CROSS CURRICULUM REFERENCES AND REPRODUCIBLE
COLLECTIONS
Alternatives to
Worksheets: Motivational Reading and Writing Activities Across the Curriculum
by Karen Bauer and Rosa Drew. Creative Teaching Press, 1992. This handy
resource has 40 meaningful and motivating activities with hundreds of variations
students can use independently to learn without worksheets. They require
students to apply what they learn rather than just circling an answer or filling
in a blank. The activities emphasize written expression and promote critical
thinking. The activities can be adapted to any theme or unit study, allow any
student to experience success, and require very little teacher preparation . The
book contains project ideas ranging from accordion books and bookmarks to box
activities, cartoons and comic strips, flags, graphs, maps, and many more. There
are also plenty of reproducible patterns for use in these activities. 96 pages.
For grades K-4. BTH-2497. $10.79-D
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Alternatives to Worksheets: Motivational Reading and Writing Activities Across
the Curriculum by Catherine Hiatt, Doug Wolven, Gwen Botka, and Jennifer
Richmond. Creative Teaching Press, 1994. This handy resource has 40 meaningful
and motivating activities with hundreds of variations students can use
independently to learn without worksheets. They require students to apply what
they learn rather than just circling an answer or filling in a blank. The
activities emphasize written expression and promote critical thinking. The
activities can be adapted to any theme or unit study, allow any student to
experience success, and require very little teacher preparation . The book
includes the following project ideas: Bean Cards, Board Games, Cereal Box
Reports, Claydough, Codes and Symbols, Dioramas-in-the-Round, Face Fact Plate,
Fence Weaving, File Folder Books, Headbands, Menus, Murals, Paper Dolls,
Passports, Placemats, and many more. There are also plenty of reproducible
patterns for use in these activities. 96 pages. For grades K-4. BTH-2498.
$10.79-D
Blueprints, a Dandy Lion book
containing sixteen different learning projects (debate, speech, display, game, survey, and
more) which are outlined, providing easy-to-use guides for independent study projects.
Includes step-by-step instructions that take students from the beginning to a successful
end. For grades 5-8. Cat.#DL-44. $11.66-D
Classroom
Kickoff by Linda Milliken, an Edupress publication. Contains hundreds of
projects, games, activities, tips, and tools to get the school year started and keep it
going. Contains some great reproducible forms for getting both you and your students
organized and for communicating with parents. There are also reproducible student
motivators such as reward coupons and certificates, a bulletin board library full of
ideas, and some tips from other teachers on management and storage. When the students
come, you can treat them to some art starts, innovative ways to start the day while you do
your clerical works, games, projects that start in September and continue through the
year, theme weeks, instant activities and seasonal month-by-month activites. At the back
are some reproducible forms and lists: for emergencies, field trip suggestions, book lists
(including Caldecott and Newbery Medal Winners), and more. A clip-art section follows. 304
pages with index. Cat.#EP-140. $19.35-D
Cool
Calendar Skills by Steck-Vaughn. This creative, all-inclusive
resource introduces students to the relationships between days, weeks, months, years, and
seasons, while creatively focusing on time lapses, intervals, and sequences using the
calendar. Included are bulletin board and classroom ideas for every month. Targeted
instruction includes ordinals, patterning, skip counting, and writing dates. Answers are
bound in. Available for K-1 (SV-70998) and 2-3 (SV-71005). $8.09-D each.
Curriculum
and Project Planner for Integrating Learning Styles, Thinking Skills, and
Authentic Instruction by Imogene Forte and Sandra Schurr.
Incentive Publications, 2000. This is a pull-out planner with about nine useful
panels of components. ISBN: 086530-3487.
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Section 1 is a graphic organizer with a list
of the seven multiple intelligences identified by Dr. Howard Gardner. There is a
separate panel with an overview of the eighth and newest intelligence
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Section 2 lists the action verbs and student
behaviors suggested by both Bloom's Taxonomy (six levels) and Williams' Taxonomy
of Creative Thought (eight levels). All of these levels of both have been linked
with the most appropriate intelligence. These verbs and behaviors can be used by
teachers to develop objectives for each intelligence.
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Section 3 suggests ways students can
demonstrate who well they have learned concepts and can apply skills in a
variety of contexts according to the different intelligence modes.
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Section 4 deals with assessment formats,
linking them to the multiple intelligences.
