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Waste Management Big Book Gr. 5-8

Author : Erika Gasper

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 14,41 MB

Release : 2007-03-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199227

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Book Description

Know once and for all what happens to things we throw out with our Waste Management 3-book BUNDLE. Start by exploring how waste and pollution impacts on people, wildlife and the ecosystem with Waste: At the Source. Create a diorama to illustrate the life cycle of a product. Develop a school action plan to battle pollution. Next, discover prevention methods for waste and pollution with Prevention, Recycling & Conservation. Hold a contest to find the most useful and creative ways to reuse everyday items. Get down and dirty by building a classroom compost. Finally, empower your students to help manage all types of waste across the globe with Waste: The Global View. Put on a fair to showcase different products that can be made from unused plant parts on farms. Conduct a class debate to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to nuclear energy. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Waste: The Global View Gr. 5-8

Author : Erika Gasper-Gombatz

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 36,61 MB

Release : 2007-03-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199219

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Book Description

Empower your students to help manage all types of waste across the globe. Our resource explores waste all around the world caused by natural and man-made disasters. Put on a fair to showcase different products that can be made from unused plant parts on farms. Research different clean-up operations of old mines across the country. Learn the hard truth about oil spills with a case study on Exxon Valdez. Conduct a class debate to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to nuclear energy. Find out that not all waste is caused by humans. Recognize the dangers of waste produced by natural disasters. Make a model to demonstrate the devastating effects that space junk can have. Get a sense of what waste costs by evaluating the bio-economical costs of resources used in your home or school. Create a plan to help your school become a zero waste community. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Waste: At the Source Gr. 5-8

Author : Erika Gasper-Gombatz

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 10,13 MB

Release : 2007-03-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199197

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Book Description

Explore how waste and pollution impacts on people, wildlife and the ecosystem. Our resource takes your students from the background and causes of waste to pollution and its impact on our lands and oceans. Start by answering the question, what is waste? Then, create a brochure to encourage factories to lessen the amount of pre-consumer waste. Find out what post-consumer waste can be reused again. See how much waste is a result of packaging. Create a diorama to illustrate the life cycle of a product. Get a sense on how landfills work. Present your own news report on the dangers that is toxic waste. Develop a school action plan to battle pollution. Finally, find out what you can do to help reduce waste in our oceans. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on activities, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Master Reading Big Book Gr. 5-8

Author : Brenda Rollins

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 12,62 MB

Release : 2010-01-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199189

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Book Description

Become a master reader and advance your understanding of the written word with our Reading Skills 3-book BUNDLE. Students begin by gaining an understanding of the written text with Reading Comprehension. Learn the basics of reading fluency with main idea, context clues and drawing conclusions. Students will then engage in the tools to understanding elementary-level literature with Literary Devices. Examine the fundamental devices that make up any story, including setting, plot and theme. Finally, students will gain the ability to not only understand what they have read, but how to build upon that knowledge independently with Critical Thinking. Students explore the tools that lead to excellent critical thinking skills, such as independent thinking, making inferences and problem solving. Each concept is paired with hands-on graphic organizers and comprehension activities. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Reading Comprehension Gr. 5-8

Author : Brenda Rollins

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 38,29 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199154

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Book Description

A child’s ability to read and comprehend the written word is his touchstone to success in school and in life. Designed to teach the reading skills that are basic to reading fluency, our resource emphasizes the primary building blocks of reading acquisition. Start off by identifying the main idea of a passage. Find out how details will point to the most important part of a story. Then, use graphic organizers to help identify context clues. Find out what questions to ask before drawing conclusions. Gather all the facts and prior knowledge to help. Learn all about making inferences, and how clues from the text and your own knowledge and experiences will tell you what the author is trying to say. Discover the differences between facts and opinions. Learning to read between the lines will help with comprehension. Finally, discover transition words as you learn about sequencing. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Climate Change Big Book Gr. 5-8

Author : Erika Gasper

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 39,40 MB

Release : 2008-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 155319926X

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Book Description

Get a well-rounded look at the causes, effects, and reduction of Climate Change with our 3-book BUNDLE. Start by providing insight into the science of our atmosphere with Climate Change: Causes. Create your own model of the carbon cycle. See firsthand how nitrogen-fixing bacteria can replace nitrogen fertilizers. Next, understand the Effects of Climate Change on the environment and human life. Observe a homemade melting ice sheet to understand its effect on sea level. Then, create a model to show rising sea level in action. Finally, explore creative ways to Reduce human consumption and output. Design your own dream car that runs on alternative fuel. Find out what you can do to lower your own greenhouse gas emissions. Each concept is paired with hands-on activities. Written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Space Travel & Technology Gr. 5-8

Author : Charlene Homer

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 44,59 MB

Release : 2007-03-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553197933

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Create a vision of tomorrow with your students today as they imagine being part of the crew of a shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Our resource turns your students into the scientists, engineers, astronauts, and leaders who will continue the vision for space exploration. Become an astronaut as you learn about the different jobs on a shuttle mission. Learn about telescopes and how they are used to look into space. Blast off into space with manned and unmanned spacecrafts. Plan your trip to Mars by collecting items you would need for your 2.5 year mission. Build your own rover to explore another planet. Then it's off to the moon and learning about the Apollo 11 mission. Learn about life aboard the ISS, and predict how different toys would work in space. Finally, look ahead at the future of space exploration and find out is commercial travel in space is really possible. Aligned to the Next Generation State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Master Writing Big Book Gr. 5-8

Author : Brenda Rollins

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 174 pages

File Size : 39,69 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199049

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Help your students master the art of writing with our Writing Skills 3-book BUNDLE. Start off with a beginner's look at writing a Paragraph. Use paragraph prompts to help get the juices flowing before moving on to the drafting phase. Make Book Reports fun again with the help of engaging graphic organizers. Follow our checklist to a great oral book report and no longer fear public speaking. Then, explore the different kinds of Essays and how to master them. Tell the story with descriptive and narrative essays, or give your point of view with persuasive essays. Practice what you've learned while successfully revising, proofing and editing your work. Each concept is paired with hands-on graphic organizers and comprehension activities. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



How to Write a Paragraph Gr. 5-8

Author : Brenda Rollins

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 32,68 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553199014

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Book Description

Learning to express one's thoughts in well-written sentences and paragraphs is an essential skill for all students. Designed to make the writing process logical and easy to learn, our resource breaks down the process of writing a paragraph into its fundamental elements. Start off by learning what is a paragraph before delving deeper into its forms and purposes. Use prompts to start your paragraph off in the prewriting stage. Then, write your first draft using graphic organizers for help. Practice what you've learned before moving on to the revision phase. Get tips on what to watch out for while you revise and proofread your paragraph. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



Senses, Nervous & Respiratory Systems Gr. 5-8

Author : Susan Lang

Publisher : Classroom Complete Press

Page : 64 pages

File Size : 19,91 MB

Release : 2007-09-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1553197968

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Book Description

Continue your journey into the human body with a stop at the brain and lungs. Our resource is written in an easy-to-understand way that makes it a hit for students. Start by dissecting the different parts of the brain and learning what they do. Move through the nervous system from the spinal cord to the nerves. Visit all five senses, beginning with sight. Learn how the brain interprets things we see with our eyes. Find the smallest bone in the human body in the ear. Play some memory games to test your sense of touch. See firsthand how taste and smell are linked with a blind experiment. Find out how the mouth, nose, trachea, epiglottis, and lungs come together to form our respiratory system. Conduct an experiment to see just how much air your lungs can hold. Aligned to the Next Generation State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEAM initiatives, additional hands-on experiments, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.



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