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Basic Not Boring Set of 23
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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Basic Not Boring Series
What is your first reaction to the term ‘back to basics’? Unfortunately, many students and teachers immediately think of unimaginative workbooks and dull, dry questions and answers. This is a myth laid to rest by The Basic Not Boring Series. Each book represents a carefully researched skills sequence and features exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes developed by a team of experienced educators to make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable. The Basic Not Boring books will empower students to master skills and concepts needed to move successfully and with enthusiasm into the next level of lifelong learning. Complete coverage of basic social studies skills in: World Understandings, World Geography, Map Skills, World History, Australian History
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STEM Resources
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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Marzano Resources
Marzano Research combines Dr Robert Marzano's 40 years of educational research with continuous action research in all major areas of schooling in order to provide effective and accessible instructional strategies, leadership strategies and classroom assessment strategies that are always at the forefront of best practice. Marzano Research provides teachers and school leaders with the tools they need to effect profound improvement in student achievement. This series is a collection of Marzano Research's invaluable resources.
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ASCD Arias Series
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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Even More Brain-Powered Science: Inquiry Learning With Unexpected Results
This Australian edition of Even More Brain-Powered Science uses 13 inquiry-oriented, discrepant events to dispute misconceptions and challenge students to critically examine evidence, draw inferences and review their initial explanations with their peers. These interactive lessons use readily available, inexpensive materials to engage the natural curiosity of both teachers and students and create new levels of scientific understanding, and include links the Australian Curriculum: Science, including the rationale, aims, cross-curriculum priorities, content descriptions and links to other learning areas. Each easy-to-use chapter includes an expected outcome, an explanation of the science and science education concepts, discussion points, the procedure and a list of related websites.
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Uncovering Student Ideas
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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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes
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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Activities and Assessments Using the Australian Curriculum
Activities and Assessments Using the Australian Curriculum will provide specific examples of differentiated activities to teachers at all year levels, clarify how to set up and plan for student choices, explain how to write and implement tiered lessons and units, and translate theory into sound practice. This revised Australian edition includes 50 'how-to' differentiated units of work with student activities and their assessments, and features content descriptions from various Australian Curriculum learning areas. Primarily for F-6 students, content descriptions for Years 7-8 have also been included for use with older students or as extension activities for advanced students.
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More Brain-Powered Science: Inquiry Learning With Unexpected Results
Thomas O'Brien uses 22 inquiry-oriented discrepant events to challenge students' preconceived ideas and urge them to critically examine evidence, draw inferences and review their initial explanations with their peers. More Brain-Powered Science is the perfect dual-purpose activity book for Years 6-12 science teachers who aim to stimulate and motivate their students while expanding their own scientific understanding. This revised Australian edition features correlations with the strands of the Australian Curriculum: Science, including various content descriptions for the science activities.
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