Make the most of the brain's learning potential and transform your teaching practices with guidance from the bestselling author of How the Brain Learns.
Brain research has provided a tremendous opportunity to develop instructional techniques that facilitate the brain's innate learning capacity. As educators, we can take this knowledge and apply it to the strategies we use in our classrooms.
This essential resource, based on David A. Sousa's bestseller How the Brain Learns, Third Edition, provides ready-to-use, brain-compatible activities that feature some of the following strategies:
Graphic organizersMnemonic devicesCooperative learningMovement to enhance retentionMusic to stimulate brain activity and creativityThese activities, correlated with national standards, cover all the content areas in grades 3-5 and include topics such as word selection, poetry, reading fluency, geometry, negative numbers, modes of exchange, animal habits, clouds, and much more!
"The different grade levels and approaches of these workbooks make them a top pick for any library strong in classroom workbooks and activities for teachers. Each workbook holds some 96 pages of projects, with fill-in blanks and ideas perfect for photocopying and classroom use. All are outstanding workbooks that teachers will appreciate." —
California Bookwatch