Provided by the MCPS Department of Gifted Education

Contents How To Order 3

Content Area Materials 4

Language Arts: Reading, Literature, and Writing 4

Critical Thinking and other Resource Books 11

Individual Student Book Titles and Teacher Guides 14

Mathematics Materials 29

Science Resources 39

STEM and Coding Resources 47

P- Based Learning (Problem, Project, or Passion) 50

Social Studies Resources 52

GAMES 58

Professional Resources for Teachers 60

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*Please note, all Gifted Resource Collection materials will be checked out through the Destiny library system and will then be listed under the teacher’s name. A limited number of paper copies of the catalog will be available at each school; however, we encourage teachers to access the catalog, online, through this page: http://www.mcps.org/departments/curriculum_pages/gifted_education/teacher_resources/

How To Order Email your request to: giftedresource@mcps.org Make sure to include with the order: ✓ your name, ✓ school and grade level, ✓ title of book(s) and/or material(s), and ✓ number of copies you need

When you receive the materials requested please keep the tub or bag they were sent in to use for returning.

How to Return To return borrowed materials, fill out a pony mailing label or routing slip addressed to: Gifted Resource – CMS – Room A2 . Count and inventory all materials prior to returning. Pack the books or materials back into the tub, bag or envelope in which they were sent. Attach the label and place the tub, bag or envelope in the pony. Books and materials are checked out for a limited time, with highest priority going to cluster teachers for use with identified gifted students. Suggested use time is three weeks . Please be prompt in returning the materials as other teachers may be waiting to use them. Teachers and/or students are responsible for replacing lost or damaged books. We request that these materials NOT be housed in your room over winter break or summer break. Notices will be sent out for you to return materials before school closes for winter break and in time to complete inventory before the summer. Gifted Resource Teachers at individual schools are not responsible for these materials or handling the orders. Make sure you follow the above instructions for ordering and returning the materials. Orders will be filled until May 3, 2019* . All materials are required to be returned to the collection by May 17, 2019* . Please plan your units so that materials can be returned and inventoried prior to the last day of school. (*Please note that these dates are subject to change if the closing date of school changes.)

Content Area Materials Many of the materials listed in the following sections may be utilized in cross-curricular ways, they have been organized for the purpose of this catalog based on the overarching topic area. Icons are used to designate specific curriculum publishers:

Curriculum units developed by the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary to target higher level critical thinking skills.

CLEAR curriculum, developed by the University of Virginia’s National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented , is an evidence-based teaching model that emphasizes Challenge Leading to Engagement, Achievement, and Results. These units focus on critical literacy that

includes reading diverse sources, understanding bias and cultural contexts, and creating informed consumers of information.

Interact Units These units encourage activities that facilitate learning through involvement. Simulations encourage students to experience learning. Teachers can use all or parts of these units to supplement their curriculum.

Language Arts: Reading, Literature, and Writing 10 Performance-Based Projects for the Language Arts Classroom (grades 3-5) Activities for Any Novel Advanced Reading Instruction in Middle School Grades 6-8 Alphabetters - Alphabetically Organized Thinking Adventures Another Point of View: Reader’s Theatre Fairy Tales and Activities , by Nancy Polette Author Studies Tubs by Engine-Uity Each tub includes a set of activity cards and a selection of trade books by the author.

Jan Brett Eric Carle Mercer Mayer Leo Lionni

Tomie dePaola Dr. Seuss Robert Munsch James Marshall

Pat Hutchins Steven Kellogg Chris Van Allsburg Cynthia Rylant

Additional Author Study Tubs which include a selection of trade books by the author: Roald Dahl Beverly Cleary Maurice Sendak Patricia Pollaco Patricia Reilly Giff Peggy Parish Becoming an Author Tub Grades 2-3 Includes: Meet the Authors Vol I and II, 24 copies of Jenny Archer, Author , and 24 copies of How a Book is Made Beyond Words: Creative Activities with Language Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 3

Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 4 Challenging Common Core Language Arts Lessons Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 5 Challenging Units for Gifted Learners: Teaching the Way Gifted Students Think Language Arts Grades 6-8 Clues to Comprehension [1 book each for: Grades 1-2, Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6 ] “Reproducible student pages that build strategic thinking skills.”

Code Grades 4-8 A simulation game involving coding and decoding language. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers Grades K-2 Includes word puzzles, analogies, short-term research activities, Readers’ Theatre scripts, six guided book discussions, and a booklist for gifted readers. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers Grades 3-6 Focuses on developing six thinking skills (literal comprehension, reorganization, interpretation, evaluation, appreciation, and application) through engagement with puzzles and mental challenges, word wizards, analogies, one- to two-week investigative activities, long-term project ideas, and tools for critical analysis of literary characters, settings, and events. Differentiating Instruction with Menus , by Laurie Westphal Includes: reproducible and blank menus based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy, product ideas and guidelines, rubrics and teacher introduction pages. Specific titles for each content area and grade level

Enchanted Castle Grades 2–4 By completing activities at one of two skill levels, aboard the Fairy Tale Express —involving comparing and contrasting, plot and structure, style, characterization, vocabulary, and story morals—and a Fairy Tale Express Ticket, students demonstrate their understanding of the imaginative literature. The teacher's guide contains procedures, handout masters, and assessments, while student guides include procedures, sample maps and tickets, and an overview of fairy tales. Teaching each "cycle" of fairy tales takes about two class periods; total time depends on the number of cycles. Exploration & Communication: A Research Unit Grade 3 Fairy Tale Frolic Interdisciplinary units and enrichment activities

Finding Freedom ELA lessons for gifted and advanced learners in grades 6-8 Students will examine multiple perspectives, conflicts, ideas, and challenges through the analysis of primary sources and key historical events. This unit features close readings of some of the most famous American political speeches from notable Americans, presidents, and minority voices. Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, social studies content connections, and ELA tasks that require argument and explanatory writing.

Genre Journeys: An Independent Reading Program Grades 6–8 (Volumes I & II) These simulations take students on individualized adventures through one of eight literary genres: fantasy, biography, contemporary realistic fiction, and sports fiction; select a book from the provided Recommended Reading Lists for each genre.

I, Me, You, We: Individuality versus Conformity ELA lessons for gifted and advanced learners in grades 6-8 Students will explore essential questions such as "How does our environment shape our identity? What are the consequences of conforming to a group? When does social conformity go too far?" This unit, aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), includes a major emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common themes across rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional texts. The unit guides students to examine the fine line of individuality versus conformity through the related concepts of belongingness, community, civil disobedience, self-reliance, and questioning the status quo by engaging in creative activities, Socratic Seminars, literary analyses, and debates Improvisation & Theatre Games with Children’s Literature Independent Investigation Method (IIM) – “A 7-Step Method for Student Success in the Research Process”

● General Teaching Guide ● Specific topics: ● American Presidents ● Tropical Rainforests

● The Power of Plants ● Native Americans

IIM - No More Plagiarism! Research Notebook for students Independent Study Program (with Student Booklet & Resource Cards) In Other Words – Engine-uity’s Collection of Language Arts Activities for Grades 4-6

In the Mind’s Eye: Truth versus Perception ELA Lessons for gifted and advanced learners in grades 6-8 An exploration of the themes of truth and perception. Lessons include an emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common themes and content-rich, challenging informational and fictional texts. Lesson include close reading with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA tasks that require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and prose-constructed writing. Introduction to Research (with Teacher’s Manual), by Sharon Sorenson Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program

● Affective Grades 6-8 ● Primary 2 ● Level 3

● Affective Grades 4-5 ● Level 1 ● Level 4

● Primary 1 ● Level 2 ● Level 5

King Lexicon Grades 4-8 A simulation set in the Age of Chivalry that teaches dictionary skills. Leveled Reader’s Theater [1 book each for Grades 1 - Grade 6+ ]

Literature Festival - An Interact Unit Literature and Writing Workshop Grades 3-5 This is a unique program designed to introduce children to different writing styles and to help them develop as an analytical, appreciative reader and capable writer. Each thematic title comes in a folder envelope that contains a teacher’s sourcebook (manual) and 8 student readers.

Request by theme/title: ● Exploring Adventure Fiction ● Exploring Plays ● Exploring Legends ● Exploring Journals and Diaries ● Exploring Science Fiction ● Exploring Realistic Fiction ● Investigating Mysteries ● Exploring News Writing ● Exploring Lyrical Poetry ● Exploring Narrative Poetry ● Exploring Tall Tales ● Exploring Myths and Legends ● Exploring Historical Fiction

● Exploring Autobiography ● Exploring Biographies

Literature Links: Activities for Gifted Readers , by Teresa Smith Masiello Literature Pockets Unit Tubs Extend literature’s connection with art and writing activities. Teacher’s guide binder contains content-specific reading, writing, and art projects with directions for easy-to-make paper pockets for student to create a comprehensive portfolio. Each tub contains a collection of student trade books to accompany the unit:

Folktales & Fairy Tales Grades K-1 Caldecott Winners Grades 1-3 Fiction Grades 4-6 Non-Fiction Grades 4-6

Learning to Love Literature with 6 Thinking Hats

● Volume 1: Grades 1-3 ( There’s a Nightmare in my Closet, The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash, Annie & The Old One

● Volume 2: Grades 1-6 ( Amelia Bedelia and The Baby, The Chocolate Touch, The Bridge to Terabithia )

The Magic Lens Volume 1 & 2 The Magic of Everyday Things Grade 3 A poetry unit Midsummer Grades 4-6 An interactive unit introducing young readers to the world of William Shakespeare. Students read an adapted version of “Pyramus and Thisbe” from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and participate in related reading, writing, art, and music activities.

Mind Your Time Tub Grades 4-5 A language arts unit designed to help students realize that time affects people as well as the

world around them. Generalizations about time expand the students' understanding of the importance of adopting mindfulness in their daily lives.

Mystery Plays: 8 Plays for the Classroom Based on Stories by Famous Writers Novel Extenders – Activities to promote thinking in response to specific children’s trade books. ● Book 1 Grades 1-3 : If You Give a Mouse a Cookie , The Wind Blew , A House is a House for Me ,

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present , Frog and Toad Together , Stone Soup , The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute (Anymore )

● Book 2 Grades 1-3 : Miss Nelson is Missing , Nate the Great , Charlotte’s Web , The Trumpet of the Swan , Pippi Longstocking , Madeline and the Bad Hat , There’s a Nightmare in my Closet , Danny and the Dinosaur , Freckle Juice , Goodnight Moon , Crow Boy , Corduroy

● Book 3 Grades 1-3 : “I Can’t” Said the Ant , Blueberries for Sal , Caps for Sale , Curious George Takes a Job , Encyclopedia Brown , Henry Huggins , Ira Sleeps Over , Ramona the Brave , Sarah Plain and Tall , Strega Nona , The Adventures of Mole and Troll , The Color Wizard

● Book 4 Grades 1-3 : Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , The Island of the Skog , Whistle for Willie , Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ear , The Story About Ping , Is Your Mama a Llama? , The Snowy Day , The Chalk Box Kid , Miss Rumphius , The Runaway Bunny , The Boxcar Children , Alexander and the Terrible Day

● Multicultural Collection Grades 1-3 : The Paper Crane , Shadow , The Seven Chinese Brothers , Anansi the Spider , Umbrella , Buffalo Woman , Arrow to the Sun , Oh Kojo How Could You , The Black Snowman , Ben’s Trumpet , Babushka , Iktomi and the Ducks

● Multicultural Collection Grades 4-6 : Sadako , In the Year of the Boar , Canyons , The Devil’s Arithmetic , Shabanu , The Pearl , Children of the River

● African American Collection Grades 4-6 : The Friendship/The Gold Cadillac , Meet Addy an American Girl , Amos Fortune , Free Man , The Slave Dancer , Roll of Thunder: Hear My Cry , To Be a Slave

Patterns Grades 5-12 A complete poetry writing program designed to work successfully on many grade and ability levels.

Perspectives of Power : ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 6-8 Explores the nature of power in literature, historical documents, poetry, and art. Lessons include a focus on evidence-based discourse through study of common themes and content-rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional texts. Unit guides students to explore the power of oppression; power of the past, present, and future; and power of personal response by engaging in simulations, creative projects, literary analyses, Socratic seminars, and debates. Lessons include close reading with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA writing tasks that require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and/or prose-constructed writing. Picture This! Teaching Standards-Based Reading Using Picture Books Poetry – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Poetry & Fairy Tales A Language Arts Curriculum Unit Grade 3 Students will read and analyze various forms of poetry and write their own poetry anthology. They will learn how to identify and use figurative language to create concrete images from abstract ideas.

Students will study fairy tales and folklore to understand how and why societal norms and mores are culturally transmitted.

Pop-up Books Interact Unit Pop Up Books Unit Grades 3-9 Cooperative Learning Activities Which Help Students Design and Create Pop-up Books and Cards Working in cooperative groups, students convert fairy tales or other familiar stories into script form. After examining commercially made pop-up books, students try their hand at "paper engineering," and also bind and laminate the final product. Housed in a three-ring binder, the unit provides complete procedures (for three skill levels), reproducible handouts (including a detailed techniques guide and graphic organizers), and suggestions for curriculum connections. Punctuation Station (Level I Grades K-2 , level II Grades 3-5 ) A journey through five different punctuation destinations with conductor Carl. A Quick Reference to the Research Paper , by Sharon Sorenson [6 student copies] Reader’s Theater and So Much More! Reader’s Theatre for Beginning Readers Reader’s Theater for Children: Scripts and Script Development , Includes completed scripts for Little Women, Treasure Island, The Secret Garden, Hans Brinker and many more titles for upper elementary readers. Reading Contracts 1 Grades 4-5 Independent contract approach for teaching literature: Mystery, Fantasy, Animals, Biography, Autobiography. A tub of books is available for each of the Fantasy, Animal, and Mystery contracts. Reading Contracts 2 Grades 4-6 Contains four contracts; each provide many tasks at various ability levels. Students select one contract packet from those you have duplicated from the Teacher Guide. A tub of books is available for the Realistic Fiction contract. The Research Book for Gifted Projects K-8 The Research Paper: A Contemporary Approach (with Teacher’s Manual), by Sharon Sorenson Research Reports to Knock Your Teacher’s Socks Off With easy directions and specific models and examples, this book shows students different ways to organize information about animals, people, places, and events, making research both fun and rewarding. Research Without Copying Using the strategies in this book students will: use information in a variety of ways rather than to simply copy information; learn research skills and practice those skills; change the product so that they must locate, read, comprehend, analyze, and synthesize information; and see actual product models Research Without Copying for Primary Grades

Rhyme Square Grades K-3 A simulated journey through a literary land of nursery rhymes. Run, Run Grades K-3 An adventure hunt for the Gingerbread Man.

