curriculum objectives in story or research, these techniques can intensify a child's learning and provide context for classroom curriculum objectives. A discussion of the affective and academic benefits of this process-based work as well as sample lessons are included. Photographs and examples of student work illustrate the oechniques. Grades K-8.