This award-winning series is a great way to add fun, depth, and critical thinking to science instruction on a variety of topics. Students will learn about the scientific method, tools, inventions, and how technology becomes part of our lives. Each book includes a wide range of experiments, projects, activities, and even a science fair project. Possible careers along with the required skills and education are also presented. 32 pages.
Discover how fun collaborative learning can be as you and your students create, edit, share, and collaborate on documents—in the classroom or at home. Can be done in a 45 minute computer lab session. 96 pages.
Fun and engaging STEM tasks are open-ended and goal-oriented, covering a variety of topics in science, technology, engineering, and math. Required materials are all common classroom and household items that allow for ease-of-use in all settings. Applying the Standards series bridges the gap between knowledge and real life, helping teachers better prepare students for life beyond the worksheet. 64 pages.
Young Scientists become engineers when they build a solar oven, design a car, construct a bridge, create solar energy, design an electric game, make a simple machine, construct a submarine, and much more! Kit includes 33 colorful experiment cards, a data notebook to record experiment designs, and is packed with science components such as a solar panel, motor, buzzer, electric wires, and more. Grades K+
Practice, Assess, Diagnose. This series provides 180 daily practice activities to build and gauge students' mathematical fluency. Each problem is tied to a specific mathematical concept. Students gain regular practice through these quick, diagnostic-based activities. Data-driven assessment tips are provided, and the Teacher Resource CD includes assessment analysis resources. 208 pages + CD.
The Complete Resource Book is perfect to use as a planning guide or as a resource for responding to children's specific interests. The daily plans have circle time, music and movement activities, suggested books, and learning center ideas. The appendix is jam-packed with songs, recipes, and games. This book is like having a master teacher at your side for inspiration all year long.
Written to the NCTM five strands, this series includes task sheets to teach the lesson and drill sheets for procedural practice. The task sheets introduce the mathematical concepts to the students around a central problem taken from real-life experiences, while the drill sheets provide warm-up and timed practice questions for the students to strengthen their procedural proficiency skills. Each book includes teacher's guide, worksheets, answer key, and 6 mini posters. 60 pages.
Instant classroom interventions for phonics and comprehension instruction! Each grade-specific volume offers 20+ ready-to-use 5-day units targeting a specific skill of strategy. Includes quick and easy mini-lessons, 100+ fun and engaging practice activities, end-of-week assessments, plus free pre- and post assessments available online. 108-186 pages.
The first resource to provide students with guided science instruction using a daily practice format. Thirty weeks of 10 -to 15-minute lessons introduce students to standards-based scientific concepts while they seek answers to real-life questions about the world they live in. Covers Life, Earth, and Physical Sciences. 192 pages.
Each book in this series features 100 “Minutes” to help students build basic skills, increase speed in math operations, and strengthen problem-solving skills. Each Minute consists of ten problems of varying degrees of difficulty that incorporate a variety of skills. Each ten-problem reproducible can be used as a learning or testing tool. 112 pages.
This language arts tutorial book engages middle school students while they refine important skills.
Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation for fourth–eighth grades helps students master the following concepts:
parts of speech
capitalization
punctuation
This Mark Twain language arts book uses stories, games, and riddles to appeal to students at various learning levels.
Language Arts Tutor: Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation focuses on one skill at a time to help students build proficiency and confidence. Each page includes clear definitions and examples to explain the concept being reinforced. Written for teachers, parents, families, and students, you can use this Mark Twain middle school book as a full unit of study or for individual lessons to supplement other books.
Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects, including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.
Thrill young astronomers with a journey through our Solar System with our engaging and highly interactive 80 screen-page digital lesson plan. Find out all about the Inner and Outer Planets, the Moon, Stars, Constellations, Asteroids, Meteors and Comets. Using simplified language and vocabulary, concepts such as planetary orbits, the asteroid belt, the lunar cycle and phases of the moon, and shooting stars are all explored. Using any brand of Interactive Whiteboard, you will be able to create an opportunity for students to get more involved in the lesson. Each ready-made screen contains reading passages, before and after you read interactive activities, memory match game, crossword, word search, printables, supporting video, and even English and Spanish voice over and text. Test your student's comprehension of the lesson with a Comprehension Quiz by using SMART Notebook™ software's assessment tool, SMART Response™. 80 screen pages.