Curriculum Resources for PK-12

This book, aimed at secondary school teachers of all subjects, provides a systematic means of leveraging the Rigor Cube to develop rigorous, standards-based lesson plans. Includes sample lesson plans.

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The place-based approach brings students into their communities to learn necessary content and skills by working to meet the needs of local agencies and organizations. Students are more engaged because they know they are doing real work, teachers are reinvigorated by creating exciting learning opportunities, and the school takes on a more active role in the community. This book offers insights into how to build a program across the K-8 grades.

Supports preschool through high school teachers in creating Concept-Based curricula designed to develop students’ critical thinking, abstract reasoning, and creative learning skills.

A framework for inquiry that promotes deep understanding by using guiding questions to help students inquire into concepts and the relationships between them. For K-12 classrooms.

In addition to research on kindness in school children, this book provides a kindness checklist to guide educators wishing to implement and foster kindness in their classrooms or schools and a repository of kindness resources.

Easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy "digital detectives," looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.

Describes 50 high energy games designed to teach both STEM knowledge and interpersonal skills.

This book explains what essential questions are, why they are so useful, and provides "practical guidance on how to design, initiate, and embed inquiry-based teaching and learning in your classroom.Offering dozens of examples, the authors explore the usefulness of EQs in all K-12 content areas, including skill-based areas such as math, PE, language instruction, and arts education."

Teens talk to adults about how they develop motivation and mastery. Book includes a 5-day curriculum outline, as well as worksheets, tips, and discussion guides.

A "resource for writing effective rubrics and for choosing wisely from among the many rubrics that are available on the Internet and from other sources." unlimited ebook.

Provides the pedagogical basis for using role plays to teach social and emotional skills, creating a clear link between SEL and the need for culturally relevant teaching, and provides over 45 model lessons.

A year-long curriculum for developing school engagement and ambitions in young people aged 11-18. Informed by CBT, the curriculum readies students for life post-education through eight core themes, including 'believing in me', 'money matters' and 'business basics'. The second part of the book is a photocopiable manual for use in classroom settings.

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines'small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps, as well as the documentation of student thinking.
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Provides advice on "setting up classroom procedures and managing class time; coordinating standards, curriculum, and textbooks; developing manageable lesson and unit plans; handling discipline problems and engaging students in learning; using effective assessment practices; and monitoring student achievement." unlimited ebook.

Traditional approaches to social skill development may often be ineffective for those in most need of them - those who are neuro-diverse (for example: on the Autism Spectrum, with dyspraxia, or with ADHD), those who have experienced trauma, those with an intellectual disability and those who present with Complex Communication Needs. This manual outlines an 8-session programme, called "Imagine, Create, Belong", that involves a range of activities designed to develop theory of mind, flexible thinking, empathy and narrative ability.

20 researched based teaching strategies are presented. For each strategy, there is a brief intro; an example of a teacher using the strategy; the research base for the strategy; steps for implementing the strategy; •guidance for planning and designing lessons; and more.

This teaching guide will coach the reader through using cooperative learning techniques in their classroom.

"For meaningful learning that develops transferable skills and engages students, teachers and sometimes whole schools need to find spaces to “teach in the cracks” so that students can connect with issues relevant to their lives. . . .provides both a theoretical and practical foundation for incorporating an action-focused curriculum that meets academic standards and provides students with opportunities for agency and to use their voices in their own learning."

This book provides examples of teachers using diagrams to teach metacognition and critical thinking.

Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks.

The book offers advice on planning and managing drama across the curriculum from ages 5-14, and provides carefully annotated schemes of work complete with photocopiable resource sheets and online templates.

Focuses on music programs in the public school community, providing strategies and tools for developing a vibrant music program and building community support. The questions for discussion and student assignments make this an excellent choice for preservice teacher training courses

Supports those who are new to choice-based authentic art education, as well as experienced teachers looking to go deeper with this curriculum. Includes sample lesson plans and demonstrations, assessment criteria, curricular mapping, room planning, photos of classroom set-ups, media exploration, and many other concrete and open-ended strategies for implementing TAB in kindergarten–grade 8.

Offers information on working with young adolescent changing voices, designing optimal rehearsals for middle schoolers, managing growing choral programs, and helping youngsters gain musical skills they can carry with them for a lifetime of making music.

