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Employment & Volunteering
$16.99 Add to cartGive students the tools they need to get a job.
Prepare students with tips on filling out a job application and writing a resume. Get to know what kind of questions to expect at an interview and how to prepare for them. Gain the skills needed to thrive on the job and properly communicate with peers and supervisors. Find out the benefits of volunteering and know what your rights are as employees. Comprised of reading passages, graphic organizers, real-world activities, crossword, word search and comprehension quiz, our resource combines high interest concepts with low vocabulary to ensure all learners comprehend the essential skills required in life. All of our content is reproducible and aligned to your State Standards and are written to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- Art
Drawing Skills Lab
$4.38 Add to cartThis instructive art book inspires children to unleash their creativity as they learn how to use a variety of tools, media, and processes to create original drawings. Mini-bio sections highlight the work of well-known artists and encourage readers to consider the artist’s use of the elements of art and principles of design. Skill-building projects support readers as they learn techniques including perspective, shading, shadowing, and more.
- Grade Assigned
Daily Higher-Order Thinking, Grade 3
$32.50 Add to cartCritical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students’ problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and “what if” questions.
Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world.
Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students’ critical and creative thinking skills.
How it works:
- Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill.
- Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area.
- Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills.
- An answer key provides sample responses for each day’s activities. Evaluate students’ responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered.
Grade 3 activities include: logic puzzles, creative writing, picture comparisons, and “what if” questions. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as:
- Analyzing
- Predicting
- Modeling
- Composing
- Organizing
- Evaluating
- Designing
- Critiquing
- Grade Assigned
Daily Higher-Order Thinking, Grade 2
$32.50 Add to cartCritical thinking skills are more important than ever in academic and real-world situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking provides you with daily activities that build and grow students’ problem-solving skills in engaging formats such as logic and visual puzzles, brainteasers, creative writing, picture comparison, word play, and “what if” questions.
Daily 20-minute practice lessons help students apply critical thinking skills across subject areas. The lessons develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and allow them to integrate their learning and make deeper connections between their learning and the real world.
Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking for warm-up exercises, extension activities, early finisher tasks, and small-group center activities to develop your students’ critical and creative thinking skills.
How it works:
- Monday–Friday: Full-page daily activities focus on a specific behavioral verb each day. The verb is defined at the top of the page so students become aware of when and how they are using the thinking skill.
- Each full-page activity gives students an opportunity to practice a higher-order thinking skill in the context of a different curriculum area.
- Questions and tasks are open-ended and can be used to promote peer-to-peer discussions as students share and discuss answers, while also fostering critical thinking skills.
- An answer key provides sample responses for each day’s activities. Evaluate students’ responses based on your own expectations and on what content your students have encountered.
The daily activities focus on skills such as analyzing, predicting, modeling, composing, organizing, evaluating options, designing, critiquing, and problem solving.
Grade 2 activities include logic puzzles, language play, creative writing, drawing, and visual brainteasers. Daily lessons practice higher-order thinking skills such as:
- Comparing
- Grouping
- Identifying
- Inferring
- Solving
- Health
Bucket Filling from A-Z
$13.95 Add to cartThis award-winning reissued book uses the letters of the alphabet to help readers see the many, simple ways that they can fill buckets and fill their own buckets in return. When you help children become bucket fillers, you give them the key to happiness … for it is in friendship, love, and good will to others that we are truly happy. Yes, bucket filling is the moment by moment choice to be kind and caring. Teaching and encouraging children to be bucket fillers is one of the greatest gifts you can give to them.
- Life Skills
Big Box Sorting & Classifying
$36.95 Add to cartMake learning sorting and classifying fun with these photographic puzzle pieces.
Perfect for small group or individual learning, the Big Box of Sorting & Classifying:
- builds mathematical concepts
- develops thinking skills
- increases vocabulary
- improves visual discrimination skills
- teaches the reading-readiness concept of same and different
- presents strategies to develop organizational skills
This hands-on learning game includes:
- 248 photo puzzle pieces (approximately 2″ x 2″)
- 2 write-on/wipe-off blank puzzle pieces
- 4-page booklet with directions, teaching suggestions, and games
Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.
- Art
Arts and Culture in the Ancient World
$10.95 Add to cartThis amazing book provides a snapshot of the arts and cultures across various ancient civilizations. Read about • Egypt’s pyramids, temples, royal tombs, and palaces; • Chinese games and pastimes; • Rome’s sports arenas — the Colosseum and Circus Maximus.
- Grade Assigned
Dr. Funster’s Think A Minutes A2 Grades 2-3
$11.95 Add to cartThis 48-page book is a collection of our most popular quick, fun thinking puzzles. The wide variety of activities in each book develop reading comprehension, vocabulary, and mathematical reasoning as well as writing, spatial, and visual perceptual skills. They also build deductive, inductive (inferential), and creative thinking skills. The puzzles are perfect for school, home, and travel. They are very popular as brain-start, extra credit, sponge, or reward activities. Each book includes easy-to-follow directions and answers. Try one and you’ll be hooked!