Shakespeare Festival - An Interact Unit

Sleuth Grades 4-8 A simulation to motivate reading interest through investigation, decoding and critical thinking. As part of a school literary treasure hunt, students are drawn into the plot, settings, characters and themes of selected novels. SmartPAL Guides - Literacy Grades K-2, Grades 3-5 Socratic Seminars & Literature Circles for Middle and High School English Space, Structure, and Story Integrated Science and ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 4-6 This unit integrates Earth and space science with science fiction and nonfiction texts, poetry, and art. Spelling Wizards Grades 3-8 An adventure simulation using spelling and language arts skills. Story Stretchers – Activities to Expand Children’s Favorite Books , by Raines and Canady More Story Stretchers , by Raines and Canady Teaching Research Skills in Grades K-5: Independent Investigation Method Thinking and Writing Activities for the Brain - Book 1 , by Nathan Levy Unites: Using Literature to Unite the Curriculum Volume 1 & 2 A teacher’s resource book for Grades 3-5 : Community, Exploration, Survival

Utopia Grades 7-9 Teacher Guide & Student Literature This unit attempts to give an overview of utopian ideas from various individuals, groups, and countries. This study will also allow the students an opportunity to examine why, over time, man’s ideas about utopia evolve. Write, From the Beginning , by Nathan Levy “Over 100 activities for critical thinking and written expression.” Writer’s Express: A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners Writer to Writer: How to Conference with Young Authors , by Tommy Thomason Writing Warm Ups Grades K-6 and Writing Warm Ups Two Grades K-6

 

Wordly Wise 3000 (A systematic, sequential vocabulary development program) Books 1-6 and Teacher’s Guide Word Power: Vocabulary Enrichment Activities Words chosen from popular children’s literature are read in context and practiced in sentences. Vocabulary activities include finding synonyms, antonyms, and related words, rhyming, alphabetizing, categorizing, sequencing, and syllabication. Books for: Grades 2-3, Grades 3-4, Grades 4-5, Grades 5-6, Grades 6-7 Word Puzzlers Books for: Grades 2-3, Grades 3-4, Grades 4-5, Grades 5-6 An exciting way to enrich student vocabularies. Meant to be used with minimal supervision and stimulate active interest in words and language. A challenging way to sharpen reasoning skills, stimulates vocabulary growth, and reinforces spelling skills. Word Roots – Beginning (Grades 3-4) and Word Roots – A1 (Grades 5-12+) “Learning the building blocks of better spelling and vocabulary: prefixes, roots, suffixes. Helps students decode hundreds of words for superior spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension.” Words for Gifted Programs: 40 Vocabulary Building Activities (Grades 1-8)

Critical Thinking and other Resource Books A.C.T. 1 - Affective Cognitive Thinking by Nathan Levy Advancing Through Analogies Grades 5-8 Adventures with Logic Grade 5-7 Analogies for Beginners Grades 1-3 Analogies for the 21st Century Grades 4-6 Analogy Roundup – Vocabulary Development, Attribute Recognition, Thinking Strategies Grades 4-7 Are They Thinking? But I Only Have 45 Minutes! Can You Find Me? Building Thinking Skills in Reading, Math, Science, & Social Studies Grades K-1 Castles – Codes – Calligraphy Grades 4-6 A Learning Works Enrichment book Connections (Deductive Thinking) ● Beginning Grades 3-4 ● Intermediate Grades 5-6 ● Advanced Grades 6-8

Crime Scene Detective Grades 5-8 Crime Scene Detective: Arson

Crime Scene Detective: Theft Detective Club Mysteries for Young Thinkers Grades 2-4 Dr. DooRiddles - A3 (Associative reasoning activities for grades 2-3) Escape Room: 30 Minute Mysteries for the Classroom (Two titles:) ● A Case of Mistaken Identity (Grades 4-8) ● Who Stole Cinderella’s Slipper (Grades 3-5) Explain It! Grades 1-8 First Time Analogies Grades K-2 Good Thinking! What’s On Your Mind Graphic Organizer Collection Integrating Thinking: Strategies That Work! Intriguing Questions (Books 2-6) by Nathan Levy Is It Friday Already? – Learning Centers That Work Just What I Need! Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers Grade 2 Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities Grades K-2 Mindbenders – Deductive Thinking Skills “Great prep for standardized and multiple choice tests. Improves comprehension and logical thinking.” ● Warm up Grades K-2 ● Beginning Book 1 Grades PreK-K ● Beginning Book 2 Grades 1-2 ● Books A1-A4 Grades 3-6 ● Books B1-B4 Grades 7-12+ ● Books C1-C3 Grades 7-12+ More Adventures of the Detective Club Grades 2-4 Mystery at Golden Ridge Farm: A Problem-Based Learning Unit Grades 5-8 Students work in collaboration with the farm as they assume the role of detectives and investigate the problem of missing produce from every angle. Along the way they are required to conduct independent research, evaluate their research with classmates, develop logical theories, create solutions, and prepare a formal presentation of their findings for a panel of judges and audience of family members and school administrators. On Trial: A Criminal Trial Simulation, The Case of the Big Bad Wolf Grades 4-6 One-Hour Mysteries Grades 4-8

Plexers – A collection of word puzzles ● Original Plexers (Language Arts) ● Science Plexers ● Arithmetic Plexers ● More Plexers (Language Arts) ● Social Studies Plexers

Primarily Logic Grades 2-4 Primarily Thinking Grades 2-3 Primary Problem Solving Primary Thinking Skills The Private Eye School Grades 4-8 Red Herring Mysteries – Level 1 Grades 4-6 Roads to Reasoning Grade 4 SCAMPER On – More Creative Games and Activities for Imagination Development SCAMPER Revisited: From Imagery to Artifacts Activities to practice each step in real world situations with familiar elements or objects Spatial Reasoning Puzzle Grades 6-8 Stories with Holes by Nathan Levy Think-A-Grams – Verbal picture puzzles Book A-1 Grades 4-6 Book A-2 Grades 4-6 Book B-1 Grades 7-8 Book C-1 Grades 9-12 Think Analogies – Activities to help students learn to connect words and relationships Book A-1 Grades 3-5 Book B-1 Grades 6-8 Think Hard! Word Puzzles for Critical Thinking These puzzles create opportunities to learn thinking skills at higher levels, strengthen and enhance those skills, and improve them with daily use. Contains 11 different kinds of unique word puzzles that call for high-level thinking and problem solving skills. Book 1: Grades 2-4 Book 2: Grades 4-8 Thinking Skills - Intermediate Thinking Skills - Challenging Thinking Stories Grades K-3 Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 Thinking Through Analogies Grades 3-6 Waker-Uppers What’s the Verdict? You’re the judge in 90 tricky courtroom quizzes.

 

Whose Clues? The Famous Names Guessing Game Specific topics: -Sports Heroes -Musicians & Composers -Inventors & Scientists -Characters in Literature

-Famous Authors

Word Bogglers: Visual Words and Idioms Word Play - Language Lessons for Creative Learners Word Power - Vocabulary Enrichment Activities Grades 2-3, Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6, Grades 6-7 Word Puzzles Grades 3-4, Grades 4-5, Grades 5-6 The World’s Greatest Brain Boggler You Be the Judge: Lessons to Build Evaluative Thinking Skills Grades 5-8

Individual Student Book Titles and Teacher Guides

We have a large library containing multiple copies of individual titles of student trade books to be used in classrooms across the county. Listed here are titles, grade level suggestions, and reading levels, as we know them. The MCPS created “Reading Level Equivalency Table” can be found at: https://goo.gl/E26Zhg

Teacher Guides

Nav=Navigator POL=Pieces of Learning TCM= Teacher Created Eng= Engine-uity OG -- Ohter Guide

# of copies

Book Title (*Indicates a Teacher Guide is Available)

Fountas & Pinnell Level or Lexile

6 Nav 10 1984* 5 Nav 40 The Abracadabra Kid* X

5 An Acceptable Time X 3 TCM 3 Across Five Aprils* Z

13 Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine 3 TCM 45 Adam of the Road* W

28 Alejandro's Gift O 840L 9 Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day O 7 Allegiant Z 830L 9 All I See M

1 POL 2 Amazing Grace * J

1 EU 4 Amelia Bedelia* L 11 Amelia Bedelia and the Baby * L 2 Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping* L 2 Amos and Boris* L 6 Anansi the Spider L

4 NAV 19 An Angel for Solomon Singer* O 2 TMS 1 OG 1 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl* S 1 EU 11 Annie and the Old One * O 700L

2 Animal School 6 Anno's Journey 10 Archimedes and the Door of Science*

1 EU 1 Are You My Mother?* L 14 The Art of Keeping Cool T

1 POL 1 Ashpet* 5 Astronaut Handbook 5 At the Beach K

3 POL 65 The BFG* U 15 Because of Winn-Dixie* R

2 POL 2 Bedtime for Frances* K 2 OG The Berenstain Bears*

5 And the Baby Chipmunk

5 And Baby Makes Five K

7 And the Bad Dream 2 And the Big Date 680L 6 And the Dress Code 650L 2 And the Drug Free Zone 660L 14 And the Female Fullback 6 And the Freaky Funhouse 600L 15 And the Galloping Ghost 660L 15 And the Giddy Grandma 600L 12 At Camp Crush 610L 14 Go to Camp 690L 1 Gotta Dance 6 Media Madness 620L

6 Nerdy Nephew 560L 6 New Girl in Town 580L 8 Red-Handed Thief 500L 5 School Scandal Sheet 660L 5 Showdown at Chainsaw Gap 580L 14 Wheelchair Commando 570L 20 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Q 27 The Big Orange Splot* M

2 POL 1 OG 5 The Biggest Bear* N 2 POL 5 The Black Pearl* W

5 Bloomability V 1 OG 3 A Book of Narnias T

1 The Boy and the Airplane 1 EU 1 Bread and Jam for Frances* K 490L

4 NAV 0 Breath* 2 POL 2 Brian’s Winter* R 1140L 3 POL 1 EU 68 Bridge to Terabithia* S 810L

4 NAV 4OG 36 Bud, Not Buddy * T 950L

3 POL 1 TCM 19 Bunnicula* Q 2 EU

1 TCM 3 POL 54 Call It Courage* X 4 NAV 15 Call of the Wild* Y 640L 1 EU 1 Caps for Sale* K

27 Carl Goes Shopping 13 The Case of the Missing Moonstone 8 Catching Fire Z 820L

2 EU 3 Catherine Called Birdy* X 1170L 5 OG 2 POL 3 TCM 53 The Cay* V 860L

24 The Chalk Doll O 2 Charley Skedaddle U

4 NAV 1 TMC 25 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* R 5 NAV 2 POL 1TMC 35 Charlotte's Web* R

9 Chasing Space 1020L 1 POL 1 Cherries and Cherry Pits* M

20 Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir X 1000L 2 A Chocolate Moose for Dinner M 6 The Chocolate Touch* N

1 POL 1 Chrysanthemum* L 1 POL 1 Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type* M 2 POL 4 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs* M

6 Come Away From the Water, Shirley 9 Come Back, Amelia Bedelia L 8 The Computer Nut R

1 EU 1 POL 2 Corduroy* K

8 A Corner of the Universe Y 750L 1 EU 1 Danny and the Dinosaur* J

5 Danny the Champion of the World T 770L 3 NAV 40 The Dark is Rising* X 920L 2 POL 1 EU 11 The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash * K

4 NAV 23 A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw* W 5 NAV 35 The Day They Came to Arrest the Book* 890L 2 POL 1 TMC 16 Dear Mr. Henshaw* Q 2 OG 43 Detectives in Togas* Y 700L 2 OG 28 Divergent* Z 700L 1 EU 11 Doctor DeSoto* N 560L 3 POL 10 Door in the Wall* U 1 EU 1 The Doorbell Rang* J

2 The Dot L 3 POL 86 The Double Life Of Pocahontas* T

8 Dragonwings W 870L 38 Dream, Invent, Create: Engineer the World

118 Drinking Gourd M 27 The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Y 660L

4 NAV 14 The Egypt Game* U 4 Ella Sarah Gets Dressed F 8 Encounter N 620L 4 The Enormous Crocodile N 15 Esio Trot S

4 NAV 8 Esperanza Rising* V 750L 4 Nav 19 Everything on a Waffle* V

21 Fahrenheit 451 Z 890L 2 POL 35 The Family Under the Bridge* T 2 POL 35 Fantastic Mr. Fox* P

1 Farmer Duck J 3 NAV 12 Fever: 1793* X

19 Finding Buck McHenry S 1 POL 1 Flat Stanley: The Original Adventure* M

6 Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures 2: The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery

4 Flotsom 4 The Flower Alphabet O

2 POL 2 The Flying Bed* C 25 Follow The Drinking Gourd M 17 Freckle Juice M

1 OG 1 Free Fall 590L 1 Freedom Crossing* R 2 Freedom’s Sons – The True Story of the Amistad Mutiny

1 EU 1 Freight Train* M 1 POL 34 Frindle* R

3 Frog and Toad Together K 4 NAV 14 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler* S

5 Full Steam Ahead! 3 NAV 22 The Garden of Abdul Gasazi* O 1 EU 1 George and Martha* L

26 George's Marvelous Medicine P 5 NAV 41 A Girl from Yamhill* W 1 EU 2 The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses* N

6 NAV 2 POL 2 EU 30 The Giver* Y 760L 1 EU 1 Goldilocks and the Three Bears*

3 Goodbye Bully Machine 1 NAV 3 POL 51 The Great Gilly Hopkins* S 2 POL 2 The Great Kapok Tree* R

3 Gruffalo L 44 Hailstones and Halibut Bones 2 The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School

5 NAV 10 Hamlet* M 5 A Handful of Beans

1 TCM 10 Harriet the Spy* T 3 NAV Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets V 940L

25 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone* V 880L 1 POL 1 The Hat* N 2 POL 2 TCM 1 EU 28 Hatchet* R 1020L 2 POL 2 Heckedy Peg* M 4 NAV 10 Henry IV, Part I* 1470L

7 Henry Huggins O 10 Hidden Figures U 1120L

2 POL 2 The Higher Power of Lucky* V 2 POL 41 Holes V 660L 2 POL 10 Homer Price* Q

2 Homesick: My Own Story X 860L 17 Honey, I Love M

4 OG 42 Hoot W 760L 16 Hope Was Here W 710L

1 POL 1 Horrible Henry and the Green Slime 7 The Horse and His Boy T

2 POL 2 A House is a House For Me* K 24 The House of Dies Drear 670L 10 How Much Is a Million? M

2 POL 50 The Hundred Dresses* K 870L

14 The Hunger Games Z 810L 18 I See a Song 5 The Icky Bug Alphabet Book N

1 OG 52 Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain T

1 EU 2 POL 2 If You Give a Moose a Muffin* K 1 POL 1 EU 2 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie* K

2 If You Were There in 1492 U 4 Imogene's Antlers* K 14 The Important Book M 23 In Code: A Mathematical Journey 7 In the Dinosaur’s Paw (Polk Street School) M

2 TCM 1 EU 55 In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson* S 730L 2 POL 2 TCM 30 Indian in the Cupboard* R 780L

9 The Innkeeper's Daughter 580L 3 Insurgent Z 710

2 POL 2 The Invention of Hugo Cabret* W 820L 5 NAV 9 The Invisible Thread* 1060L

31 Ira Sleeps Over M 2 Ish L 12 Island of the Blue Dolphins V 1000L

1 POL 0 It’s Pumpkin Time* E 3 NAV 10 Jacob Have I Loved* U 880L 1 TMC 3 POL 45 James and the Giant Peach* Q 790L

15 Joey Pigza Loses Control T 800L 1 TMC 10 Johnny Tremain* Z 840L

4 The Journey S 25 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 32 Julie U

2 POL 2TCM 65 Julie of the Wolves U 700L

31 Julie’s Wolf Pack U

2 POL 7NAV 1 TCM

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2 POL 2 Katy No Pocket* 22 King of Shadows Z 910L 10 King Who Rained L 440L 4 Kitten’s First Full Moon G 46 Knots on a Counting Rope P 6 The Last Battle W

29 15

Lawn Boy Lawn Boy Returns

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2 POL 14 Legend of the Bluebonnet* O 1 EU 2 POL 5 Legend of the Indian Paintbrush* O

10 Let the Circle Be Unbroken X 33 Lilly and Miss Liberty N

2 POL 1 Lily’s Crossing* S 2 TCM 3 POL 43 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe* W 940L

10 Little Bear J 1 EU 1 Little Bear’s Visit* J

4 NAV 2 Little By Little* Q 3 Little Engine that Could I

2 POL 0 The Little House* L 2 POL 1 TCM 28 Little House in the Big Woods* Q 930L 3 POL 3 Little House on the Prairie* Q 600L 2 POL 2 Little Island* L 590L

1 POL 1 The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear* I

4 NAV 20 Little Women* M 1000L 3 POL 23 Long Way From Chicago * V 750L

3 Loser U 710L 4 Lucas and His Loco Beans

5 NAV 10 Macbeth Z 4 Madame Curie 1060L

2 POL 2 Madeline* K

Magic Tree House series * 1 Christmas in Camelot N 1 Ghost Tales in Christmas Time N

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1 OG 20 Midnight On the Moon #8 M 20 Fact Tracker: Space

2 OG 21 Vacation Under the Volcano #13 M 21 Fact Tracker: Ancient Rome and Pompeii S

1 OG 19 Hour of the Olympics #16 M 21 Fact Tracker: Ancient Greece and the Olympics 1 Revolutionary War on Wednesday M 20 Thanksgiving on Thursday #27 M 22 Fact Tracker: Pilgrims 8 Magician’s Nephew T 790L 10 Make Way for Ducklings L 6 The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Q

