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CARD
CAPERS
Developing Mathematics From Playing Cards. Playing Cards are:
familiar to most children, non-threatening, highly
motivational, found in most homes; which makes them an ideal
piece of material to use as the basis for work at school and
at home. Playing Cards are well suited to developing: number
work, problem solving, classifying, probability, symmetry.
Paul Swan, $25.00, SW9802 |
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CHALLENGES
FOR CHILDREN
Problem solving for young
people
Years 1-5
A collection of 23 stimulating, hands-on activities, designed
to encourage open-ended investigation of problems, such as:
'Do most of the children in our school have blue eyes?' or,
'How many pieces of paper would we need for the whole class to
stand on?' A page of Teacher's notes for each activity
discusses the mathematical content, what the children need to
have experienced before commencing, variations an extensions,
and provides questions to encourage divergent thinking.
Blackline Masters, Claire,
$40.00,
CP07102 |
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CHEMICAL
REACTIONS
3 sessions
Years 7-11
An ordinary ziplock bag
becomes a safe laboratory, as students mix chemicals that
bubble, change colour, get hot, and produce gas, heat, and an
odour. They experiment to determine what causes the heat in
this chemical reaction. This exciting activity explores
chemical change, endothermic and exothermic reactions, and is
a great introduction to chemistry.
GEMS, $12.00, GE9403 |
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Cooperative
Learning & HIGHER LEVEL THINKING
The Q-Matrix
All year levels
Your classroom will become a powerful think-tank as students
easily generate and answer their own higher level thinking
questions. This book tells you how - Step-by-step, using the
powerful Question Manipulatives. The book includes dozens of
higher level thinking activities and ton detailed co-operative
learning lesson plans.
Blackline Masters, 128pp, Kagan, $50.10,
KA12309 |
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COMMUNITY
BUILDING
in the classroom
All year
levels
Thirty-seven multi-structural lessons and 100's of activities
to encourage Team Building and Conflict Resolution Skills. The
lessons are arranged in three sections: A. Class building; B.
Team building; C. Relationship Skill Building, and the teacher
has the freedom to select the lessons which are best for
her/his class at a given time. The book supports the concept
of the Teacher as facilitator'. The Introduction; Getting
Started, and the theme chapters provide strong teacher support
and assistance in building the classroom as a community.
Blackline Masters 248pp, $49.75,
KA11305 |
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CO-OPERATIVE
LEARNING
Practical and easy-to-use, this classic in the field has been
acclaimed as the single most comprehensive book on
co-operative learning. You will find an easy, step-by-step
approach to: 1)Team formation methods, 2)Classroom setup and
management, 3)Thinking skills and mastery, 4)Social skills, 5)
Lesson planning, 6) Scoring and recognition, 7) Team building
and class building, and 8) Research and theory. tables,
graphics and Blackline Masters make cooperative learning easy,
fun and successful.
392pp, Spencer Kagan, $79.95,
KA11304 |
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Cooperative
Learning & INTEGRATED CURRICULUM Activities
Years 2-8
We are proud to offer this collection of cooperative
activities designed to integrate the curricula using the
popular story, Jack and The Beanstalk. Why did we provide so
many activities across the curriculum revolving around one
theme? Simple. We want to make learning relevant. When we
teach facts and skills in isolation, that's exactly what
they'll be - isolated. Without Integration, curriculum remains
academic in the worst sense of the word.
Kagan, $42.20,
KA15818 |
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Cooperative
Learning Structures for CLASS BUILDING
All Primary years
Class building. 'any classroom practices that involve the
whole classroom which result in improved classroom climate'.
The Kagan team offer a variety of across the curriculum games
and activities utilising eleven of their favourite
co-operative learning structures, Corners; Find-Someone-Who;
Formations; Guess-the-Fib; Inside/Outside Circle; Line-ups;
Mix-Freeze-Group; Mix-N-Match; Similarity Groups;
Stir-the-Class; Who-am- I - each comprising between one and
fourteen activities, often supported by Blackline Masters. The
authors explain their reasons for doing Class building and
provide subject related notes for each co-operative learning
structure.
168pp, Kagan, $49.75,
KA13314 |
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Co-operative
Learning READING ACTIVITIES
Years 1-8
The twenty-nine activities, organised within over twenty of
Kagan's learning structures, integrate listening, speaking,
reading, and some writing. Some activities are prompted by the
use of specific literature, others are generic and can be used
with any literature, and some are just fun activities to
develop vocabulary or spelling skills.
Time conscious teacher notes are regularly interspersed and
Blackline Masters are provided for student activity sheets
186pp, Kagan, $47.60,
KA13312 |
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Cooperative
Learning & WEE SCIENCE
Years 1-4
Twelve well prepared, hands-on lessons with Blackline Master
support, based on themes commonly taught in the primary
classroom. Each lesson introduces a concept and develops it
through the widely recognised and successful fifteen
structures of co-operative learning developed by Dr Spencer
Kagan. Chapters 1-4 (58pp) introduce, and in a friendly manner
guide the teacher through the goals of co-operative learning
and relate the cooperative learning structures to the teaching
of science to young children. The twelve lessons (167pp) are
individually presented in a ready-to-use format offering the
objective, the process skills, and a selection of co-operative
learning structures that may be used. Wee Science turns the
table on the traditional approach to science education!