Covers methods of creative inquiry-based learning, art and how it connects to the “big ideas” addressed by academic domains, flexible structures teachers can use for curriculum development, creative teaching strategies using contemporary art, and models of art-based inquiry curriculum. Includes research-based project ideas and curriculum models for arts integration.

Introduces the Pyramid of Inquiry, a flexible framework that teachers of all subject areas can use to support connections between students' lives, academic curriculum, and works of art from across time and place. Based on three years of research with New York City K-12 public school students and educators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the book highlights best practices for teaching with works of art and shares exemplars from diverse classrooms.

This book offers “research on the positive effects of art education on student learning across the curriculum” and information on using the Studio Thinking Framework, including information on how this aligns with English Language Arts and Mathematics Common Core.
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Shows how the eight Studio Habits of Mind and four Studio Structures can be used successfully with younger students in a range of socioeconomic contexts and school environments.

Demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects.

A leading proponent of teaching computational thinking and coding as early as preschool and kindergarten, presents examples of children and teachers using the Scratch Jr. and Kibo robotics platforms to make explicit some of the positive values implicit in the process of learning computer science.

For K-3, provides research-based evidence for incorporating diverse literature in the early childhood classroom and features annotated bibliographies with a critical analysis based on knowledge of child development and best practices in literacy education. Offers classroom vignettes, multimodal text sets, and author/illustrator spotlights throughout the book.

Provides detailed recommendations for setting up the classroom reading environment, selecting books, preparing materials, setting goals, and integrating discussions with curricular demands, while maintaining a child-centered philosophy and addressing needs of culturally & linguistically diverse students.

Explores why early childhood is a critical time to address the STEM gender divide, explores identity development and the influences of the media and models on young children. Provides materials to design effective curricula and activities to engage girls with STEM in playful ways that build on their personal interests.

For early childhood through grade 3, this book provides SEL, mindfulness, and brain-friendly physical activity that promotes growth, development, and behavior management. These field-tested activities can be used to help kids wake up, calm down, focus, or soothe anxious feelings.

How to use books to teach such concepts as patience, tenacity, kindness, and teamwork. Recommends songs, action rhymes, games, and crafts. Extensive lists of recommended books.

Developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays. Many programs are establishing a'no holiday'policy, but this book shows you how to celebrate and adhere to school policy. Among other topics, it includes evaluating holiday activities for appropriateness, addressing commercialism and stereotypes, involving families, and developing inclusive policies.

Enables school staff to prepare children--including those with delayed communication skills, ELL students, or children with suspected special education needs--for learning in school by developing their communication skills through the use of robust communication strategies.

Provides real-life examples of how to bring animals into your classroom with suggestions for planning, ideas for finding the right pet, and resources for making experiences meaningful, relevant, and joyful for children. Also offer adaptations if live animals are not permitted in your setting.

Learn how to integrate lessons about good digital citizenship into the daily life of the early childhood classroom. Provides suggested readings and annotated lists of children's books and organizational resources.

The simple songs in this book will help you glide smoothly through tough transitions such as greetings and good-byes, calling attention, cleaning up, moving, waiting, and slowing down. Red Leaf Press provides related Videos

This book discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Inlcudes lists of recommended read-aloud books.

Using photos, vignettes, narrative, and more than eighty unplugged coding activities, this book helps readers better understand what coding is and how they can implement easy and developmentally appropriate coding games and activities into their early childhood programs.

Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation. This ebook provided via the Michigan eLibrary.

Teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. Sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Useful for K-2 emergent readers, adult/teen learners, ELL students, and students with disabilities.

This book's 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture books. You'll help your K-2 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn.

Full of practical guidance and easy-to-implement strategies on how to provoke learning and creativity in early years settings, allowing children to freely explore their environment and develop their ability to critically think.

Chapters focus on oral language, reading, and writing development and include diverse possibilities for culturally relevant and inclusive teaching.

The book includes detailed instructions for developmentally stimulating, screen-free toys that parents and toddlers can make together out of everyday household items. Pubished by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Use the updated activities, examples, and research to improve your anti-bias and multicultural education programs. This clear and practical guide includes expanded information on English language learners, family engagement, culturally responsive teaching, and staff training.
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Focuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos and includes lesson plans fo facilitate the development of key character traits in children: caring, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and self-discipline.