3 POL 1 TCM 52 Maniac Magee* V 820L

5 Many Waters V 700L 3 POL 3 Matilda* S

4 Matthew’s Dragon N 2 Maurice’s Room 15 M.C. Higgins the Great X 19 Me and My Little Brain T

4 NAV 12 The Memory String* N 20 Messenger 450L

9 NAV 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream* 3 NAV 10 The Midwife’s Apprentice*

2 POL 4 Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel* M 1 EU 2 POL 3 Millions of Cats* N 1 POL 1 Miss Alaineus * 1 POL 1 Miss Nelson is Missing * L 2 POL 48 Miss Rumphius* M 2 POL 2 EU 1 OG 16 Missing May* W 980L

50 Mississippi Bridge* S 810L 8 Mockingjay Z 800L

2 POL 21 Molly’s Pilgrim* M 4 The Monster Garden 540L 20 More Adventures of the Great Brain T 5 The Most Magnificent Thing 14 The Mouse and the Motorcycle O 3 Mr. Emerson’s Cook

3 POL 2TCM 32 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH* V 4 Nav 10 Much Ado About Nothing*

13 Muggie Maggie O 5 NAV 2 OG 2 POL 27 My Brother Sam is Dead* Y

3 My Daddy is a Cool Dude, and other poems 5 Nav 2 POL 32 My Daniel* T

12 My Father’s Dragon N 990L 2 POL 98 My Great-Aunt Arizona* N

5 My Side of the Mountain U 4 OG 22 The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

4 Mystery of the Cupboard R 12 The Mystery of Roman Ransom

1 EU 2 POL 3 The Napping House* I 2 POL 0 Nate the Great 1 OG 17 Nerd Camp*

1 OG 19 Nerd Camp 2.0 2 OG 2 POL 31 Nettie's Trip South* O

6 Noah's Ark 1 The North Star (Peter Reynolds) N 5 Nory Ryan’s Song T

6 NAV 2 POL 32 Number the Stars* U 670L 1 POL 11 Officer Buckle and Gloria* L 1 TMC 1 Old Yeller* V 910L 2 POL 2 Olivia* J 1 POL 2 Olivia and the Missing Toy* J

19 One Grain of Rice P 890L 11 Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary P 460L

2 OG 15 Out of the Dust* X 1040L 5 Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place W 840L 4 Owen K

2 POL 13 Owl Moon* O 1 POL 17 The Ox Cart Man * K

17 Park's Quest U 11 Pass It On (poetry) 10 Paul Bunyon

4 NAV 10 The Pearl 4 Nav 10 Pearl, The*

7 Perloo, The Bold S 3 POL 1 OG 23 The Phantom Tollbooth* W 4 OG 20 Pictures of Hollis Woods* V 650L 1 POL 0 Pink and Say* V

2 A Place to Hide Y 1120L 28 Planet of Junior Brown Z 730L 4 Planting a Rainbow F 10 Pocahontas and the Stranger 2 Poison Dart Frogs

1 EU 1 Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? * G 1 EU 2 Polar Express* N

2 Postcards From Shakespeare* 15 Prince Caspian T 3 Punctuation Takes a Vacation M

1 POL 1 The Rainbow Fish* M 1 The Rain Player 32 Ramona and Her Mother O 6 Ramona and Her Father O 6 Ramona Forever O

1 EU 11 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 * O 6 Ramona the Pest O 6 Random House Book of Poetry for Children 2 Rebels Against Slavery 4 The Red Book,

1 POL 1 Red Riding Hood* 2 EU 7 The Relatives Came* P 2 POL 32 Return of the Indian* M 4 NAV 8 Riding Freedom* P 720L 2 POL 0 Rifles for Watie* 910L

10 The Road to Memphis X 670L 2 EU

1 TCM 1 OG 9 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* W 920L 5 NAV 10 Romeo and Juliet*

32 Sachiko Means Happiness 2 POL 2 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes* R 1 EU 1 Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine* P

3 Samuel Eaton’s Day-A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy N 2 POL 3 NAV 35 Sarah Bishop* X 2 POL 1 OG 7 NAV 22 Sarah, Plain and Tall* R 660L

13 Secret Coders (Book 1) R 2 Secret Coders: Paths and Portals (Book 2)

2 POL 1 TCM 22 The Secret Garden* U 950L

10 The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups 810L

8 Seeds J 460L 1 POL 1 Seven Blind Mice* K 3 OG 2 POL 2 Shades of Gray* W 800L

10 Shakespeare’s Secret T 620L 5 Nav 2 POL 22 Shiloh * R 780 1 OG 20 The Short Seller* 740

4 A Sick Day for Amos McGee M 2 POL 2 TCM 43 Sign of the Beaver* T 770L

8 The Silver Chair W 840L 3 Nav 5 A Single Shard * U 920L 2 EU 4 The Slave Dancer* Y 910L

57 Small Wolf* J 8 Sneeze on Monday

4 Nav 20 Snow Treasure* 1 POL 1 Snowflake Bentley* N 1 EU 1 The Snowy Day* E 1 EU 0 Something Queer is Going On* N

4 The SOS File Q 600L 5 NAV 2 EU 2 POL 1 TCM 21 Sounder * T 900L

27 Spin a Soft Black Song 1 OG 20 Standing for Socks* Z

10 Stanley, Flat Again! N 5 Stargirl V 590L

1 POL 1 Stellaluna* N 3 Nav 2 POL 3 TC 21 Stone Fox* P 610L

2 POL 2 Strega Nona* N 2 POL 1 Strega Nona’s Magic Lessons* N

3 A String in the Harp 13 Stuart Little R

5 NAV 58 Summer of My German Soldier* Z 800L 3 POL 2 TCM 19 Summer of the Swans* U

10 Super Fudge 5 A Swiftly Tilting Planet W 8 Swimmy L

1 EU 2 POL 10 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble* M 1 EU 2 Tacky the Penguin * L

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31 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1160L 9 There are Those 17 There’s a Nightmare in my Closet * I 5 They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky 8 The Things They Carried Z 880L 5 Three Cups of Tea (Junior Edition) 910L 7 Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe K

1 POL 1 Tiki Tiki Tembo* N 4 The Time Bike S

2 POL 4 Timothy of the Cay* V 860L 4 Titanic Crossing R 690L

2 POL 0 Tomorrow’s Alphabet* D 3 Too Perfect 610L

2 POL 2 The Trial of Cardigan Jones* 7 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Q

1 NAV 1TCM 15 Trumpet of the Swan R 2 POL 62 Tuck Everlasting* V 770L 1 NAV 10 Twelfth Night, The

6 Twelve Ways to Get to Eleven 2 POL 0 The Twenty-One Balloons* V

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1 POL 1 The Wall* P 2 EU 12 Walk Two Moons* V 770L

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2 POL 12 The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 * T 920L 2 POL 42 The Westing Game* V 750L

6 What is a Scientist? (on Science Shelf) 3 What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? (on Math Shelf)

2 POL 1 When I Was Young in the Mountains* 780L 2 POL 3 When Zachary Beaver Came to Town * Y

24 Where the Broken Heart Still Beats 1000L 1 Where the Red Fern Grows* X 700L

7 NAV 2 POL 35 Where the Wild Things Are* J 5 NAV 43 The Whipping Boy* R 570L 1 EU 11 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears* N

32 A Wind in the Door V 790L 11 Wind in the Willows, The T 1480L 2 Winter is the Warmest Season

1 OG 55 The Wish Giver* T 720L 2 POL ` TCM 18 The Witch of Blackbird Pond* W 850L

15 The Witches R 2 EU 0 Wonder* V 790L

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2 NAV 19 The Year of Miss Agnes* O 790L 1 OG 18 The Yearling* X 750L 4 NAV 20 Yolonda’s Genius* 2 POL 2 Yo! Yes!* 1 POL 1 Zathura* M

Mathematics Materials

Addition Adventures Each page in this puzzle book has its own mini-mystery. Working the addition problems provides the necessary clues to solve the mystery. The puzzles also help students develop important map-reading skills and directional terms. Addition, Subtraction, Place Value, and Other Numeration Systems (Masterminds Riddle Math Series) Grades 3-8 Reproducible skill builders and higher order thinking activities based on NCTM standards Algebra Antics Every puzzle page in this book has an intriguing picture coded into the grid. Each problem that's successfully solved provides a clue for drawing another line and gradually reveals the entire picture

Algebra Mystery Maze Grades 5-9 An exciting unit that causes students to develop and review algebra skills while they design and solve mazes. Algebra Readiness: Great Skill-Building Activities, Games, and Reproducibles by Sarah Jane Brian Grades 5-8 Fun, motivating ways to reach even the most reluctant math student. Includes easy games, instant activities, exciting reproducibles, real-world connections, as well as, teaching notes, extension activities, and assessment forms. All content geared to the NCTM standards. Alien Math Grades 4-5 This book is an easy-to-follow guide for learning to count in other bases through all mathematical operations. Also, included is a step-by-step answer key.

A-MAZE-ING Shapes Grades 5-6 Exploring plane geometry while designing mazes Arithmetic Plexers – A collection of word problems and puzzles: business, economics, finance, monetary Baseball Math: Grandslam Activities and Projects for Grades 4-8 Basketball Math: Slam-Dunk Activities and Projects for Grades 4-8 Beginning Algebra Thinking: For Grades 3-4 , by Shirley Hoogeboom and Judy Goodnow Students explore eight kinds of problems: Number Puzzles, Number Patterns, Mystery Numbers, Square Puzzles, Seesaw Balances, What’s the Rule, Ratios, and Venn Linking Circles. Using manipulatives

and other strategies to solve problems, these experiences help students understand the concept of a variable and how to solve equations. This book contains 54 reproducible pages of problems. Beyond Base Ten: A Mathematics Unit for High Ability Learners in Grades 3-6 Blockout! Brings a problem-solving approach to intensive practice with basic addition facts at four levels of difficulty.

Challenge Math Projects Grades 4-8 This series of individual or small group math projects requires students to design flat, one-dimensional patterns that fold into everyday three-dimensional objects. Challenging Common Core Math Lessons: Grade 3 Challenging Common Core Math Lessons: Grade 4 Challenging Common Core Math Lessons Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 5 Challenging Common Core Math Lessons Activities and Extensions for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grade 6 Challenging Units for Gifted Learners: Math - Teaching the Way Gifted Students Think Chance Encounters: Probability in Games and Simulations Complete the Picture: Math Grade 1 “Activities help students think critically and review, reinforce, and apply basic math concepts. There are 84 math word problems for students to answer and then complete and color the pictures.” Crossnumber Puzzles: Boosting Skills to Meet Assessment Goals

● Grade 3 (Telling Time, Count the Money, Mental Math, Find the Largest Number, and more) ● Grade 5 (Find the Difference, Find the Quotient, Find the Percent, Missing Minutes, and more)

Data, Chance, and Probability Activity Book by Graham Jones Grades 5-8 and Grades 4-6 Data, Chance, and Probability Grades 6-8 Designs in Math This resource reinforces math facts while giving student practice in drawing with a straight edge. This is also an excellent tool to use with children who may need remediation or practice with addition or division skills, yet too “old” to work on “elementary” worksheets. Developing Skills with Tables and Graphs (Blackline Masters) Dice Activities for Algebraic Thinking (grades 5-8) This resource was created to engage students in developing fluency with the mathematical concepts of square numbers, square root, prime numbers, factorials, summation, integers, and exponential notation. The activities are designed to empower students to analyze, represent, and make generalizations about

patterns in all aspects of math and to address mathematical problems and challenges with curiosity and confidence. This material precedes formal work in algebra. Dice Activities for Division (grades 4-6) Includes more than 20 different games for developing fluency with divisors, dividends, quotients, factors, and remainders. Accompanying CD includes digital version of the entire book with interactive dice for computer and whiteboard use. Dice Activities for Math (grades K-3) These engaging, challenging, and fun activities build number sense and generate a conceptual base for number facts. Includes a CD with a digital copy of the book. Dice Activities for Multiplication (grades 3-6) This reproducible activity book is designed to supplement any core mathematics program. The book features dozens of dice activities that teach and reinforce each of the multiplication facts 2 through 12. Accompanying CD includes digital version of the entire book with interactive dice for computer and whiteboard use. Dice Activities for Subtraction (grades 1-3) This book is designed to empower students to meet the challenges of subtraction with a sense of curiosity and confidence. Engaging activities will develop fluency with the subtraction concept of "minus" and "difference". Includes CD with a digital copy of the book. Dice available: Set of 72 ten-sided dice (2 sets) Set of 600 red/green/white four-sided dice (2 sets) Differentiating Instruction with Menus , by Laurie Westphal Includes: reproducible and blank menus based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy, product ideas and guidelines, rubrics and teacher introduction pages.

● Math Grades 6-8 ( Numbers, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing and Measurement, Basic Algebra) Domino Math: Addition, Subtraction, Problem Solving, Graphing Grades 1-4 Domino Math: Addition, Multiplication, Division, Problem Solving Grade 2-6 Enrichment Units in Math This series provides sequential information and activities that allow students to easily master topics whether working alone, in a small group, or in a whole-class setting. ●Book 1 Grades 2-3 ● Book 2 Grades 4-6 ● Book 3 Grades 5-7 Explain It! Answering Extended-Response Math Problems Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6 Each book contains 30 reproducible problem-solving situations. As students solve the problems, they analyze and apply information and explain their thinking, making it easier for teachers to assess their understanding of the concepts. Fascinating Fibonacci’s: Mystery & Magic in Numbers 50 Problem Solving Lessons Grades 1-6 compiled by Marilyn Burns Football Math: Touchdown Activities and Projects for Grades 4-8

Fraction Finders In addition to providing fraction practice, the puzzles in this book provide activities to help students become proficient with locating ordered sets on a grid. Fractions – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENT: A Squared Away Unit Grades 5-8 This unit teaches fractions, decimals, and percent together. Through team activities and exercises using calculators, students determine how the three are related. They develop competency determining equivalencies and choosing whether a fraction, decimal, or percent works best to solve the math problems they meet in their classroom or real world. This standards-based unit includes five days of lesson plans and reproducible student pre- and posttests, practice exercises, extension activities, assessments, and rubrics.

Game Factory Grade 4 A simulation exploring the connection between games and probability. Geometry – A Bloom’s Differentiated Unit binder Gifted and Talented Math: A Workbook for Ages 4-6 Activities for preK and kindergarten

The Great Equation Race: Journey Around the World Combining Teamwork, Problem Solving, and Algebra Grades 5-9 During this interdisciplinary unit students will solve equations, earn mileage, measure and track their course on a map, and research facts about different cities around the world all in a quest for the finish line. Getting More From Math Manipulatives Grades K-2 This resource contains strategies, lessons, activities and assessments for use with manipulatives. Graphs – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment binder Groundworks Series [Two copies available for each grade level 1-7 ]

● Algebraic Thinking The activities in this book provide challenging development of six big ideas in algebra: representation, balance, function, proportional reasoning, variable, and inductive reasoning. The problems build on students’ experiences with arithmetic reasoning and help them make the connections between arithmetic and algebra.

● Reasoning About Measurement This series provides challenging development of five big ideas of measurement. Problems build upon students’ prior and current “hands-on” experiences measuring objects and broaden and solidify their conceptual understanding of measurement.

● Reasoning with Data and Probability This provides challenging development of five big ideas of data and probability. Problems build on students’ prior and current experiences and broaden and solidify their conceptual understanding of data and probability.

● Reasoning with Geometry This book provides challenging development of five big ideas of geometry. Problems build on students’ prior and current experiences working with two- and three-dimensional shapes and broaden and solidify their conceptual understanding of geometry.

● Reasoning with Numbers These books provide challenging development of five big ideas of numbers. Problems build upon what students know about numbers and operations with numbers and broaden and solidify their conceptual understanding.

Hopscotch Grades 3-6 Get kids multiplying and dividing in a flash. Things get hopping as students have fun jumping through hopscotch patterns reciting multiplication and division facts. Hands On Attribute Blocks Grades K-3 The primary focus of this binder is on the development of problem-solving skills: sorting, classifying, logical thinking, identifying attribute differences, identifying number patterns, and recording solutions. The children will explore the fundamental mathematical relationships of equivalence and difference, as they find blocks to solve a variety of problems. Hands On Pattern Blocks Grades K-3 Focuses on the development of problem-solving skills. Hands on Tangrams Hands On Unifix Cubes Grades K-3 As the children handle the cubes and fit them together in various configurations to find problem solutions, they will also be learning in an informal way about numeration, measurement, and basic operations. Historical Connections in Mathematics - Volumes I Provides resources for teachers to integrate the history of mathematics into their teaching. Combines concise biographical information with activities to use in the classroom. How Big is the Moon? Introduces teachers to an exciting new approach in the teaching of math. Based on natural learning theories, it aims to integrate math into the broader curriculum through the exploration of facts, skills, and concepts in relevant and meaningful contexts. I HAVE, WHO HAS? Mental Math Game grades 3-4, grades 5-6

Into the Unknown Grade 2-6 Introduces basic algebraic concepts including equations, variables, and patterns and functions. Students learn algebraic language and practice basic math operations while investigating algebra in an ocean environment.

Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program – These units include a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts using a method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. Trade book titles: (Level I targets grades 2-3 , Level II targets grades 4-5 )

● Math in the Garden I ● Mathematical Thinkers II ● Math on the Moon I ● Number Games II ● Math to Munch On I ● Sports Math II

Leveled Texts for Mathematics: Number and Operations With a focus on number and operations, this resource provides the know-how to use leveled texts to differentiate instruction in mathematics. A total of 15 different topics are featured and the high-interest text is written at four different reading levels with matching visuals. Practice problems are provided to reinforce what is taught in the passage.

Leveled Texts for Mathematics: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Math and Logic Puzzles That Make Kids Think Grades 6-8 Math Dice Tournament Kit (grades 5-8) This kit contains instructions and materials to run your own Math Dice tournament with 12 to 18 students. Includes: 6 math dice sets, 15 blackline masters, 150 game chips, and a learning guide. Math Extension Units: Book 1 G rades 2-3 Topics: place value, time and measurement, problem solving, money Math for Fun Projects , by Andrew King Projects with Hands-On Games and Experiments using Fractions, Numbers, Plotting, Measuring and Much, Much More Math for Real Kids: Common Core Problems, Applications, and Activities for Grades 4-7 Math In History The 18 lessons supplement regular math lessons, deepening the student’s and teacher’s appreciation for the human element behind the theories and ideas that stand as a foundation for Algebra and Geometry. Math Logic Mysteries: Mathematical Problem Solving with Deductive Reasoning Grades 5-8 Math Olympiad Contest Problems for Elementary and Middle Schools, Volume 1 Math Olympiad Contest Problems for Elementary and Middle Schools, Volume 2 Math Perplexors: Deductive Logic Puzzles Each Math Perplexors puzzle begins with a story that challenges the reader to figure out who, what, where, and when details using a list of clues. Puzzles are designed to enhance reasoning abilities using numbers, and teach students to draw logical conclusions based on number facts. (1 copy for each level) Basic Level: grade 3

Level A: grades 3 and 4 Level B: grades 4 and 5 Level C: Grades 5 and 6 Level D: Grades 7 to 9 Expert Level: Grades 9 and up

Math Rules: Grades 1 and 2 , Grades 3 and 4 , Grades 5 and 6 “A collection of ready-made and easy-to-use challenge problem worksheets.” Math Through Children’s Literature : Making the NCTM Standards Come Alive Grades K-6 The strategies in this resource build on children’s natural curiosity, their love of patterns, and the instinct to use mathematics to make sense of their world based on popular children’s picture books. The process and skills of problem solving, communication, reasoning, connection and estimation skills are addressed through a variety of activities to help all students become successful in the use of math skills. A Mathematical Mystery Tour

Mathematics Explorations: Detective-Style Activities for the Real World Grades 6-9 Thought-provoking real-world math problems (and some humorous ones too) require inductive and deductive reasoning as students search for a pattern, break a code, uncover and correct errors, or use clues to solve a mystery. Measurement – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Mental Math Workout by Michael Lobosco The aim of this book is to give you some unusual math ideas and a wealth of hands-on, do-it-yourself activities so that you can make the math ideas work. The activities are fun and each of the projects will stretch your mind, tickle your math funny bone, and provide hours of pleasure for you alone or with a friend matching wits in a game of strategy. Mesmerizing Math Puzzles Grades 4+ The puzzles in this book are designed to be easily integrated into any curriculum. Gifted elementary students master content more quickly and more effectively when it is embedded within exercises requiring reasoning. Puzzles provide the perfect format in which this mastery can take place.

Money Masters An interaction unit in which teams of student bankers learn the skills of counting and making change Money Math: Intermediate Problem-Solving Activities This is a collection of 100 problems and 16 games that will enhance each student’s ability use money. At the same time they will be practicing the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The activities focus on counting out the value of coins and bills, trading, purchasing items for given amounts of money, and making change. More Math Logic Mysteries: Mathematical Problem Solving with Deductive Reasoning Grades 5-8 Moving On with Attribute Blocks Grades 4-6 This is a set of activities that emphasizes problem solving with attribute blocks. The book was designed with attribute blocks that have four differences: shape, color, size, and thickness. These activities give students the opportunity to discover their own way of “working through” problems, rather than relying on memorized procedures. Moving On with Tangrams Grades 4-6 This is a set of activities emphasizing problem solving with tangrams. Using concrete objects to find problem solutions not only helps students develop their logical reasoning skills, but also builds confidence in their ability to solve problems. Multiplication the Algebra Way Book 1 Grades 4-8 Activities include the multiplication of integers, decimal fractions, mixed fractions, and literal expressions. Using algebra tiles, students model and find the product of literal expressions such as (x+2)(x+3) and factor expressions such as x2+4x+3. On-the-Job Math Mysteries: Real Life Math from Exciting Careers Grades 4-8 One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve with Math by Eric and Natalie Yoder Grades 3-6 These mysteries challenge readers to become super sleuths. These fun mysteries are each about one minute long and require students to tap into mathematical wisdom to solve them.

Paths to Problem Solving: Teacher’s Resource Guide (Level G) Pattern Blocks Activities Grades K-6 (Blackline Masters) Patterns and Functions with Manipulatives Grades 5 and 6 The explorations and investigations in this book are designed to help students develop math skills and understandings through hands-on activities with concrete models and tools. Some examples include exploring patterns and mystery numbers using hundred number boards, patterns using color tiles, and patterns in multiples using graph and charts. Perceptual Puzzle Blocks Students use Perceptual Puzzle Blocks™ to match blocks to shapes at increasing levels of complexity. Students move on to build one floor buildings and find the area and perimeter of each building. They also create buildings according to a given area and perimeter. Students practice finding area, perimeter, volume, and using fractions in these activities. [3 copies] 10 Performance-Based Projects for the Math Classroom (grades 3-5) Plane Math and Science…With Paper Airplanes A tub with materials, resources, and trade books for students to apply the Scientific Method while learning about, creating, and using paper airplanes. Pollywogs to Polygons: The Metamorphosis of Numbers to Art , by Muggins Math Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade K-3

Polygons Galore! A Mathematics Unit for High-Ability Learners in Grades 3-5 A mathematics unit for high-ability learners in grades 3-5 focusing on 2-D and 3-D components of geometry by exploring polygons and polyhedra and their properties The unit consists of nine lessons that include student discovery of properties of polygons and polyhedra, investigations for finding areas of triangles and quadrilaterals, study of the Platonic solids, and real-world applications of polygons and polyhedra. It also includes activities related to identifying, comparing, and analyzing polygons by using properties of the polygons; constructing meanings for geometric terms; developing strategies to find areas of specific polygons; identifying and building regular and nonregular polyhedra; and recognizing geometric ideas and relationships as applied in daily life and in other disciplines, such as art. Probability for Kids: Using Model-eliciting Activities to Investigate Probability (Grades 4-6) Problem-Driven Math: Applying the Mathematics Beyond Solutions Individual books targeting: Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grades 6-8 Through the use of whimsical, concept-rich problems, this book helps you lead your students to see and apply the underlying math beyond the solutions. Highlights the mathematical concepts featured within the problem and its solution.

The Problem Solver - Levels 1-8 Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 A step-by-step instructional program designed to help your students become competent and confident problem solvers. It utilizes an easy-to-learn, four-step method combined with ten useful problem-solving strategies. A wide range of reproducible problems are carefully sequenced to systematically expand your students’ problem-solving abilities. [1 book per grade level]

Problem Solver II Grades 3, 4, 5 Like the original program, Problem Solver II guides students through step-by-step instruction in mathematical problem solving. You can use Problem Solver II as an introduction to problem solving, as a review of the problem-solving process and strategies, or as a means of enriching students’ experience with non routine problems. [1 book per grade level] The Problem Solver With Calculators Grades 4-8 This book presents a group of problems that are most efficiently solved with the help of a calculator. Each section begins with 20 teaching problems. Following the teaching problems, there are 40 practice problems. Problem Solving with Fractions, Decimals, and Percent This book provides students with a wide variety of fraction, decimal, and percent problem experiences. Problem Solving with Fractions for the Real World This book provides students with a wide variety of problem experiences involving fraction concepts. Problem Solving with Multiplication and Division Throughout their lives, students have a need for multiplication and division concepts, in school and out of school. This book provides students with many situations that represent both types of problems. Problem Solving with Whole Number Operations Throughout their lives, students have a need for whole number operations, in school and out of school. This book provides students with many situations that represent these types of problems. Puddle Questions Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Puddle Questions gives students opportunities to think through a complex problem, plan a solution, use tools and techniques, and communicate their thinking so others can understand it. This resource can be used as an assessment for students’ thinking about broad mathematical concepts such as measurement, probability, and writing equations. Puzzle Play Grades 4-8 A collection of over 70 mathematical puzzles, problems, and paradoxes. Racing Math: Checkered Flag Activities and Projects for Grades 4-8

RATIOS, RATES, AND PROPORTIONS: A Squared Away Unit Grades 5-8 Students will use what they already know about equivalent fractions to understand ratios and proportions. In a relatively short period of time, students learn to confidently tackle challenging word problems that involve ratios, unit rates, and those dealing with time, rate, and distance. They have to not only calculate answers, but also explain their thinking and validate their solutions. This standards-based unit includes five days of lesson plans and reproducible student handouts, extension activities, pre- and post tests, assessments, and rubrics. Read Life Math Mysteries: A Kid’s Answer to the Question, “What Will Ever Use this For?” Reasoning With Dinosaur Counters Grades K-1 The activities in this binder present logic and math story problems at the simplest level. They are designed to be read aloud while the students act them out with dinosaur counters on pictures. This concrete representation of abstract concepts and math language can give students a head start on solving problems.

Reasoning With Dinosaur Counters Grades 2-4 This is a set of math and logic activities in which the emphasis is on problem solving with manipulatives - dinosaur counters. Using concrete objects to find solutions not only helps students develop their logical reasoning skills, but also builds confidence in their ability to solve problems. Roads to Reasoning: Developing Thinking Skills through Problem Solving Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Six sections in each book contain problems to address specific types of reasoning skills. The engaging problems found in this series contribute to a better understanding of the entire problem-solving process. While the emphasis is on reasoning and problem solving, computational skills in topics appropriate to the grade level are utilized and reinforced. Books available for each grade level 1-6. SmartPAL® Guides for Math – To “Promote Active Learning” each guidebook features easy, ready-to-use, reproducible guides that provide visual images of mathematical concepts:

● Elementary Grades K-2 Included are commonly used mathematical images, grids, and templates that address numbers and operations, data analysis, probability, measurement, algebra, geometry, problem solving, and discrete math

● Elementary Grades 3-5 Included are commonly used mathematical images, grids, and templates that address numbers and operations, data analysis, probability, measurement, algebra, geometry, problem solving, and discrete math.

Soccer Math: Solving Problems from the Pitch Grades 4-8 Spatial Reasoning Puzzles that Make Kids Think Grades 2-4 Spatial Reasoning Puzzles that Make Kids Think Grades 6-8 Splash! Modeling and Measurement Application for Young Learners Grades K-1 Story Problems with Pattern Blocks Grades K-3 The activities in this binder are designed to help primary students learn the language of math story problems, particularly special phrases that the children will meet again and again in word problems. The activities are sequenced so that students progress from simply reading the phrases to writing them in their own story problems. The Super Source - Geoboards Grades K-2 Find creative ways to teach hands-on Geoboard activities. The Super Source - Geoboards Grades 3-4 Find creative ways to teach hands-on Geoboard activities. The Super Source - Geoboards Grades 5-6 Find creative ways to teach hands-on Geoboard activities. Taskmasters! Performance Tasks for High Ability Middle School Students - Math by Carolyn Stamm Tessellations Tub A collection of ideas and materials for working with tessellations (“transformational geometry concepts”) in different ways. That’s Logical Grades 4-8 “A unique puzzle system for logical thinking” ThinkFun Rush Hour Games – Brain Lab A tub with multiple copies of the brainteaser games. Classroom program designed to teach students the ThinkFun Super Solver System, where students use a specific process to learn critical thinking and motivational skills.

ThinkFun Chocolate Fix Games – Brain Lab A tub with multiple copies of the brainteaser game.

Tick Tock Grades 1-3 An integrated approach to teaching primary students about telling time. Twenty Five Real Life Math Investigations 2D and 3D Geometric Figures Tub Grades 2-4 A differentiated lesson plan with trade books and wooden figures – a hands-on approach to VA SOL 3.18, but easily used in Grades 2 and 4 as well. This unit includes the use of manipulatives, literature, websites, graphic organizers and differentiated menus to approach the concept of two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures. What’s Your Angle Pythagoras

Science Resources

10 Performance-Based Projects for the Science Classroom (grades 3-5) Airplanes – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder After the Earthquake - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level II - targets grades 4-5) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts. Archeology – Dig It! Grades 5-8 A McGee-Keiser unit This unit provides students with a beginning understanding of artifacts and how they are interpreted. They will learn how artifacts are dated and discover some of the difficulties faced by modern archaeologists. Hands-on activities allow students to identify with an archeologist and understand how an archaeologist thinks. Being a Bug Scout Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level II - targets grades 4-5) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts. The Brain – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Broadcasting and Podcasting Grades 4-8 McGee-Keiser In this unit, students will explore the history of communication through media, learn the difference between a broadcast and a podcast, and learn the basics of iMovie and GarageBand 3 to produce their own broadcast and podcast. Students will explore the world of communication and create a message for their peers. CSI Expert! Forensic Science for Kids Grades 5-8 Using everyday materials, this book contains more than 25 exciting activities on topics such as blood stains, fingerprinting, and counterfeit checks. Constellations – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Challenging Puzzles “Higher-level thinking can be strengthened, enhanced, and improved for all students. Like any good puzzle, these thinking activities stretch the brain through critical and creative reasoning.” Titles available: ● Earth Science ● Human Body ● Life Science ● Physical Science

Challenging Units for Learners: Science 6-8 Crime Scene Detective: Using Science and Critical Thinking to Solve Crimes Grades 5-8 Students use their intellect to discover who committed the “crime” at your school. Students practice critical thinking skills in areas of forensic science using authentic real-life events. Crime Scene Detective: Arson Grades 5-8 Students become detectives as they interview suspects, analyze evidence, and participate in real-life forensic labs to investigate a fire. Crime Scene Detective: Theft Grades 5-8 When an expensive digital camera is stolen from the school’s media center, students become detectives as they analyze evidence and participate in an authentic forensic lab to discover the thief. Earth Central Grades 4-6, by Mcgee-Keiser What’s inside Earth? Why do we have earthquakes? What causes the ocean tides? These questions and many others are examined as students study Earth from the inside out. Encourages problem solving and creative thinking. Easy and Interesting Science Experiments K to 12 This is a collection of science experiments that offers teachers a variety of activities. Students will enjoy working on and completing these hands on activities with a fun approach to learning. Some experiments include: Swinging Pendulum, Color Solutions, Iron in Breakfast Cereals, and Artificial Leaf Packs. Fossil Fuels – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Fudge Factory Grades 4-8 Students will study the discovery of electricity and conduct experiments in order to help the owner of Faraday's Fudge Factory figure out why the power is out in her factory. Group problem solving activities explore static electricity, circuits, magnetism, conductors, and more. As they come up with solutions to Electricity Exploration activities, students acquire clues to the mystery and gain a deeper understanding of the scientific method and why it is used.