230pp, Kagan, $49.75,
KA13911 |
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Cooperative
Learning WRITING ACTIVITIES
Years 1-8
More than 100 ready-to-use, everyday co-operative writing
activities utilising over twenty of Kagan's cooperative
learning structures.
The activities are in addition to those already included in
Cooperative learning and Language arts: There are two parts to
the activity section for each structure. The first part
includes step-by-step activity with student handouts. Each of
the activities also includes a materials list and any
pre-lesson information the teacher needs. The second part is a
listing of some suggested activities that can be done with the
structure.
Kagan, $47.55,
KA13313 |
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Cooperative
Learning & LANGUAGE ARTS
All levels
Language skills are taught within the meaningful context of
the lesson. All of the lessons feature the writing process.
Students have the opportunity to experience many different
listening and speaking activities in small group and whole
class settings. Each multi-structural lesson encompasses one
of the four domains of writing; Sensory/Descriptive,
Imaginative/Narrative, Practical/Informative, and
Analytical/Expository, and can be used at a variety of year
levels.
Kagan, $57.35, KA11302
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Cooperative
Learning & MATHEMATICS
A multi-structural
Approach
Years 1-8
Tap the full power of co-operative learning so that students
learn from their own experiences. Students use manipulatives,
written and verbal communication, and problem solving
strategies to gain the essential understanding of mathematical
concepts. There are Primary to Lower Secondary grade lessons
for Number, Measurement, Geometry, Patterns and Functions,
Statistics and Probability, Logic and Algebra. Part 1 of the
book briefly describes each Co-operative Learning Structure
which is used to the lessons and samples of activities in
mathematics are given. Part 2 provides detailed, graded,
multi-structural lesson plans for specific outcomes in
mathematics. Teachers who are already using co-operative
methods will appreciate the further insights and activities,
and those who want to introduce co-operative learning will
discover how their students can master otherwise difficult
maths concepts with little or no direct instruction.
144pp, Kagan, $67.25,
KA09101 |
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Cooperative
Learning & MATHEMATICS
LESSONS
FOR LITTLE ONES
Years 1-3
The author has designed this book so that teachers find it
easy to use. It provides a rationale for co-operative learning
lessons using structures to enrich the teaching of
mathematics. The content also connects maths lessons to
literature. Thirty-six Lesson plans address specific maths
concepts that are taught with more frequency to young students
- Counting; Patterning; Geometry; Classifying; Graphing;
Numerical Order; Addition; Subtraction; Fractions;
Measurement; Time.
A variety of co-operative learning structures are provided for
teaching each maths concept. This allows teachers the
flexibility of choosing structures that they are most
comfortable with or finding the structure that best meets the
needs of their students.
Early chapters include ideas for organising and managing
co-operative learning; explain the wide variety of social
skills used in the book; describe all the components of
co-operative learning lessons and reasons for sometimes
leaving out certain ones of them.
Blackline Masters. 285pp, $58.85,
KA12306 |
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Cooperative
Learning & HANDS ON SCIENCE
Years 3-7
The best Kagan book to teach cooperative learning, science
content, and process skills. Fifteen step-by-step hands-on,
concept-based lessons that include: Recycling, Solid Waste Air
Pollution; Weather, Air; Cameras, Lenses, Light; The Earth,
Global Warming, Air Pollution; The Moon; Seeds, Plant Growth;
Rocks, Minerals. Plus more. The Teacher's content includes a
complete overview of co-operative learning and Dr Spencer
Kagan's co-op structures.
Blackline Masters, 229pp, Kagan, $51.30
KA14916 |
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Cooperative
Learning & SOCIAL STUDIES
Towards Excellence & Equity
Years 6-13
This book shows in story form how to make social studies
exciting and active while still covering course content. It
provides ideas for activities in history, geography and the
social science, years 6 to 12, in a variety of contexts.
Teachers of younger students will be able to adapt the
approaches for their own classrooms. It provides ideas for
resolving such important classroom issues as management,
assessment and evaluation.
Kagan, $54.65, KA15417 |
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COOPERATIVE
PROBLEM SOLVING IN MATHEMATICS
Years 5-8
This book involves children in talking mathematics. By
negotiating meaning students are able to make the spoken
language of mathematics their own. It also presents the
teacher with an opportunity to move from the centre of
instruction. The activities support observational and
expressive modes of assessment. As teachers become more
confident with cooperative learning they find they do not need
to stop teaching to start assessing.
Have you sued activities from 'GET IT TOGETHER'? Cooperative
Problem Solving uses a similar format so will become w welcome
addition to the staff library.
112pages, Peter Gould Maths, Assn of NSW, $POA,
NSW9701
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CRIME
LAB CHEMISTRY
2 Sessions
Years 6-9
Challenged to determine which of several black pens was used
to write a ransom note, students learn to use the chemical
technique of paper chromatography. Several mystery scenarios
are suggested, with intriguing characters and caricatures.
GEMS, $12.00, GE9404 |
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DICE
DILEMMAS
Year 3+
Activities to promote mental computation and develop thinking
about chance processes.
Classroom photocopy masters
48 x A4 pages, Paul Swan, $25.00,
GE9404 |
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