Grounded in the theory of early education pioneer Elinor Goldschmied, the book explains heuristic learning--discovery by trial and error--and how to encourage this type of learning to boost development. Teachers will learn how to set up treasure baskets that encourage heuristic play: containers filled with easy-to-find items that support explorations in emergent language, math, and science skills.

A social & emotional literacy program for ages 4-8. Leads children through Archie’s adventures over 16 lessons, as he encounters a range of social and emotional dilemmas. Through evidence-based activities, discussion, role-play, games, and explicit social skill instruction, children learn how develop positive problem-solving skills to transfer into their everyday lives.

Drawing from the holistic and inclusive model of Developmental Play, which includes sensory play, creative-explorative play, meaning-making play and higher play, the activities focus on supporting aspects of social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.

Provides practical, brain research-based intervention techniques and reading strategies teachers can use to help all students, especially those who are struggling, make strides in literacy achievement.

Targeting Subject-Verb sentences, pronouns and the auxiliaries 'can' and 'do', this book provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology which will engage and excite the reader while building pre-literacy skills and make learning fun, as well as exposing children to multiple models of the target grammar form. Perfect for a speech and language therapy session.

Guidelines for teaching writing in grades K-12. Offers strategies for teaching narrative and argumentative writing; using digital tools; helping students improve specific skills, from handwriting and spelling to sentence construction; teaching evaluation and revision; connecting reading and writing instruction; teaching vulnerable populations; using assessment to inform instruction; and more.

Everything a teacher needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

This book provides a practical understanding of digital literacy and information on integrating digital technology into English Language Arts and literacy instruction at the K-6 grade levels.

This book provides innovative tools and strategies to support reading intervention for students in grades 3-8 who do not yet read with grade-level accuracy. Uses the Interactive Strategies Approach--Extended (ISA-X) . Includes some reproducible materials.

Easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy "digital detectives," looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict. Includes lessons for K through high school.

High-impact routines that focus on the skills known to develop students' literacy best. Differentiated application of these routines--with fun multi-modal games and variations--for students working on- below-, and above grade-level expectations, and for multilingual learners. Includes several reproducible phonics and spelling assessments for placement, progress monitoring, and formative assessments.

Full of engaging ideas, Dramathemes brings drama and play together with literacy sources to explore challenging issues such as identity, poverty, diversity, bullying, and immigration.

Exlains how to identify, and learn from, kids' spelling miscues, and use them to further inform our teaching and instruction. Includes activities (called Teachable Moments) and other teaching tips.

Educating for Empathy reviews core elements of ELA instruction--response to literature, classroom discussion, research, and digital literacy--and demonstrates how to adapt these activities to foster critical thinking and empathetic perspectives among students. Chapters depict teachers and students engaging in this transformative learning, offer strategies for the classroom, and pose questions to guide school communities in collaborative reflection.

This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum.

For grades 6-12. Shares strategies for crafting effective, efficient, and memorable feedback to help students with revisions.

Co-published by the Natl Council of Teachers of English this is designed for middle & secondary English teachers. It shows how form, function, & use can help teachers move away from decontextualized grammar instruction (such as worksheets and exercises emphasizing rule-following) and begin considering grammar in applied contexts of everyday use. Modules (organized by units) succinctly explain common grammatical concepts.

Demonstrates how to use learning intentions, success criteria, formative assessment and feedback to achieve profound instructional clarity.

Best practices for fortifying the writer’s workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar. Examples are provided for different grade levels.

Offers secondary level English language arts teachers several models and considerations for how to design and implement inquiry-based teaching and learning. An inquiry approach can significantly boost student achievement. Includes classroom-tested approaches, activities, and assignments focusing on issues that adolescents find consequential.

Presents an approach to the value of children’s picture books as a way to look at contemporary issues of social justice while building connections that promote a literacy that is multi-dimensional. Story drama structures offer teachers opportunities for the rich conversations and deep reflections that foster habits of mind critical for life in the twenty-first century.

Builds a case for the importance of teaching listening to K-12 students and offers advice on using audio in teaching with activities for elementary and middle/high school students.

