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Exploring the Rain Forest

 Exploring the Rain Forest
Designed for the middle grades, this book provides everything you need to teach a fully-integrated thematic unit on the rain forest. Our rain forests are disappearing from the earth at an alarming rate, and today's students need to know why rain forests are important to the entire earth. This book includes 36 cooperative learning and multiple intelligence lessons for Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies, Science, Health, Spelling, and the Arts. Explore the rain forest without leaving the classroom! If you have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, you can view two sample activities from the book (below).

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' Discovering Decimals
Here you'll find simple cooperative learning activities to allow students to investigate decimal concepts. Most activities involve the use of manipulatives which can be created from the blackline masters included in the book. The book is organized by decimal skills, beginning with simple recognition of decimal models and ending with real-life problem-solving experiences. Multiple activities are provided for each skill, allowing the teacher to assess and reteach skills as needed.
Sample Activities for Discovering Decimals:
To view and print sample activities from Discovering Decimals, click on the links below. You must have Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or higher installed on your computer in order to view the files. Go to www.adobe.com to find this free plug-in. Note from the publisher: Sample blackline masters are intended solely for classroom use, not to be transmitted or reproduced. Copyright Kagan Publishing. All rights reserved.
Hands-On Science
Designed for teachers in Grades 3 - 8, this book offers fifteen cooperative learning mini-units on topics such as weather, global warming, simple chemistry, light, and statistics. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures, cooperative process science, and step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons. It's loaded with curriculum and literature links, science journal ideas, activities and ready-to-use blackline masters.
   
Wee Science
Created for primary teachers, this book follows the same format as Hands-on Science. It includes comprehensive cooperative learning lessons on topics such as the rain forest, the senses, leaves, rainbows, electricity, flight, sound, and seeds. The activity directions include detailed instructions and full blackline masters. You will involve your students in learning science through exciting hands-on investigations. The book also includes an overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures that have proven successful in thousands of classrooms. 
  

Science Buddies
The Science Buddy program promotes cooperative learning at home and at school. Students work at home with an adult science buddy to complete simple and safe science investigations.  Each activity has a teacher page, complete with an overview, ideas for introducing the activity, answers, and cooperative classroom follow up. The student page is a send-home blackline with step-by-step directions, activity illustrations, and discussion questions. Perfect for parental involvement and in-class success. See sample activity pages.

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