Bible Literacy Project
The Bible and Its Influence , a high school textbook from the Bible Literacy Project, provides comprehensive coverage of the Bible's influence on literature, art, music, and rhetoric. It is designed to be an elective option in English or Social Studies programs for 9th to 12th grades. The Bible Literacy Project course uses two books--the student textbook and the Bible, using a translation of the student's choice. It explains the narratives, themes, and characters of the Bible. It respects but does not promote faith traditions. Students read from the Bible translation of their choice and study differences between translations.
www.bibleliteracy.org
Everybody Counts!
A new curriculum to teach children in grades K-8 the understanding of disabilities has been developed by Everybody Counts! This revised and updated program teaches children about various disabilities and how children with these challenges cope with them. The goal is better understanding, so that children can know the person behind the disability, thus creating a climate in which everyone can feel at ease with one another's differences. Sessions include presentations and simulations that provide children with an opportunity to experience what it would be like to cope with a disability.
www.everybodycounts.net
GrammarDog Guides
Designed to teach students grammar in context, these reproducible guides (provided on CD-ROM) use sentences from specific works of literature. Each work is analyzed for 12 of the following 14 elements: parts of speech; proofreading (spelling, capitalization, punctuation); simple, compound, and complex sentences; phrases; clauses; verbals; complements; passive/active voice; poetic devices; figurative language; sensory imagery; humor; allusions; and literary analysis. Titles include Lord of the Flies, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Scarlet Letter, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth and more.
www.grammardog.com
StudyDog
StudyDog has released two new reading software products for schools. Building on the success of the StudyDog reading lessons within elementary schools, StudyDog has introduced the School Version in two CD-ROM volumes for pre-K through 2nd grade students. The School Version includes all of the popular reading lessons, plus significant Teacher Management and Reporting features. StudyDog manages up to 30 students with individual and global password protection. With this feature, a teacher can have all of the students in the class have their own "StudyDog" that will keep track of each student's progress.
www.studydog.com
New Curriculum from The Bill of Rights Institute
The Bill of Rights Institute has announced the launch of their latest curriculum, The Bill of Rights and You: Rights and Responsibilities. Each of the 21 lessons in this 10-unit teacher's guide is tied to national civics, history and social studies standards, containing content-rich background essays and research-based teaching strategies that will help students understand the relevance of the Bill of Rights in their own lives. The curriculum includes a complete answer key, optional reading quizzes, DVD viewing guides, a glossary of key terms, relevant landmark Supreme Court cases, and additional educational resources.
www.BillofRightsInstitute.org
Online Audio Library from Recorded Books
Subscribe to the Online Audio Library from Recorded Books. It's the easiest, least expensive way to bring Recorded Books to your school. Borrow any title from the Online Audio Library for six weeks with a simple download from the Web. Then, share it with up to two students by transferring to an MP3 player or another computer. With the Online Audio Library, you get the same great Recorded Books quality that you're used to on CD and cassette, the same inspiring narrations of unabridged text for listen-and-read support, and access to nearly 1,000 titles from the Recorded Books K-12 collection.
www.recordedbooks.com/school
Theme Schemes
Theme Schemes has announced the addition of American History Lessons for the Stuff That's Hard to Teach, Volume II to their series of reproducible activity books for 6-12 Social Studies. Teachers and students will love these engaging and teacher-friendly lesson plans for 20th Century America, including activities to teach the atomic bomb, the arms race, the 1970s, 80s and 90s and the Persian Gulf War. The activity books include worksheets, handouts, and teacher facilitation instructions to create excitement in your classroom. These teacher-created activities will help you show students the value and relevancy of history and the other Social Studies to their lives.
www.themeschemes.com
GeeGuide's geeART
The first curriculum of the GeeGuide's geeART series, geeART16, utilizes cutting-edge features and content to help reinforce concepts, engage students, assist teachers and bring art and technology to our schools. GeeGuides's geeART16 is an animated, interactive, Web-based art education system, which is more thoughtful, innovative and in-depth than conventional CD-ROM-based programs. This comprehensive curriculum helps students learn the language of art, how it applies to their lives, and how to use it as a form of self-expression. www.geeguides.com
K to the 8 th Power Technology Courseware
K to the 8 th Power Technology Courseware helps increase student and teacher technology skills and computer literacy through integrated technology lessons. The program is a complete online technology education curriculum for K-8. More than 500 lessons combine technology skills with classroom academic instruction. Students learn word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software skills and apply those skills to reading, writing and math objectives. All lessons, teacher resources and electronic grade book are delivered over the Internet.
www.kto8.com/csp
We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution
With more than 270 illustrations and images, the 2007 edition of We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution from the Center for Civic Education teaches the history and principles of constitutional democracy in the United States . The middle school curriculum, consisting of 30 lessons presented in six units, uses critical-thinking exercises, problem-solving activities, cooperative-learning practices, and a culminating performance assessment. The 352-page text is accompanied by a teacher's edition.
www.civiced.org
Sadlier-Oxford Progress in Mathematics
Sadlier-Oxford Progress in Mathematics, K-6 2006 is a rigorous standards-based program structured for proficient learners as well as for struggling mathematics students. Count on Sadlier-Oxford's adherence to rigorous standards, so that instruction is complete and effective. Everything essential is there in the colorful, appealing, self-contained program, including a variety of free online resources and professional support. It is proven, practical and affordable.
www.progressinmathematics.com
Pasaporte al español from BJU Press
Both teachers and students will love Pasaporte al español from BJU Press. Teachers will love the flexible lesson schedule as well as the indispensable Teacher's Edition that makes interactive teaching easy and fun, even for non-fluent teachers. Students will love the colorful teaching charts, fun songs, and especially their new friend Choco, a hedgehog puppet who learns Spanish right along with them. Pasaporte al español builds both recall and comprehension, giving students a deeper understanding of Spanish.
www.bjupress.com
Christian Liberty Press
If your students need additional exposure to the correct pronunciation of phonics sounds, then you need to order the audio CD entitled "Adventures In Phonics: Phonics Sounds and Teaching Tips." This classroom supplement not only gives students the extra re-enforcement they need, but also provides instructors with suggestions for how to succeed as a reading teacher. Instructors may use this phonics lecture with any traditional phonics program; however, it is designed to be a companion to the workbook entitled Adventures In Phonics Level A. www.christianlibertypress.com
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