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Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas
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Clock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content AreasClock Watchers: Six Steps to Motivating and Engaging Disengaged Students Across Content Areas

Instead of cringing the next time your colleagues utter the words, These students don t care, hand them Clock Watchers. Describe your personal struggles and your experience with the book so they know that you know what they re going through. Then point out a few of your favorite ideas. As you walk away, you ll smile knowing you ve made a difference. Cris TovaniAuthor of I Read It, but I Don t Get ItFor Stevi Quate and John McDermott, this was the missing piece of their teaching: How can I motivate my students and then create a context that will engage them? Clock Watchers is their powerful answer a plan that gets kids to care about learning and truly engage with the curriculum.

 
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Practical Portfolios: Reading, Writing, Math, and Life Skills, Grades 3-6
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Practical Portfolios: Reading, Writing, Math, and Life Skills, Grades 3-6Practical Portfolios: Reading, Writing, Math, and Life Skills, Grades 3-6

Using portfolios is a great way to build skills, reinforce learning, communicate achievements, and prepare students for future challenges. Packed with reproducibles, mini-lessons, and ideas, this guide provides everything you need to easily launch a successful portfolio program. It gives directions for students on how to assemble, organize, and maintain their portfolios and offers teachers convenient mini-lessons for developing and completing rubrics for evaluation. Guidelines for student-led parent conferences where students learn how to share their portfolios and their accumulated examples of accomplishments are also included. Grades 3-6.

 
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Quotes for Kids
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Quotes for KidsQuotes for Kids

The AFRO-BETS Kids share some of their favorite words of wisdom, including their own Afro-mations.

 
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Wonders of Africa - African Trade Networks (VIDEO)
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Wonders of Africa - African Trade Networks (VIDEO)Students will discover the ancient markets of Africa by exploring Zanzibar, the ancient Swahili commercial hub off the coast of Tanzania that helped feed the West’s demand for ivory and spices, and investigating the bustling port town of Lamu, an island off the Kenyan coast. Then it’s off to Djenne in the heart of Mali, where, in this historic center of business, politics and art, merchants and their customers continue to exchange goods and opinions.

 

Grades:  7 to Adults

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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Animals in Celtic Life and Myth
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Animals in Celtic Life and MythAnimals in Celtic Life and Myth

For the Celts, a rural people whose survival depended solely upon their environment, natural phenomena, the elements, and animals, especially, merited their extreme respect. The Celts made both wild and domesticated species the focus of elaborate rituals as well as the basis of profound religious beliefs. Animals in Celtic Life and Myth examines the intimate relationship between humans and animals, in a society in which animals were special and central to all aspects of life.


 
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