SupplementalBudget
Lori L. Elliott
ED 608-01
Dr. Helms
Fall 2001
These items represent a beginning wish list of materials I would ultimately like to have for my classroom. I know that I will eventually have some of these items as I feel they are essential in the education and growth of my students. It is not a surprise that children become more engaged when they feel a sense of ownership, when their learning styles are supported, when they are active participants, and when the information is related to their own lives in a realistic way. I think that working with the right materials is one part of achieving these goals. This list is my starting point for addressing these processes, following of course, my teaching education (materials don’t mean much if you don’t know what you are doing, right?)!
REPRODUCIBLE ACTIVITIES
Portfolios in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Sourcebook
Stimulating and practical, this sourcebook presents a compelling rationale for portfolio assessment, a step-by-step plan for implementing such a program, a year-long portfolio management schedule, and a helpful question-and-answer section. Contains 22 pages of reproducible letters, questionnaires, checklists, and charts. Grades 1-6.
INS144-P1: $18.95
Super Social Studies!
Contains quick and easy activities, games, and manipulatives. Has ideas for craft projects that provide an alternative to traditional reports. Also, enlivens geography skills through map puzzles, scrambled pictures, and games. Grades 4-8.
INS555-P1: $9.95
SIMULATION
Neighborhood: A Simulation Using a Literary Approach to Understanding Cultural Diversity
Divides students into six families (African-, Hispanic-, Jewish-, Asian-, Native-, and Irish-American) to do assignments in five areas: famous people, cultural projects, holidays, literature, and effects of discrimination. Grades 4-8.
INT370-P1: 36 student guides, teacher’s guide $43.00
ACTIVITIES/BOOKS
More Than Moccasins: A Kid’s Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life
Provides “hands-on historical and cultural experience” and gives children a sense of how Indian children lived long ago. Stressing, resourcefulness and respect for the environment, the activities are preceded by historical background and cover seven areas: everyday life, things to wear, song and dance, toys, food, games, and forms of communications. Grades K-4.
STD109-P1: $11.65 each (for 5 or more copies).
30 copies: $349.50 Total
Ideas in Bloom: Taxonomy-Based Activities for U.S. Students
90 reproducible, flexible assignments on topics ranging from pre-Columbian America to computers. Clarifies the sic levels, lists typical activities for each, and shows you how; to develop your own assignments geared to specific course plans and objectives. Grades 5-8; adaptable for grades 4-12.
JWW279-P1: $21.95
Student-Centered Social Studies Projects
Activities cover topics in economics, mapping, creating historical newspapers, and planning an overseas trip. Lesson plans have objectives, vocabulary, teaching tips, and procedures, plus dozens of reproducible worksheets and handouts. Grades 5-9.
IFD186-P1: $9.99
If This Is Social Studies, Why Isn’t It Boring?
Among the topics: Native Americans, slavery, Civil War, Depression, Holocaust, Martin Luther King, map-making, and ecology. Among the approaches: role-playing, interviewing, storytelling, setting up learning centers, using portfolios, and using fiction to motivate research. Includes a history of movements within the social studies and a discussion of approaches to the sub-disciplines. Teacher resource for grades K-12.
STN100-P1: $21.00
Weekly Writing Activities for the Intermediate Grades: An Integrated Approach – Social Studies Themes
33 absorbing activities use a plethora of writing formats, stimulate research, and tap into the creative process. Each exercise includes background information, a research project, and two writing assignments. Grades 3-6.
EP202-P1: $9.95
Social Studies Through Children’s Literature: An Integrated Approach
Combines educational theory with practical applications for integrating children’s literature into the entire elementary curriculum. Teacher resource for grades K-6.
LN120-P1: $26.00
Literature-Based History Activities for Children, Grades 4-8
Ranging from prehistoric times to the present, the book encompasses multicultural perspectives and accents how past cultures influenced American society. More than 150 adaptable activities are grouped into 12 time periods, each with an annotated book list.
AYB122-P1: $29.00
Circling the Globe: A Young People’s Guide to Countries and Cultures of the World
Informational tour of 180 countries, filled with more than 700 color photographs, 200 detailed maps, and 2500 illustrations. The book works equally well as an atlas and as an encyclopedia as it introduces the history, culture, and geography of countries in clear language and revealing images. Grades 4-8. Hardback.
CKG117-P1: $39.95
Teacher, They Called Me a ______!
Focusing on racial prejudice, stereotyping, sexual bias, and other negatives, this updated book provides 86 subject-related activities to build tolerance and help children overcome hurtful behaviors. Projects involve using reference materials, reading articles and stories, discussing, and creative writing. Students are able to examine their attitudes towards other ethnic groups, races, religions, and people with handicaps. Grades K-6.
ADL144-P1: Paperback $17.95
Geography Brainstretchers: Creative Problem-Solving Activities in Geography
Divided into three disciplines – U.S. geography, world geography, and map and globe skills – the imaginative critical thinking activities in each thematic section help students review cities, bodies of water, latitude and longitude, weather, and more, while decoding analogies, drawing inferences, determining relationships, and sequencing lists. Grades 4-6.
GDY316-P1: $10.95
BANNERS/POSTERS
Cultural Rainbow Posters/Banner: An American Alphabet
Stunning display and rich multicultural resource, with 26 color photographs illustrating an A to Z collection of artifacts, clothing, food, works of art, and more from a variety of ethnic and cultural groups.
