Focusing on practical strategies, this book equips teachers across various subjects with techniques to effectively integrate writing into their daily lessons. It emphasizes the importance of engaging students in writing beyond English class, ensuring alignment with Common Core State Standards. Through innovative approaches, educators can enhance student expression and comprehension across the curriculum.
Project based learning is a popular approach to meeting the Common Core, but it can be time-consuming to implement. In this book, award-winning teacher and Huffington Post blogger Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes it fun and easy! Part I provides 6 full project-based learning units that integrate science and math while engaging students in real-world scenarios and critical thinking. Part 2 offers mix and match lessons and tools to help you create your own PBL units. The book also contains tons of templates, such as writing outlines, checklists, and rubrics, which you can download as free eResources from our website.
This book will show teachers what engages students, and how to do it in their classrooms everyday. Each chapter includes an overview of the strategy (with relevant research), and several lesson ideas for implementing it in the classroom.
Are you interested in using Project Based Learning to revamp your lessons, but aren’t sure how to get started? In DIY Project Based Learning in ELA and History , award-winning teacher and Edutopia blogger Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes it fun and easy! Project Based Learning encourages students and teachers alike to abandon their dusty textbooks, and instead embrace a form of curriculum design focused on student engagement, innovation, and creative problem-solving. A leading name in this field, Heather Wolpert-Gawron shares some of her most popular units for ELA and Social Studies in this exciting new collection. This book is an essential resource for teachers looking Part I of the book features six full units, complete with student samples, targeted rubrics, a checklist to keep students on track, and even "Homework Hints." Part II is a mix-and-match section of tools you can use to create your own PBL-aligned lessons. The tools are available as eResources on our website, so you can print and use them in your classroom immediately.
This book, first published in 2011 by Routledge, explores significant themes and concepts relevant to its field. As an imprint of Taylor & Francis, it offers scholarly insights and research, making it a valuable resource for academics and professionals alike. The content is designed to engage readers with contemporary issues and theoretical frameworks, contributing to ongoing discourse in its subject area.
150 delicious meatless recipes packed with performance-boosting nutrients As a runner, you know that your food is your fuel—you have to eat well in order to perform well. But if you think it’s impossible to be a high-performing athlete and ditch meat, think again. Legendary ultrarunner Scott Jurek is plant-based and track star Carl Lewis is vegetarian. Being wholly or mostly meatless doesn’t have to mean sacrificing nutrition or performance—in fact, these whole-food recipes can help bring your body to peak health and fitness. Written by Heather Mayer Irvine, the Food and Nutrition editor of Runner’s World, this vegetarian cookbook not only contains healthy recipes but also in-depth information on how runners—regardless of their food-with-a-face preference—can eat more plants. In this cookbook, you’ll find delicious and nutritious recipes for every meal (and yes, even dessert!) that will help power your runs and recovery.