Social Studies

Social Studies
U.S. Geography
Engaging Cooperative Learning Activities
It’s All About Engagement!
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Activities to Engage ALL Students
Rickey Millwood (Grades 8–12)
Stefanie McKoy (Grades 3–5)
Learning U.S. Geography just got a whole lot more fun and
interactive! Students play Quiz-Quiz-Trade to identify states on
their partners’ quiz cards. They “Find Someone Who” knows the
capitals of the states in a region. They have a team “Showdown”
to respond to map skills questions. The first section is a reference
guide to the Kagan Structures used throughout the activities.
Next come activities for students to reflect on the five themes of
geography. Then there are tons of activities on states and capitals, conveniently organized by
region. Next is a section full of activities for developing map reading skills, including elements
of a map, cardinal directions, and latitude and longitude. You’ll even find state report activities
to deepen thinking about the state and cement important information. Make U.S. geography
unforgettable with these cooperative and engaging activities. 256 pages. BMUSG • $29
U.S. Social Studies
Engaging Cooperative Learning Activities
Over 1,000 activity ideas to make U.S. History
engaging and experiential. The activities revolve
around students’ multiple intelligences to make
history interesting and exciting for students with
all intelligences and learning styles. Students create posters, draw cartoons, sing
songs, create graphs, and relive historical events. From life and events in early
America to recent events in our nation’s history, you’ll never be short of ideas to
make history come alive for your class. The 84 time-saving reproducible blackline
masters come complete with a description of the historical topic or period to provide context and meaning. Make history an unforgettable experience. 176 pages.
BMHU • $34
Make U.S. history fun for students with this extensive collection
of engaging activities. You’ll find activity after activity arranged
by U.S. themes and eras: Native Americans, American Colonies,
American Revolution, Historic Documents, Formation of a New
Government, Westward Expansion, Civil War and Reconstruction,
Industrialization, World Wars I and II, Great Depression, National
Symbols. Use Find Someone Who to have students pair with many
partners to answer questions about the Revolution. Use ThinkWrite-RoundRobin to have students share with teammates their
writing about the dangers of the Pony Express. Play Showdown in teams to respond to questions about the Constitution. Move beyond the textbook and dive deep into U.S. history with
these interactive activities, all based on engaging Kagan Structures. Loaded with reproducibles.
240 pages. BMUS • $29
Adventures Through World History!
Activities to Engage ALL Students
Rickey Millwood (Grades 7–12)
Make world history an adventure. This book offers activity ideas
galore to address students’ various learning styles. Students will
make posters, draw political cartoons, sing songs, conduct research,
create graphs, and role-play events. With these meaningful
activities, students are more engaged, more motivated to learn,
and more immersed in world history. The book is loaded with
great ideas to surpass the Global Studies Standards. The 20
chapters span from Ancient Egypt (4000 B.C.) to recent events in
the modern world. The 100 time-saving reproducible blackline masters come complete with a
student-friendly description of the historical topic or period to provide context and meaning.
192 pages. BMHW • $34
American History
All Aboard!
Rickey Millwood, Diane Theo, & Tracy Taylor (Grades 4–7)
Take your students on a journey through American History.
You’ll find more than 1,500 activity ideas to engage your students’
multiple intelligences for every period of U.S. history: from early
exploration and colonization to entering the 21st Century. With 128
reproducible activities that span the eight intelligences, you’ll have
your students explore history from multiple perspectives while
making the content accessible to your different learners. Students
use vocabulary terms to write a story about cowboys and cattle
drives, perform a Native American dance, compare and contrast the British and Continental
Armies, pen a peace treaty after World War I, write a newspaper report on the death of President
Lincoln, create a postage stamp on America’s space program, draw a political cartoon about high
gasoline prices, sequence events that led to the end of the Confederacy, do a team presentation
on the Prohibition, create a timeline of New Deal programs. Includes formative assessment
questions for each chapter to ensure students are “getting it.” 224 pages. BMHA • $34
Tom Morton & John Myers (Grades 6–12)
Written by the Outstanding Teacher of the Year,
this book is an excellent guide for making social
studies exciting and active, while covering course
content. This book will show you how to use cooperative learning strategies to make your social
studies classroom come alive. Each of the 24 cooperative strategies includes an in-depth description, steps, activity ideas to use
the strategy with other social studies content, and a lesson with ready-to-use
blackline masters. Lessons are designed to teach the themes recommended by
the National Council of Social Studies including issues, geography, historical
events, historical characters, and current events. Also includes how to get started,
how to manage the cooperative social studies class, what to do for assessment
and evaluation. A favorite for middle and high school social studies teachers!
220 pages. BMSS • $29
Social Studies Higher-Level
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facts of social studies. Watch as your students voyage
into a whole new realm of thinking and learning.
