![]() | The Organized Teacher: A Hands-On Guide to Setting Up and Running a Terrific Classroom by Steve Springer
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.94 Many tips, ideas, and plans for classroom organization.
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![]() | Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping by Nancy Margulies
Buy new: $26.31 / Used from: $14.97 A boon to lesson planning and delivery. Shows how to present information in a simple, visual way.
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![]() | Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers by Carol Koechlin
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $13.88 Asking questions is at the very heart of authentic learning. But how do you get children to ask substantive questions? This book provides excellent strategies.
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![]() | Lifesaving Strategies for New Teachers by Dottie Raymer
Buy used from: $0.01 Are you a new teacher? Or an experienced teacher who wants to broaden his/her horizons? Then this book is for you.
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![]() | Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains by LouAnne Johnson
Buy new: $15.72 / Used from: $12.79 A book with many novel, yet practical, ideas for teachers.
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![]() | Big Book of Bulletin Boards, Intermediate by Janie Schmidt
Buy used from: $0.99 Are you stumped for ideas for bulletin boards? Here are 130 ideas. This book also shows how to take modest amounts of information and make a visually-appealing and interest-generating bulletin board out of it.
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![]() | The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $6.97 An excellent book that can be used at the middle-school level to combine health and social studies. Teaches about the geography of healthful living and extreme longevity.
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![]() | Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $8.98 A fascinating, attention-getting and attention-keeping presentation of music from around the world.
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![]() | The Devil's Miner
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $9.49 An attention-getting and attention-keeping video that highlights the continuing problem of child labor in many parts of the world.
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![]() | March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.49 A delightful DVD that teaches so much related to life science, nature in general, the Antarctic, ecology, extreme environments, the penguin life-cycle, etc.
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![]() | Mass Murder in Katyn Wood by Steve Laws
This educational pamphlet provides several classroom activities. It instructs children to use higher-level thinking skills by comparing the Nazi and Soviet radio broadcasts in terms of fact vs. opinion, comparative extent of emotive language, etc.
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![]() | A Pocket For Corduroy [VHS]
Buy used from: $12.37 An excellent, heartwarming story--for little children--about a little girl and her magical teddy bear.
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![]() | The Wee Sing Train
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.72 A delightful sing-along video for young children.
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![]() | Teachers: A Tribute to the Enlightened, the Exceptional, the Extraordinary by John Sibley Yow
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $81.78 A survey of just a few outstanding teachers.
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![]() | Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had by Brad Cohen
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $3.42 The testimony of Brad Cohen, who has Tourette Syndrome and who became a very successful teacher. This book is an inspiration to any teacher with a disability.
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![]() | Front of the Class (Hallmark Hall of Fame: Gold Crown Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $32.98 A movie based on the Brad Cohen overcoming Tourette Syndrome and becoming an excellent teacher. He had to overcome not so much his disability as other peoples' perception of his disability.
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![]() | The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.74 An eye-opening book on trends in American education which have increasingly caused boys to disengage from the learning process. Includes practical tips for teachers in order to make classes, and the curriculum, more boy-friendly (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | Assertive Discipline, Third Edition by Lee Canter
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.00 A classic how-to of classroom discipline.
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![]() | Behavior Management in the Middle School Classroom by Lee Canter
Buy used from: $33.00 Title says it all. It includes a diagnostic checklist for assessing the motivations of chronically-disruptive students. It also contains many useful ready-to-copy-and-use sheets.
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![]() | Discipline in the Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach to Behavior Management (Jossey-Bass Teacher) by Randall S. Sprick Ph.D.
Buy used from: $9.92 A practical "how-to" book for handling various classroom-management situations, including chaotic, unmotivated classes.
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![]() | Classroom Discipline Survival Guide for Middle School/Junior High Teachers by Carol Chernow
Buy used from: $1.13 Includes a helpful table that compares teacher-directed classroom activities that don't work with activities that do work, especially for low-achieving students.
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![]() | Classroom Discipline and Control: 101 Practical Techniques by Fred B. Chernow
Buy used from: $0.71 Emphasizes the way that a teacher communicates as a major factor in classroom management.
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![]() | Successful School Discipline by J. Weston Walch
Buy used from: $4.44 Includes a helpful section on the use of humor in handling student denials of responsibility, and defusing power confrontations.
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![]() | Discipline with Dignity by Richard Curwin
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $6.95 Classroom discipline as a social contract between teachers and students. Emphasizes consequences, not punishment, for misbehavior.
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![]() | Teacher Effectiveness Training: The Program Proven to Help Teachers Bring Out the Best in Students of All Ages by Dr. Thomas Gordon
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.05 A positive approach to classroom discipline, centered on the teacher-student relationship. The author assumes that, when in a positive relationship with his/her teacher, the child will want to obey the teacher.
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![]() | Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $1.95 Not dry theory; this book presents excellent cartoon-based suggestions for dealing with conflicts between children. One cartoon shows a commonly-used, ineffective way, and the next cartoon shows a much better way. (see the Peczkis review)
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![]() | Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 Attila the Hun? You've got to be kidding. Believe it or not, many of Attila the Hun's insights into the psychology of adult warriors applies to children and teens (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition by Susan Wise Bauer
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $9.48 This widely-read book defends classical education. It also has implications for the way that science education is currently conducted (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | Big Book of Tell Me Why #2 Answers to Hundreds of Questions Children Ask by Arkady Leokum
Buy used from: $0.01 A book of few-paragraph answers to many questions asked by children, on topics as diverse as science and love/romance.
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![]() | Science as Inquiry for Children
Buy used from: $19.95 This imaginative 23-minute video, intended for K-4, features a boy and girl trapped in an empty classroom, and how they use the scientific method in an attempt to get free. They are advised by three eminent, historic scientists who appear to them.
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![]() | The Handy Science Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series) by Science and Technology Department Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $4.98 An excellent overview of countless science-related topics.
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![]() | The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories, & Things by Surendra Verma
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 An excellent, concise handbook of major themes in science and math. Includes the discoverer(s) and dates of discovery as applicable.
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![]() | Science Is...: A source book of fascinating facts, projects and activities by Susan V. Bosak
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $5.79 An exceptionally comprehensive and creative book of science experiments, demonstrations, etc. Includes some unusual activities. (see the Peczkis review).
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![]() | Science on a Shoestring (Innovative) by Herb Strongin
Buy used from: $0.19 If you are a teacher or homeschooling parent who thinks that you need specialized equipment in order for children to conduct science experiments, this book is for you. As a science teacher for many years, I have found it invaluable.
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![]() | Janice VanCleave's Biology For Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments That Really Work (Science for Every Kid Series) by Janice VanCleave
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $0.01 A large collection of simple classroom science experiments, each described in a few pages.
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![]() | The Usborne Big Book of Experiments (Big Book of Experiences)
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.19 A set of very simple experiments for children.
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![]() | Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, Extract Water and Electricity ... a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Feats by Cy Tymony
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $2.59 A good book for children who like to tinker with everyday objects. And, while not written for this purpose, it provides many ideas for science projects.
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![]() | How to Clean Practically Anything by The Editors of Consumer Reports
Buy used from: $0.01 Many children's science projects nowadays involve the testing of consumer products. I found this book quite useful for science-project ideas in this regard, even though it was not written for this purpose.
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![]() | A Sourcebook for the Biological Sciences by Evelyn Morholt
Buy used from: $14.99 A volume packed with information. Mostly suitable for the high school and college level--yet parts of it are also relevant to elementary-level science experimentation.
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