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1. Using Internet primary sources to teach critical thinking skills in mathematics
     Grades: 9 - 12  ENC#: 030180
   This resource book, written for mathematics teachers and school library media specialists, is a collection of essays and activities that use the Internet to promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. The essays introduce instructional strategies for using the Internet and the concept of critical thinking in mathematics education.
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2. Learning and assessing science process skills
     Grades: K - 8  ENC#: 026706
   This updated book provides activities and scenarios for preservice and inservice teachers using scientific process skills. The book is designed to help teachers become both competent and confident with scientific investigations so they can actively involve their students in science.
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3. Using thinking skills in the primary classroom
     Grades: K - 5  ENC#: 032442
   This professional development resource encourages teachers to engage young students in interesting material and to foster their existing thinking skills by challenging them. The author provides a variety of classroom activities as well as topics for the teacher to consider in the course of making his argument on the importance of thinking skills in the primary classroom.
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4. Helping and getting help : essential skills for effective group problem solving
     Grades: K - 6  ENC#: 005267
   This article discusses cooperative learning and focusing on a problem versus writing the right answer by copying a group member's answer. Steps are outlined for students to learn how to use one another as resources for doing mathematics.
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5. Interactions : collaboration skills for school professionals
     Grades: K - 12  ENC#: 026470
   This resource provides information about collaboration within the school community and suggestions for improving it, particularly as this collaboration relates to serving children with special needs. Topics include improving communication skills, working with paraeducators, and resolving conflicts.
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6. Scientific inquiry : steps, skills and action
     Grades: 7 - Post-Secondary  ENC#: 028929
   This 23-minute videotape, developed for grade 7 and up, introduces students to the role of inquiry in scientific investigations. The program emphasizes the use of inquiry to build reliable scientific explanations.
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7. Strategies for teaching problem solving skills
     Grades: 1 - 5  ENC#: 001322
   This teacher's manual is part of the Success Understanding Mathematics (SUM) program and is designed to help students in grades 1 to 5 learn how to solve textbook word problems. SUM program teachers have designed a set of objectives for solving word problems.
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8. Teaching for tomorrow : teaching content and problem-solving skills
     Grades: K - 12  ENC#: 033109
   This professional development book, suitable for K-12 teachers, offers strategies for integrating the teaching of practical problem-solving skills with traditional content. The author explains his motivations for writing the book in chapter one, claiming that much of the material taught in schools is only useful for moving to higher grade levels and does not necessarily equip students with skills for success in the workplace or in post secondary education.
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9. The new science literacy : using language skills to help students learn science
     Grades: 4 - 10  ENC#: 026467
   This book describes how teachers of grades 4-10 can integrate science and literacy instruction to increase student achievement in both disciplines. Emphasis is placed on language literacy within the context of inquiry-based, activity-oriented science.
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10. The Essential Skills Assessment System (ESAS). Grade K.
      Grade: K  ENC#: 014368
    This curriculum resource, designed for grade K as part of the ESSENTIAL SKILLS ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (ESAS), contains learning record sheets that enables teachers to observe and record essential skills across curriculum areas. Each binder of the series contains 24 consumable learning records, which provides a two-page learning record for each student for each of five skill areas.
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