Includes intriguing questions for sixteen of the most
popular social studies topics and themes including:
Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters,
Historical Events, Native Americans and more! Stretch the many facets of your
students’ minds with these thought-provoking questions: “What do you think
would happen if Congress tried to establish an official religion?” “What does
your culture have in common with this culture?” “America wasn’t discovered,
it was stolen from the Native Americans. Do you agree or disagree?” Questions
are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the
engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible
prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.
Simultaneously explore social studies in depth and promote higher-level
thinking! 160 pages. BQSS • $19
Social Studies Question Cards
Some Social Studies Question Cards are also available in ready-to-use
classroom sets. $5 each
See the complete list of available Question Cards on page 53.
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• Current Events QCE
• Geography: Cultural QGC
• Geography: Economic QGE
• Geography: Physical QGP
• Historical Characters QHC
• Historical Events QHE
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Write! Social Studies
Multiple Intelligences & Cooperative
Learning Writing Activities
Virginia DeBolt (Grades 4–9)
Writing is thinking! Get your students writing and thinking
about social studies with this collection of ready-to-use
writing activities. Students delve deep into social studies issues
as they work cooperatively with teammates on activities like writing the correspondence
of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, and discussing and
writing about famous historical quotations. Activities incorporate the multiple intelligences.
Writing activities are perfect to start the class, introduce a new concept, end the unit, or
use as a sponge activity. Book includes 36 cooperative writing activities with ready-touse reproducible activity pages, and a brief description of dozens of cooperative learning
techniques. 140 pages. BDSS • $24
Poster Projects for Social Studies
What a terrific way to explore social studies! Students
create posters to explore popular social studies
topics. Posters create lots of excitement and interest
and require little direction and supervision. Each set
includes 32 of the same 11" x 17" poster pages. $7 each
• Country PPCO
• Current Event PPCE
• Culture Study PPCS
• Event in History PPEH
• Historical Figure PPHF
• My Family PPMF
• U.S. President PPPR
• U.S. State PPST
Social Studies Mix-N-Match
Classroom Sets
Reaching Social Studies Standards
through Cooperative Learning
Video & Teacher Guide
Save time with ready-made, colorful card-stock classroom
sets. Class sets include instructions, ideas for use, and
enough cards for 40 students. $5 each
• Buy 4, get the 5th set FREE! or
• Buy 7, get the 8th & 9th set FREE!
Providing for ALL Learners in General
Education Classrooms
Dr. Spencer Kagan, Laurie Kagan, & Miguel Kagan
(Grades K–8)
Help ALL students reach the social studies standards! This DVD
and Teacher Guide will help you reach the standards for all
using Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. In the DVD, Dr. Spencer Kagan and
Laurie Kagan take us on a tour of a range of elementary school classrooms using the Kagan
Structures to reach the social studies standards. The Teacher Guide includes chapters on
the social studies standards, cooperative learning, reaching the standards for students
with disabilities, reaching the standards for second language learners, and reaching the
standards through multiple intelligences. The Teacher Guide highlights the structures
previewed in the DVD and includes step-by-step directions, special adaptations for special
populations, and literally hundreds of activity ideas for using the structures to reach the
social studies standards. Many structures even include ready-to-use blackline masters from
the DVD activities. 192 pages. CKRSSD • $149
• Teacher Guide also sold separately BKRSS • $29
Bring Learning Alive
Methods to Transform Middle and High School Social
Studies Instruction
Bert Bower, et al. (Grades 6–12)
Make social studies come alive! Designed specifically for middle
and high school social studies teachers, this book is loaded with
active, student-centered instructional strategies that make
social studies exciting and memorable. Between the covers,
you will discover an innovative alternative to conventional social studies teaching. This
comprehensive approach combines active learning theory with standards-based content.
Use MI teaching strategies that engage all learners. Connect new learning to students’ prior
knowledge and experiences. Challenge students to process content at a higher level. Create
a cooperative, tolerant classroom where students feel safe taking educational risks. Improve
students’ test scores as you improve social studies literacy. Highly recommended for all
middle and high school social studies teachers. 492 pages. DBBLA2V • $50
Mix-N-Match Social Studies
(Grades 4–9)
Teach popular social studies concepts with dynamic learning
games. Students each get a Mix-N-Match card related to the
topic. They move about the room quizzing each other and
trading Mix-N-Match cards. You call, “Freeze!” They then rush
to find a partner with the matching card. “What is the capital
of my state?” “What landform is this?” Students enjoy mixing
and matching so much, they hardly realize they are repeatedly
quizzing each other and mastering the content. Book includes
reproducible Mix-N-Match card sets for: famous Americans, famous places, fire safety,
geography vocabulary, historical events, holidays, inventions, landforms, state geography,
states and capitals, Bill of Rights, world geography. 208 pages. BXSS • $19
• Geography Term-N-Definition XGD
• Historical Character-N-Achievement XCA
• Historical Event-N-Date XHD
• Sport-N-Name XSN
• State-N-Capital XSC
• State-N-Abbreviation XSAB
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Social Studies
Learning Cubes
Here are three learning cubes to make
three common social studies themes a fun,
cooperative activity. Each team receives its own cube. They roll the
cube and the cube leads teams through questions and activities. Each
squishably soft and quiet-to-roll foam cube measures 3 inches. $3
each cube or get a class set of 8 cubes for $16. Save $8!