SOAR Teaching Frames provide a common language and a set of tools to foster informal self-evaluation, as well as teacher-to-teacher and coach-to-teacher collaboration.

Enables readers to discover how content area teachers are now using a literacy model of instruction to maximize learning in every discipline and meet the Reading Informational Text Standards of the Common Core.

A blueprint for constructing literacy-rich instructional units in English language arts, science, and social studies--including writing argumentative, informative, and narrative essays, and conducting discipline-specific inquiry. Offers sample text sets, 24 reproducible planning templates, and other teaching tools.

Discusses ways to teach close reading of complex texts, discipline-specific argumentation skills, academic vocabulary, the use of multimodal tools and graphic organizers, and more. Includes classroom materials, lesson plans, practice activities, and recommended online teaching videos.

The National Council of Teachers of English provides ten adaptable activity guides for middle and high school level to teach 10 grammar concepts, giving teachers a model and vocabulary for discussing grammar in real ways with their students

Calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words--and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing.

"Bite-sized" lessons teach revision strategies using model texts. Every revision strategy presented in can be applied at the word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or whole-text levels.

Teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. Sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Useful for K-2 emergent readers, adult/teen learners, ELL students, and students with disabilities.

Presents ways for students to meet traditional instructional goals in writing while also learning how writing can help them become stewards of the natural world and advocates for their own communities. Offers place-based writing activities, lesson plans, and sample student work.

Shows K-6 educators how to think about, talk about, and manipulate language out of context. Offers suggestions for introducing metalinguistic concepts like phonological, semantic, and syntactic awareness with fun activities like games, songs, rhymes, and riddles.

Offers culturally proactive teaching stances or “poses” that secondary ELA teachers can use to meet the needs of all students, historically marginalized or privileged. Describes how teachers can expect to “wobble” as they adapt instruction to the needs of their students, while also incorporating insights about their own cultural positionality and preconceptions about teaching. Teachers are encouraged to recognize this flexibility as a positive process or “flow” that can be used to address challenges and adopt ambitious teaching strategies."

Provides teachers with the tools they need to use discussion protocols to support students in developing crucial skills as readers, writers, critical thinkers, and active participants within the classroom community. For each protocol the author provides a clear set of steps, tips for teachers and students in facilitating the protocol, and a story of a teacher using the protocol with students.

An innovative approach to drama and to developing the literacy skills of children from the ages of 6 to 12. Offers extensive practical exercises and activities, including photocopiable material.

Presents a method to increase students' writing skills in AP English classes.

Chapters focus on oral language, reading, and writing development and include diverse possibilities for culturally relevant and inclusive teaching.

Each chapter centers on one novel that represents a contemporary topic including police brutality, women's rights, ecojustice, and bullying. Authors provide reading strategies for teaching that connect the social issues in the texts to students' lives. Also offersresources such as documentaries, canonical companions for study, connected music, and supplementary lesson plans.

Demonstrates how AI can be harnessed as a source of inspiration and meaningful instruction in secondary English classrooms.

Offers practical evidence-based strategies for teaching literature, informational texts, and writing in classrooms with both neurotypical students and students with autism. The first chapter includes a complete unit plan on Of Mice and Men, illustrating how curriculum focused on commonly taught literary works can be reimagined to accommodate the needs and draw on the strengths of students on the spectrum.

This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms.

Aims to "make language concepts accessible for teachers so that they can use instructional programs with confidence and flexibility."

Focuses on the needs of students in grades 3–6 in all aspects of reading workshop, including reading workshop, read-aloud, classroom design, digital tools, fiction, nonfiction, and close reading.

Provides project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school.

Presents ways in which teachers can use digital tools in the service of antiracist teaching and developing equity-oriented mindsets in teaching and learning.

Describes ways to use informational text creatively and effectively in reading and writing instruction. Presents lessons, read-alouds, and activities that motivate students to engage with a wide variety of exemplary texts. Links to the Common Core State Standards. Includes how to build academic vocabulary, balance fiction & nonfiction, and address needs of English language learners.

Lesson plans and activities designed to help promote critical thinking skills for K-12 students.

Provides strategies on using Young Adult Literature to meet Common Core standards.

