For Teachers

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A teaching team is a group of teachers assigned to a common group of students for a designated period of time. This book examines 12 essential components of productive middle school teams. Each chapter demonstrates a high-impact team strategy and provides an activity for helping teams to implement the strategy.

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To gain a deeper understanding of scientific concepts and to work well with a variety of science processes, students must develop essential skills that enable them to read, write, listen to, and speak about scientific texts and presentations. Literacy in the Science Classroom is a handy tool to improve science instruction that integrates science and literacy with a variety of fun, engaging activities and games designed to hone students’ skills. These literacy and science experiences are...

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This collection of puzzles, games, and cooperative learning activities now includes a full-color printable CD of game boards, cards, and resources! Just print the ones you choose. All activities are correlated to middle school math skills identified by the NCTM. Use them for lesson starters, review, specific skill lessons, or practice. How exciting to find activities that appeal to the middle school student's sense of fun, emphasize the problem-solving strategies students need, and are truly...

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Students will practice and grow their reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with this engaging workbook. They will practice identifying main ideas and supporting details, summarizing, predicting outcomes, recognizing an author’s point of view, and evaluating conclusions.

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Warm up your classes with inspiring, humorous, and insightful quotes! A fascinating quote can ignite the mind, and this handy collection provides 55 such quotes. The quotes have been specifically chosen to wake up the brain and grab students with an important idea to carry through the day. Every quote is accompanied by short activities that engage students with the idea in the quote, and they are also great for warm-ups, advisory lessons, or character education classes.

Item #: IP1406 -

This book helps to wake up students’ brains with its entertaining, topic-oriented puzzles riddles, logic problems, and brain teasers. Sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills while reinforcing information.

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Give students the tools they needs to write a great research paper with this handbook that guides them step-by-step through the research process. Each step is carefully explained, and the handbook includes helpful practice activities, as well as appropriate examples taken from research papers written by middle school students.

Item #: IP4031 -

How many rings does Jupiter have? Will people live in outer space one day? Earth & Space Science answers the questions that 6-8 graders are curious about. Students will have fun as they learn the coolest facts about Earth and space—and they will sharpen their skills as they do so!

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This 10-page planner is a quick-reference resource to help teachers encourage students to find their own ways, their own rhythms, and their own strengths. The easy-to-read charts and tables include a summary of Howard Gardner's Eight Intelligences and Gregorc's four basic learning styles, a personal inventory for students, and learning cycle checklists and lesson templates.

Item #: IP6131 -

This daily practice series helps students develop and retain their language and math skills. Each title challenges students with five problems a day, every day, for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week's problems are based on a grade-level-appropriate topic so each time a skill is presented, it has a new context, requiring students to recall what they know and apply it to a new situation. ...

Item #: IP6130 -

Tailor-made for fifth grade students, this daily practice book helps students of all skill levels practice and retain their math skills. This daily practice series helps your student retain their skills so they won’t lose them! There are five problems per day, every day for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week’s problems are based on a grade-level appropriate topic so that each time a...

Item #: IP6120 -

Tailor-made for fifth grade students, this daily practice book helps students of all skill levels practice and retain their language arts skills. This daily practice series helps your student retain their skills so they won’t lose them! There are five problems per day, every day for 36 weeks. The practice activities are set up in a spiraling scope and sequence so that students practice skills at regular intervals. Each week’s problems are based on a grade-level appropriate topic so that each...