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• Current Event—Explore important current happenings with this Learning Cube.
Students will draw the event, create a timeline, write a brief newspaper story about
it, and discuss questions about any current event. Set of 8 cubes CMLC • $16; Single
cube MLC • $3
• Famous People—From modern day heroes to historical figures, this cube is a great
way to get your students to think about any famous individual’s actions, beliefs, and
impact. Set of 8 cubes CMLF • $16; Single cube MLF • $3
• Historical Event—Bring history to life by having students draw a mind map of the
event, write a summary of the historical happening, create a timeline of the event,
brainstorm positive and negative effects of the event, and glean insights on lessons to
be learned. Works with any historical event. Set of 8 cubes
CMLH • $16; Single cube MLH • $3
Mysteries in History
Wendy Conklin (Grades 5–8)
Who really discovered the Americas? Was there really a
Trojan horse? Was Mozart murdered? Challenge students
to explore several important unexplained events that
helped shape history. Students use primary source
materials, posters, and simulations to find clues and to
make informed decisions about these events. There are
no “right” or “wrong” answers. These real-life historical
mysteries encourage students to research, think, debate,
and form conclusions. 144 pages each.
• American History DCMHAM • $19
• Ancient History DCMHAH • $19
• World History DCMHWH • $19
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Higher-Level Thinking
It’s All About Engagement!
Question Spinners Combo Kit
Each team receives their own colorful Question
Spinners. A teammate gives the spinners a whirl
and randomly generates one of 36 possible question
starters across the levels of thinking—“What Is?,”
“How Might?,” “What Would?,” and “Why Can?”
Use the Question Spinners before a lesson to have
students generate questions about what they want to
learn, during a lesson to create thinking about the content, and after the lesson for reflection on
what was learned. Students are so absorbed asking and answering their own questions that you
are free to circulate from team to team for authentic assessment. Spanish version also available.
Includes class set of eight spinners and storage pack. Regular price $24. Combo price $16 • CQS
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Higher-Level Thinking Book & Class Manipulative Set
• Single Question Spinner MSQS • $3
• Single Spanish Question Spinner M2SQS • $3
The Q–Matrix
Chuck Wiederhold (All Grades)
Turn your classroom into a powerful think tank as students work in cooperative
teams to easily generate and answer their own higher-level thinking questions.
The book is a classic bestseller that guides you through a powerful process and
set of materials to generate higher-level thinking on any topic. Students sharpen
their thinking skills and dig deep into the content as they ask and answer higherlevel thinking questions. Includes hundreds of activities for language arts, art,
social studies, math, science, and literature; and ten detailed cooperative learning, higher-level thinking lesson plans across the curriculum, with blacklines.
284 pages.
With the Question Manipulatives, students have fun as they roll dice and spin
spinners to generate higher-level thinking questions. Students burst forth with
questions at all levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Includes enough colorful dice, spinners, chips, strips, quadrant cards, and Q-Matrices for nine teams. BWCTM • $49
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The Question
Transparency Spinners
Place this transparent double spinner on the
overhead, give it a spin, and your classroom
is converted into a lean, mean thinking
machine! The spinners randomly generate
36 questions—“How Will?,” “How Might?,”
“Who Will?,” “Who Might?” Excellent question starters for all types of thinking. A
great way to integrate higher-level thinking across the curriculum. MSQQD • $4
Dr. Spencer Kagan, Illustrated by Celso Rodriguez
(Grades K–8)
• Holidays—88 pages. BKSH • $14
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Higher-Level Thinking Combos
Higher-Level Thinking Spinner Combo
Includes: 1) Cooperative Learning & Higher-Level Thinking book,
& Class Manipulatives, 2) Question Transparency Spinners, and
3) Class set of 8 Question Spinners FREE! Regular price $77.
Combo price $53 • CCHLT1 Save $24!
Higher-Level Thinking Dice Combo
Includes: 1) Cooperative Learning & Higher-Level Thinking
book, 2) Class Manipulatives FREE!, 3) Question Transparency
Spinner FREE!, and 4) Class set of 8 pairs of Question Dice.
Regular price $93. Combo price $69 • CCHLD1 Save $24!
Question Dice Class Set
When it’s time for creating thinking questions about the
learning topic, teams pull out their Question Dice. They
roll this pair of quiet, foam dice. Each new roll yields a new
question starter: “What Might?,” “Why Is?,” “Who Can?.”
