Going Places is a series of colorful and informative books loaded with details about the various ways that people get around. In addition to a host of photographs clearly linked to simple text, each book includes graphs, charts, or maps that illustrate data and travel routes. Going by Train Young readers learn about commuter trains, subways, high-speed trains, and other passenger trains, along …
Going Places is a series of colorful and informative books loaded with details about the various ways that people get around. In addition to a host of photographs clearly linked to simple text, each book includes graphs, charts, or maps that illustrate data and travel routes. Going by Plane Young readers learn about early airplanes, famous firsts in aviation passenger jets, and special planes s…
Introduces school, local, and intercity buses and how people travel in each kind, and surveys other special types of buses.
Kids walk into schools full of wonder and questions. How you, as an educator, respond to students’ natural curiosity can help further their own exploration and shape the way they learn today and in the future. The traditional system of education requires students to hold their questions and compliantly stick to the scheduled curriculum. But our job as educators is to provide new and better…
Freight trains, passenger trains, and super-speed trains—they're all here in this colorful collection, filled with easy-to-read facts and realistic pictures, just right for young train lovers.
Curious about inquiry? Hundreds of thousands of elementary teachers are. Smokey Daniels travels the country supporting well planned and organized inquiry teaching, and he gets these two questions most often: Where do I find the time? What are some simple ways I can try with my kids? The Curious Classroom answers these questions. It shares a ladder of 10 inquiry structures. Begin with brief…
Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping. What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom? Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused an…
Follows a typical school day for a group of children, many of them with disabilities, showing how all of them can be included in class activities regardless of their abilities.