Product Description: Using the latest brain research and classroom tested strategies, Dr. McBride addresses four relevantand important topics in a handy format. Research shows that girls and boys learn differently soprepare for how that impacts the classroom when students turn to the Internet for their research,give them the skills they need to do it effectively learn strategies and activities to draw in even themost disconnected students and learn why students forget what they re taught and how teacherscan improve retention...read more

Product Description: Using the latest brain research and classroom tested strategies, Dr. McBride addresses four relevantand important topics in a handy format. Research shows that girls and boys learn differently soprepare for how that impacts the classroom when students turn to the Internet for their research,give them the skills they need to do it effectively learn strategies and activities to draw in even themost disconnected students and learn why students forget what they re taught and how teacherscan improve retention...read more

Product Description: Using the latest brain research and classroom tested strategies, Dr. McBride addresses four relevantand important topics in a handy format. Research shows that girls and boys learn differently soprepare for how that impacts the classroom when students turn to the Internet for their research,give them the skills they need to do it effectively learn strategies and activities to draw in even themost disconnected students and learn why students forget what they re taught and how teacherscan improve retention...read more

Product Description: Carrying a Load of Feathers is the second book in a series featuring Luis, the janitor, from Entertaining an Elephant. Written in the same format as the first book, the novel weaves quotes from world-renown spiritual and philosophical writers throughout the story of Bradford Sparks, an ambitious mortgage broker determined to become rich...read more

Product Description: Summary: Preparing students to be active, informed, literate citizens is one of the primary functions of public schools. But how can students become engaged citizens if they can t read, let alone understand, their social studies texts? What can educators--and social studies teachers in particular--do to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and motivation to become engaged in civic life? Building Literacy in Social Studies addresses this question by presenting both the underlying concepts and the research-based techniques that teachers can use to engage students and build the skills they need to become successful readers, critical thinkers, and active citizens...read more

Product Description: "To say that UFOs have captured the popular imagination of contemporary America would be an understatement*while appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs, and have been reported throughout history, nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so much as in the postwar United States...read more

Product Description: This retrospective catalogue examines how both the techno-pop appeal of Kenny Scharf's work and its playful commentary have established him as an important player in late 20th century art.

Product Description: A point of issue occurs when a change is made in a book during its production of the first printing of the first edition without that change being noted as a changr elsewhere in the book.