You will be amazed how terrific students’ questions are,
how much thought they put into the questions, and their
answers using this simple thinking tool. Class set includes
eight pairs of dice. Regular price $40. Combo price $29 • CMLQ Save $11!
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• Single pair of Question Dice MLQ • $5
Thinking Cube
Create activities and questions that develop a wide spectrum of thinking
skills. Each side of the cube features one level of thinking from Bloom’s
Taxonomy, plus related thinking keywords to prompt activity ideas that
develop that level of thinking. Give the cube a roll to randomly create a
thinking question or activity. A great reminder teacher tool to develop a full
range of thinking skills. Squishable foam cubes are 3 inches and quiet to roll.
Set of 8 cubes CMLTH • $16 Save $8!
Same-Different Book Combo
Your students learn analytic thinking skills and
communication skills as they play these energizing
games. Students work in pairs or teams on opposite sides of a barrier to discover what’s the same
and what’s different in two carefully illustrated
pictures. The holiday version has each holiday
of the school year! The fairy tales book has your
students’ favorite fairy tales such as Cinderella,
Goldilocks, Hansel & Gretel, Jack & the Beanstalk,
Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Rapunzel,
Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and
Three Little Pigs. The game is easy to set up and
play. Includes instructions and blackline illustrations, recording sheets, and keys for each holiday
and fairy tale. Guaranteed to be a favorite in your
class. Regular price $28. Combo price $22 • CSD
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Logic Line-Ups
Miguel Kagan (All Grades)
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Develop your students’ thinking skills with hands-on cooperative
logic activities. You copy the provided picture cards and clues
for your students. They work in teams to figure out how to use
the clues to line up their cards in the correct order. Build your
students’ deductive thinking skills, spatial reasoning, spatial
vocabulary, and teamwork skills with these 72 ready-to-use, logic
activities. You’ll find problems, answers, and reproducible line-up
cards for 12 popular themes: barnyard, bugs, dinosaurs, fantasy,
holidays, nutrition, occupations, outer space, pets, seasons,
shapes, and under the sea. Includes full-page, reproducible cards
for whole-class activities and quarter-page cards for the team, pair, and independent activities
described. Learning how to think has never been so much fun. 88 pages. BKLL • $19
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Higher-Level Thinking Questions Books
Light the fires of your students’ minds with this series of question books. In each
book you will find questions, questions, and more questions for 16 of the most popular themes and topics for that subject. But these are no ordinary questions. They
are the important kind—higher-level thinking questions—the kind that stretch
your students’ minds; the kind that tap your students’ natural curiosity about the
world; the kind that rack your students’ brains; the kind that sharpen your students’ thinking skills. Inside you will find a seemingly endless array of intriguing,
mind-stretching questions and activities. Each book is spilling over with questions
designed to engage and develop the spectrum of higher-level thinking skills. Add an
invaluable higher-level thinking component to what you already teach. Make learning exciting, more engaging, and more effective. You can almost see your students’
brains growing as they discuss these questions, share their thinking journal entries,
and ask and answer their own higher-level thinking questions. Use these books
to easily integrate critical and creative thinking skills into your daily lessons. Give
your students the most valuable skills they can acquire—the desire to think, and the
power to question. 160 pages each.
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• Biology BQB • $19
• Chemistry BQC • $19
• Developing Character BQCD • $19
• Intermediate Literature BQIL • $19
• Language Arts BQLA • $19
• Life & Earth Science BQLS • $19
• Mathematics BQM • $19
• Personal & Social Skills BQP • $19
• Physical Science BQPS • $19
• Primary Literature BQPL • $19
• Secondary Mathematics BQSM • $19
• Social Studies BQSS • $19
• Spanish BQSP • $19
Higher-Level Thinking Question Cards
Many Higher-Level Thinking Question Cards are also available
as ready-to-use, classroom sets. $5 each
• Buy 4, get the 5th set FREE! or
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Language Arts
• Adventure Stories QA
• Book Review QBR
• Fantasy Stories QFS
• Mystery Stories QMS
• Poetry Possibilities QPP
• Prewriting: Biography/
Autobiography QPAB
• Prewriting: Mysteries QPM
• Prewriting: Stories QPS
• Story Characters QSC
• Story Plot QSP
• Story Setting QSSE
• Story Structure QSST
• Vocabulary QV
Idea Spinner Combo Kit
Your students are reading social studies, science, or literature. They
stop. Each team then gives their own colorful Idea Spinner a spin.
Teammates never know who will be called on—the Idea Spinner
selects a student in each team to either give an idea or quiz a teammate as they summarize, predict, explain, or evaluate. Students
love it! A wonderful energizer to be used for higher-level thinking
with any content. Includes class set of eight spinners and storage
pack. Regular price $24. Combo price $16 • CIS Save $8!
