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40 Hands-on Activities to Inspire a Love of Learning

By Ty Kolstedt, By Azeem Vasi

A multidisciplinary activity book from four core academic areas—math, science, language arts, and social studiesUnlike the many activity books devoted solely to one type of activity—science experiments, art activities, math games, brain teasers, and the like—Curious Minds takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating science, social studies, math, language arts, world languages, and more in 40 hands-on activities that promote kids' critical thinking and engaged interest in the world they live in. Designed for teachers, parents, or homeschoolers searching for new ways to motivate students aged 9–12, this illustrated resource provides a short mini-lesson for each activity, giving educational background information, related lingo, a materials list, step-by-step directions, and guidance for extending the activity. The wide range of activities—from exploring the physics of parachute flight to making homemade ink to testing how pollutants affect plants—ensures every learner's interest will be piqued.

Roll some dice, make the right moves, get lucky, and earn the most points by the end of the game! High Score is a competitive dice game that marries the luck of the dice with strategic gameplay and ever-changing rules. 

Each round players are presented with a new challenge card that dictates different dice-rolling rules for that round. Players take turns rolling dice, deciding if they want to re-roll dice, and trying to get the most points possible as determined by the current challenge card: Do only the odd dice count? What value is the vortex die in this round? Which dice count towards your final score? The player with the most points by the end of seven rounds wins! 

High Score takes the basic concepts of Yahtzee or Farkle and adds a layer of strategy that makes the game way more replayable. It’s great for game nights or to teach kids basic math concepts like quadratic equations in a simple and fun way.

• A fast-paced, competitive dice rolling game that combines luck and strategy in a clever, exciting way.
• Play occurs over seven rounds, with dice-rolling rules that change from round to round.
• Challenge cards determine how players score their turn and add an element of surprise and chance to the game.
• Re-roll for a chance to score more points…or risk losing them all!
• Small footprint and simple rules make this a great pick for an in-store demo or a quick start to game night with family and friends.
• Huge potential for classroom use, providing students an engaging way to practice math concepts like addition, subtraction, and quadratic equations. 

Each hands-on, self-checking lesson features a specific math skill, skill practice, and an animal puzzle. Instructions and animal background information are provided in English and Spanish. 32 pages.

Subtraction skills with no regrouping. Performing subtraction skills constructs a puzzle of a rain forest animal. Instructions and animal background provided in English and Spanish. Featured puzzles: Rain Forest Animals.

Each hands-on, self-checking lesson features a specific math skill, skill practice, and an animal puzzle. Instructions and animal background information are provided in English and Spanish. 32 pages.

Fraction skills. Performing fraction skills constructs a puzzle of a mountain animal. Instructions and animal background provided in English & Spanish. Featured puzzles: Mountain Animals.

Each hands-on, self-checking lesson features a specific math skill, skill practice, and an animal puzzle. Instructions and animal background information are provided in English and Spanish. 32 pages.

Decimal skills. Performing decimal skills constructs a puzzle of a dinosaur. Instructions and animal background provided in English and Spanish. Featured puzzles: Dinosaurs.

Each hands-on, self-checking lesson features a specific math skill, skill practice, and an animal puzzle. Instructions and animal background information are provided in English and Spanish. 32 pages.

Addition skills with no regrouping. Performing addition skills constructs a puzzle of an endangered species. Instructions and animal background provided in English and Spanish. Featured puzzles: Endangered Animals.

Each hands-on, self-checking lesson features a specific math skill, skill practice, and an animal puzzle. Instructions and animal background information are provided in English and Spanish. 32 pages.

Division skills. Performing division skills constructs a puzzle of a grassland animal. Instructions and animal background provided in English and Spanish. Featured puzzles: Grassland Animals.

Designed to increase computational fluency and understanding using the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each section includes a beginning assessment test to evaluate student’s needs, practice sheets to develop and retain understanding, a diagnostic test, review sheets for retention of skills learned, and a final assessment test. An answer key is also included in this 79-page book.

More advanced computation is continued in our companion publication Straightforward Advanced Computation Skills.