Geology Rocks! Grades 2-6 A musical study of Earth's composition and its changing nature Handedness – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

How Scientists Work (3 copies) Full-color book for children explaining key concepts in an easy-to-understand way. Features a glossary, a Did You Know? section, resources, and an index. How to Think Like a Scientist: Answering Questions by the Scientific Method , by Stephen P. Kramer, Illustrated by Felicia Bond (5 copies) This trade book encourages students to ask questions about the world around them and then to find answers by thinking like a scientist and using the scientific method. It uses questions about hypothetical situations to introduce the process of thinking according to scientific method. Human Body - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts. Innovations in Science: Who’s Who at the Zoo? Grades K-3 A teaching unit and teacher’s guide for teaching about animals at the zoo.

Insect Island Grades 4-5 A simulation of solving a scientific mystery while learning about insects. Students will use the scientific method and classification skills, as well as science journaling to determine if reports of 21-centimeter beetles are fact or fiction. Insects: Questivities Standards-Based Questions, Projects, Activities, and Assessments Interactions in Ecology and Literature - Integrated Science and ELA (grades 2-3) Invention Mysteries: The Little Known Stories Behind Well-Known Inventions by Paul Niemann Inventions, Inventors, and You (grades 3-7) Let’s Bug Out! Grades K-1 McGee-Keiser Students will explore the body parts of insects, what they eat, how they communicate and how they grow and change. Students will also discover how insects can help and harm people. Lightning – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder The Magic of Magnets In this illustrated read-along story students discover how Marcus the Magician learns about magnets after he chooses two ordinary-looking stones from the Queen’s treasure chest. Students have the opportunity to complete hands-on activities with magnets. Objectives, easy-to-use lesson plans, a science attitude survey, challenge and extension activities, a reproducible poem, Magnet Mania Game, student journal and an assessment assist the teacher and allow students to enjoy science while they learn . Mixing it Up: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Intriguing Science in the Elementary Classroom Grades K-6 A collection of articles from Science and Children. Each article contains an activity which is labeled by grade level, cross-referenced to science standards, and provides an interdisciplinary or integrated (or both) approach to science. Sections on connections to math and English, school themes, and outdoor/environmental science topics.

My Backyard : A Musical Exploration of Life in the Backyard Grades K-2 In cooperative groups, students work as scientists, authors, artists, and performers to understand the creatures they see every day. They research the habits and habitats of the hummingbird, pillbug, ladybug, butterfly, snail, and firefly, and sing short songs reinforcing what they've learned. The teacher's guide provides complete procedures, handout masters, extensions, and assessments. My Food Plate – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Mysterious Machine Grades 4-6 A simulation of solving a scientific mystery while learning about machines. Natural Disasters - A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science by Eric and Natalie Yoder Grades 3-6 These short mysteries have a clever twist: you have to tap into science wisdom to solve them. Each story challenges knowledge in earth, space, life, physical, chemical, and general science. Exercise critical thinking skills that are also entertaining. Optical Illusions – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Oscar’s Ocean Grades 1-3 A simulation of a scientific cruise to explore the ocean habitat.

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: A Squared Away Unit Grades 5-8 Assembling their own classroom planetarium, student teams prepare scale and larger working models of the eight planets, asteroids, dwarf planets of the Kuiper Belt (including Pluto), and comets. Guided by easy-to-follow, self-directed concept pages, students explore and demonstrate the basic mechanics of the solar system, daily and annual time, the Zodiac, and the inner planets as so-called morning/evening stars. This standards-based unit includes five days of lesson plans, background, reproducible student pre- and posttests, extension activities, and rubrics. Our Solar System – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Our Solar System - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level II - targets grades 4-5) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts.

Pele’s Peak Grades 2–5 Students transform into expert volcanologists by the end of this unit, literally bringing volcanoes to life. Working in cooperative groups called Trekking Trios, students travel to Hawaii in a quest to reach the top of Pele's Peak. On their journey they are challenged to

complete Volcano Vocabulary, compose an original myth, write a letter to a volcanologist, and research a volcano and the Hawaiian Islands. Performance-Based Curriculum for Science: From Knowing to Showing Teacher support resource for assessing student performance in science. Discusses content standards and performance benchmarks for specific science strands, provides tips on technology, and describes a process for designing performances for students. Many examples of performance based assessments are provided. Performance-Based Learning and Assessment in Middle School Science Ph.D. Doctor of Sciences Primary Grades 1-3 McGee-Keiser Fifty ready-made lessons and activities geared to young minds, which encourage problem solving and creative thinking while learning about science. Students become scientists during this program, exploring the worlds of entomology, oceanography, meteorology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, zoology, and paleontology.

PHASES OF THE MOON: A Squared Away Unit Grades 5-8 Through team activities, readings, kinesthetic activities, and extensive use of models, students learn to understand and explain (verbally, in diagrams, and in writing) why the Moon's appearance changes from night to night; what the phases of Moon are called; how the relative positions of the Sun, Earth, and Moon cause those phases; what causes lunar and solar eclipses; and (in an extra credit activity) how to apply their knowledge to the phases of Venus. This standards-based unit includes five days of lesson plans and reproducible student pre- and posttests, practice exercises, extension activities, individual and group assessments, and rubrics.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS, FOOD, AND POPULATIONS: A Squared Away Unit Grades 5-8 Students examine the role of simple sugars and other materials involved in photosynthesis and oxidation. Students create food chains and webs for a fictitious meadow and calculate food-energy budgets for its inhabitants, predicting population changes in response to food-energy availability. They then learn how humans must also work with the same food-energy strategies, and how these give rise to some of today’s world crises. The teacher’s guide provides complete procedures, background essays, pre- and posttests, extension activities, assessments, and rubrics. Plane Math and Science…With Paper Airplanes A tub with materials, resources, and trade books for students to apply the Scientific Method while learning about, creating, and using paper airplanes. Plant Atlas - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level II - targets grades 4-5) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts.

Protecting an Ecosystem: The Rainforest Grades 3-5 As biologists, game wardens, and other workers on a rain forest reserve in the Amazon Basin, students learn about different aspects of the rainforest ecosystem. The plot thickens, however, when a lumber company threatens to buy the reserve and deforest the land. Students prepare for a debate, where they discuss the importance of maintaining the natural resource.

Protecting an Ecosystem: The Great Barrier Reef Grades K-3 Students strengthen key literacy skills as they role-play marine scientists studying the ocean in an underwater sea lab. When an oil spill pollutes the water, students must conduct investigations and act quickly to clean and preserve the ocean in the unit’s critical incident, which is designed to encourage civic discussion and collaborative decision-making skills. Puddle Questions for Science - Performance Assessment Investigations ( One book each for grades 2-6 ) This collection of books is designed to help children with creativity and open ended answers to unique and fun questions. Reader’s Theater and SO Much More (Science) This high-interest book of humorous skits and plays is a jumping off place for research and creativity for students of all ability levels. Each of the reader's theaters comes with suggestions for differentiating and extending the science content lesson. Renewable Resources – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Roller Coaster Grades 4-6 Students become scientific sleuths with a simulated amusement park mystery while learning about the science of motion. Students will find contextual clues, form hypotheses, perform experiments and make conclusions. Multiple unit extension ideas are offered which utilize communication, problem-solving and drama skills. Science & Stories: Integrating Science and Literature Grades 4-6 Integrated science activities to connect with the following concepts: The Ocean, Patterns of Change, Ecosystems, Technology, and Space. Titles for specific activities include the following books which may be checked out from the collection: The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, Call It Courage, Julie of the Wolves, The Twenty-One Balloons. Science Experiments and Projects for Students , 4th Ed. Grades 4-8 Science projects to help students move from a basic skill level of doing science in which students do other people’s hands-on activities to a “world class” skill level of doing science in which the students design their own experiments. Science Plexers Picture puzzles of words and phrases ScienceSaurus: A Student Handbook Grades 1-10 (7 copies) This is a user-friendly resource that you can turn to whenever you have any question related to science. Packed with useful information, the student-geared book includes a handy almanac with tables, charts and graphs, test-taking and researching strategies, a science timeline and glossary, and more. The key science topics addressed include: doing science, life science, earth science, physical science, natural resources and the environment, and science, technology, and society. Sciencewise: Discovering Scientific Processes Through Problem Solving – Book 1 and Book 2 Helps students and teachers in the discovering of the scientific process. Through problem solving students discover how to use critical thinking and experiments to help in this process. The Scientific Method in Fairy Tale Forest Grades 3-6 Activities in this book draw on fairy tales as the context for practicing the scientific method and learning scientific knowledge. It combines reading with science, and therefore curiosity, critical thinking, inquiry, data collection, and written expression.

Science areas explored are: Earth Science – the sun, weather, light energy; Health Science – anatomy, criminology, human observation; Life Science – ecology, animals, biology, plants and life cycles; Physical Science – chemistry, chemical change, physical change, matter, physics, and friction Simple Machines - Engine-uity Unit

Skateboard Science A Hands-on Exploration of the Physics of Motion Grades 5-9 Students build and experiment with three-dimensional models of skate park equipment to explore the physics of skateboarding. Once constructed, they send glass marble "skaters" through their park, and explain how the skater and each piece of equipment demonstrate concepts of physics including potential and kinetic energy, friction, and momentum.

Space Contracts Grades 3-5 Space projects of varying length for individuals and groups.

Space, Structure, and Story Integrated Science and ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 4-6 This unit integrates Earth and space science with science fiction and nonfiction texts, poetry, and art. Stormy Weather - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level I - targets grades 2-3) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts.

Survive and Thrive – Grades K-1 Life Science Provides students an opportunity to study animals, their characteristics, and their natural environments. The overarching concept of change guides students as they use webcams to distinguish the features of animals, determine their basic needs to survive, and observe animals in the habitats. Taskmasters! Performance Tasks for High Ability Middle School Students - Science by Carolyn Stamm Teaching Constructivist Science K-8 Nurturing natural investigators in the standards-based classroom “Think About” Cards Primary A set of question cards, based on various animals, designed to encourage creative and critical thinking. Bees, frogs, lizards, skunks, snakes, spiders, squirrels, turtles. Thinking Outside the Bean - (All you ever wanted to know about mexican jumping beans and MORE!

Tom's Tree Grades K-3 A scientific trip to explore a tree. The True Story of the 3 Pigs & the Scientific Wolf - Primary Science with a Fairy Tale Twist Activities in this book emphasize sound scientific methods while giving students a chance for hands-on experiments and learning about simple machines first hand. They will understand how the wolf misused simple machines and never caught those little pigs.

Unexplained Phenomenon - Engine-uity Unit A Voice for the Animals - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level II - targets grades 4-5) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts. Volcanoes – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Water Works Physical Science Unit Grades K-1 Engages students in scientific investigation as they closely observe and experiment with water. Students are transformed into scientists who notice, react to, reflect on, and discover more about force and change. Weather – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Weather Sense: Moisture Grades 4-5 Many activities intended to draw students into scientific study of weather based on their natural curiosity. Interdisciplinary connections to math, literature, writing, art, music, history, and technology. Weather Sense: Temperature, Air Pressure, and Wind Grades 4-5 Activities intended to draw students into scientific study of weather based on their natural curiosity. Interdisciplinary connections to math, literature, writing, geography, history, and technology. What is a Scientist? , by Barbara Lehn (6 copies) Simple text and photographs depict children engaged in various activities that make up the scientific process. A fact-filled picture book to share with the whole class or small groups. Weather: Questivities Standards-based questions, projects, activities, and assessments

Weather Reporter Second Grade Earth Science Unit Provides students with opportunities in a scenario-based approach to observe, measure, and analyze weather phenomena. The overarching concept of change reinforces students’ decision as they learn about the changes in the Earth’s weather and observe, measure, and forecast the weather.

What’s the Matter Grades 2-3 Physical Science Unit Students work on solving real-world scenarios by using their newly discovered knowledge of matter, the measurement of matter, and change in physical properties. Why Polar Bears Like the Snow - Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by CFGE at W&M (Level I - targets grades 2-3) Includes a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts.

What’s the Zoo Teaching You? A Penguin Expedition Grades 2-4 Mcgee-Keiser Students will see how adaptations help penguins survive in their habitat. The unit provides a simulation where students will “go to the zoo” and evaluate the new penguin exhibit. Finally, students will create their own penguin exhibit.

Zoo Grades 2-5 A simulation of caring for animals in a modern zoo.

STEM and Coding Resources Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine (15 copies) Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada understands the machine better than anyone else and writes the world's first computer program in order to demonstrate its capabilities. Adventures in Arduino This book is geared toward the beginner and walks you step by step through 9 exciting projects to build and program interactive electronic crafts with Arduino. Adventures in Python This book walks you through 10 projects that explain the fundamentals of programming in general, and Python in particular, with clear, simple instructions. The Case of the Missing Moonstone: The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1 (15 copies) History, mystery, and science collide in this first book of the new for middle-grade readers Children’s Engineering “Beyond the Basics” “A Handbook for Elementary Educators” Design Briefs with Children’s Literature and Lesson Plans: “Design a Toy” with Below “Direct that Golf Ball” with Curious George Plays Mini Golf “Everlasting Egyptians” with Mummies Made in Egypt “Lunch Lifter” with Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice “Mudge’s Terrific Treehouse” with Henry and Mudge and the Tall Tall Treehouse “Personal Palace” with If I Built a House “Sailing for Souvenirs” with We’re Sailing Down the Nile “Simple Siege” with Castle Under Siege “Swift Swine Sled Design” with The Three Little Pigs Sledding Adventure “Trust the Trusses” with Twenty-One Elephants Dream, Invent, Create: Engineer the World (25 copies) A picture book that introduces engineering to kids in elementary school and early middle school. It will help them make a connection between the everyday world and engineering - and excite them about the possibilities. Engineer Through the Year: 20 Turnkey STEM Projects to Intrigue, Inspire, and Challenge Grades K-2

Engineer Through the Year: 20 Turnkey STEM Projects to Intrigue, Inspire, and Challenge Grades 3-5 Escape Room “A Case of Mistaken Identity” Grades 4-8 “Who Stole Cinderella’s Slipper” Grades 3-5 Everyday STEM- Structures Found in Everyday Lessons Finding Out About Structures “Balloon Cars” “Exploring Containers and Packaging” “EZ Catapults” “A Home for a Pet” “Large Structures” “Sail Car” Everyday STEM Workshop Tools Finding Out About Pop Ups Getting to know Python This book, written for students, introduces readers to Python, exploring its various applications and the history of its development. Side-by-side comparisons with other languages are also included to show the benefits of Python, while interviews with programmers highlight its many real-world applications. Getting to know Ruby This book, written for students, shares information about the programming language known as Ruby. Getting to know SCRATCH This book, written for students, provides a thorough history of SCRATCH and how it can be used to launch a career or simply an idea. How to Code in 10 Easy Lessons Learn how to code and design your very own computer game. From writing simple coding instructions using SCRATCH software to learning the coding skills to create your own computer game and even design your own website, this book provides lessons to teach the 10 necessary skills. An Introduction to Packaging and Packaging Design DVD K-2 STEM “ Structures Collection” “ Traveling Through Air Collection” Made by Dad 67 blueprints for making cool stuff Mythbusters: Don’t Try This at Home Python for Kids This book brings Python to life and brings readers into the world of programming. The author will guide you through the basics as you experiment with unique example programs that feature ravenous monsters, secret agents, thieving ravens, and more. New terms are defined; code is colored, dissected, and explained; and quirky, full-color illustrations keep things on the lighter side.

Raspberry Pi User Guide A comprehensive introduction to the Raspberry Pi and its wide array of hardware configurations, programming languages and educational applications. SCRATCH A well illustrated 32 page book written for students to explain and share the programming innovation known as SCRATCH. Secret Coders A fictional graphic novel written for students following the adventures of 2 children who use coding to solve a mystery. Secret Coders: Paths and Portals The second book of the series So, You Want to be a Coder? The ultimate guide to a career in programming, video game creation, robotics, and more. Super SCRATCH Programming Adventure! This full-color comic book makes programming concepts like variable, flow control, and subroutines effortless to absorb. Packed with ideas for games this book is the perfect first step for the budding programmer. STEM Science: Earth/Space Science (water, space, Earth) STEM Science: Physical Science (light, static electricity, magnetism, solids and liquids) STEM Science: Life Science (life cycles, classification, ecosystems) These units use standards as the focal point but open the door to exploration, student engagement, and thinking scientifically because Science as a discipline is about questioning, investigating, solving problems and discovering how the world and the things in it work. STEM Through the Months: Back to School Edition Grades 3-8 Using monthly-themed events as a springboard and the maker movement for inspiration, your students will build cross-curricular connections as they explore STEM. Also available: Fall Edition , Winter Edition , Spring Edition Steven Caney’s Invention Book Teach Like a Techie with Apps!: 20 Powerful iPad Apps You’ll Use Every Day , by Lori Elliott, EdD Teach Like a Techie: 20 Tools for Reaching the Digital Generation K-12 Teach Your Kids to Code A teacher's and parent's guide to teaching kids basic programming and problem solving using Python, a powerful language used in college course and by tech companies like Google and IBM. Toothpick Bridges Video Games: Design and Code Your Own Adventure Readers discover that the video games they play today have their roots in the games people played in the deserts of Ancient Egypt. Activities include creating text-based adventure quests, designing board games, and programming using free, kid-friendly software such as SCRATCH.