• Single Idea Spinner MSIS • $3
• Transparent Idea Spinner MSIST • $3
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Spin-N-Think Combo Kit
Your students will ask questions, generate ideas, paraphrase,
praise, and discuss ideas as they play Spin-N-Think. Each team
receives their own colorful Spin-N-Think game. The game has
built-in instructions and practically runs itself. Spin-N-Think is
designed to be played with our Higher-Level Thinking Question
Cards or any set of open-ended thought questions. Played with
any number of questions by teams of 2, 3, 4, or 5 students. This
simple game produces in-depth thinking on any topic! Includes
class set of eight spinners and storage pack. Regular price $24.
Combo price $16 • CSNT Save $8!
• Single Spin-N-Think Spinner MSSNT • $3
• Transparent Spin-N-Think Spinner MSSNTT • $3
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Social Studies
• Current Events QCE
• Geography: Cultural QGC
• Geography: Economic QGE
• Geography: Physical QGP
• Historical Characters QHC
• Historical Events QHE
Science
• Endangered Species QES
• Investigating Inventions QII
• Solar System QSOS
The Arts
• Art: Scanning a Print QASP
• Art: Elements of Art QEA
• Music Appreciation QMA
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Thinking Questions SmartCard
Skyrocket critical and creative questions in your
classroom with carefully crafted questions. One of
the most frequent and important things a teacher
does is ask questions. In fact, teachers ask up to
hundreds of questions per day. This easy-reference
card is designed to help you ensure that your questions engage and develop your students’ multifaceted thinking skills. It includes a discussion of fat
vs. skinny questions, high-consensus vs. low-consensus questions, and true vs. review questions. It
overviews the importance of critical and creative
questions, and links classroom questions to developing thinking skills. Inside, you will find over 100
reusable question starters for 36 types of thinking. The question starters are great
to enrich your questions and they’re terrific for the student-generated questioning
activities described on the back. Keep this little SmartCard handy and remember
Einstein’s advice, “The important thing is to never stop questioning.” TTQ • $4
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Graphic Organizers & Mind Maps
ThinkTrix
Graphic Organizers
SmartCard
Tools to Teach 7 Essential Thinking Skills
Transform your classroom into a visual think
tank with graphic organizers! This colorful
SmartCard describes the rationale for using
graphic organizers, provides ideas and activities
across the curriculum, and illustrates over 30
graphic organizers including: Chains, Ladder,
Cycle Graph, Mind Map, Venn Diagrams, Word
Web, Concept Map, Concept Charts, Compare/
Contrast Charts, PMI, Target, Pie Chart, Fish
Bone, Categories, Tree, Pyramid, Matrix, and Plot. You’ll find loads of ideas to use
graphic organizers in your class: have students graph the seasons with a Cycle Graph,
compare and contrast the branches of government or story characters with a Venn
Diagram, Mind Map any important concepts, draw the events of a story or historical
event with a Picture Strip, and analyze cause and effect with a Fish Bone. An excellent, quick-reference card for all types of graphic organizers. TGO • $4
Mind Mapping SmartCard
Mind mapping is a fast and fun way for students
to take visual notes and for you to present concepts to students. Use mind mapping in your
class to foster creativity, boost comprehension
and retention of what you teach, and simultaneously engage multiple intelligences! This colorful SmartCard describes the rationale for using
mind maps in the classroom; provides ideas and
activities to introduce and use mind mapping in
your class; describes how to create mind maps
step-by-step; offers many helpful hints; illustrates sample mind maps; provides mind mapping ideas for mathematics, language arts, social
studies, and science; and illustrates how to use
mind maps for lesson, theme, and unit planning. A great resource you’ll turn to time
and time again. TMM • $4
Dr. Frank T. Lyman, Jr. (All Grades)
ThinkTrix empowers your students to be better thinkers and
broader thinkers. ThinkTrix develops better thinkers through
metacognition—thinking about their own thinking. Students learn exactly what their minds need to do for the seven
core types of thinking. They are better prepared to respond
correctly to test questions, write clearly, and to be more effective students in general. While metacognition may sound complicated, this book makes the
process super simple for you and your students. More concise thinking is sufficient rationale
for using ThinkTrix with your students. But there’s another big benefit—ThinkTrix allows
you and your students to think more deeply about any topic. You and your students will apply the seven types of thinking to a variety of curriculum, and expand everyone’s knowledge,
comprehension, and creativity about the subject matter. ThinkTrix—better, broader, deeper
thinking! 216 pages. BLTT • $29
ThinkTrix SmartCard
ThinkTrix is a simple strategy to create powerful thinking
questions that enhance students’ thinking about any
subject. Use the “Thinking Matrix” to develop questions,
worksheets, and tests that promote seven fundamental types
of thinking: Recall, Cause/Effect, Similarity, Difference, Idea
to Example, Example to Idea, and Evaluation. Students can
also use ThinkTrix to come up with their own higher-level
thinking questions to ask teammates and classmates. Teach
your students the seven fundamental types of thinking with
definitions, question starters, and curriculum examples.
