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Activity books with Wizard 'thinking' ideas
Reading Enriches Learning: Humour
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Kath Murdoch & Jeni Wilson
Primary teacher resource
1 86366 730 X | 128 pp | $39.95
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Authored by two authoritative educationalists, this is an invaluable resource of practical guidelines and strategies to improve teaching practice. It features practical strategies for classroom application, case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice and blackline masters to support the student activities. A must for the personal professional library.
Teacher reference and student resource
Go Indonesia!
Booklet & CD-ROM
Teacher/student middle school resource
1 86366 725 3 |
$59.95 (site licence $129.95)
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Students address aspects of the arts, English and studies of Asia and enhance their computer skills with this new resource. They will be assisted to consolidate research skills and develop understandings about people, places and events in Indonesia. Using the interactive CD-ROM, students engage in fun-filled activities that enable them to refine their visual literacy skills. The 48-page teachers’ book provides teaching tips, ICT support and includes reproducible student tasks that address specific skills in mapping and labelling, creating diagrams, tables, graphs, time lines and legends. Students have the opportunity to hone Microsoft Word, Excel and Inspiration skills while undertaking meaningful learning activities.
science@once more science@once science@once pack science@once and more science@once combine interactive computer activities, creative classroom tasks, photocopiable student resource sheets and investigations for school and home that promote independent learning. These resources will help teachers make science fun for students and arouse the necessary curiosity to gain key science understandings. Teachers wanting to broaden their students’ perspectives of the diverse world around them will benefit from the wide range of user-friendly scientific activities included in these books and on the CD-ROMs. Many of the activities extend learning areas beyond science to develop literacy and ICT skills. The activities require a minimum of organisation and materials but enable learners to engage in motivating and stimulating experiences, resulting in thorough understandings of identified science concepts. science@once topics covered include: Living and Non-living Things; Classifying Plants and Animals; Fungi and Micro-organisms; and Materials. more science@once topics covered include: Life Cycles; Systems; Magnets; and Materials. To purchase a site licence separately contact our sales team on (03) 9207 9600 or email sales@curriulum.edu.au These newly published titles from the Wizard Books imprint offer activities to support busy teachers seeking an add-on to mainstream class work or stimulating new ideas to engage gifted children. Thinking Lessons Thinking Challenges Classroom questions have traditionally focussed on testing the recall, understanding and application of content and methods. Research suggests that students require activities that encourage them to think flexibly about possibilities and to make independent judgements about information. Thinking Lessons and Thinking Challenges examine the processes of analytical thinking and offer a wide range of exercises in all significant thinking skills: predicting, categorisation, ordering, generalising, problem solving, summarising, analysis, making distinctions, decision making, and cause and evidence. Thinking Lessons introduces the basic core thinking processes used to connect and make sense of information. Introductory notes and examples, student work sheets, suggested answers and further useful questions provide the basis of a thinking skills program for students in the middle school age range. Thinking Challenges explores the advancement of creative and critical thinking, and the activities are designed to help students test and develop such processes. A series of fascinating challenges are used to stimulate cognitive organisation (categories, similarities, differences, ordering, analysing, predicting, etc), as well as critical and creative thinking. Great Debating Ideas Philosophy in the Classroom READING ENRICHES LEARNING: HUMOUR Are you looking for some great ways to engage kids in reading? Each book in this new selection in Reading Enriches Learning explores a serious issue, such as bullying, coming of age and culture, in a way that is seriously funny. The books will provoke giggles, chortles and open discussion of the underlying issues. Titles have been carefully selected to cater to a range of student interests and abilities. Reading Enriches Learning offers a free website with teacher resources and student activities to support the reading materials. Visit www.curriculum.edu.au/rel NIPS Go National Are You Listening? Ferret Boy The Worst Year of My Life Chicken Pox ... Yuck! Pop Starlets New Bjorn
Larissa Brenner
Middle primary teacher resource
1 86366 727 X | 88 pp book & single-user CD-ROM | $59.95
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Andrea Leeder
Middle primary teacher resource
1 86366 728 8 | 88 pp book & single-user CD-ROM | $59.95
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Includes 2 books & 2 single-user CD-ROMs | $119.90
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ACTIVITY BOOKS WITH WIZARD 'THINKING' IDEAS
Upper primary and lower secondary
John Langrehr
1 876973 83 8 | 68 pp |$25.95
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John & Jan Langrehr
1 876973 31 5 | 96 pp | $25.95
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1 876973 87 0 | 64 pp | $29.95
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Great Debating Ideas is ideal for stimulating oral ability, thinking and formal debating skills. This resource not only provides many high-interest topics to debate, but offers ‘starter packs’ to help engage students in each topic.
1 876973 69 2 | 64 pp | $29.95
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Philosophy in the Classroom prompts students to consider serious moral issues and some of life’s ‘big’ questions are posed in an accessible and creative way. Using Aesop’s Fables as a starting point, the author asks challenging questions about values and ethics. The 15 themes, complemented by illustrations and photocopiable work sheets, include happiness, kindness, judging others, wisdom, dreams and goals, self-reliance and beauty.
Ruth Starke
0 734404 74 3 | paperback | $14.95
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Follow children of many ethnicities from around Australia on their hilarious cricketing journey, based on a real-life initiative aiming to promote tolerance in all sections of the community and to break down racist divisions.
Lydia Sturton
0 734401 98 1 | paperback | $14.95
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Nicky Walters is eleven years old when her mouth develops an inconvenient urge to tell the truth no matter what. She manages to insult a war veteran, the bus driver and her preschool teacher in a series of verbal assaults that turn her life inside out. Her parents’ solution is to take her to a psychiatrist—the seriously weird Ivan Roobottom. Nicky realises he’s even more in need of help than she is! Life gets increasingly complicated for Nicky, until she is suspended from school. She doesn’t have any answers for her behaviour—until she is told her godmother is coming to stay. Nicky didn’t even know she had one of those! At long last she has a clue as to the cause of all her troubles.
Sue Lawson
0734404654 | paperback | $14.95
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Joshua ‘Ferret Boy’ Trimble is challenged to a ferret race, but can he beat Looney Mooney after his ferret gives birth to eight kits the night before the race?
Katherine Goode
0 734401 11 6 | paperback | $14.95
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Twelve-year-old David has a Bar Mitzvah coming up, his Italian teacher hates him, his grandmother is rushed to hospital, the dog gets hit by a car, his little brother’s a brat and his mother is having a permanent nervous breakdown. Can this be the worst year of his life? David certainly hopes so!
Josie Montano
0 734403 35 6 | paperback | $14.95
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When Vinnie’s mum comes down with chicken pox, he hatches a plan to stop the bullies at school from stealing his lunch. But the best laid plans have consequences—even spotty ones!
Josie Montano
0 734404 46 8 | paperback | $14.95
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A gang of girls from Vinnie’s (of Chicken Pox ... Yuck! fame) school audition for a Pop Starlets girlie group, with hilarious results.
Kathryn England
0734403925 | paperback | $14.95
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Erik the Viking’s father, the fierce Head Nerd, and the entire clan have been kidnapped. But Erik isn’t interested in swinging spiky balls and swords, so how on earth is he going to save his father from the Dorks and the Jerks?
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