How can you unlock your own creativity to help children learn science creatively?How do you bring the world of ‘real science’ into the classroom?Where does science fit in a creative curriculum?This second edition of Teaching Science Creatively has been fully updated to reflect new research, initiatives and developments in the field. It offers innovative starting points to enhance your teaching and highlights curiosity, observation, exploration and enquiry a...

‘Tom Bennett is the voice of the modern teacher.’ - Stephen Drew, Senior Vice-Principal, Passmores Academy, UK, featured on Channel 4’s Educating EssexDo the findings from educational science ever really improve the day-to-day practice of classroom teachers?Education is awash with theories about how pupils best learn and teachers best teach, most often propped up with the inevitable research that ‘proves’ the case in point. But what can teachers do...

These sight word flash cards include 41 First Grade sight words that all school aged children should know!Sight words can be known by many names including high-frequency words, Dolch words, Fry words, instant words or even Star words.These flash cards make it fun and easy to practice reading with your child anywhere you go. They have been designed especially for the kindle and can be displayed either vertically or horizontally (for a bigger flash card experience!)Pl...

Teach yourself how to play piano with our easy blues piano lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"I knew the basics of keyboard, but I wanted to diversify my playing. This book is great for finding that blues sound you’ve been searching for." - blindmango66Progressive Blues Piano Method contains all you ne...

These flashcard books are designed with large, engaging pictures to help your little one learn Italian - one fun, easy lesson at a time. In this lesson, we focus on learning colors & shapes.  The "Learn Colors" and "Learn Shapes" sections have everything you need to teach your child Italian Colors and Shapes including: - The English word - A large picture of the color or shape - The Italian word (including the article) Then, to test how much your chi...

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If you have ever wished you could show children and teenagers how to enrich their lives with meditation and visualization, this book will delight you. It presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through eighteen to relax into learning, focus attention and increase concentration, stimulate creativity, and cultivate inner peace and group harmony.The use of guided imagery has been internationally recognized as an effective method of "whole b...

Play is an essential part of learning and development for children and is an increasingly important aspect of creative approaches to teaching and learning in primary education. This book demonstrates the value of play in all its different forms as a highly effective medium for teaching and learning across the curriculum.The authors explore how play can be used to increase engagement, motivation and fun in learning situations, examining the theoretical principles of play for learnin...

River monsters are part of modern folklore. Those who believe that myths are something that exist only in the far distant path are incorrect. Anyone who knows a little bit about modern river monsters knows they are the root of 20th and even 21st century cryptozoology myths. For children, reading about these amazing creatures, both ones we know exist and those that are pure fantasy, opens many doors of imagination. The sense of wonder gained helps the young ones to think more broadly about ...

People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and consider how best to present it to others, the students come to better understand the compl...

The Chinese love to celebrate with festivals. Their biggest celebration is Chinese New Year, or The Spring Festival, and it ends on the first full moon of the lunar year. The holiday lasts for two weeks and hundreds of millions of fireworks are set off all over the country. Long ago, a famous poet named Qu Yuan threw himself into the river when he became heartbroken. As people rushed to save him in their boats, they threw rice to feed the fish so they would not eat the beloved man. Today t...

Learn about sight words, and prepare yourself for a wonderful reading adventure! Sights words are fundamental to learning to read. These are commonly used words in writing so it’s important that your child be able to recognize them, read them and understand what they are. Can you tell me how many sight words you know?