Help your students know how their minds should work to
answer questions, and promote metacognitive thinking.
ThinkTrix is a wonderfully simple way for you and your students to step your classroom
questions up a notch. With ThinkTrix, your students will think more critically and creatively
about the subject matter than you ever imagined. TTT • $4
Erasers
Set includes ten mini felt erasers. Erasers measure 1.25" x
2.5". For use with AnswerBoards, MindMats, SwitchBoards,
or Team Slates. WSER • $4
Dry Erase Markers
Set includes four, long-lasting, easy-toerase, bullet tip dry erase markers. For use
with Kagan’s dry erase AnswerBoards,
SwitchBoards, and MindMats. WSMB • $5
Graphic Organizers
(Grades 2–8)
Organizing Thinking
Graphic Organizers
Sandra Parks & Howard Black
Integrate thinking skills across the curriculum in your
elementary classroom with these graphic organizers.
These supplemental handbooks include lesson
plans and tons of reproducible graphic organizers to
improve students’ higher-order thinking skills.
• Organizing Thinking I—(Grades 2–4)
324 pages. DPBOT • $33
• Organizing Thinking II—(Grades 5–8)
341 pages. DPBOT2 • $33
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Graphic organizers are visual templates to help students understand, think about, and
remember easier. These books are great resources with creative and timesaving sheets you
can use over and over with your curriculum. Each book contains approximately 60 different
reproducible sheets for their respective subject areas. 64 pages each. $10 each
• Any Subject, Any Level DFGOA
• Math DFGOM
• Reading DFGOR
• Science DFGOS
Mapping Inner Space
Learning and Teaching Mind Mapping
Nancy Margulies (All Grades)
Unleash your students’ creativity and visual/spatial intelligence with mind maps! Includes how to become a mind
mapper and how to teach mind mapping with lots of
great examples. 160 pages. DMM • $34
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and Other Visual Strategies
Put the Power of Graphic
Organizers in Your Students’ Hands!
Marcia L. Tate (Grades K–5)
Incorporate graphic organizers and other visuals into your lessons to match how
your students’ brains learn best. Drawing on strategies from the popular book,
Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, these books offer a variety of content-specific
activities that feature graphic organizers and visuals such as bar graphs, timelines,
concept maps, sequence charts, cause-and-effect charts, segmenting mats, labeled
diagrams, and more. Each activity includes step-by-step directions, skills objectives,
materials lists, and a myriad of creative reproducibles that help students organize
and record their learning. 96 pages each.
MindMats
8 Graphic Organizer Dry Erase Boards
Put the power of graphic organizers in your students’ hands—literally. Simply tell
students to compare and contrast two characters in a book. Or outline the steps
of the new math algorithm. Or draw a mind map to review the unit. Students pull
out their MindMats and go to work. MindMats are double-sided dry erase boards
that illustrate the 29 best classroom thinking frames such as Venn Diagrams, Chain,
Mind Map, Tree, Fish Bone. Students have a quick visual reference for creating their
own graphic organizers. The jumbo-size 17" x 11" mats are large enough to place in
the center of a team table for the whole team to simultaneously work on the graphic.
As teachers, we’ve heard the research and witnessed the power of graphic organizers.
With MindMats, you can easily make graphic organizers a regular part of your daily
lessons. Save paper and save time as you boost thinking skills and content learning.
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Classroom Cartooning
For the Artistically Challenged
Mike Artell (All Grades)
Many students are visual learners. You know that, but
you don’t draw because stick-figures and smiley faces
push your artistic limits. With this book, you’ll be cartooning in no time! Discover your hidden art smarts.
Add interest to your handouts, posters, letters, bulletin boards, and more. Illustrate concepts from your
curriculum. Teach your students, even the artisticallychallenged, how to draw. Step aside, Monet! 176
pages. DAC • $20
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Second Language Learning SmartCard
Whether learning English as a Second Language or a
World Language, having multiple opportunities to practice
the target language allows for increased retention and
acquisition. With this Kagan SmartCard you will have
some of the best strategies to organize communication
for all learners, at all levels of language acquisition.
These simple, yet innovative Kagan Structures promote
communication and increase language production. In the
traditional classroom, students practice language only
when called upon to produce language. In the classroom
where the teacher uses Kagan Structures, the frequency of
student communication and language practice is increased significantly. With these
structures language is being practiced all over the room from the voices of the learners
and not just from the teacher. Language learning becomes functional, communicative,
and meaningful! TSL • $4
Whether learning English as a Second Language or a World Language,
having multiple opportunities to practice the target language allows for
increased retention and acquisition. With this Kagan SmartCard you will
have some of the best strategies to organize communication for all learners,
at all levels of language acquisition. These simple, yet innovative Kagan
Structures promote communication and increase language production.
