Nothing captures the attention of young people (and adults) like a creative object lesson. This hands-on book gives pastors, teachers, speakers, and homeschoolers 77 exciting science activities that reveal the order and grandeur of creation and encourage an appreciation of all God has made. These easy experiments illustrate the laws of…

Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step…

The song leader’s role in a worship service goes much deeper than starting songs and beating time. The song leader’s confidence, song selections, and level of preparation complement or detract from the service.
Beyond Beating Time shares instructions and tips for both novices and experienced leaders. Topics include…

Table of Contents:
SO MANY THINGS TO LEARN
Poem: Happy Is the Man
The Honor Box
A Harvest of Gold
Poem: September
Making Joe's Lunch
Poem: Rebellion in September
So Many Things to Learn
Call of the Wild Geese
Poem: Something Told the Wild Geese
Created to Fly
Beavers!…

Give your students the gift of expression with Creative Word Studio's Creative Writing: Sparkling Bits Workbook 1. With Free Writing, Reading Response, and Mini Writing Lessons, this workbook-based curriculum gives eager writers in grades 4-7 a chance to polish their skills and provides a kick-start to those who declare that…

A comprehensive guide to directing choral music. Chapter list:

Becoming a Choral Music Director
Developing a Philosophy for the Music Program
Promoting and Recruiting for Choral Success
Planning, Building, and Managing the Choral Program
Processing the Flow of Information
Technology for the Choral Director
Working with Adolescent Singers
Classroom Management…

Packed with beautifully designed and detailed maps, this world atlas is the perfect companion for geography students.

First published in 1988 and now in its 9th edition, Student World Atlas has been fully revised and updated. With 290 maps in total, it combines larger, traditional reference maps with smaller topic maps. These…

Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle. All the line's romantic dreams were in vain until one day he discovered angles! Now he can be…

For Martin Gardner seeing is not only believing, but also understanding. This fundamental rule has made him one of America's most successful teachers and popularizers of science. With these simple instructions and a few household items you and your child can easily learn the most difficult scientific principles by…

Published by Hayden-McNeil, this lab notebook contains 50 carbonless transfer sets for students to record and turn in lab work. Back cover contains valuable reference charts.

Grade 2 Reader
Table of Contents:
The Lost Shoes
Poem: Five Little Brothers
Poem: Lost and Found
The Red Children
Poem: Rock-a-by, Hush-a-by, Little Papoose
Poem: Happy Hearts
All Kinds of Houses
Poem: The House of the Mouse
Poem: The Jolly Woodchuck
Poem: What Happened in the Night
Poem: The Woodpecker…

Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn…

When you speak to the likes of Dylan Wiliam, Doug Lemov, Daisy Christodoulou, Kris Boulton and the Bjorks, you are bound to learn a thing or two. But when he started his Mr Barton Maths Podcast, Craig Barton wasn't expecting to have his whole outlook on teaching and learning…

This is the first workbook of a seven-part series. Designed for the beginning reader and writer, it introduces the alphabet one letter and one word per page. Includes basic italic lowercase, capitals, and numerals. Illustrated.

Italic is a modern handwriting system based on enduring letterforms that are highly suited to…

Like masterpieces of art, music, and literature, great mathematical theorems are creative milestones, works of genius destined to last forever. Now William Dunham gives them the attention they deserve.

Dunham places each theorem within its historical context and explores the very human and often turbulent life of the ceator -…

A note to future teacher ... from the author, Ronald Cramer - "This text presents an array of strategies, models, research, and well-established best practices for teaching reading, writing, listening, talking, and thinking. The research, ideas, and information presented in this text will inform, and I hope inspire, pre-service teachers as…

Author's Note
Many students in our Christian schools dislike math. "Math was my least favorite subject," is a common complaint of students. I believe that this distaste for math occurs primarily because math is taught in an abstract, irrelevant way.
This resource is designed to enable teachers to show…

Is history constantly repeating itself, or is civilization evolving toward a final resolution?
It depends on whom you ask.
The Meaning of History is a concise yet absorbing look at the meaning of history as interpreted by major historians and philosophers including Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, and the often-misunderstood Karl…

The colorful pages, fascinating photos, and intriguing stories in this book will inspire your youngster's love for nature and a desire to explore God's wonderful world. And, in exploring, your child will learn about God: His power, creativity, intelligence, humor, and love.

A fly with no mouth, a hydraulic-powered spider, a freeze-proof caterpillar, and a deadly message coded in light pulses - are such things found only in exotic places like Africa or the Amazon basin? Follow the author and his family as they discover these wonders and many more in a…

STRONG AND BRAVE
Poem: Be Strong
Enemy in the Wilderness
Emergency!
Sleep-Out Below Zero
Poem: Cold Winter
Poem: Chinook
Till I Have Proof
Poem: Down on the Shore
Brothers in Danger
The Army That Was too Big
Poem: The Spring
IT HAPPENED LONG AGO
Poem: I Remember, I Remember
To…

Pentime Cursive is designed to provide cursive handwriting skills with a minimum of teacher supervision. However, it is necessary for teachers to watch the students' progress carefully.
We hope students will enjoy learning more about our United States and will be inspired by the color plate on the back…

Pentime Cursive is designed to provide cursive handwriting skills with a minimum of teacher supervision. However, it is necessary for teachers to watch the students' progress carefully.
We hope students will enjoy the essays on wildfire and nature and will be inspired by the color plate on the back…

Pentime Cursive is designed to provide cursive handwriting skills with a minimum of teacher supervision. However, it is necessary for teachers to watch the students' progress carefully.
We hope students will enjoy the essays on wildlife and nature and will be inspired by the color plate on the back…

This workbook was prepared for the last semester of first grade or after Book 1 has been completed. It is not recommended for use as a first book. Hopefully the blends will help students stay tuned and copying sentences teach sentence structure. Students should be able to work these books with…