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New Primary maths resources
Activity books with Wizard 'thinking' ideas
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NEW Primary maths resources
Launched with an enthusiastic response in December 2003, these two new titles will equip primary teachers with innovative approaches for creating a fun-filled and vibrant maths classroom and developing the skills of confident and competent mathematicians.
Maths Essentials: Practical tools, tasks and strategies
Andrea Hillbrick
Primary teacher resource
1 86366 732 6 | $35.95 | 112 pp
Maths Essentials offer strategies for teachers to create a supportive learning environment so that all students can experience success in mathematics. The tools and tasks outlined in this book include practical ways to celebrate students’ mathematical achievements, develop mathematical language and engage students in the assessment process. Tools for teachers to record observations, monitor assessment strategies and plan daily mathematics programs include 16 tasks for assessing learning outcomes in Number and Space. Blackline masters support all the activities.
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Numberboards: Games and hands-on activities
Ron Smith
Lower primary teacher resource
1 86366 731 8 | $34.95 | 96 pp
This collection of 48 hands-on games and activities will engage those students in the first three years of schooling to learn and consolidate early numeracy concepts. Numberboards departs from the ‘chalk and talk’ approach. Different learning styles are catered for and students are given opportunities to work collaboratively, individually or competitively. The activities make use of materials that are readily available in primary classrooms and each one includes a list of materials required and suggestions for teacher observation, questioning and whole class discussion. Learning outcomes for Number are included for each activity as well as a reproducible activity board and student card.
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Professional library
Focus on Inquiry: A practical approach to integrated curriculum planning
Jeni Wilson & Lesley Wing Jan
Teacher resource
1 86366 721 0 | $39.95 | 128 pp
This invaluable resource offers support to teachers as they plan, implement and assess inquiry-based integrated curriculum units. The concepts, values and understandings that underpin a successful unit are explored and supported with 12 sample integrated curriculum units.
These units have been written and trialled by teachers, and are drawn from the content subjects of Science, SOSE, Health and Technology. Teachers can reduce their planning time by simply selecting units from the book and adapting them to suit student needs. Each unit consists of an innovative featured teaching procedure, reproducible activity sheets and a list of recommended resources.
Focus on Inquiry assists teachers to investigate the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of the inquiry process.
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Invitations and Inspirations:
Pathways to successful teaching
Edited by Julianne Moss et al
Teacher resource
1 86366 751 2 | $39.95 | 160 pp
Invitations and Inspirations: Pathways to successful teaching is a collaborative work supported by the collective experience of ten committed educators and the growing awareness of beginning teachers of what it is to be a professional in the classroom.
Using a narrative framework, Invitations and Inspirations features stories from experienced and beginning teachers that explore teacher identity and the scrutiny this identity affords. These narratives are used to indicate cardinal points on the compass of teacher identity, drawing a basic map of the professional terrain to be explored. The authors acknowledge the endless opportunities for teachers to deviate from a specific plan, to shift their gaze and to face the possibility that learning to teach is not an end point, but always the process of becoming.
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English as a Second Language:
Scope and Scales
Department of Education and Children’s Services, South Australia
Teacher resource
0 7308 7735 3 | $79.95
English as a Second Language: Scope and Scales links language development for second language learners to the language demands of the whole school curriculum. The Scope describes and explains the model of language that underpins and organises the resource, and provides teaching suggestions that focus on language development. The Scales describe English language develop-ment along a continuum described in 14 incremental steps. Four versions of the scales cater for the early to senior years of schooling.
This is a resource that links assessment of ESL learners to the reporting of their achievements and the planning and programming of lessons by teachers. It provides continuity through all the years of schooling to ensure that ESL learners are supported most effectively.
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Activity books with Wizard
‘ready-to-go’ ideas
Extending Curriculum Corporation’s range of practical publications for the classroom, the Wizard Ideas teacher resources supplement mainstream class work with blackline master activities to engage and stimulate students across the curriculum.
Great Scientists & Discoveries
Ron Shaw
Upper primary to lower secondary teacher resource
1 876973 70 6 | $29.95 | 78 pp
Our world has been totally changed by the work of people like Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus, Mendel, Edison, Einstein, Madame Curie and others. This stimulating resource celebrates and explains their work, with full technical diagrams, and follow-up questions and activities.
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Easy Experiments: Using Everyday Objects
Pat O’Shea
Upper primary to lower secondary teacher resource
1 876973 75 7 | $34.95 | 108 pp
Chemistry, physics and biology need not be intimidating. Important principles emerge from simple and safe experiments using everyday objects: eggs, lemons, milk, card-board, golf balls, potatoes, string, detergent, candles, balloons, petals and glue. No prior teacher knowledge is assumed and all experiments are guaranteed to delight students. If you want to excite your students about the wonders of science, this is the book to use.
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Great Inventors & Inventions
Ron Shaw
Upper primary to lower secondary teacher resource
1 876973 71 4 | $29.95 | 74 pp
This book brings science to life in the form of everyday objects society uses: paper, matches, the telephone, the electric light, movies, the safety pin, the zipper, the ballpoint pen, the automobile, tennis, jigsaws, the laser and many more. It celebrates famous inventors from all cultures and throughout history. The invention of each device is described in brief, with follow-up questions for students to answer.
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Let’s Learn with Fairy Tales
Andrea Blake
Middle to upper primary teacher resource
1 876973 22 6 | $29.95 | 72 pp
Let’s Learn with Fairy Tales offers cross-curriculum activities on six of the best-known fairy tales: ‘The Princess and the Pea’, ‘The Frog Prince’, ‘Rapunzel’, ‘The Giant Turnip’, ‘The Ugly Duckling’ and ‘Rumpelstiltskin’. Starting with a shared reading of the tale, or a play or pantomime retelling, this fully photocopiable resource then moves on to a rich medley of follow-up activities: literacy exercises, imaginative games, things to do and make, discussion and enrichment ideas. Beautifully illustrated in a style which will delight children and adults alike.
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Let’s Learn with Fables
Andrea Blake
Middle to upper primary teacher resource
1 876973 73 0 | $29.95 | 82 pp
From the author of Let’s Learn with Fairy Tales comes this companion volume on fables. A wide range of ‘multiple intelligences’ and cross-curricular literacy activities are provided. Richly illustrated.
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