Offers curriculum for AP English classes explains how to present challenging material to high school students.

K-6 classrooms teacher share vocabulary routines, which you can use as-is or adapt for your own classroom.

This book is designed to help children cope with exposure to news items such as extreme weather events, terrorism, etc. The book explains news, how news can be sensationalized, and misinformation. Also offers cognitive-behavioral techniques for taking care of themselves.

The book offers sound advice on planning and managing drama across the curriculum from ages 5-14, and provides carefully annotated schemes of work complete with photocopiable resource sheets and online templates.

Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities.

The Unfamiliar Genre Project helps you:
*develop students' thinking about writing fundamentals such as purpose, audience, form, topic selection, and word choice
*support adolescents' test-taking abilities by increasing their awareness of the genre characteristics of test writing
*fully engage students by connecting school writing to their outside interests
*truly integrate the English curriculum by studying genre from the points of view of both readers and writers.

Provides everything a teacher needs to get the writing workshop up and running. Each chapter addresses an essential element, then suggests five or six specific things a teacher can do to implement the idea.

Real examples of how exemplary teachers are meeting the CCSS by teaching problem solving for different learning styles, proportional reasoning, the Pythagorean theorem, measurements, and more. A detailed analysis of each example to help you understand why it is effective and how you can try it with your own students, Practical, ready-to-use tools you can take back to your classroom, including unit plans and classroom handouts.

The goal of this book is to begin to change the way students experience mathematics in the middle and high school classrooms. In this book you will find a theoretical basis for this approach to teaching mathematics, multiple guides and questions for teachers to think about in relation to their everyday teaching, and over 30 examples of problems, lessons, tasks, and projects that have been used effectively with urban students.

Helps teachers examine how they use language in the math classroom and make small changes to their words and practices to support student learning. Includes practical ideas, activities, and tools.

A classroom-tested framework for secondary math teachers to support students who struggle. Five parts of the intervention include Build Community, Routines to Boost Confidence, Engage Every Student, Advance Your Expectations, & Know Students' Level of Understanding. Find additional resources at www.gatebreakerbook.com.

Provides prospective teachers of mathematics in grades 6 − 12 with guidance on what to cover in secondary mathematics courses and how to cover those topics. The text is based on the premise that engaging prospective teachers in the study of students’ mathematical thinking is a powerful and under-utilized strategy for secondary teacher education.

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This 3rd edition presents practical, proven, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in school, after school, and in alternative settings. It also supplies direction in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility.

Outlines a framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds.

The book is divided into two basic parts: 1. An introduction to the stages of argument-driven inquiry--from question identification, data analysis, and argument development and evaluation to double-blind peer review and report revision. 2. A well-organized series of 22 field-tested labs designed to be much more authentic for instruction than traditional laboratory activities. The labs cover four core ideas in physical science: matter, motion and forces, energy, and waves.

Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physics, Volume 1 focuses on mechanics and has two parts. The first part describes the ADI instructional model and the components of ADI lab investigations. The second part provides 23 field-tested labs covering a wide variety of topics related to forces and interactions, energy, work, and power. Some investigations are introductory labs that expose students to new content; others are application labs to help students try out a theory, law, or unifying concept.

Lesson plans that use team games to teach science.

Learn how to use each crosscutting concept (CCC) across disciplines, understand the challenges students face in learning CCCs, and adopt exemplary teaching strategies.

Engineering lessons using ordinary objects such as ballpoint pens, ziploc bags, tooth brushes, flashlights, etc.

This book is a collection of ideas, activities and approaches for science learning, to support kids with learning differences aged 9+ to grow in confidence, recall and understanding. The multi-sensory and fun ideas and activities can be adapted to suit individual students' needs and skills, and curriculum stage.

Uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community. From the National Science Teachers Association.

Helps teachers develop curricula compatible with the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core Standards; offers detailed sample lesson plans in each STEM subject; and more.

Grades 3-6
Classroom lessons that combine use of children's books with lessons related to physical science, life science, and earth and space science.

This book's 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture books. You'll help your K-2 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn.

Concise chapters fully explain the research basis, necessary technology, Next Generation Science Standards correlation, and implementation of each lesson and strategy. Lessons cover topics such as setting up labs, conducting experiments, using graphs, analyzing data, writing lab reports, incorporating technology, assessing student learning, teaching all-ability students, and more.

