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Inside-Out covers topics such as using topographic maps to better understand landforms, exploring the physical landscape of a local area, learning how water sustains biological organisms, and discovering the relationship between soil conditions and local flora - employing both field- and classroom-based lessons to convey important environmental science concepts.

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Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialised language used by 'insiders' often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles and other informational texts. The instructional tools in the book are presented alphabetically and offer support in these key areas: building background knowledge; teaching words that are critical to comprehension; providing guidance during reading and writing; developing a conceptual framework; and assessing students' understanding of words and concepts.

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Do basic skills have to be boring? Absolutely not! This series uses exciting adventures and delightful characters to help teach fundamental skills and provide a foundation for learning. The books address specific content areas; present tasks that grab the attention and curiosity of students; contain clear directions to the students; ask students to use, remember and practise basic skills and; challenge students to be creative and analytical.

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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research refers to experiments conducted to address problems in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. The scientific method is an inquiry process used to systematically study, investigate and to provide explanations for observed phenomenon in the natural world. This method is used by STEM professionals to answer questions they have about important world problems and usually includes carefully orchestrating a situation that allows them to observe, measure and test their ideas.

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In this massive, activity-rich resource guide, you will find cooperative structures and activities to teach the fundamentals for singing, playing instruments, reading and notating music. Use this book as an entire music curriculum or pick and choose activities to enliven your music class.

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What teacher – or student – can resist books with titles like these? The Gadgets and Gizmos books feature Drinking Birds, Dropper Poppers, Boomwhackers, Flying Pigs and more. These year-level appropriate experiments let students explore a variety of phenomena involving pressure and force, thermodynamics, light and colour, resonance, buoyancy and two-dimensional motion. The phenomenon-based learning (PBL) approach used by the authors is as educational as the demonstrations are attention-grabbing. Instead of putting the theory before application, PBL encourages students to first experience how gadgets work and then grow curious enough to find out why. Students engage in the activities not as a task to be completed but as exploration and discovery. The Gadgets and Gizmos books can help your students learn broader concepts, useful thinking skills, and science and engineering practices.

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The Rigorous Reading series offers you incredible flexibility as you share and explore great literature with your students. Activities for each section allow students to process portions of the novel through individual and collaborative exercises that encourage close reading. Each guide includes Teacher Instructions that provide activity overviews. Student activities feature text-dependent questions that encourage close analysis and call for evidence to support claims. This resource also includes suggestions for creating and maintaining Interactive Novel Logs to provide students with a place to connect with the literature in ways of their choosing. Pre- and Post-Reading activities are included as well as suggestions for pairing texts to expand the understanding of themes and topics.

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ASCD Arias publications provide concise answers to challenging questions that you need to solve today—in a convenient format that you can read in one sitting and immediately put into practice. They’re the next-generation, immediate-need resources for everyone committed to the success of each learner.

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Reveal students' preconceptions of fundamental concepts in science with the award-winning Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Each volume includes short formative assessment probes - covering physical, life, Earth and space sciences - that can help pinpoint what your students know, allowing you to adjust your teaching strategies accordingly. The probes are invaluable tools you can use either at the beginning of each topic, unit or as you progress through specific lessons. Accompanying each probe are detailed teacher materials that review science content; make connections to the Australian F-10 Curriculum and Senior Secondary Curriculum science standards; summarise relevant research on learning; and suggest instructional approaches for primary, middle years and high school students.

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Transform the reading of a great novel into a journey of discovery. This customisable resource offers incredible flexibility as you share and explore great literature with your students. The guide is organised by literary elements and includes Teacher Instructions that provide activity overviews. Student activities feature text-dependent questions that encourage close analysis and call for evidence to support claims. This resource also includes suggestions for creating and maintaining Interactive Novel Logs to provide students with a place to connect with the literature in ways of their choosing. Pre- and Post-Reading activities are included as well as suggestions for pairing texts to expand the understanding of themes and topics.

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Wouldn’t it be helpful to know what your students’ ideas are about a science concept before launching into a new lesson or unit? Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4, offers 25 more formative assessment probes to help reveal students’ preconceptions of fundamental concepts in science, bringing the total to 100 probes for the popular series by author Page Keeley. Teachers of Years F–12 will find short probes with year-level band specifics that provide easy-to-follow suggestions for addressing students’ ideas by promoting learning through conceptual-change instruction.  Volume 4 adds to the probes in physical, life and Earth and space science with a new category called “unifying principles”. Also covered is a discussion on balancing formative assessment with summative assessment.

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Focus on Maths is a mathematics-strategy practice series. The series features six mathematics strategies each containing both a teacher guide and student workbook. Each student book in the series provides brief instruction and concentrated practice for students in one targeted mathematics strategy. The teacher guides provide instructions for using the student workbook effectively in the classroom. The guide enables teachers to explain mathematical theory to a whole class or individual student with sections for both student self-assessment and teacher assessment. Each guide contains mathematics strategy tips for the teacher, with tips for additional discussion related to understanding and using the mathematics strategy. This set contains one teacher book covering Using Geometry for levels D, E, F, G and H. Learn More