Curriculum Product Roundup
Arts Attack
The award-winning Arts Attack curriculum is a developmental, sequential visual arts curriculum for Grades K-8 (presented entirely on videotape or DVD). This format is designed to make it easy to facilitate a comprehensive program based on art elements and principles as well as art history and appreciation. Each grade level includes 24 hands-on lessons.
www.artsattack.com
Recorded Books
Reading with audiobooks can increase reading skills by as much as 34 percent. Students who listen and read show increased reading comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency, reading readiness, and motivation. Recorded Books Work! is a complete research and results report on how Recorded Books can help your students read better and enjoy reading more.
www.recordedbooks.com/school
Theme Schemes
Concepts such as nationalism, communism and fascism repeatedly appear in American History and World History, but teachers often struggle to find quality supplemental materials and activities that enable them to teach these concepts in an engaging and meaningful way. The Ism's Book helps teachers avoid having to reinvent the wheel by providing them with activities that are valuable and fun. As with all Theme Schemes activity books, The Ism's Book contains complete and teacher friendly activities that will bring excitement and critical thinking to the classroom.
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 8th Power Technology Courseware
K to the 8th 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
History Education
A&E Television Networks has announced the formation of History Education, a new business venture that develops and sells resources for schools. An extension of The History Channel, History Education offers a new multimedia product line based on the network's acclaimed programming that challenges, inspires and encourages the love of learning. The first release under the History Education brand is The History Channel Multimedia Classroom, a set of new social studies teaching tools. Each lesson plan combines short clips of original programming with primary source documents, discussion questions, extended activities, maps and images, and suggested reading lists.
www.history.com
Pasaporte al espaņol from BJU Press
Both teachers and students will love Pasaporte al espaņol 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 espaņol builds both recall and comprehension, giving students a deeper understanding of Spanish.
www.bjupress.com