Offers deas and resources for teaching concepts in the physical, earth, space, and life sciences, as well in history and mathematics; and suggested activities for a variety of grade levels (4th thru 12th grade).

By using children's books to pique students interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way. From the National Science Teachers Association.

45 assessment probes enable teachers to find out what students really think about key ideas in force and motion. Teacher Notes provide info on the purpose of the probe; related concepts; an explanation-for the teacher-of the force and motion idea; related ideas in Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards; research on typical student misconceptions; and suggestions for instruction & assessment.The book specifies grade spans-K-4, 5-8, 9-12-for each probe.

Offers 8 life science probes, 11 physical science probes, and 6 Earth and space science probes that target K-2 disciplinary core ideas, including reproducible pages for students , detailed teacher notes, and connections to national standards.

From the National Science Teachers Assn, a nine-session module for teaching middle school or high school students about climate change. The unit addresses Next Generation Science Standards and was created is using the Learning Cycle and the BSCS 5E Instructional Model.

With each idea based on an original historical source from The National Archives (Great Britain), this book takes a skills-based approach that will help pupils understand the methods of historical inquiry. Themed to cover different source types, including photographs, government reports, cartoons, royal seals, manuscripts, & letters. The historical sources can be previewed in the book and downloaded from a Companion Website.

This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms. It includes ten examples of projects that have been effectively implemented in classrooms: two from elementary school, two from middle school, three from high school, two from community college, and one from a university.

Explores historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration of content-area literacy instruction into history content teaching. Surveys a broad range of texts and offers teaching strategies aligned to national standards.
Additional resources offered at https://historicalliteracies.byu.edu/

Easy-to-implement lessons to engage students in becoming media literacy "digital detectives," looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict. Includes lessons for K through high school.

Brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems.

Part I of the book features six full units, complete with student samples, targeted rubrics, a checklist to keep students on track, and even "Homework Hints." Part II is a mix-and-match section of tools you can use to create your own PBL-aligned lessons.

A detailed examination of school participatory budgeting (SPB), a democratic process that combines citizenship education, civic engagement and participatory governance.

These middle school lesson plans are part of the Countering Truth Decay initiative, which is focused on restoring the role of facts, data, and analysis in U.S. political and civil discourse. The lesson plans introduce students to public policy research and emphasize the importance of media literacy skills.

She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why? What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the powerful message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.

Beginning with pre-Columbian history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the Mai Lai massacre, Loewen offers an eye-opening critique of existing textbooks, and a wonderful retelling of American history as it should--and could--be taught to American students.

Offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. Shows how to engage middle and high school students in historical inquiry that incorporates literacy skills like reading complex texts and writing elaborated arguments. Presents simulation activities that immerse students in three eras of U.S. history: European incursions into North America, pre-Revolutionary War colonialism, and the Civil War and Reconstruction.

How to teach mindfulness strategies to your elementary and middle school students to provide a foundation for social-emotional well-being and academic engagement. Based on research, the curriculum covers 5 key mindfulness practices: Breath awareness, Body awareness, Focusing on gratitude, Kindness toward self and others, Open awareness . Each chapter includes a detailed lesson plan with support materials. These tools, as well as audio recordings of the practices, are also available for classroom use at http://www.routledge.com/9781138586550

Each of these 33 units offers book summaries, social studies topic areas, critical thinking questions, and dozens of easy-to-do activities.

A resource for educators to develop “news literacy” skills of students in objectively evaluating the news.

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Using books from the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, selected by the National Council for the Social Studies and Children's Book Council, this book offers strategies, lesson plans, and activities for using literature as a springboard to social studies thematic instruction. Engaging lessons foster critical thinking and integrate social studies & English language arts.

Nationally representative survey results demonstrate how social studies teachers in U.S. public schools promote students' civic learning, teachers' beliefs about the importance of civic-related topics and skills, and which conditions they perceive as supporting or hindering civic education.

Offers project based learning units for middle and high school classrooms with relevant pedagogical advice. Unit topics include the U.S. colonies, American Revolution, Progressive Era, enslavement, industrialization, the Great Depression, and the U.S.-Dakota War.

