Books

Environmental science education is essential to preparing today’s students for the future. We must create opportunities for hands-on investigations that explore complex environmental problems in order to find solutions and meet the challenges of our changing world.

With The metacognitive student, learn how a simple approach the authors call ‘structured SELf-questioning’ helps students step back and think about their thinking when solving any problem. By teaching this powerful, research-backed approach, educators develop students into thriving thinkers who are confident, healthy, adaptive and resilient.

School leaders and classroom teachers are looking for ways to integrate maker learning into their work in meaningful ways, but they simply don’t have the time, capacity or resources to review, synthesise or adapt existing models into their own school systems. The maker playbook offers a vision and the tools needed to streamline the process, including high-impact strategies you can put directly into action to foster an inclusive maker learning environment.

In New realms for writing, author Michele Haiken demonstrates how to bring thoughtful teaching and purpose to the centre of the conversation, with tech supporting robust pedagogy.

The Curiosity and powerful learning manuals are designed for teachers and for school and system leaders who are embarked on a school improvement journey. The manuals describe how schools can lift student learning. The steps are drawn from practical experience, tested and refined in schools over time.

The six models of practice explored in this three-volume series are all rooted in inquiry and in the belief that a teacher’s role is not simply to 'teach', but to create powerful contexts for learning.

What drives learning? Curiosity. This manual introduces practical ways that teachers can harness the power of curiosity in the classroom, first by understanding how it works and then by identifying ways to nurture and cultivate it as a lifelong resource for growth.

Developing digital detectives offers easy-to-implement lessons for educators to support learners as they become digital detectives, looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.

With a uniquely engaging style, Power up your classroom helps educators understand the benefits of gamification and game-based learning, and empowers them to design learning experiences that leverage gameplay to increase motivation and engagement and build classroom community.

Build your students’ deductive thinking skills, spatial reasoning, spatial vocabulary and teamwork skills with these 72 ready-to-use logic activities. You’ll find problems, answers and reproducible line-up cards for 12 popular themes.

With this book, teachers get the guidance they need to help students engage in learning experiences that allow them to reflect on their level of knowledge and what they need to learn, while exploring topics that correspond with their interests. Readers will learn to guide students in creating tutorial videos, providing peer reviews, curating their own resources, participating in debates and more.

Create a fun and friendly classroom environment through positive classmate interactions. The activities are a great way to energise students, have fun and get acquainted with their classmates.