What is Computer Coding? This book shares how computer programming works with simple text and vivid pictures.

P- Based Learning (Problem, Project, or Passion)

Acid, Acid Everywhere Grades 4-5 This unit is designed to introduce high-ability learners to acid/base chemistry in an engaging fashion. All Work and NO Play: Child Labor in the Progressive Era (Grades 11-12) This is a high school-level unit focusing on child labor during the Progressive Era of American history. In this PBL unit, students take on the role of members of the National Child Labor Committee preparing for a congressional hearing. Presented with photographs from Lewis Hine, they launch into questions about the extent and nature of child labor, the differences in child labor in industry versus agriculture, the background of child laborers, existing regulations on child labor, and more. Black Death (Grades 7-9) Black Death is based on the plague that devastated Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. The place is the northern Italian town of Lucca, and the year is 1348. Reports of the Black Death have reached Lucca. It has been marching north through Italy, laying waste to one community after another. In Florence, more than half of the city is dead or dying of the disease—and Florence is not that far away. Bringing Problem-Based Learning into the Science Classroom , by Liz Fayer, Ed.D Excluded! Chinese Immigration to the United States (Grades 11-12) This is a high school-level unit focusing on the Chinese exclusion laws, which were enacted in the 1880s to prevent further Chinese immigration or settlement in the U.S. In this PBL unit, students take on the role of government officials, using values and priorities that represent concern for the public good. They investigate how and why the Chinese exclusion laws came into being from the vantage point of Congressmen and -women from California trying to decide whether to support the Geary Act. Ferret it Out:A Problem about Endangered Species and Animal Ecosystems (Grades 7-9) The black-footed ferret is the most endangered mammal in the United States. Students are placed in the role of members of a recovery team whose job it is to assess whether Fort Collins, Colorado, is an appropriate site to re-introduce ferrets that were bred in captivity. Fit to Print: A Problem about Yellow Journalism and the Road to War with Spain (Grades 7-8) The foundation of Fit to Print is the issue of journalistic responsibility. Students assume the role of newspaper editors during the late 1800s who work for the struggling New York Times, which is in fierce competition with the New York Journal. In order to boost sales, the Journal has descended into publishing the attention-grabbing headlines of yellow journalism, which the owner of the Times, Adolph Ochs, refuses to allow. Students must decide how to cover the news without sensationalizing it and yet still maintain enough of an audience to keep the paper solvent.

A Final Appeal: The First Amendment and To Kill a Mockingbird (Grade 8) A teacher has been fired for using To Kill a Mockingbird in her class. She sued the district and lost. Now she is appealing to a district court. In this PBL unit, the students take on the role of members of the court of appeals who must decide the case. Hull House: Living Democracy in the Progressive Era (Grades 7-8) This is a middle school-level unit focusing on the Progressive Era of American history through a specific problem faced by the Board of Directors of the Hull House in Chicago, the landmark settlement house. Jane Addams, Hull House co-founder, has lobbied for labor reform, and as a result, a prominent Chicagoan has threatened to withdraw financial support. Hull House had been planning to start programs to improve health, advocate for better working conditions, provide educational programs, support better juvenile justice, and improve housing. Now there is funding available for only one of these projects. It's Electrifying!: An Exploration in Water-Based Alternative Energy (Grades 6-8) It's Electrifying! presents the problem of whether Virginia Beach, Virginia, will accept alternative energy supplies and which source of energy would be most beneficial with the least environmental impact: wave energy, tidal energy, or offshore wind farms. In this unit, students are placed in the role of engineers whose job is to select new, innovative options for energy production. The science and technology focus is on how wind, water, and gravitational pull are converted into electricity. After studying the options, the students consider the social and environmental impacts, along with opinions and input from local government officials, environmentalists, local protesters, and business suppliers. Ultimately they must make a recommendation as to which form of energy would be best for the area, and they must make a convincing proposal for it. Penguin Predicament: A Problem about Animal Habitat and Survival (Grades 3-4) A penguin has appeared on a beach in Wellington, New Zealand, and students must determine what to do with it. The penguin has been found by a little girl who writes zoologists at the Wellington Zoo to ask their advice. The student "zoologists" must determine what kind of penguin it is and then decide what is best for the wayward animal. In the process, the students learn about animals' physical and behavioral adaptations to their environment, as well as the importance of species' natural habitat. My Penguin Osbert by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel (excellent picture book to accompany PBL - Penguin Predicament . Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Penguins and Antarctica by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce (excellent picture book to accompany PBL - Penguin Predicament .) Mosquito Coast: A Problem about West Nile Virus and Mosquito-Borne Disease (Grades 9-10) Mosquito Coast explores the problem of West Nile virus, which has infected a student in the school. Students take on the role of medical entomologists whose job it is to assess the level of risk that the other students face and to make recommendations either for remediation of the school grounds or for a way to raise awareness about the true risk students face of contracting the disease. Mystery Disease: A Problem Based Learning Unit Grades 5-8 Mystery River: A Problem-Based Ecology Unit Grades 5-8 Mystery Science: The Case of the Missing Lunch (grades 3-4)

Mystery Science: The Case of the Missing Bicycle (grades 3-4) Natural Disasters: A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit The PBL Project: Integrated Problem Scenarios (Upper Elementary) The PBL Project: Integrated Problem Scenarios (Middle School/Secondary) Problem-Based Learning In Your Classroom by Shelagh A. Gallagher Project Based Learning Toolkit Series - PBL Starter Kit 2nd edition by Buck Institute For Education

What a Find Grades 3-4 This unit is designed to introduce elementary students to archaeology. The problem-based learning format was chosen in order to allow students to acquire significant science content knowledge in the course of solving an interdisciplinary, real-world problem.

Social Studies Resources

The 1920s in America - A Decade of Tensions Grades 6-7 This unit provides opportunities for students through an interdisciplinary study of the complexity of cause and effect in the United States in the 1920s.

A House Divided? The Civil War: Its Causes and Effects Grades 5-6 This is an interdisciplinary study on the cause and effect relationships in the American Civil War. Amelia Earhart – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder The American Civil War – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Ancient China: The Middle Kingdom Grades 2-3 This social studies unit is designed around the ideas that human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems. Systems of language, leadership, economics, and education are examined in the historical context of ancient China, with opportunities for students to compare this ancient society with their own community systems.

Ancient Egypt: Gift of the Nile Grades 2-3 Ancient Egypt consists of 20 lessons each designed to take from 1-2 hours of instruction on the ancient Egyptian culture. Comparisons to our own community are made to help students learn about how systems of geography, government, economics, and language interact. Any Country – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Any Historical Document – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Any State – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Apple Valley School Grades 2-6 A simulation of pioneer life in a one-room schoolhouse. Artists – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Blunder or Brainstorm? Fact & Fiction of Famous Inventors and Inventions by Nancy Polette

Building a New System: Colonial America 1607-1763 Grades 4-5 The guiding theme of this unit is the recognition that systems are everywhere. Systems affect people and their relationships, as well as the world around them. Social, environmental, economical, and political systems are examined in the historical context of Colonial America. The unit engages students in discussion and writing about the primary and secondary sources they read, and in independent and group learning opportunities that promote development of both interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. Bullying – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Cartooning – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Challenging Units for Gifted Learners: Social Studies (gifted 6-8)

Civil War Grades 5 A simulation of civilian and soldier life during the American Civil War.

Classroom City Grades 4-5 A simulation of local government and economics.

Discovery Grades 5-9 Allows students to live and breathe the early American colonial experience. Students become colonists – thinking as colonists, suffering as colonists, and hopefully, succeeding and prospering as colonists. Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle School , by Linda Levstik and Keith Barton

Dust Bowl Grades 3-5 This unit is designed to introduce the overarching science concept of system to high ability early elementary students through the use of problem based learning. A variety of systems, including small ecosystems and social systems are presented in the context of a simulated real-world problem.

EGYPT: A Simulation of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Grades 5–10 This simulation has students sail the Nile from its source in Africa to where it flows into the Mediterranean. Multiple lesson phases focus on different aspects of Egyptian history, culture, or geography. To navigate, students complete a series of requirements while traveling as citizens of one of five ancient cities. Sample tasks: make a 3D map of the Nile valley; use Egyptian numbers and hieroglyphs; construct masks to wear in the afterworld; study Ancient Egyptian myths, religion, art, and architecture; create costumes; and participate in a festival and living museum.

The Electoral Process (Election 2012) – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Explorers Grades 4-7 Delving first into the Native American nations, students create a Codex to describe the four components of one nation, using bulleted facts and drawings. Famous People – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Finding Freedom Grades 6-8 Students will examine multiple perspectives, conflicts, ideas, and challenges through the analysis of primary sources and key historical events. This unit features close readings of some of the most famous American political speeches from notable

Americans, presidents, and minority voices. Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, social studies content connections, and ELA tasks that require argument and explanatory writing.

Galleon Grades 5 A simulation of the quest for gold on the Spanish Main. Genuine Geniuses , by Nancy Polette Take a leisurely stroll through the pages of a Gallery of Gifted you will meet those who have earned the title of "Genius" in the fields of science, invention, literature, music, and art. Not all showed their genius at a young age. Gifted or Goof Off? Fact & Fiction of the Famous by Nancy Polette

Greeks A simulation of the history and culture of Ancient Greece History Pockets : These units were designed to “make history come alive” with engaging portfolio projects. Fun formats such as mini books and 3-D paper projects introduce historical concepts in dynamic new ways. Each book comes with interesting and accurate historical information along with helpful illustrations, maps, charts, and timelines.

● American Civil War ● Ancient Greece ● Moving West ● American Revolution ● Colonial America ● Ancient Rome ● Explorers of North America - The journeys of 10 famous adventurers are highlighted. ● Ancient Egypt - Students take a travel adventure back to the time of pharaohs, mummies, and

hieroglyphs.

Honor Grades 4-8 As Native American youths, students undergo a one-moon solitary wilderness survival trip during which they strive to journey from youth to adulthood.

Independence Grades 5-9 A simulation of the American Revolution. Students assume one of the 36 simulation identities and become Loyalists, Patriots or Neutralists working to move other colonists to adopt their position during the turbulent 1770s.

Invent Grades 4-8 A simulation about inventors and the invention process.

Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program – These units include a small group set of non-fiction trade books for students and a teacher guide with instructions, background, discussion

prompts, and reproducible activity sheets. The intent is to target reading comprehension skills in learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic to understanding to critical analyses of texts. Trade book titles: (Level I targets grades 2-3 , Level II targets grades 4-5 )

● From Caves to Canvas I ● Native Americans I ● Medical Pioneers I ● Colonial Times II

Kid Town Grades K-3 A thematic simulation in which young children learn about community life while developing reading, writing, speaking, art, and math skills. Learning and Thinking About China – Written in a magazine-type format [19 copies] Learning from the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Game Across the Curriculum

Living the Past Interact Unit Feudalism (Middle Ages simulation)

Persian War (Coalition simulation) Phoenician Trade (Early Trade simulation) River Civilization Roman Trade (Trade simulation) The Silk Road (World trade simulation) Tribes Paleolithic Age/Neolithic Revolution

Mexico – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder Multicultural Study of Cinderella Tub Grades 1-3 A literary unit plan, includes a binder with lesson plans and a tub of trade books based on “Cinderella” stories from different cultures. As students learn about and begin to recognize the elements that define a tale or story as a “fairy tale”, the lesson focus will be on Cinderella. Students will explore different cultures by reading and analyzing a variety of Cinderella stories from different countries, regions and/or time periods and then compare and contrast these versions of the story, noting the rich influence of culture in each retelling of the ancient tale. Partner or Pleaser? Fact & Fiction of the First Ladies by Nancy Polette

Pilgrims: A Simulation of the First Year at Plymouth Colony Grades 2–5 Students assume the roles of early American colonists so they can better understand the trials that the original Pilgrims underwent during the first year at Plymouth Colony. Cooperative skills are emphasized as student teams tackle the tasks of crossing the Atlantic, drafting a governing compact for their colony, building houses, planting and harvesting crops, and making peace treaties and trading with the Indians. Each team's fate depends both upon answering true/false questions about Pilgrim life, and upon the quality of journal entries kept by individual team members.

Pioneers Grades 5-8 A simulation of decision-making on a wagon train. Power or Politics: Fact & Fiction of the Presidents , by Nancy Polette Answers a variety of questions related the men who have served as U. S. Presidents.

Primary Sources and Historical Analysis Grades 9-10 Primary resources utilization allows teachers to involve students in hands-on investigation of course materials as well as develop analytical skills through critical interpretation of the sources. The Revolutionary War – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

The Road to the White House: Electing a U.S. President

Romans: Great Eras in History During seven phases (called "vias"), students join a gen (a clan), acquire Roman names, complete cooperative exercises on Roman daily life, build wooden standards, use knucklebones with a Forum of Roma game board, create maps for the expanding Empire, prepare a timeline, and play a "history mystery" on the death of the Empire. Smithfield Plantation An interactive DVD tour and general historical information Social Studies Plexers – A collection of word puzzles: anthropology, government, history, politics, and sociology Sports – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Stock Market Grades 6-12 A math and economics simulation of buying and selling on the stock market. Students have an imaginary $100 to invest and try to make wise decisions by researching their purchases. The Stock Market Game: A Simulation of Stock Market Trading “Symbols of America” – Scholastic Theme Guide [29 student books and 1 teacher guide] Taskmasters! Performance Tasks for High Ability Middle School Students: Social Studies by Carolyn Stamm Trial or Triumph? Fact & Fiction of the Gifted by Nancy Polette

Underground Railroad Grades 4-8 Students experience the Underground Railroad through the eyes of "passengers," "conductors," patrols, and bounty hunters as they simulate an escape across school grounds. Working in groups, students learn about railroad protocol, stories of escape, major routes, railroad agents and friends, and the consequences of detection. The teacher's guide provides complete directions and reproducible handouts that include procedures, readings, a glossary, rubrics, and other handouts. U.S. Government – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder

Verdict Grades 5-10 A simulation emphasizing environmental protections and demonstrating the judicial process. Two backpacking college students are charged with starting a forest fire and are put on trial. The Vietnam War – A Bloom’s Differentiated Enrichment Unit binder What is this Thing? Everyday Things of Long Ago Encourage creative and critical thinking with this "guessing game" type of book which contains pictures and information about important objects from the 1800s. Whose Clues? “A Famous Name Guessing Game" This is a series of books that develop creative, divergent thinking skills and encourage cooperative learning. Students will listen carefully, think deductively, ask questions, and work together to find the answers. Individual book topics include:

● Musicians and Composers

● Characters in Literature ● Famous Authors

● American History ● Sports Heroes ● Inventors and Scientists World Guides from Highlights: “Top Secret Adventures” A set of trade books, each featuring a different country. Titles include: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Sweden

The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution Grades 4-5 Intensive document analysis and exploration of the concept of cause and effect form the foundation of this unit on the Revolutionary period in American history. The unit explores the chronology and major events leading up to and during the Revolutionary War and uses primary sources to demonstrate the social and political context. The contributions of particularly individuals and groups to the history of the times are also highlighted.

GAMES Chocolate Fix by ThinkFun Using the clues, fill the tray with all nine chocolate pieces in their correct positions. Similar to Sudoku, you must examine all clues on the challenge card before making a move. You will feel your confidence build as you narrow the possibilities to complete each challenge in this fun logic game. CodeMaster - Programming Logic Game by Think Fun Using programming logic, help your Avatar collect the Crystals and land at the Portal. This game builds planning, sequential reasoning, and problem solving skills in addition to teaching more complex coding concepts such as loops and conditional branching.

