Batter up! Both boys and girls will enjoy the thrill of their favorite sport as they practice and apply important math skills. Grandslam activities and projects based on historical and real-life situations involve students in every aspect of baseball: scorekeeping, recordds, statistics, schedules, salaries, travel budgets, ticket prices, refreshments, baseball card profits and losses, and fantasy leagues. Answers provided.

Twenty easy-to-understand grammar lessons with examples and plenty of practice exercises help students master the basics of clear and correct writing. Great as homework or independent program at home or school. Includes tips for teachers and parents, a Pre-Test, Post-Test, certificate, and answer key.

Have you ever wanted to keep statistics on your own team? Your own game? Basketball Math, Third Edition, has tons of information about basketball-professional basketball, men's and women's college ball, and even high school basketball. And even better, it shows you how to use the math you learn in school to collect data, develop statistics, prepare field-goal percentages, construct a shooting chart, figure point differentials, and so much more.

Even the youngest gifted children need dynamic, fresh, and challenging activities to stimulate their creativity and enhance higher-level thinking. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers provides that and more. The numerous single-period and multi-week activities are designed to foster involvement across the reading curriculum. Includes activity sheets, word puzzles, analogies, short-term research activities, readers theatre scripts, and a booklist for gifted readers.

Here's a personal creative writing course with 5 self-contained instructional units for learning to write narrative, short fiction, and poetry. Students can work independently at home or school. Includes real student writing samples.

Tackle real-life math skills as you follow your favorite professional, college, or high school football team. Problems are based on football statistics, stories, historical and current situations, and focus on the computation of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents. You will help students analyze home field advantage, compute salary averages, figure rushing records and yards gained, and compare coaching records. Answers provided.

Drawing on the combined 47 years of experience as Title 1 resource teachers, this book provides a detailed road map for helping struggling readers. Breaking the process into easily manageable steps, this book shares the systematic and sequential techniques for teaching decoding skills and phonics, while building vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.

Magic squares and golden rectangles, skeletons and footprints, quilt patterns and temari balls make math ideas come to life in Math Amazements. Walk in the footsteps of history's great mathematicians like Plato, Fibonacci, Mobius, and Gauss as you explore math's big ideas.

Winner of this year’s 2009 Teachers’ Choice Award and The 2007 Arizona Book Award! !

Math Poetry invites students to learn math vocabulary and concepts by writing their own word problems in the form of poems. You'll be amazed by the sparks of creativity that fly around the classroom! With crystal clear instructions and easy-to-use activities and templates, Math Poetry provides an innovative way to teach both math and writing.

While driving with your friends or family someplace far from home, your radiator starts steaming. You manage to find a gas station in a small town where they can fix your car, but it's going to take a few hours. You ask the mechanic if there's any place to get something to eat, and he points across the road to Moe's Café, a real dump. You don't have much choice, so you head inside and take a seat at the first booth on the left.
So begins Moe's Café, one of 48 innovative and intriguing prompts for student writing.

Using the rhythm and rhyme of fun poetry to teach phonics, this collection of 112 poems focuses on more advanced language sounds, such as three-letter blends, diphthongs, and word ending. For each poem there are: word lists, hands-on activities, and unique Focusing Talk activities that help teachers model vocabulary in conversations with children.

Use the rhythm and rhyme of fun poetry to teach phonics! This collection of 115 poems is meant to be read aloud so that children hear a particular language sound again and again, in word after word, all within an exciting and meaningful context. For each poem there are: word lists, hand-on activities, and unique Focusing Talk™ activities that help teachers model vocabulary in conversations with children.

If the names Gordon and Earnhardt mean more to your students than Pythagoras, if Ferraris and funny cars get their motors running, this is the book for you. Your students will practice their math skills while learning cool stuff about the world of car racing.
It's easy to motivate middle school students to enrich, review, or reinforce their math skills with Racing Math. The perforated, reproducible pages are great for individual or classroom work. Answers provided.
Updated in 2005.

A kid's guide to gardening. Learn while you grow! Children can grow houseplants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs just about anywhere-in a rural or urban environment, in a backyard or a window box. Learn how to be a gardener and how to turn the fruits of your labor into tasty dishes and interesting crafts.

The third edition of this perennial bestseller is for ANY student who needs to write a research paper. Written for the student who isn't sure how to start, as well as those who need a refresher, Research Paper Handbook walks students through the nuts and bolts of writing an effective research paper while avoiding common pitfalls.

Turn students on to science with fresh ideas and approaches from a master science teacher. Active, problem-oriented learning opportunities encourage students to experience the inquiry process and excitement of science. Activities are project-based, web-assisted, and include active assessment strategies. Here's teaching inspiration for any science project!

Here's everything you need to drive a winning science fair-from start to finish, in a single classroom or school wide! Packed with practical ideas, creative resources and websites, judging guidelines, planning guide, and project timetables, this book reduces stress and helps create a positive learning experience. A 3-page forward by Isaac Asimov inspires and motivates projects.

Be there as Marie Curie discovers radium. Formulate the theory of relativity with Albert Einstein. Science Giants offers you opportunities to read about and explore the important discoveries in physical science. Each of the book's 27 topics includes a hands-on exploration activity and a reading that discusses the important people and work that led to the discovery.

This revised edition offers 200 puzzles for home or school! Learn science terms, build a solid science foundation, and exercise your higher-level thinking skills with these fun-to-do, and often challenging, science puzzles.

All you need are some ordinary household objects to carry out more than 175 exciting hands-on science demonstrations. Children will learn about properties of water and air, animals, plants, microbes, gravity and motion, earth, and light as they show off scientific principals for their classmates and friends.