School Tools: Structures for Learning - Softcover

Give your students the skills for lifelong learning with School Tools! Drawing upon national standards and featuring an easy-to-use format, this outstanding resource is applicable in a wide variety of disciplines. Topics include: Language arts lessons for a variety of writing purposes; newspaper lessons that teach research skills; mathematics lessons that integrate scale, map reading, and computation; social studies lessons that emphasize cause and effect and the use of media; science lessons that utilize the scientific process; and mid-year and end-year assessment projects.

Eric S. Elkins has a masterfs degree in curriculum and pedagogy from the University of Colorado-Denver, and a bachelorfs degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California. An elementary school teacher, he is currently the writer and editor of the Colorado Kids section of the Denver Post.