The Creative Teacher

To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. From the authors of The Organized Teacher, this indispensable volume offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject, across all grades--from waking up the tired book report to making math fun.

Just a few of the ideas inside The Creative Teacher:

• "I woke up five inches tall" and other quick-start creative-writing prompts
• Larger writing projects, such as classroom newspapers, minibooks, autobiographies, and storyboards
• Do-it-themselves student cutouts for 3-D geometry
• How-it-works science experiments with electricity, ice cream, volcanoes--even how to make flubber
• Enthusiasm-generating math tools--from clock and fraction templates to creating your own money
• Cultural, historic, and family-tree ideas for social studies reports . . . and more!

INCLUDES DOZENS OF REPRODUCIBLE PAGES YOU CAN USE NOW!

For teachers of grades K-6

Facing ever-more-demanding state standards and less disciplined students, even the most experienced teacher carries a heavier burden today than ever before. The Creative Teacher offers inventive tools to enhance standards-based curricula and helpful strategies for creating new and engaging lesson plans. Fillled with fresh ideas for everything from bulletin boards to math activities, this one-stop resource will quickly become the most valuable volume in your library.

Forteachersof gradesK-6

Facing ever-more-demanding state standards and lessdisciplined students, even the most experiencedteacher carries a heavier burden today than everbefore. The Creative Teacher offers inventive tools toenhance standards-based curricula and helpful strategiesfor creating new and engaging lesson plans. Fillledwith fresh ideas for everything from bulletin boards tomath activities, this one-stop resource will quicklybecome the most valuable volume in yourlibrary.

Brandy Alexander has extensive experienceteaching in public and private schools and has receivedthe “Golden Apple” award for classroom excellence.

Kimberly Persiani-Becker, Ed.D., anassistant professor of curriculum and instruction at Cal StateUniversity, frequently lectures at national teachers' conferencesthroughout North America.

Lunch Bag

Book Critic

Book Jacket

Cookin Up Books

Read All About It

Bringing Characters to Life

Letter to the Author

Interview a Character

"Take Two!"

Book Brochure

Book Report Mobile

Desceiptive Diary

Character Puppet

Traditional Book Report Format

Additional Ideas for Responding to Literature

Math

Tangrams

Solid Geometry: Three-Dimensional Objects

Dominoes

Fractions

Clocks

Pentominoes

Money and Measurements

Graphing

Tens frames

Hundreds Charts

Calendars

Story Problems

Writing

Creative and Traditional Writing Activites

Story Starters for Daily Journel Writing

Graphics Writing Organizers

Autobiography Recipe

Science

Exploring Batteries and Lightbulbs

Making Butter

Creating Flubber

Making Ice Cream

Growing Lima Beans

Experimenting with Magnets and Compasses

Raising Mealworms

Building Rockets

Creating a Volcano

Science Picture Books

Social Science

Heritage Report

Historical Figure / Event Report

Personal and Cultural Report

U.S. President Report

National Symbol Inventory

State Report

Commuinty Exploration Group Activity

Careers in Your Commuinty

All about Me Report

Country Report

Flirt

Papier-Mache

Creative Collages

Dioramas