Middle & Upper Grades

This book for middle grade science teachers provides everything you need to help students expand their science vocabulary.

The Science Vocabulary Quick Starts resource book for fourth to ninth grades helps students review vocabulary to become skilled in using science terms in and out of the classroom. This science resource book provides a quick start for the day's lesson, and helps students build and maintain a powerful science vocabulary. Each page features two to four quick starts.

Facilitate a smooth transition from arithmetic to algebra for students in grades 7 and up using Helping Students Understand Algebra.

This 128-page math book includes step-by-step instructions with these resources:

• examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

The book supports NCTM standards and includes chapters on these topics:

• number systems
• properties of numbers
• exponents and expressions
• roots and radicals
• algebraic expressions
• graphing
• functions

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• Answer Key

Time-Saving interactive notebook templates that allow students to show what they know!

Interactive Notebooks: Math for sixth grade is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about absolute value, ratios, evaluating expressions, one-variable equations and inequalities, surface area, and more!

This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.

Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

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• Reproducible Rights

Learning to take personal responsibility is an important step on the road to becoming a self-sufficient person.

Students get help Coping with Life by learning how to adapt to things that are beyond their control as well as having a positive response to a setback. Learn effective Stress Management techniques by mapping out different stress-inducers and ways to reduce them. Help overcome the stigma and discrimination surrounding Mental & Physical Health through knowledge and local mental health resources. What is consent and how to maintain Healthy Relationships. Learn the art of the compromise with simple steps to master Cohabitation & Family Life. Be prepared for Emergencies, Self-Defense & First Aid with steps to perform CPR. 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.

Help students in grades 7 and up transition from math to geometry using Helping Students Understand Geometry.

This 128-page math resource book includes:

• step-by-step instructions with examples
• practice problems using the concepts
• real-life applications
• a list of symbols and terms
• tips
• answer keys

The book supports NCTM standards and includes topics such as:

• coordinates
• angles
• patterns and reasoning
• triangles
• polygons and quadrilaterals
• circles

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• Answer Key

Physical Science for grades 5 to 12 is designed to aid in the review and practice of physical science topics. Physical Science covers topics such as scientific measurement, force and energy, matter, atoms and elements, magnetism, and electricity. The book includes realistic diagrams and engaging activities to support practice in all areas of physical science.

The 100+ Series science books span grades 5 to 12. The activities in each book reinforce essential science skill practice in the areas of life science, physical science, and earth science. The books include engaging, grade-appropriate activities and clear thumbnail answer keys. Each book has 128 pages and 100 pages (or more) of reproducible content to help students review and reinforce essential skills in individual science topics. The series is aligned to current science standards.

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• Answer Key