Offers six research-tested historical investigations with teaching materials and tools to improve historical thinking and argumentative writing. Each investigation integrates reading, analysis, planning, composing, and reflection into a writing process for an argumentative history essay. Primary sources have been modified to allow struggling readers access to the material. Also, provides links to original unmodified primary sources, additional web resources, and sample student essays.

Each chapter begins with an essay that sets the stage of a key moment in American history. Primary documents, charts, graphic organisers, visual images, and political cartoons follow each essay, as well as suggestions for where to find additional resources on the Internet and guidance for assessing students' understanding of core historical ideas.

"This book, which contains chapters from many leading scholars within the field of social studies education, both assesses the ways in which the social studies curriculum has failed to live up to the promises of progressive citizenship education made in the wake of the attacks and offers practical advice for teachers who wish to encourage a critical understanding of the post-9/11 global society in which their students live."

Presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3-8) in their efforts to teach for social justice. Each chapter explains how teachers can restructure, reshape, and manipulate mandated curriculum materials to teach from a critical perspective.

Readers are encouraged to reconsider their assumptions and understanding about the origins, purposes, nature, and possibilities of the social studies curriculum.

Authors "delve into the heart of inquiry-based learning, integrating the rich tapestry of primary sources and the cutting-edge potential of educational technology." Encourages students to "think critically about historical events from multiple perspectives"

A "how-to guide for explicitly promoting social justice and implicitly democratizing learning in the primary grades" - Education Review

Offers numerous strategies for teaching Social Studies with explanations of how both Common Core and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) standards and themes are addressed. Written with secondary students in mind.

Offers practical and easy-to-implement lessons, including:
- Specific directions for employing place-based best practices in the classroom
- Ways to meet state standards without sacrificing teacher creativity or hands-on learning
- Lists of resources and primary source materials

The authors describe how critical thinking that encourages dialogue across the school disciplines and across social/economic classes prepares students for participation in democracy. They offer specific, concrete strategies for addressing a variety of issues related to authority, religion, gender, race, media, sports, entertainment, class and poverty, capitalism and socialism, and equality and justice. The goal is to develop individuals who can examine their own beliefs, those of their own and other groups, and those of their nation, and can do so with respect and understanding for others values.

Outlines principles and practices for teaching data literacy as part of social studies education.

Provides project-based units of study and classroom practices that allow students to reconfigure understandings of themselves, their capabilities, and their roles in the world. Offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school.

What should teachers do on the days after major events, tragedies, and traumas, especially when injustice is involved? Examples of days after that teachers remember, including 9/11, elections, natural disasters, gun violence, police brutality, social uprisings, Supreme Court decisions, immigration policies, and more.

"This book offers the tools teachers need to get started with an innovative approach to teaching history, one that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students’ lives today, and meets Common Core State Standards (grades 7–12). The author provides over 60 primary sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an essential question from U.S. history."

Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams.

Promotes student engagement and critical thinking to replace or augment a traditional textbook. Over 90 primary sources organized into seven thematic units, each structured around an essential question from world history. Each unit connects to current events with dynamic classroom activities. Printable copies of the documents included in the book can be downloaded at tcpress.com.

Dewey's instrumentalism offers social studies educators a tool for addressing vexing problems such as whether they should design classroom experiences using a traditional or a social studies approach to learning history, the role of digital technologies, the purpose and challenges of younger learners working with an expanding horizons curriculum, and many more.

Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites.

Provides practical applications of democratic teaching for classes in history/social studies.

A citizen can pick up litter A citizen can pull a weed A citizen can help that critter A citizen can plant a seed A citizen can aid a neighbor A citizen can join a cause A citizen can write a letter A citizen can help change laws . . . This is a book for today's youth about what it means to be a citizen.

This book is designed to help children cope with exposure to news items such as extreme weather events, terrorism, etc. The book explains news, how news can be sensationalized, and misinformation. Also offers cognitive-behavioral techniques for taking care of themselves.

Historical study that centers on a question, where students gather a variety of historical sources and then develop and defend their answers to that question, allows students to become actual historians immersed in an interpretive study of the past.

A new, revised and updated single-volume young adult version of Howard Zinn's classic telling of American history. A Young People's History of the United States brings to history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young readers.