"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. It features lesson plans teachers can use immediately, and from which they can learn the basics of the game. Since the plans meet academic goals through chess, teachers also learn that chess can be a part of reading, math, science, and social studies. An appendix showing how chess meets the requirements of curriculum standards is another plus.
"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational...
"Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators" is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. It features l...
Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no chess knowledge, 14 of the piece activities build on students' growing familiarity with chess, and the 2 king activities challenge budding chess experts. Within the chess activities, students practice national standards of scientific inquiry and mathematical problem solving. Improved thinking in science, math, and chess are the winning results: Checkmate
The introductory chapter discusses the scientific inquiry and mathematical problem solving...
Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no ch...
Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game. Patterned after an actual project undertaken with 25 middle school students, this book features all you need to know to teach kids to play well and reinforce their reading and writing skills at the same time.
This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. All activities are linked to the NCTE/IRA national standards for language arts. Lesson plans, over 100 chess diagrams,...
Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game. Patterned af...
Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with "People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess." In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and...
Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with "People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Soci...
Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." With "The Living Chess Game: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14," any parent, librarian, teacher, or after-school instructor can successfully stage an educational and entertaining living chess game. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle.
The book's chess instruction enables children to...
Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned ...
