Best Selling Books by Jo Ellen Moore

Posters and reproducible pages to help children become familiar with the function of maps and how to find locations on a map or globe.

Help students build a connection to their environment and the rest of the world with this unit about all the kinds of homes people live in. It begins with the classroom environment and the establishment of a Building Center, which may feature building toys, found objects or actual wood and construction tools. It exists to challenge students to build various kinds of houses in miniature. Other topics and activities covered include: Homes Around the World (a poem), House or Home?, An Origami House, Houses Through History, Primative and Modern Houses, Climate Makes a Difference, Location and Use, Building Materials, Houses from Plants, Houses from Wood, Houses from Mud, Houses from Animal Skins, Houses from Clay Brick, Houses from Stone, Houses of Concrete, My House, Houses Underground, Houses that Move About, A House Walk (vocabulary exercise), Name the House, Rooms in a House, Our House (graphing square footage and making a floor plan), Build a Model House, Language Activities, Writing About Houses, House Poems, Houses Around the World (drawing and writing), House Math (geometric shapes), Shapes in Houses, Plane or Solid?, follow-up activities for the book How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin, Think About It -- What Kind of House Would You Build?, Murals, Using Picture Cards with picture cards and descriptions of a variety of dwellings, and Find the Building Material word search and connect-the-dots. Also features a full-color, two-sided pull-out poster with Homes Near and Far on one side and People Build Homes on the other. Teaching suggestions provided. Includes bibliography, and complete step-by-step instructions for all activities. All pages are reproducible andperforated for easy removal.

These 12 units provide basic science facts and hands-on activities that make science an exciting, successful learning experience. Each unit features beautifully illustrated activity sheets and finishes up with a series of hands-on activities that make comprehension complete. Each book includes two full-color posters (printed back-to-back) that aid instruction and complement your classroom environment.

24 8 1/2" x 11" full-color cards, printed on card stock. Each card has a beautifully illustrated, full-color picture on one side and science information on the other side. Large type and simply written text encourage students to read. Use these cards to teach science concepts, as center activities, or on bulletin boards. Includes two pages of additional teacher information.

This unit is about what constitutes a family, what families do together, and how families throughout the world are alike and how they are different. Study ideas and reproducible pages of pictures help your students compare and contrast many aspects of familiy life around the world -- homes, clothing, food, school, and celebrations. There are follow up activities for books about families, as well as an extensive bibliography of titles for you and our students to explore. Projects involve geography, mathematics, listening skills, language development, cultural diversity, large and small muscle activities, literature and poetry, and art experiences. There are handy patterns for cookie cutter people and paper dolls, with corresponding clothing from various world cultures. Dear Parents letters that request basic genealogical information and invite parents to speak in class are included. A two-sided, full-color pull-out poster is also included, which may be used as a focal point for learning in the classroom. One side deals with Children Around the World, the other with Families Everywhere. Complete, step-by-step instructions for all projects. Cheerfully illustrated throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.

In addition to the eight stories you will find: 8 reproducible mini-books and patterns for stick puppets to accompany each story; also additional science facts on each topic to share with your students.

Students follow picture and written directions to complete a drawing which is then used to motivate creative writing.

Mit diesem Band werden Ihre Schüler zu sicheren und kompetenten Geschichtenschreibern! Sie lernen zunächst Schritt für Schritt die Bestandteile einer Geschichte kennen und beschreiben. Die abwechslungsreichen Übungen zu Figuren, Ort, Zeit, Handlung sowie Auflösung/Schluss fördern ihre Kreativität und ihre Schreibfähigkeit. Anschließend erleichtert den Schülern ein Leitfaden das Schreiben einer vollständigen Geschichte. Mit Arbeitsblättern zu 6 verschiedenen Geschichtenarten wie Alltags , Kriminal- oder Fantasiegeschichten entwickeln sie sich zu richtigen Schreibprofis! Kurze methodische Anleitungen zu jeder Unterrichtseinheit ergänzen die vielfältigen Arbeitsblätter. Ein Extrakapitel mit Tipps zum Gestalten eines eigenen Geschichtenbuches rundet diesen Band ab.

All About the Ocean is the ultimate resource for teaching children about the ocean and for practicing important language and math skills that help children make cross-curricular connections.

It contains basic geographic information plus an overview of the peoples, plants and animals of the continent.