For Teachers

Item #: IP4370 -

Motivate learning in your classroom with excitement about crime scene investigation. CSI in the Classroom is a step-by-step handbook that shows you how to plan a smashing CSI unit for any subject area. The forms, guides, schedules, and planning tools you will need are included in the handbook. Use real forensics to do a real investigation and address a host of cross-curricular academic skills. Your students will gather evidence, analyze it, and follow it to solve a crime.

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!

Item #: IP3851 -

Covering math for grade 5, this series invites, engages, and visually attracts students with activity pages to be used for group or individual lessons or reviews. Each page is focused on a specific grade-level standard. Common Core State Standards are clearly listed in the front of each book with correlation to particular activity pages. Each book also includes an assessment of the standards covered.

Item #: IP4702 -

This book is filled with worksheets and activity pages to reinforce curriculum subjects. Students strengthen basic skills while having fun. Skills Practice books were developed by a team of experienced educators. Skills Practice includes carefully researched skill sequences; age-appropriate, high-interest exercises; and skill tests for practice assessment.

Item #: IP5210 -

Every student can become a great debater! In If They Can Argue Well, They Can Write Well, the key concepts of argumentation, critical thinking, and meeting academic standards align in a single, engaging format. Packed with practical, hands-on activities, this collection teaches students to argue effectively, research information, think critically, and write persuasively. Also included is an in-depth discussion on online research that emphasizes the timely skill of evaluating the validity of...

Item #: IP3862 -

This collection of motivating and fun activities is aligned with sixth grade Common Core English Language Arts and Literary State Standards. It’s perfect for reinforcing specific skills in students with varying skill levels. Motivational lessons, practice, and discussion chapters sharpen students’ focus on comprehension of text and acquisition of knowledge. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills are incorporated into the lessons throughout the book.

Item #: IP4560 -

Getting the best out of students is made easier by using teaming to nurture their educational, emotional, social, and developmental needs, and this guide is a blueprint for team building in any school setting. True stories and practical strategies make this an effective and entertaining tool for assembling and managing a team within a professional learning community. It includes a dynamic “3-5-3 Action Plan” for improving student behavior, as well as tips for using teams to address Common Core...

Item #: IP3502 -

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 #: IP3901 -

This book takes students on a trip to an amusement park, and they learn and use vocabulary along the way! They will move through the park as they work with prefixes, suffixes, and root words; recognize and use synonyms and antonyms; identify and use multiple meaning words and figurative language; and distinguish between denotation and connotation.

Item #: IP1213 -

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 #: IP6311 -

With humor, practical action steps for the teacher, and a few wacky stories, Jim Sturtevant shows educators how to operate a classroom in ways that breed mutual respec, handle and reduce conflict, build self esteem, support students in trouble, and promote peace and enjoyment.

Item #: IP4575 -

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.