Cross Ways - Be the first to complete a path across the board .

Dabble - A fast thinking word game. (ages 10+)

Engineering Ants Beat the obstacle and rescue the ants! Geek Out Geek Out is the game of mind-altering fun that finds out once and for all which player is the most knowledgeable about your favorite pop culture subjects! Get 4 and Score (ages 8+) Practice quick recall and build vocabulary while you score points playing the game. Players race against the timer to think up words that fit the category card and start with the correct letter. Gravity Maze by Think Fun This gravity powered logic maze is a test of your visual perception and reasoning skills. Create a maze that will carry a marble from the Start Position to the Target Tower. High Tail It! Cross the river, circle the board, pivot over other kangaroos and cross the river again. Be the first player to complete the journey with all FIVE of your Kangaroos and win the game! Hoppers A Twist on the classic Peg Solitaire game, you leap one frog over another until only the red frog remains. IQ Blox

In IQ-Blox the walls don’t block; instead they help you find solutions. Use the walls as guides as you fill the game board with colorful puzzle pieces. From easy to expert, IQ-Blox includes 120 challenges that are easy to set up…but hard to put down! IQ Steps The object of the game is to fit all of the puzzle pieces onto the grid. With only 8 game pieces this sounds simple, right? IQ Steps pieces have two layers and overlap each other - making finding the right layout a real challenge. Not only do you need to put the pieces in the right space, you also need to do it in the correct sequence. Features 120 increasingly difficult challenges. Katachi The first player to stack 3 shape tiles on top of their corner tile and on on the adjacent tile wins! L-Sixteen The 16 L tetrominoes with holes—puzzle figures and games Last Letter A fresh take on this simple last letter game will inspire creativity, laughter and fast thinking. Race to come up with a word that is pictured on one of the cards in your hand. Your word must begin with the last letter of the word previously called. Unique illustrations encourage creativity and allow for countless interpretations and a new experience each time you play. Laser Maze Beam-bending logic game: Direct the laser beam through this series of mind challenging mazes. Magic Mosaic Create mosaics using colored tiles. Includes tiles, six-sided frame, and pattern suggestions. Math Dice Tournament Kit Get students excited about math by holding your very own math dice tournament! Muggins Math Available through the collection:

● MUGGINS! / Knock-Out! (on a reversible board) ● Knock-Out! / Fudge (on a reversible board) ● Fudge / MUGGINS! (on a reversible board) ● Jelly Beans / Knock-Out! (on a reversible board) ● Over & Under/Down & Around (on a reversible board)

Pelican Cove Players use logic and algebraic thinking to figure out where each pelican should go. Quadrillion The ultimate solitaire game. Robo Rally A frenzied race filled with computer-driven chaos!

Robot Turtles Robot Turtles is a board game for a grownup to play with children ages 3-8. It sneakily teaches kids (and grownups!) programming fundamentals. Rush Hour by ThinkFun – Rush hour is a sliding block puzzle game. Can you help get the red car out of gridlock? Shift those pesky cars and semi trucks surrounding it to see if you can clear a path! Leveled from Beginner to Grandmaster, see if you can get it done in the optimal number of moves. Say What You Meme - Create your own memes and choose which are the funniest. Sheep Dogs - This is a fast paced game where players play cards that determine how many and what kind of actions they may take. The actions may involve only their own pieces, a combination of their own pieces and other players’ pieces, or only the other players’ pieces. (ages 10+) Tapple - A fast-paced word game. Pick a category, say a word that fits, tap the first letter of the word, then pass the Tapple wheel. Telestrations: The Telephone Game Sketched Out - Draw what you see, then guess what you saw. Welcome to Code Monkey Island - Introduces children to fundamental programming concepts including: Conditional statements, loops, variables, Boolean logic, Logical operators, and mathematical operations. Word Bits Think fast! Call out a word that contains all of the letters on the dice to collect the card. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins!

Professional Resources for Teachers This section provides an alphabetical listing of professional books and resources geared directly to educators; covering a variety of subjects, from learning styles and multiple intelligences, assessments and product choices, to differentiated instruction and special education topics.

The 7 Habits of Happy Kids Sean Covey (2008) The 7 Habits are based on powerful principles that have been enriching lives for generations. It is a proven philosophy for adults and teens that can be applied to kids. The 21 st Century Mentor’s Handbook by Paula Rutherford This mentor's handbook, field tested by hundreds of mentors, provides a multitude of resources to help mentors promote the success and professional growth of new teachers. 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn , by James Bellanca 90 Instructional Strategies for the Classroom , by Janet Smith 99 Activities and Greetings , by Melissa Correa-Connolly Great for morning meeting, as well as other applications in the classroom.

101 “Answers” for New Teachers and Their Mentors by Annette L. Breaux Organized so new teachers can read it by themselves; this book can also be studied collaboratively with veteran teachers who have been selected to mentor them. 101 School Success Tools for Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties A comprehensive resource that will help educators recognize and nurture the potential in these students, providing strategies to empower smart kids with learning challenges to become successful, confident, and independent learners. The ABC’s of Math Differentiation

● If you are a teacher implementing Guided Math, these activities are already differentiated for you to use with each of your different ability groups.

● If you are responsible for reaching all levels of learners through RTI strategies, these activities allow for differentiation using the same mathematical problems.

● For those students who may have already mastered these skills, the activities will allow them to apply and enrich their current knowledge level of the subject matter.

● Each activity has a theme and poses a real world problem to the students. ● The last chapter contains questions aimed at enhancing problem solving skills.

Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners , by Joyce vanTassel-Baska Accidental Techie to the Rescue! K-6 , by Lori Elliott Simple tech solutions for your biggest classroom challenges Achieving Excellence: Educating the Gifted and Talented , by Frances A. Karnes and Kristen R. Stephens Active Learning and Engagement Strategies , by Paula Rutherford Activities and Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom , by Carolyn Coil Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Measurement & Polygons by Jerry Burkhart Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21 st Century , by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D. Anchor Challenges for the DI Classroom , by Amy Humphreys Applying Differentiation Strategies Grades 3-5 by Wendy Corklin Asking Smart Questions , by Dr. Jacqueline Frischknecht and Ella Marie Schroeder Asking the Right Questions: Techniques for Collaboration and School Change , by Edie Holcomb Assessing Differentiated Student Products: A Protocol for Development and Evaluation , by Julia L. Roberts and Tracy F. Inman

Assessment in Middle and High School Mathematics: A Teacher’s Guide , by Daniel J. Brahier Assessment in the Classroom: The Key to Good Instruction , by Carolyn Callahan Assessment: Time-Saving Procedures for Busy Teachers by Bertie Kingore Includes procedures you can start using today without hours of extra prep time. Practical techniques from ten years of implementation in thousands of classrooms across the nation. Awakening Genius in the Classroom , by Thomas Armstrong Becoming an Achiever , by Carolyn Coil Bertie’s Book Notes , by Bertie Kingore Better Instruction Through Assessment by Leslie Walker Wilson This book provides a classroom teacher with skills needed to accurately and fairly interpret students’ assessment results and will assist in using these results to plan instruction to meet the specific needs of students. Bloom’s and Beyond , by Kay Davidson and Tresa Decker The Brain-Compatible Classroom by Laura Erlauer Brain research can be applied to classroom teaching in a way that is both intuitive and scientific. Synthesizing recent research exploring how the brain works, she explains how students' emotions and stress affect their ability to learn, how the physical classroom environment influences learning, and what forms of assessment work best. Centers in Minutes , by Bertie Kingore Choice and Challenge: Engaging Anchor Activities for the Differentiated Classroom Provides descriptions and directions for 27 anchor activities to implement and modify for your students. Each activity is aligned to the Common Core Standards and they provide both choice and challenge because they are also identified by the 6 levels of Bloom's' Taxonomy. Classroom Instruction that Works with English Language Learners , by Jane D. Hill and Kathleen M. Flynn The strategies discussed in the book include homework and practice, summarizing and note taking, and use of nonlinguistic representations, among many others. For each strategy, the authors provide a summary of the research, detailed examples of how to modify the strategy for use with English Language Learners (ELLs) in mainstream classrooms, and teacher accounts of implementation. Because ELLs face cultural hurdles as well as linguistic ones, this book also shows teachers how to glean insight into students’ backgrounds and address the cultural biases inherent in many classroom practices. Classroom Management that Works by Robert J. Marzano Research based strategies for educators. The Classroom of Choice by Jonathan C. Erwin Drawing on theories and practices from experts in a variety of learning techniques, Erwin explores each of the five basic needs to create nearly 200 adaptable strategies for teaching and classroom management at any grade level. Closing Circles , by Januszka and Vincent Fifty activities for ending the day in a positive way

The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All – A Schoolwide Model , by Susan Winebrenner and Dina Brulles Coil RTI Progress Monitoring Forms for Gifted Learners , by Carolyn Coil Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners – 3rd Edition , by Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Tamra Stambaugh Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching Beyond the Facts , by H. Lynn Erickson The author explores concept-based learning on a more in-depth level across disciplines and grade levels. Teachers can use the specific strategies to create a seamless learning program that teaches students the skills they really need to think conceptually and to solve problems in today's complex, changing world. Connecting Girls and Science: Constructivism, Feminism, and Science Education Reform , by Elaine Howes Content-Based Curriculum for High-Ability Learners Creating a Culture for Learning , by Paula Rutherford Creating an Inclusive School (2 nd Edition) by Richard A. Villa and Jacqueline S. Thousand This resource shows how schools can meet standards and provide a "least restrictive environment" for students with disabilities by using cooperative learning, teaming, multi-age grouping, multicultural education, social skills training, and educational technology applications. Creative Problem Solving Kit , by the Center for Creative Learning Critical and Formative Thinking Assessments: Increasing the Rigor in Your Classroom This book shows you how to develop your students' critical thinking skills and prepare them to perform competitively in the classroom, on state tests, and beyond. The authors show you how to effectively instruct your students to think on higher levels and how to assess their progress Cultivating Classroom Conversation - Strategies and activities that build student dialogue into standards-based lessons Curiosita Teaching: Integrating Creative Thinking into your 21st Century Classroom , by Patti and Richard Shade Dealing with Difficult Teachers , by Todd Whitaker Demystifying Differentiation in Elementary School , by Caroline Eidson, Bob Iseminger, and Chris Taibbi Demystifying Differentiation in Middle School , by Caroline Eidson, Bob Iseminger, and Chris Taibbi Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Students , by Joan Smutny

Developing and Exploring Habits of Mind by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick The authors define and describe 16 types of intelligent behavior that they call "habits of mind." These habits of mind can aid both students and adults in school and in everyday life as they encounter problems, dilemmas, and enigmas, the resolutions of which are not immediately apparent. Developing More Curious Minds , by John Barell Developing Portfolios for Authentic Assessment - preK-3 , by Bertie Kingore Differentiated Activities and Assessments Using the Common Core Standards , by Carolyn Coil Differentiated Assessment for Middle and High School Classrooms , by Deborah Blaz Differentiated Assessment Strategies , by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King The Differentiated Classroom: 2 nd Edition- Responding to the Needs of All Learners , by Carol Tomlinson In this 2nd edition of The Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson explains the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction, explores curriculum and the learning environment, shares dozens of strategies, and reveals the examples of authentic teachers who are differentiating every day in their classrooms. The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of Elementary Learners - DVD, Tomlinson This ASCD video, based on the updated second edition of Tomlinson's book, shows how K-5 teachers use differentiated instruction to effectively instruct students from a variety of backgrounds, readiness, and skill levels. The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of Secondary Learners - DVD. Carol Tomlinson Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson’s book this DVD shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. Differentiated Instruction: Different Strategies for Different Learners This book includes 119 low-cost, high-impact, ready-to-implement strategies to help build community, assess on the fly, find new pathways to mastery in literacy and math, use technology to differentiate, and much more. Reproducibles included. Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas , by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas , by Carolyn Chapman and Rita King Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Second Edition , by Gayle H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman Differentiating for the Young Child , by Joan Franklin Smutny and S.E. Von Fremp Differentiating Instruction in a Whole-Group Setting , by Betty Hollas

Differentiating Instruction with Menus , by Laurie Westphal Includes: reproducible and blank menus based on Bloom’s revised taxonomy, product ideas and guidelines, rubrics and teacher introduction pages.

● Biology (Biology basics, biodiversity and environments, genetics, human body systems, and the different phyla typically included in a biology curriculum).

● Math (Whole Numbers and Operations, Fractions, Probability and Statistics, Geometry, Measurement, Problem Solving)

● Math K-2 (Numbers and Number Sense, Operations, Geometry, Measurement) ● Social Studies (Ancient History, American History, Government, US Documents, The People,

Geography) ● Social Studies K-2 (Culture and Citizenship, Geography, Government, History, People and

Places) ● Language Arts (Genres, Novels, Mechanics) ● Language Arts K-2 ● Science (Physical Science, Biological Science, Earth Science, Scientists and the Tools They

Use) ● Science K-2 (Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science)

Differentiating Lessons Using Bloom’s Taxonomy , by John Lester

● Science Grades 3-8 Focus: The Scientific Method, Investigation and Experimentation ● Reading Grades 5-8 Focus: Reading Process and Reading Comprehension ● Math Grades 5-8 Focus: Data Collection and Statistical Method s ● Writing Grades 5-8 Focus: The Writing Process ● Social Studies Grades 6-8 Focus: Civics, Citizenship, and Government ● Research Grades 6-8 Focus: Research Standards for Language Arts, Social Studies, and

Science

Differentiation and the Brain , by David Sousa and Carol Tomlinson Differentiation Dictionary , by Mary Rogers A glossary of 90 key terms you need to know for success in the Common Core classroom Differentiation for Gifted Learners - Going Beyond the Basics , by Heacox and Cash This book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students with the specific teaching methods used to tailor their educational experiences. Differentiation: From Planning to Practice Grades 6-12 , by Rick Wormelli Differentiation in Middle & High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners by Kristina Doubet In this resource for middle and high school teachers, the authors explore how to use differentiated instruction to help all students, regardless of background or experience, become more successful learners. Each chapter provides practice tools, templates, and strategies for a variety of subject areas developed by and for real teachers. Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum – Grades K-5 , by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson

Differentiation in Practice: A Resource Guide for Differentiating Curriculum – Grades 5-9 , by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson Differentiation Made Simple , by Mary Ann Carr Time-saving tools for teachers Differentiation, RTI and Achievement , by Carolyn Coil Differentiation: Simplified, Realistic, and Effective , by Bertie Kingore Discovering Programs for Talent Development , by Beverly N. Parke Doing Differentiation: Classroom Differentiation Strategy Flip Chart This instant Flip Chart identifies 15 differentiation strategies – defines them and lists key points to consider. In addition, techniques are described to help you modify the strategies according to your unique lessons and assessment components. The Flip Chart includes Bloom’s Taxonomy levels and their key verbs to help add rigor to your lessons. Education and Public Health by Jenny Smith This book describes the lessons learned from school and community partnership projects that used public health as a focus for student learning and community involvement. It provides insights into how schools and community public health agencies can work together to improve student achievement, behavior and health. Education of the Gifted and Talented – Fifth Edition , by Gary A. Davis, Sylvia B. Rimm The Educator’s Field Guide by Edward S. Ebert II, Christine Ebert and Michael Bentley A resource book that covers all four key cornerstones of effective teaching—organization, classroom management, instruction, and assessment—this handy reference offers a bridge from college to classroom with a hearty dose of practical guidance for teachers who aspire to greatness. Teachers will also find lesson plan templates, graphs, charts, quizzes, and games—all in one easy-to-use source. Empowering the Beginning Teacher of Mathematics: High School by NCTM Encouraging Achievement , by Carolyn Coil Energizers! by Susan Lattanzi Roser Includes 88 quick movement activities that refresh and refocus, K-6 Engaging Gifted Learners: Experiences of a Gifted Teacher , by Sue Bohon Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding Extending the Challenge in Mathematics: Developing Mathematical Promise in K-8 Students , by Linda Sheffield The First Year Teacher’s Survival Guide by Julia G. Thompson Gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day.

