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Ann Blockley is well-known for her attractive paintings of flowers and here she explains all the basic techniques for painting country flowers in watercolour. This practical yet inspirational ebook is part of the renowned Collins Learn to Paint series.
Country flowers are an accessible and endlessly fascinating subject. In this book, Ann Blockley shows you how to capture them in watercolours, teaching the methods and techniques that are needed to...
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Get ready to create and count in this exciting introduction to math! MathArts is an innovative approach that uses creative art projects to introduce preschoolers to early math concepts. Each of the 200 hands-on projects is designed to help children discover essential math skills through a creative process unique to every individual. Math concepts include: One-to-one correspondence; matching; sorting; grouping; classifying; opposites; number recognition;...
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Experience a modern classic on writing as you've never heard it before. With nearly one million copies of Writing Down the Bones in print, Natalie Goldberg has helped change the way writing is practiced in homes, schools, and workshops across America. Through her heartfelt personal reflections and her ingenious Zen-based exercises, Goldberg makes writing available to you as a tool for personal expression, self-exploration, and healing.
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"When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, with historians pushing back against what...
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An easy-to-use guide to help readers learn about heaven. Everyone wants to know what happens after they die. Many authors have tried to describe and explain the mysteries of heaven, but what does the Bible say about it? The 100 Best Bible Verses on Heaven goes straight to the source of all Truth to give insight into the afterlife. The 100 verses that are highlighted include the well-known passages as well as hidden treasures. Each verse is followed...
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"While there are books that discuss the intersection of the arts and computer science (CS), there are none written for K-12 teachers that cover the content overlaps between CS and the arts beyond a single programming environment, and that feature approaches and examples of practicing artists. Coding and the Arts fills that gap. CS sometimes gets a bad rap as dry, isolated and uninteresting work - the pursuit of analytically minded techies working...
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Not your typical how-to manual for new teachers, this no-nonsense, jargon-free guide offers a wide variety of tools and tactics for getting through every school day with grace and sanity. Covered in glue, glitter, orange juice—or worse? Make a quick change into the spare set of clothes you keep on hand for just this purpose. Butterflies in your stomach before your first-ever Meet the Teacher Night? Keep your cool by writing the agenda on your board—it’ll...
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“Playful Learning Lab for Kids” is a hands-on activity book that offers games and activities that revolve around the senses and concepts in reading, math, art, and science.
Recent research has shown that children learn and develop new skills more quickly when they engage in playful, whole-body activities. Movement allows them to refocus their attention, improves brain function, reduces stress, and improves circulation. Not only that, but the...
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If you are studying any type of science and need to know about the periodic table and all of its elements, you may benefit from a periodic table (advanced) study guide in order to help you organize and apply the information in a matter that makes sense. With so many different elements on the table to memorize, you may be overwhelmed by the amount of information. Having a study guide helps to break down the information for you so that it is easier...
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"After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. The result is this delightful and insightful teaching bible, The Art of...
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Algebra for the Urban Student offers an algebra textbook for the typical math student. In many cases, such textbooks are written for people who love mathematics and understand the jargon. Teacher Canaa Lee has incorporated her personal experiences as a high school mathematics teacher into a textbook that is specially geared toward students' needs. Most students dislike mathematics because the subject has always been difficult for them to master. With...
18) Behaviour
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This is not a book about the theory of child behaviour or an analysis of why kids mess about in your lessons. No, this is a book that will get the kids in your class behaving the way you want them to behave, and if you follow the programme laid down in this book, you will have the pupils in your class eating out of your hand in six weeks. Written by a 'real life' teacher, teaching right now in a classroom in an inner city school, with 30 years' experience....
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In this book, the author challenges the status quo in schools with an emphasis on students' results, and the associated costs, and curriculum lead times for achieving these results. Policy and curriculum changes, as well as funding initiatives, have been the most common interventions for the prominent systemic issues faced by schools. However, these have proven neither effective nor sustainable in the long term. In addition, education reforms have...
20) Summary of Carol Ann Tomlinson's How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classro
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Differentiating instruction means shaking up what goes on in the classroom so that students have multiple options for absorbing information, making sense of ideas, and expressing what they've learned. In other words, a differentiated classroom provides different avenues for acquiring content, processing or making sense of ideas, and developing products.
#2 While differentiated...
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