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Montana

Science

Activities for Collaborative Groups

Mysteries of the Sky

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Philosophy

"Modular, Manageable, Meaningful- help your students discover the life span " "Discovering the Life Span" provides students with a strong balance of research and applications. Many instructors would like to cover the entire life span in a single term and help their students see the big picture. They want students to understand how the domains of development work together and perhaps, most importantly, have their students truly connect to the material. This remarkable text does all of this. Its balanced modular format treats each stage of life and each domain equally throughout the text. With 10 chapters, 3 modules per chapter, and only 576 pages, "Discovering the Life Span" is more manageable for instructors and students. It allows instructors to cover all areas of the life span without having to sacrifice content during their one-term course and students get a better sense of the entire process of development. Interactive resources like MyDevelopmentLab and MyVirtualChild produce a meaningful learning experience and prepare students to apply content to their personal and future professional lives. Teaching & Learning Experience
 * "Personalize Learning -"The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
 * "Engage Students-"Interactive online resources, strong applications, and innovative pedagogy integrated throughout the text produce a meaningful learning experience for students. These tools, along with in-text features encourage students to apply the content to their personal and future professional lives.
 * "Improve Critical Thinking" - "Review, Check, and Apply" sections tied to the Learning Objectives help students clearly understand what they are expected to learn in a given section of the book.
 * "Explore Research" - "From Research to Practice" helps students see the impact of developmental research throughout society.
 * "Understand Culture and Diversity" - In-text "Cultural Dimensions" highlight issues relevant in today's multicultural society.
 * "Support Instructors -"MyDevelopmentLab's Class Prep, MyVirtualChild, video embedded PowerPoints, MyTest, clicker questions, and an instructor's manual provide extensive support for instructors.

Note: MyDevelopmentLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyDevelopmentLab, please visit: www.mydevelopmentlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyDevelopmentLab (at no additional cost).VP: 9780205216918

Discovering the Life Span

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

An Integrated Approach

In elementary schools across the United States, teachers are often tasked with teaching health education or physical education, although they may not have specialist training. Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers: An Integrated Approach is the perfect resource for these educators. It covers both health and physical education while giving current and preservice teachers the skills to deliver appropriate lessons to their young students.

Retta Evans and Sandra Sims, respected educators and physical education advocates, provide everything teachers need in order to seamlessly incorporate health education and physical education into an integrated curriculum. Based on national health education, physical education, and state-specific academic standards including the Common Core state standards, this is a guide that will help teachers empower elementary students to become healthy and active.

The text is complemented with a full suite of ancillary products:

* Sample syllabus and course outline

* Chapter resources, including an overview, outline, review questions with answers, and learning activities

* Chapter questions to help in creating quick assessments of student learning or in building custom tests

* Approximately 150 slides to reinforce key points

The text also features lab exercises that allow students to practice the material they are learning, including designing their own standards-based lesson plans that integrate health and physical education. By learning the essential knowledge and using the invaluable strategies in this book, every teacher will be equipped to create a healthy and active school environment that maximizes student achievement.

Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers is organized into two parts, each dedicated to different components of incorporating health and physical education into the elementary classroom.

Part I focuses on the foundational knowledge needed for teaching health and physical education. It addresses the health risk behaviors of today's generation of students, a team approach to coordinated school health, how physical growth and brain development in children are related to health, and the many characteristics and benefits of a high-quality physical education program.

Part II emphasizes the strategies necessary for incorporating health, physical education, and physical activity into the curriculum and school day. It discusses how teachers can become advocates of healthy and active schools, identify habits that promote everyday health in the classroom, and incorporate physical activity and the national standards into each school day. It also presents teaching methods, assessment tools, and evaluation strategies to ensure teaching success.

Throughout this book, practicing and training teachers will find websites, tips for best practices, sample lesson plans, and tables with innovative strategies. The result is a great resource that teachers can use to fulfill what is both a tremendous responsibility and a unique opportunity--promoting health and wellness in the elementary classroom using an integrated approach.

Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers

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Campbell Essential Biology, Fifth Edition, makes biology irresistibly interesting for non-majors biology students. This best-selling book, known for its scientific accuracy and currency, makes biology relevant and approachable with increased use of analogies, real world examples, more conversational language, and intriguing questions.  

 

Campbell Essential Biology ... make biology irresistibly interesting.

 

NOTE: This is the standalone book, if you want the book/access card package order the ISBN below;

0321763335 / 9780321763334 Campbell Essential Biology Plus MasteringBiology with eText -- Access Card Package

 

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0321772598 / 9780321772596 Campbell Essential Biology

0321791711 / 9780321791719 MasteringBiology with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Campbell Essential Biology (with Physiology chapters)

Campbell Essential Biology

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The book elucidates the fundamental importance of high-quality assessment to student academic well-being and promotes the development of student self-assessment as a critically important life skill.Provides a clear, common sense description of all assessment methods (selected response, essay, performance, and personal communication) and how to align them with relevant achievement targets (knowledge, reasoning, skills, products, and dispositions). Easy-to-read and free of technical jargon, this book focuses squarely on what teachers need to know in order to make assessment work in classrooms.

Student-Centered Classroom Assessment

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

In Special and Inclusive Education

As the best-selling professional resource in its field, this text offers basic assessment information and a handbook of reviews of the most common K-12 standardized tests. It s heralded for its perspective on both formal and informal assessment, and covers more than 80 standardized tests, portfolio assessment, outcome-based assessment, observation, ecological assessment, and teacher-made tests. A chapter on "Testing Students with Limited English Proficiency" covers English language learners, cultural diversity, and the challenges in developing tests for these students. Coverage of high-stakes testing and accountability, including coverage of the No Child Left Behind Act, appears in the final chapter.

Assessment

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