In the traditional classroom, students practice language only when called
upon to produce language. In the classroom where the teacher uses Kagan
Structures, the frequency of student communication and language practice
is increased significantly. With these structures language is being practiced all
over the room from the voices of the learners and not just from the teacher.
Language learning becomes functional, communicative, and meaningful!
Cynthia Jozin (Beginning to Intermediate)
It’s All About Engagement!
3 Critical Variables
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Taking In Language
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Producing Language
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Examples: Speaking,
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Safe Context
Depends on: Peer and Teacher Support,
Absence of Threat
Examples: Pair and Team Work, Inclusive Classroom
Environment, Praise and Encouragement
“Language acquisition depends on comprehensible input and
opportunities to produce language in a non-threatening, supportive
social context. Kagan Structures optimize the input, output, and
context variables necessary to promote language acquisition.”
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Kagan Structures for
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1. Kinesthetic Symbols
2. Echoing
3. Formations
4. Window Paning
5. Answer Back
6. RallyRobin (Progressive)
7. RoundRobin (Variations)
8. Choose-A-Chip/Draw-A-Chip
9. Timed Pair Share (Progressive)
10. Team Word Webbing
11. Match Mine/Build It Together Share
12. Paraphrase Passport
13. Sage-N-Scribe
Language Acronyms
• ELD: English Language Development
• ELL: English Language Learner
• ESL: English as a Second Language
• ESOL: English Speaker(s) of Other
Languages
• FLOT: Foreign Language(s) Other
Than English
• LEP: Limited English Proficiency
• LOTE: Language(s) Other Than English
• SDAIE: Specifically Designed Academic
Instruction in English
• SLA: Second Language Acquisition
Natural Order Hypothesis
or stages, in which we acquire
research findings, which states that there is a natural pre-determined order,
One of 5 major hypotheses, based on
environment, and use of meaningful authentic communicative
language. It also takes into account use of comprehensible input, low stress
factors including formal education and supportive context of home
activities. Students progress through these stages depending upon several
and Terrell 1983) are: Pre-production, Early Production, Speech
learning environment. These stages of Oral Language Acquisition (Krashen
Emergence, Intermediate Fluency, and Fluency.
communication—in which speakers are concerned
“Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language—natural
conveying and understanding.” —Stephen Krashen
not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are
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Spanish Higher-Level
Thinking Questions
Second Language Learning
Through Cooperative Learning
(All Grades)
Julie High (All Grades)
Here are 400 ready-to-use Spanish questions covering
topics in language arts, social studies, science, music, and
art. Questions are organized into 25 categories such as
vocabulary, historical character, current events. These
reproducible question cards are the perfect way to get
Spanish-speaking students to develop in-depth thinking
across the curriculum. Also a great tool for advanced
Spanish classes to develop speaking skills. Promote
nonstop discussion with this giant collection of Spanish
questions. 184 pages. BQSP • $19
Your ESL and foreign language students will be
talking right away! Students love this rich array of
cooperative learning games, lessons, and activities.
You will promote language acquisition through
a communicative approach. The book includes
sections on: cooperative learning structures, social
roles, getting to know you, making words mine,
guided grammar experiences, writing skills, and
lesson designs. 134 pages. BHLL • $29
Spanish
Second Language Learning Combo Kit
Cooperative Learning & Multiple
Intelligences Activities
Dr. Debbie Mounts (Beginning Level)
Imagine this: A longtime Spanish teacher moves in to the
class next door. You peek into her room. Students are in
teams. They’re having a blast. They’re working on a cooperative project, practicing real-world Spanish vocabulary and grammar. Amazed, you ask, “How did you get
them to do that?” She smiles knowingly and asks, “Want
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also cover all the beginning grammar and vocabulary:
greetings, questions, alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, occupations, time, days, months,
seasons, the community, school, the body, the house, food, clothes, family, prepositions,
verbs, adjectives, and much more!” Interested? 264 pages. BMS • $29
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Match Mine
Language Builder
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Teach vocabulary and communication skills with this
cooperative game. Partners sit on opposite sides of a
barrier. Each has a game board and game pieces copied
from this book. For example, each student receives a
zoo game board and zoo animal game pieces. One student places her animals in the empty spots on the zoo
game board. Now here’s the challenge: Through talking only, that student must describe how she arranged
her animals in the zoo so her partner can “match” the
layout. As students try to make a match (“place the
zebra in the bottom space that has the tree on the right
side”), they must communicate clearly using the target vocabulary. Book includes 30
games focusing on must-know vocabulary including: animals, food, clothes, transportation, weather, sports, human body, and many more. 176 pages. BMML • $19
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Spinners for ESL and Language Learning Combo Kits
Watch your ESL students spin their way to command of color names, contractions,
shapes, the alphabet, and vocabulary. Fun and colorful, these Spinners provide an entertaining, interactive method of learning many aspects of the target language. Students can
play alone, with a partner, or in groups. Regular Price $24. Combo price $16. Save $8!