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Section 5 is a sample set of curricular
outcomes. IP-3487. $4.46-D
Everyone's
a Star: Meeting the Needs of Every Child through Differentiated Instruction
by Margaret Allen. Creative Teaching Press, 2003. This book is designed to help
teachers of K-2 students plan lessons that will work with all their students. It
includes lesson-planning templates, suggested materials for the differentiated
classroom, more than a dozen assessment tools, and ready-to-go sample lessons
and reproducibles. Lesson topics include Community Building and Self-Esteem;
Phonemic Awareness and Phonics; Reading; Writing; Math; and Science. 128 pages.
BTH-4078. $14.39-D
Inexpensive
Ideas for Classroom Environments: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Creative Classroom
Makeovers, by Linda Milliken. Edupress. This book is full of ideas and
patterns for Window and Wall Dressing; Multi-Purpose Decorations; Signs; Constructible
Centers; Bold Borders; Sensational Storage; Innovative Ways to Use Cloth, Boxes, Wood, and
Wire; Imaginative Spaces and Places; and Community Contributions (supplies form the
community and how to get them.) In short, if you want to rejuvenate your classroom
environment inexpensively, get this book. Cat. #EP-052. $6.26-D
Investigator, a Dandy Lion
book which provides a step-by-step guide for completing an in-depth research project.
Students will gather information, organize their ideas, and communicate their information
via an oral presentation and a written report. Reproducible. For grades 4-7. Cat.#DL-39.
$8.96-D
Lesson Plans Using Graphic Organizers by
Steck-Vaughn. This time-saving resource provides teachers with 22 pre-planned lessons
developed to meet curriculum standards. They feature a variety of graphic organizers.
There are four units per book: reading, math, science, and social studies. The academics
standards are correlated to each lesson. Every complete lesson includes the lesson plan, a
modeling activity, a group activity, and an independent activity. The books are 96
perforated pages and come with a bound-in answer key. Available for grades 1-6.
Cat.#SV-GrOrg- Grade X (Substitute the grade level you want for the X.) $10.76-D
I Love Lists: Lists, lists, and more lists! This
completely updated book of lists will provide hours of fun for kids and a gold mine of
ideas for teachers and parents. A handy compendium of information, the book covers
science, math, geography, language, the arts, careers, hobbies, sports, and so much more.
Fact-filled and fun-to-use lists of famous African Americans, U.S. presidents, landmarks
of the world, types of shelters, prehistoric plants and animals that still exist, rain
forest words, Internet words, and more than 260 other topics! Great for games, report
ideas, creative writing, or just for fun. $17.95-D
Primary Teacher's Pet: Time Savers for All Reasons and
Seasons by Linda Schartz. This is full of goodies ranging from clip
art and award certificates to language arts references, book marks and book report forms,
outline maps and related worksheets, a blank family tree, simple labeled anatomy diagrams
with brief explanations of how body parts work, food groups, menu-planning forms, botany
references, pictures of various labeled dinosaur to cat out and color, computer
information, field trip aids, forms for lesson plans and helps to leave for substitutes,
and much, much more. For primary teachers. Reproducible for classroom use. 192 pages.
$15.95. Out of print. One copy left.
Project
Planner, by Diane Draze, a Dandy Lion publication. . This 8 1/2 by 11"
book is a guide for creating curriculum and independent study projects. Whether you teach
at home or in a school, whether you use texts or plan your own curriculum, this book will
inspire you to plan more original and interesting activities to enrich your teaching. The
book begins with an extensive list of topics and concepts to help pinpoint a topic of
study. When you have selected your topic, there is a section of instructional strategies
that offer a multitude of ways that information can be presented to groups or individuals.
This is followed by a list of processes: different operations students can mentally
perform on the information. Finally, there is a list of products so that you can help your
students choose the best way to communicate what they have learned. Examples of some
products are debate, panel discussion, slide show, model, book review, diary, report,
speech, puppet show, flannel board story, etc. I haven't even scratched the surface.
Cat.#DL-01 $8.96-D
Teacher's Pet: This is full of
ready-to-use awards, calendars, charts, games, holiday ideas, invitations, notes to
parents, and instant activities. Contains lots of worksheets for language arts, math,
social studies, science, and computers, as well as patterns for decorative borders
and clip art for quick illustrations. For teachers of grades 3-6. $15.95-D
Out of Print. One copy left.
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