The First Days of School: How to Become an Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong This book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year at any grade level, pre-K through college. The First Six Weeks of School by Paula Denton and Roxann Kriete Learn how to structure the first six weeks of school to lay the groundwork for a productive year of learning. Discover how taking the time to build a solid foundation in the early weeks of school can pay off all year long in increased student motivation, cooperation, responsibility, and self-control. Flip Your Classroom , by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams Foreign Language Teacher’s Guide to Active Learning by Deborah Blaz The easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book will help middle and high school foreign language teachers enhance their students' success. It shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience, experiment and discover a foreign language. It applies brain research, multiple intelligences, alternative assessment, technology and other educational innovations to the foreign language classroom. Formative Assessment for English Language Arts: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers , by Amy Benjamin From Standards to Success by Mark R. O’Shea The author introduces the Standards Achievement Planning Cycle (SAPC), a comprehensive protocol for meeting the standards. To illustrate his multi-layered approach, O’Shea takes readers to a fictional school as it prepares to install the SAPC. Generating Standards Based Lessons: Planning and Implementing Lessons in the Age of Standards This books merges "teaching and learning" in creative, original, and innovative ways to focus on the teacher's role in the standards-based learning process - the role of generating lessons that produce greater learning and achievement in the classroom. Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping , edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs Gifted Books, Gifted Readers: Literature Activities to Excite Young Minds , by Nancy Polette Gifted Education Programming Standards: A Guide to Implementing High-Quality Services, Grades PreK-12 , by Susan Johnsen Gifted Goes Thinking! , by Dr. Dianne McCune Handbook on Differentiated Instruction for Middle and High Schools , by Sharon Spencer Northey Handbook of Instructional Strategies: Integrating Creative Teaching into Your 21st Century Classroom , by Patti and Richard Shade Handbook of Secondary Gifted Education , edited by Felicia Dixon and Sidney Moon Honoring Diverse Teaching Styles: A Guide for Supervisors by Edward Pajak This concise guide describes a system for fostering effective teacher development, and includes: descriptions and

examples of the four basic styles of teaching; tips for matching your communication style with the teacher’s preferred style; and tools for effectively observing classroom practice. How the Brain Learns – Second Edition , by David A. Sousa How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms (Second Edition) by Carol Ann Tomlinson How To Plan Rigorous Instruction by Robyn R. Jackson Takes you step by step through the process of planning rigorous instruction what great teachers do to ensure students have a learning destination that’s worth working toward and that the path they take to get there will help them pass the big tests and become engaged learners, effective problem solvers, and critical thinkers. How to Reach and Teach All Students – Simplified , by Elizabeth Breaux Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide , by Susan Johnsen I’m not Just Gifted: Social-Emotional Curriculum for Guiding Gifted Children (grades 4-7) by Christine Fonseca Inspiring Middle School Minds: Gifted, Creative, and Challenging , by Judy Willis Instruction for All Students (2 nd Edition) by Paula Rutherford In addition to resources for actively engaging students and multiple approaches to lesson and unit design, this text includes information on technology integration, formative assessment, 21st century thinking skills that promote rigor and relevance, and formats for job-embedded learning. A CD-ROM of templates is included. Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and Their Teachers , by Karen Isaacson & Tamara Fisher Interactive Modeling: A Powerful Technique for Teaching Children , by Margaret Berry Wilson Just What I Need! Learning Experiences to Use on Multiple Days in Multiple Ways , by Bertie Kingore The Kingore Observation Inventory , by Bertie Kingore Leadership Capacity for Lasting School Improvement , by Linda Lambert Individual chapters directly address the changing role of the principal, parents as leaders, district leadership, major participation patterns and more, in this excellent and highly informative resource ideal for anyone charged with a role of leadership responsibility in the corridors of academia. Leadership for Differentiating Schools and Classrooms , by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Susan Demirsky Allan Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom , by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau Leadership for Kids , by Cecelia Boswell, Ed.D, Mary Christopher, Ph.D, and JJ Colburn, M.Ed

The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results by Douglas B. Reeves Helps leadership teams go beyond excuses to capitalize on their strengths and reduce their weaknesses. He introduces the Leadership for Learning Framework, which challenges readers to consider that student achievement is more than a set of test scores. From conducting strategic planning to evaluating projects to organizing leadership teams, this book will help leaders re-conceptualize their leadership role and motivate their colleagues. Learning Styles Inventory , by Joseph Renzulli Learning to Be a Durable Person - An affective needs curriculum for K-5 gifted and talented children addressing social and emotional needs Lincoln on Leadership , by Donald Phillips Linking Teacher Evaluation and Student Learning , by Pamela Tucker and James Stronge Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms , by Diane Heacox Making Schools Smarter (3 rd Edition) by Leithwood, Aitken, and Jantzi This practical guide addresses and helps resolve significant issues in district and school leadership, including: determining a comprehensive and real image of future schools and districts as professional learning communities; highlighting critical changes for achieving missions and goals; and providing school leaders with much-needed tools to demonstrate and improve accountability. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners , by Paula Rutherford Mentoring Across Boundaries by Jean Boreen and Donna Niday with Mary K. Johnson Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement , by Mary Cay Ricci This book provides educators with ideas for ways to build a growth mindset school culture, wherein students are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential. Mindsets in the Classroom: Everything Educators Need for School Success (Ready-to-Use-Reproducibles) by Mary Cay Ricci Morning Contracts (CD-ROM) Skill Differentiation in the Primary Classroom K-2 Math and Communication Skills - Pieces of Learning, by Kristi Youmans The Morning Meeting Book by Roxann Kriete The book's step-by-step implementation guidelines; clear explanations of purposes; and specific examples of activities, greetings, and charts have helped teachers across the country launch their school days with Morning Meeting. The Motivated Student: Unlocking the Enthusiasm for Learning by Bob Sullo Drawing from in-depth interviews with successful educators, counselors, and administrators and a careful analysis of the

research on classroom motivation, this book provides an indispensable blueprint for ensuring that students in grades 4-12 are engaged in the classroom. Motivating and Inspiring Teachers , by Todd and Beth Whittaker and Dale Lumpa Motivating Underachievers , by Carolyn Coil The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing , by Thomas Armstrong Never Work Harder than Your Students by Robyn R. Jackson Using a short set of basic principles and classroom examples that promote reflection, this book explains how to develop a master teacher mindset. Lots of classroom tips, problem-solving advice, and tools to help you begin practicing the book's principles in your classroom right away. The New Teacher's Guide to Success , by Matthew Haldeman This resource guide is perfect for all grades and contains a wealth of useful ideas and strategies plus decision checklists and planning guides. Presented in an easy-to-use format to find answers to questions about classroom management, homework, communicating with parents, and more. No More Letter of the Week!: A Framework for Integrating Reading Strategies and Cueing Systems With Letter-Sound Introduction , by Patricia Lusche Not Just Schoolwork , by Nathan Levy Includes over 200 activities for critical thinking and written expression. The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High-Ability Learners , by Tomlinson, Kaplan, Renzulli, Purcell, Leppien, Burns Patterns and Profiles of Promising Learners from Poverty , edited by Joyce VanTassel-Baska The Performance Assessment Handbook, Volume 2: Performances and Exhibitions by Bill Johnson With examples from real classrooms, this book shows teachers how performance assessment can improve the quality of students’ work. Explanations and annotations are provided of actual student handouts, evaluation sheets, and other forms used by successful teachers at schools across the country. Philosophy for Kids , by David White The Portfolio Organizer: Succeeding with Portfolios in Your Classroom , by Rolheiser, Bower, and Stevahn The Power of our Words: Teacher Language That Helps Children Learn , by Paula Denton Practical Ideas That Really Work For Students Who Are Gifted , by Gail Ryser and Kathleen McConnell Problem Based Learning in your Classroom , by Shelagh Gallagher Product Pouch 2 Provides a resource of information on a wide variety of products: written, oral, visual, technological, and kinesthetic.

Products Tool Bag Contains directions for more than 40 products through which students can demonstrate knowledge in a defined content area. Also included are final assessment rubrics for each product. Available for grades K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 Programs and Services for Gifted Secondary Students: A Guide to Recommended Practices Project Based Learning , by William Bender Promoting Social and Emotional Learning by Maurice Elis Psychology for Kids – 40 Fun Experiments That Help You Learn About Others , by J. Kincher This book is written for kids ages 12 and up. The experiments are based in science, but they feel like games. Reaching All Learners: Making Differentiation Work , by Bertie Kingore Recognizing Gifted Potential: Planned Experiences with the KOI , by Bertie Kingore Removing the Mask: How to Identify and Develop Giftedness in Students from Poverty , by Paul D. Slocumb, Ruby K Payne, et al. Rethinking Homework: Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs , by Kathy Vatterott Reversing Underachievement among Gifted Black Students: Promising Practices and Programs , by Donna Ford Rigor and Engagement for Growing Minds by Bertie Kingore Rigor for Students With Special Needs This practical book explains how to raise the rigor for students with special needs so they can achieve higher levels of learning. You will learn how to set clear goals and expectations, establish a climate of success, scaffold and model lessons, apply modifications and accommodations, differentiate instruction, and more. The appendix features handy reproducibles and a book study guide. Rigor in Your School: A Toolkit for Leaders Raise the level of rigor in your school and dramatically improve student learning with the wide variety of tools in this book. Each illuminating exercise is tailored to educators looking to learn about rigor and beat the obstacles to achieving it school-wide. Formatted to be used by individuals and groups, these tools are perfect for those who currently hold or aspire to leadership roles and those who are natural leaders within their schools or departments. Also available: binder with additional downloadable content to accompany the book Rigorous Schools and Classrooms: Leading the Way This book shows school leaders how to build a shared vision of a rigorous school. It is filled with immediately applicable, school-based strategies based on the COMPASS Model - C-Creating a Positive and Supportive Culture; O-Owner and Shared Vision; M-Managing Data; P-Professional Development; A-Advocacy; S-Shared Accountability; S-Structures Also available: binder with additional downloadable content to accompany the book Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students , by Renzulli, et al.

School Leadership That Works by Marzano, Walters, and McNulty Combining rigorous research with practical advice, this book gives school administrators the guidance they need to provide strong leadership for better schools. Schoolwide Enrichment Model: A How-to Guide for Talent Development by Joseph Renzulli, Ed.D and Sally M. Reis, Ph.D Schoolwide Enrichment Model with Technology by Angela Housand, Ph.D, Brian Housand, Ph.D, and Joseph Renzulli, Ed.D Science Formative Assessment , by Page Keeley Socratic Seminars and Literature Circles for Middle and High School English This book contains lesson plans, student handouts, and other handy features to help you engage your students in active learning. So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences by Silver, Strong, Perini This book includes rationales and research-based principles of learning that support integrated learning; many classroom examples, activities, and organizers to help educators process ideas and analyze their current practices; instruments for readers to identify their own style and intelligence profiles; and planning templates for designing integrated lessons, assessments, and curriculum. Solving the Assessment Puzzle, Piece by Piece , by Coil and Merritt Includes assessment terminology, standards and benchmarks, high-stakes tests, alternative assessment, how to write rubrics, over 75 teacher-created rubrics and checklists, and a customizable CD Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers , by Judith Wynn Halsted Special Populations in Gifted Education – Understanding Our Most Able Students From Diverse Backgrounds , edited by Jaime A. Castellano and Andrea Dawn Frazier Strategies for Differentiating Instruction: Best Practices for the Classroom , by Julia Roberts and Tracy Inman Student Achievement Goal Setting: Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning , by Leslie Grant and James Stronge Supervision for Learning: A Performance-Based Approach to Teacher Development and School Improvement by Aseltine, Faryniarz and Rigazio-DiGilio This book introduces Performance-Based Supervision and Evaluation (PBSE), a data-driven and teacher-directed approach proven to build educators’ analytical and instructional capacity to address the learning needs of their students. Sustaining Change in Schools by Daniel P. Johnson The text describes the five step process, using practical examples and presenting practical tools for promoting and sustaining quality schools over time and across groups and communities. Teach Like a Techie with Apps!: 20 Powerful iPad Apps You’ll Use Every Day , by Lori Elliott, EdD

Teach Like a Techie: 20 Tools for Reaching the Digital Generation K-12 Teach Like Socrates: Guiding Socratic Dialogues and Discussions in the Classroom , by Erick Wilberding Teacher Leadership that Strengthens Professional Practice by Charlotte Danielson This book gives individuals and schools a practical framework for tapping teachers' leadership potential and marshaling their efforts to better educate students and create a stronger learning community. Teacher-Made Assessments: How to Connect Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Learning , by Christopher R. Gareis and Leslie W. Grant The Teacher’s Book of Big Questions - A collection of questions to spark thinking across the curriculum Teachers as Classroom Coaches by Andi Stix and Frank Hrbek Shows teachers how to inspire students by adapting proven coaching strategies in class. Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom by Susan Winebrenner Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Preschool and Primary Classrooms by Joan Franklin Smutny, et al Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom (Revised and Updated Edition) by Susan Winebrenner Practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies, and tips, to help teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners. Full of proven ways to significantly improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels, this is an essential resource for every educator. Includes reproducibles. Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Together: The Reflective Classroom , by Arthur Ellis Teaching Research Skills in Grades K-12: Independent Investigation Method (IIM) Teaching Tools for the 21 st Century , by Carolyn Coil Teaching With the Brain in Mind , by Eric Jensen Teaching without Nonsense: Translating Research into Effective Practice – 2 nd Edition, by Bertie Kingore Teaching Young Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom: Identifying, Nurturing, and Challenging Ages 4-9 , by Joan Franklin Smutny, Sally Yahnke Walker, and Elizabeth A. Meckstroth Technology Fix: The Promise and Reality of Computers in Our Schools , by William Pflaum Test Better, Teach Better: The Instructional Role of Assessment , by W. James Popham This Morning Sam Went to Mars , by Nancy Carlson A picture book about paying attention.....Sam has an awesome imagination. He makes up super stories about the deepest seas, outer space, knights and castles - he has all kinds of good ideas! But Sam often has trouble focusing on schoolwork and things grown-ups ask him to do.

Tiered Activities for Learning Centers , by Karen Meador Tiered Learning Stations in Minutes: Increasing Achievement, High Level Thinking, and the Joy of Learning , by Bertie Kingore and Jeffrey Kingore Total Participation Techniques by Persida and William Himmele Providing easy-to-use alternatives to the stand and deliver approach to teaching that causes so many students to tune out, this book presents dozens of ways to engage K 12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding. Transforming Classroom Grading by Robert J. Marzano Presents viable alternatives to traditional grading systems Turning Best Practices into Daily Practices: Simple Strategies for the Busy Teacher , by Anne Beninghof Twice Exceptional Gifted Children , by Beverly A. Trail The Ultimate Guide to Internet Resources for Teachers of Gifted Students , by Karnes and Stephens Gain a detailed overview of how educators can use the internet to teach new information, extend students’ learning, and offer exciting opportunities, both in and outside the classroom. The Ultimate Guide for Student Product Development & Evaluation: - Second Edition , by Frances A. Karnes, Ph.D., & Kristen R. Stephens, Ph.D. Understanding and Nurturing Non-verbally Gifted Learners by Mark Hess Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student , by Keisa Kay Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Ask Over 100 Higher-Level Questions , by Kay Davidson The Virtual High School: Teaching Generation V , by Andrew Zucker and Robert Kozma Virtual Schooling: Issues in the Development of E-Learning Policy , by Donovan Walling Visual-Spatial Learners: Differentiation Strategies for Creating a Successful Classroom , by Alexandra Shires Golon We Care: A Curriculum for Preschool Through Kindergarten Especially designed to meet the needs of preschool and kindergarten to provide a balanced curriculum that is developmentally appropriate for young learners. This resource book has hundreds of proven, hands on activities developed and tested by experienced educators. What Works in Schools by Robert J. Marzano The author defines the factors affecting student achievement and offers compelling answers to once-elusive questions. Where Great Teaching Begins by Anne R. Reeves A step-by-step walk through the crucial, behind-the-scenes intellectual work necessary to make instruction truly effective and help students learn deeply and meaningfully.

Why Are School Buses Always Yellow: Teaching for Inquiry , by John Barell Why Didn’t I Learn This in College by Paula Rutherford This resource is based on the constructs that: the best management program is a good instructional program; if the end we have in mind is student learning, we do not want to concentrate on control and compliance but rather on building learning centered environments; and we need efficient and effective organizational systems for ourselves, our students, and our classroom. Winning Strategies for Classroom Management , by Carol Cummings Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites , by Marcia Tate