• Alphabet Spinners Combo—Combo set of 8 CMSAL • $16; Single MSAL • $3
• Shape Selector Spinners Combo—Combo set of 8 CMSSH • $16; Single MSSH • $3
• Spin-A-Color Spinners Combo—Combo set of 8 CMSCO • $16; Single MSCO • $3
• Contraction Spinners Combo—Combo set of 8 CMSC • $16; Single MSC • $3
• Vocabulary Spinner Combo—Combo set of 8 CMSV • $16; Single MSV • $3
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Teach ESL vocabulary through fun activities. Students move about the
room trading Mix-N-Match cards until you call, “Freeze.” Then they
find the partner with the matching card. Mix-N-Match is played over
and over. An exciting and involving way to learn content and have fun.
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Science
• Animal-N-Name XAN
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Language Arts
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Physical Education
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• Coins-N-Value XCV
• Sport-N-Name XSN
• Digital Clock-N-Analog Clock XDC
• Shape-N-Name XSHN
StorySwitcher Combo
English/Spanish Story Cards &
Higher-Level Thinking Cooperative
Activities
Jackie Scott (Grades K–6)
Create higher-level thinking with students’
favorite fairy tales. Can be played in
English, Spanish, or bilingually. First you
lead the class through the original story
with illustrated story cards. Then there
is a “Switch.” The seven dwarfs become
seven giants or the ugly duckling becomes the ugly caterpillar! The Switch
changes every aspect of the story. It is up to students to come up with the
new story. Includes illustrated English/Spanish story cards with the Switch
story illustrated on the back of each card; over 50 K–2 and 3–6 cooperative
activities for the original story and the Switch; and student cards for handson activities. Students love it—the Switch stimulates fantasy and creativity.
Combo includes all 4 sets. Regular price $32.Combo price $24 • CSSW
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• The Ugly Duckling (El Patito Feo) SSUD • $8
Zero Prep
Ready-to-Go Activities for the Language Classroom
Laurel Pollard, Natalie Hess, & Jan Herron (Beginning)
Whether you teach language or have ESL students in your class, Zero
Prep has tons of ideas that will help your students become active participants in their own learning. The ready-made activities are clearly
presented with the level, aim, materials, and step-by-step procedures,
equipping you with lots of meaningful activities while saving you tons
of time.
• For Beginners—150 pages. DPZPB • $35
• Beginning thru Advanced—128 pages. DPZP • $35
Multiple Intelligences and Language Learning
A Guidebook of Theory, Activities, Inventors, and Resources
Mary Ann Christison (All Grades)
Use students’ many ways of being smart to develop their language skills. This
guidebook offers over 160 MI activities, inventories, and resources designed
for the language teacher. Activities are organized by the 8 intelligences with
age and language-level suggestions. 362 pages. DCMIL • $50
Out & About
Photocopiable Teacherless Activities for
Beginning English Language Learners
Amy Hemmert & Reck Kappra (Beginning English)
Beginning English learners will be on their feet and speaking with these
worksheets and interactive activities on 13 units including classroom,
greetings, days, jobs, family, house, food, money, clothes, places, medical,
hobbies, and school. 260 pages. DHKO • $45
• Single Question Spinners M2SQS • $3 (English MSQS • $3)
These books are loaded with skill-building exercises for teaching English
grammar and vocabulary. Exercises are provided in a variety of formats
including fill-in-the-blank sentences and passages, translations, multiplechoice questions, sentence rewriting, and creative writing exercises. Answers
to all questions are provided in the back of the book. Quickly build skills,
essential vocabulary, and confidence.
• English Grammar—(Beginner) 152 pages. DPMPG2V • $13
• Intermediate English Grammar—(Intermediate) 215 pages.
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• English Vocabulary—(Beginner) 192 pages. DPMPV2V • $14
Helping English Language
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Spanish Question Spinners Combo Kit
Each team gets their own Question Spinners. A teammate gives the
spinners a whirl and randomly generates one of 36 possible question starters across the levels of thinking—¿Qué Es? ¿Cómo Podría?
¿Por Qué Puede? Use the Question Spinners before a lesson to have
students generate questions about what they want to learn, during
a lesson to create thinking about the content, and after the lesson
for reflection on what was learned. English version also available.
Combo kit includes 8 spinners. Regular price $24. Combo price
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Practice Makes Perfect ESL Book Series
Carmen Zuñiga Dunlap (Grades K–12)
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Guide your English language learners toward
academic success with instructional practices,
approaches, and strategies that are rooted in
current research findings and best practices. Incorporates effective models and background information in its practices that further writing,
listening and speaking, reading comprehension,
and vocabulary development. This resource helps teachers provide essential
language development support for all English language learners. 256 pages.
DZELL • $30
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