This collection of quick, flexible, informal assessments helps teachers take a snapshot of student learning—at any time during a lesson or unit of study, in any curriculum area. Students' responses give teachers a clear picture of what students know and what they need help with, what material to reteach or extend, and how to pace instruction. Designed to engage a range of learning styles and …
In an interactive, large-format concept book that includes a watch with movable hands, youngsters follow a young boy and his dog throughout their day, learning about how to tell time and how to read a clock.
It's a fact--kids love to explore. The Let's Explore series introduces important concepts in mathematics and earth science for young children in a friendly and attractive way. Bright, clear photographs stimulate discussion, while the simple, easy-to-read text is presented in an approachable question, investigation, and answer format.
Now with new art by Katie Kath (illustrator of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer), this easy-to-understand introduction teaches children how to quantify the things in their daily routines. They'll learn all about the tools they need to measure--rulers, scales, pencils, and cups--as well as the language to express what they find. Readers will soon have the answers to their ques…
"For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were!" Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could …