Readers will find 100 cross-curricular sample lessons from each of the four major content areas: English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Plans designed around the most frequently taught objectives found in national and international curricula.
Learn effective ways to teach STEAM with this helpful book from educational technology experts Billy Krakower and Meredith Martin. Whether you have a dedicated STEAM class, or plan to integrate it into a regular classroom, you'll find out how to create a structured learning environment while still leaving room for inquiry and innovation.
This practical resource for music educators provides 15 fully-developed and classroom-vetted instructional plans with assessments that are aligned to articulate learning from kindergarten through grade 12. With these instructional lessons and adaptations for K-12 music and STEM classes, pre-service educators, in-service educators, and administrators can better understand and immediately use tools for planning, assessing, and the practical integrating of STEM with Music.
In this newly revised and expanded 2nd edition of Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan, who also coach teachers through nationwide workshops, offer time-crunched elementary educators comprehensive background notes to each chapter, new reading strategies, and show how to combine science and reading in a natural way with classroom-tested lessons in physical science, life science, and Earth and space science.
For teachers eager to integrate STEM into their school day, Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons is an exciting development. This book' s 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture books.
PK-4 Student Resources
The databases below are typical resources students in your school district will have access to in the classroom. POWER Library resources (see below) are available to all PA residents.
EBSCO’s search tool designed just for students in kindergarten through grade 5. Explora contains complete articles from dozens of the most popular elementary school magazines, encyclopedia entries written just for kids, and more than one million images of photos, maps and flags.
Provides full text of over 70 children's magazines, Lexile reading levels included for all full text articles. Over 100 children's pamphlets and over 100,000 images of photos, maps, and flags. 1990 - present.
POWER Library is an online portal available to all Pennsylvania residents with a library card. It provides a number of databases and resources that can be utilized at the elementary and secondary level including : BookFLIX, TrueFlix, Cyber Smarts, and Gale databases.
The POWER Library OER Commons hub is designed to serve educators across the Commonwealth with high-quality, customizable lesson plans, and other resources, that directly correlate Pennsylvania’s elementary and secondary content standards to the resources provided in POWER Library.