This is the next-step companion to our Straightforward Basic Computational Skills. It builds on concepts learned in Basic Computational Skills, and advances using multiple-digit numbers to perform the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each section includes a beginning assessment test to evaluate student’s needs, practice sheets to develop and retain understanding, a diagnostic test, review sheets for retention of skills learned, and a final assessment test. An answer key is included in this 85-page book.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

 Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

 Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

 Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Dimensions Math Home Instructor’s Guides are an essential resource for teaching Dimensions Math in a home or one-on-one setting. The purpose of the Guides is to help educators understand concepts in the Dimensions Math curriculum and teach as effectively as possible. They include extensive background notes, lesson suggestions, tips, and activities. Home Instructor’s Guides include answer keys for corresponding Dimensions Math Textbooks and Workbooks.

Note: Soft cover, spiral bound.

Designed for middle-school history curriculum, independent study, or tutorial aid, the American History series provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies.

Perfect to supplement your social studies curriculum, activities in Industrialization through the Great Depression include critical thinking, writing, technology, and more!

This 128-page social studies resource book includes topics such as:

• early American factories
• Morse code
• Henry Ford
• the roaring ’20s
• the New Deal program

Vocabulary words, time lines, maps, and reading lists are also provided.

Meets NCSS standards and is correlated to state, national and Canadian provincial standards.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

Teacher's Guides provide a clear framework for teaching the Primary Math program. Detailed yet flexible, they include important context, lesson plans, and activities that help educators understand and share lesson material effectively. Teacher’s Guides include answers to textbook and workbook problems.

Note: Teacher’s Guides are specific to each Primary Mathematics edition, and are not interchangeable across editions. Hard cover.

Teacher's Guides provide a clear framework for teaching the Primary Math program. Detailed yet flexible, they include important context, lesson plans, and activities that help educators understand and share lesson material effectively. Teacher’s Guides include answers to textbook and workbook problems.

Note: Teacher’s Guides are specific to each Primary Mathematics edition, and are not interchangeable across editions. Hard cover.

Teacher's Guides provide a clear framework for teaching the Primary Math program. Detailed yet flexible, they include important context, lesson plans, and activities that help educators understand and share lesson material effectively. Teacher’s Guides include answers to textbook and workbook problems.

Note: Teacher’s Guides are specific to each Primary Mathematics edition, and are not interchangeable across editions. Hard cover.

Textbooks present new concepts and learning tasks for students to complete with educator supervision. They include practice and review problems, and are designed to be used alongside workbooks. Features & Components:

• Mathematical concepts are introduced in the opening pages and taught to mastery through specific learning tasks that allow for immediate assessment and consolidation.
• The Concrete Pictorial Abstract approach enables students to encounter math in a meaningful way.
• Direct correlation of the textbook to the workbook facilitates focused review and evaluation.
• The modeling method enables students to visualize and solve problems quickly and efficiently.
• New mathematical concepts are introduced through a spiral progression that builds on concepts already taught and mastered.
• Metacognition is employed as a strategy for learners to monitor their thinking processes in problem solving. Speech and thought bubbles provide guidance through the thought processes, making even the most challenging problems accessible to students.
• Color patches invite active student participation and facilitate lively discussion about concepts.
• Regular reviews in the textbook provide consolidation opportunities.
• The glossary effectively combines pictorial representation with simple mathematical definitions to provide a comprehensive reference guide for students.
• A curriculum map details where to find textbook content that covers each of the Common Core State Standards.

Note: Two textbooks (A and B) for each grade correspond to the two halves of the school year. Answer key not included. Soft cover.

Textbooks present new concepts and learning tasks for students to complete with educator supervision. They include practice and review problems, and are designed to be used alongside workbooks. Features & Components:

• Mathematical concepts are introduced in the opening pages and taught to mastery through specific learning tasks that allow for immediate assessment and consolidation.
• The Concrete Pictorial Abstract approach enables students to encounter math in a meaningful way.
• Direct correlation of the textbook to the workbook facilitates focused review and evaluation.
• The modeling method enables students to visualize and solve problems quickly and efficiently.
• New mathematical concepts are introduced through a spiral progression that builds on concepts already taught and mastered.
• Metacognition is employed as a strategy for learners to monitor their thinking processes in problem solving. Speech and thought bubbles provide guidance through the thought processes, making even the most challenging problems accessible to students.
• Color patches invite active student participation and facilitate lively discussion about concepts.
• Regular reviews in the textbook provide consolidation opportunities.
• The glossary effectively combines pictorial representation with simple mathematical definitions to provide a comprehensive reference guide for students.
• A curriculum map details where to find textbook content that covers each of the Common Core State Standards.

Note: Two textbooks (A and B) for each grade correspond to the two halves of the school year. Answer key not included. Soft cover.