New Releases by Cindy Barden

Activities explore the effects of simple machines. Lessons focus on the concepts of force, friction, gravity, and inertia. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to identify cause and effect, analyze relationships between concepts, complete patterns, complete logical exercises, and more! Answer key is included.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to distinguish between concrete and abstract words, identify cause and effect, use analogies, make logically sound decisions, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to look for common attributes, organize information, differentiate between fact and opinion and reality and fantasy, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to correctly use idioms, add prefixes and suffixes, sort objects, create surveys, interpret and create graphs, and more! Answer key is included.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to make logical deductions, identify "the moral of the story," analyze criteria, decide what information is relevant and what is not, spot common attributes, and more! Answer key is included.

Activities will help students explore the concept of classificationthe arranging of things by like elements. The basis is a simple taxonomy. Some scientific names are briefly introduced and explained. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book reinforce basic concepts in the study of light and sound, including the nature and behavior of light, sources and uses of light, types of lenses, the vibration and travel of sound, and the characteristics of sound. Various activities, such as experiments, puzzles, and review questions help students effectively learn the principles presented. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for reference and review.

The activities in this book reinforce basic concepts in the study of the planet Earth, including the composition of Earth, Earth''s surface, minerals, rocks, weathering and erosion, mountain building and earthquakes, soil and soil conservation. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book provide an introduction to the basic concepts of magnetism and electricity. Material presents magnets, circuits, and battery cells. Work is suitable for individuals, small groups, or class instruction. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and reviews.

This packet is designed to teach critical thinking skills in conjuction with Benjamin Bloom''s hierarchy of educational objectives. These engaging activities will teach students to make logical deductions, identify "the moral of the story," analyze criteria, decide what information is relevant and what is not, think about moral dilemmas, and more! Answer key is included.

The goals of the educational process were classified by Benjamin Bloom into a hierarchy of educational objectives. This classification system, known as Bloom''s Taxonomy, divides cognitive objectives into subdivisions ranging from simple to complex. Although other systems have been proposed, Bloom''s remains widely recognized by educators and utilized in Critical Thinking cirriculum. The six subdivisions include knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This book is divided into six sections to match the subdivisions of Bloom''s Taxonomy and designed to teach critical thinking skills by providing a variety of across-the-curriculum activities in math, language arts, science, social studies, history, geography, art, and music. An answer key is included.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of chemistry, including matter, atoms, molecules, physical properties of matter, and changing states of matter. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of chemistry, including matter, atoms, molecules, physical properties of matter, and changing states of matter. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of the solar system, including orbits, the sun, the moon and moon phases, planets, seasons, and day and night. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

Reinforces basic chemistry principles, including atomic symbols and structure, matter, compounds and mixtures, acids and bases, solvents and solutions, oxidation, and gases.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of the plants, including seeds, seedling germination and growth, roots and stems, flowers, trees, leaves and photosynthesis, and seasons and plants. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of oceanography, including mapping the oceans, characteristics of water, the ocean floor, waves and currents, tides, life in the ocean, and underwater exploration. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of the human body, including the respiratory, digestive, excretory, circulatory, nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.

The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of weather including uneven heating of Earth, the ater cycle, relative humidity, measuring rain, air, winds, pressure, reading weather symbols, and maps. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included.

Students will learn about the election process, fascinating facts about the men who held the office of President of the United States, as well as significant events during their lives and terms. Use this creative resource to support your lessons and bring these important historical figures to life. Barack Obama included.

A collection of fun facts, games and puzzles covering the United States. Includes chapters on each individual state, as well as maps, map activity ideas and more.

Treat your students to an exciting hot air balloon ride across the USA. There''s lots to see and do as each state is visited (the District of Columbia, too), its history and geography explored, and fascinating facts explained. There are map activities, places and physical features to identify, and topics for further investigation. There are parks, lakes, mountains and swamps to discover as well as the thousands of plants and animals that share our land and water. This product has been selected by a national panel of classroom teachers as a winner of Learning Magazine''s Teachers'' Choice Award.

Activities to stretch imaginations and acquire critical thinking skills. Reproducible prose and poetry exercises for metaphors and similes, limericks, haiku, letters, editorials, tall tales, myths and legends. An extensive Teacher Notes section, literature references, vocabulary and other extras.