From initiating lesson plans to evaluating student work, all aspects of lesson development and implementation are discussed in this lively and practical book. Filled with specific examples of effective purpose statements, assignments, and tests across grade levels and content areas, The Purposeful Classroom is essential reading for all teachers who want their students to truly understand what they are learning and why.

This path-breaking book focuses on the law and legal doctrine within the wider policy context of water resources and analyses the concept of sustainability. To achieve the sustainable use and development of water resources is a daunting challenge for both global and local communities. It requires commitments from all groups within international, national and local communities from their own particular, possibly conflicting, perspectives. Without a set of coherent legal arrangements designed to ensure effective governance of water resources, their sustainable use and development is unlikely to...

This book describes the growth and economic integration of the European economy from 1500 to 1913. The authors apply macroeconomic techniques to identify growth rates, inflation, product markets, trade networks and business cycles across a set of countries over the period. economics throughout the period although, under the impetus of the industrial revolution, growth rates generally accelerated by the end of the 19th century. Similarly, business cycles in the modern sense seem to have been in evidence at the beginning of the period but by the 18th century there is no doubt that modern cycles...

This work offers coverage of the European macroeconomy, looking at growth and economic cycles.

Legal Reasoning in Environmental Law provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the range of legal reasoning processes to support the understanding, interpretation and application of international, regional and national rules of environmental law. The book considers how rules for environmental governance are designed to accommodate the various competing interests within each of the private and public sectors and also between the two sectors. The author then examines how decisions in particular cases reflect the sources of these rules together with their form, structure and language. He...

This book provides instruction for teachers to ensure literacy learning across grade levels and disciplines.

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Independent Reading, teachers will learn what it is, how to prepare before, during and after an Independent Reading session, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: Lesson outline included with what to do before, during, and after an Independent Reading session. An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Both the why and the how of assessing students included. On-Your-Feet...