The key to authentic learning is capitalizing on teachable moments in the classroom. Learn to look for and create these tremendous learning opportunities as you teach your curriculum. This resource guides the user in a friendly fashion through a variety of units that address standards, multiple intelligences, and the content areas. Liberally sprinkled with practical projects, poetry, music, and assessment strategies, a grid is included at the end of each unit that demonstrates the interconnectedness of the hundreds of activities.

Troy Eugene Humple III is in a quandary. His fifth grade classmates and the rest of the students at Addison School are busily training their pets for the upcoming All School Pet Talent Show . There is only one problem. Troy has no pet. The journey he takes to find his pet is funny, stunning and often frightening. This is the story of that journey and the friendship the two of them create in order to make their courageous dream come true.

Troy Eugene Humple III and his band of fifth graders are at it again. This time the adventurous group travels across much of the United States in an old bus headed for Florida and Space Camp. What they encounter on their trip will keep you dazzled, fearful, laughing, and somewhat envious. Where else can you meet rattlesnakes, gold bars, alligators, leaky boats, sumo wrestlers, human gyros, and runaway trains, but on a trip like this? So buckle up and get ready for the ride of your life. Oh yes, don't forget to bring a sandwich. And don't touch the Big Red Button.

Riding the Planet offers a wide range of classroom activities that will bring to life your K-8 Social Studies curriculum. This book incorporates photography, imagery, art, drama, children's literature, music, MI's, and a host of other teaching tools guaranteed to engage your students, more eagerly, with a better understanding of cultures, history, geography, economics, sociology, global issues, and other aspects of social studies that make up a complete and whole subject. Using the 393 pages of unique, fun filled, standard-based lessons, students will, among other things, take a trip around...

Vincent loves to read. In fact, Vincent loves to read more than anything else in the whole wide world. This little teddy bear loves to read high up in trees, under beds, on a park bench, in a bookshelf and...But wait There are so many strange places where Vincent goes to read his favorite books that you will just have to read this children's story dotted with original photographs, in order to see where and what he reads... Trust me, you will want to go there yourself. This delightful picture book for primary grades is a great blueprint for teaching and showing children how to write their own...