Education : Elementary

This book shows teachers how to make the best use of the computers in their primary classrooms. It outlines and illustrates a coherent framework for enhancing the effectiveness of computers for teaching and learning. It is also linked to further more...

Price: $37.95

Developing Thinking in Geometry integrates pedagogy and subject knowledge to enable teachers and support staff to experience and to teach geometric thinking to pupils aged seven to 16 years. A variety of tasks, including interactive activities on a CD, will show how all learners can engage in successful geometric thinking. The book draws on pedagogic constructs developed at The Open University's Centre for Mathematics Education by a team of mathematics educators with a 20-year track record of innovative and influential approaches to teaching and learning geometry. This book is the course reader for the Open University course ME627 Developing Geometric Thinking. more...

Price: $41.95

Give students the dirt on soil with a practical book that brings new meaning to the term "hands-on." Using these 12 activities and two original stories as guides, kids will soon be up to their elbows in the study of soil formation, habitats and land use, animals that depend on soil, plants that grow in soil, soil science, and soil conservation. Each teacher-tested lesson plan offers helpful background, assessment methods, and suggestions for further exploration. more...

Price: $21.95

Most teaching assistants (TAs) studying for Foundation Degrees need to do action research. This book acts as an introduction to research methods, and will be especially useful if you are doing such work for the first time. Using real case studies from practising TAs in primary and early years settings, it provides an overview of the processes involved in action research, showing how to identify an issue, design and carry out a course of action, and evaluate the impact. more...

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David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, whose violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyrone isn't acting like himself. Then David meets the mysterious Mr. Moses, who tells him that dreams might be the only things we have that are real. And it is Mr. Moses's gift of dreams that gives David a new way to see inside his father's troubled heart. more...

Price: $4.99