ED178-P1: $34.95
U.S. History Timeline
Eight posters join to make a 16-foot timeline that traces American history from before 1400 to the present. Striking images combine with text to provide information about political, economic, and social aspects of our society.
AF111-P1: $47.50
Ethnic Charts
22”h x 17”w full color-charts introduce students to the cultures of the Navajo, Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, English Americans, German Americans, and African Americans. Illuminating the celebrations of each group, the posters feature photos and illustrations of well-known members of each ethnic group. Colorful sidebars describe how distinguishing characteristics of each culture have enhanced life in America.
GA310-P1: 6 charts $10.50
What Is Geography?
The five themes of geography are clearly stated in text and illustrated with colorful photographic examples. Grades 5-10.
PK101-P1: $9.95
GAMES
Social Studies Games
28 fun-to-play card games on social studies topics such as U.S. states and capitals, countries and cities of the world, and American people, places, things, and events. Grades 4-8.
TCM291-P1: $24.95
Presidents of the United States
Activities and games for learning centers, individual or cooperative play, or class openers.
MED197-P1: 82 cards, guide $19.95
READER’S THEATRE
Reader’s Theatre: Multi-Cultural Folktales
23 folktales from around the world are adapted for Readers Theatre use in this exceptional resource. A reproducible “how-to-do-it” sheet gives complete instructions for converting the story summaries into play form. Grades 5-9.
PIM158-P1: $19.95
Famous Americans: 22 Short Plays for the Classroom
The plays are thematic and many are appropriate for commemorating holidays. All can be read aloud in less than 15 minutes, average ten speaking parts, and include guides, book links, and follow-up activities. Grades 4-8.
INS478-P1: $18.95
10 American History plays for the Classroom
Each play is accompanied by background information, suggested readings, discussion questions, and activity suggestions. Grades 4-8.
INS488-P1: $12.95
CD-ROM’s
Travelrama USA
Coast-to-coast scavenger hunt helps students learn about U.S. geography. As they scamper around the country searching for “postcards” with pictures and facts identifying American landmarks, monuments, national parks, and places of historical interest, players must carefully budget their miles by finding the shortest routes between destinations. The first student to bring five postcards home wins. The game can be played at three different skill levels by as many as four players. Grades 4-12.
SW100CDN3-P1: CD-ROM for Mac $19.95
SW100MPC-P1: CD-ROM for Windows $19.95
Planetary Taxi
Entertaining way for students to get a sense of the planets’ relative sizes and distances from one another while they learn fascinating facts about the solar system. Users climb behind the wheel of an interstellar taxicab and travel along an exact scale model of the solar system that shrinks the sun down to an eight-foot orb and the Earth to the size of a cherry tomato while laying out all the planets along a make-believe highway. Grades 4-6.
VOY144CD-P1: CD-ROM for Mac/Windows $34.95
Talking Walls
This creative program introduces readers to different cultures by exploring 14 walls around the world including China’s Great Wall, the Cuzco walls, Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the Berlin Wall, and the Vietnam Memorial. Text and illustrations from the book are presented with a read-aloud option for lower readers, vocabulary, and notes feature. Uses text, video clips, maps, photographs and drawings to show the impact of the wall on the people who built it, the cultural and historical background the area, and the motivations of the builders. A related Web page is also accessible through the CD-ROM.
EDM100CD-P1: 2 CD-ROMs for Mac/Windows $62.95
EDM100LCD-P1: Lab Pack: 6 CD-ROMs for Mac/Windows $150.95
TIL101-P1: Paperbacks (extra copies-25 at $8.05 each) Total: $33.05
All About Elections
Full-color cartoon slides, clear audio, and informative text explain the election process from tossing your hat into the ring to biting your nails as the returns roll in on election night. A factual introduction explains the basics: who may vote and the election process. Five games or activities – mock election for the entire class, presidential trivia game, and elaboration on the Electoral Collage, and others – reinforce and review concepts. Difficult words are highlighted and linked to definitions. The resource sect9ion provides a presidential timeline, the text of the Constitution, and other references. A 40-question test is linked to the teacher’s guide feature, which includes a printable and password-protected profile of users. Grades 3-7.
TSK132CD-P1: CD-ROM for Mac/Windows $55.95
TSK132LCD-P1: Lab Pack – 5 CD-ROMs for Mac/Windows $139.95
BOOKS
Dear America
Written in compelling diary format, each volume in this historical fictions series conveys the spirit and color of a pivotal time in our nations’ history.
SCB650-P1: Complete Set 19 hardbacks $200.00
MOCK TRIALS
Mock Trials
Combining fun and drama with solid learning, these reproducible play scripts teach students how trials are conducted, what participants do, and how juries reach their verdicts. Each booklet includes a guide on using mock trials for lessons on justice and good citizenship. Grades 3-6. (Example: The Big Bad Wolf vs. The Three Little Pigs)
CAB130-P1: Complete Set of 9 $43.00
GLOBE
Talking Globe – Electronic Quiz Game: Geosafari School Model
12” globe asks over 10,000 geography questions out loud, and plays a fanfare for right answers or corrects mistakes by pronouncing the right answer. Keeps scores.
EIN240-P1: $119.95
TOTAL EXPENDITURES: $1668.49
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