Daily Warm-Ups: Poetry By Walch Publishing Poetry is to language what the rose is to flora! Excerpts from Shakespeare, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Longfellow, and others introduce your students to the sublime wonders of verse. And when they're not analyzing and appreciating the works of the masters, your students will be learning about poetic devices such as onomatopoeia and personification, and writing their own odes. Help their creativity flower! 180 reproducible pages, softcover.

Daily Warm-Ups: Character Education By Walch Publishing The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - address issues of character. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons - whenever you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to presenting students with the basic themes of character education, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking. Daily Warm-Ups are easy-to-use reproducibles - simply photocopy the day's activity and distribute it. Make every minute of your class time count! Grades 7-12. 182 pages, softcover. Here are some topics you'll find in Character Education: Cooperation Responsibility Respect Caring Fairness and Justice Honesty Friendship and more

Daily Warm-Ups: Earth Science By Walch Publishing The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - review, practice, and teach earth-science topics. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons - whenever you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with fascinating physics activities, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking. Daily Warm-Ups are easy-to-use reproducibles - simply photocopy the day's activity and distribute it. Make every minute of your class time count! Grades 8-12. Here are some topics you'll find in Earth Science: Gravity Rocks and Minerals Atoms States of Matter Water Heat Erosion and much more!

Daily Warm-Ups: Critical Thinking, Level 1 By Walch Publishing The Daily Warm Up series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - practice critical-thinking skills in Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science and Life Skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons - or what ever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with structue and focus, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical-thinking skills. Daily Warm-Ups are easy to use reproducibles - simply photocopy the day's activity and distribute it. Or make transparency of the activity and project it on the board. You may want to use the activities for extra credit points or as a check on the vocabulary development skills that are built and acquired over time. Answer key included. 204 pages, softcover. Grades 5-8.

At Home with Science, Bump! Thump! How Do We Jump?: Experiments Outside By Janice Lobb / Houghton-mifflin What are bones for? How high can we jump? Why does my heart go thump? Join Archie and the gang to find out the answers to these questions and many more! Discover the scientific explanations, learn some amazing facts, and on top of all that, there's a hilarious joke on every page! This is a fun first science book for children age 5 and up. Since no special equipment is needed, you can create hands-on learning excitement in your own home using the 12 step-by-step experiments. Also includes an extremely useful quiz, glossary, and index.

At Home with Science: Munch! Crunch! What's for Lunch?, Experiments in the Kitchen By Janice Lobb / Houghton-mifflin Why is food tasty? What makes me hungry? Why does a jelly wobble? Join Archie and the gang to find out the answer to these questions and many more! Discover the scientific explanations, learn some amazing facts and, on top of all that, there's a hilarious joke on every page! This is a fun first science book perfect for children ages 5 years and upwards. The 12 step-by-step experiments described in this book do not require any special equipment, so you can have hands-on learning in your own home! Also includes a useful quiz, glossary, and index.

At Home with Science: Splish! Splosh! Why Do We Wash?, Experiments in the Bathroom By Janice Lobb / Houghton-mifflin What makes waves? Why do I have to brush my teeth? What is hard water? Join Archie and the gang to find out the answers to these questions and many more! Discover the scientific explanations, learn some amazing facts, and on top of all that, there's a hilarious joke on every page! This fun first science book is best for children ages 5 and up. The 12 step-by-step experiments described in the book can be done at home, with no special equipment. The book also includes a useful quiz, glossary, and index.