Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Grade Five

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  • ISBN 9781412952293
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 215 x 279mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jul 2008
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A Corwin Press Classroom Activity Book

Brain-compatible activities to inspire active learning in the fifth-grade classroom!

This valuable guide gives teachers the tools they need to plan lessons correlated to the way the brain learns best—and to ensure success for all students regardless of their learning style or special challenges! Drawing on classroom-tested, research-based strategies from Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites, this practical resource offers a variety of content-specific activities that incorporate graphic organizers and other visuals that reinforce student learning.

Based on national academic standards, these activities feature graphic organizers and visuals such as bar graphs, timelines, concept maps, sequence charts, cause-and-effect charts, Venn diagrams, 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.

These brain-compatible activities cover topics such as

  • Statistics, graphs, probability
  • Atoms, scientific discoveries, body systems
  • American Revolution, government, citizenship
  • Poetry, character development, story building
  • Health, art, music, and much more

Make a real difference in your students′ energy, motivation, and achievement by applying these proven strategies to help them master curriculum objectives!

For other grade-level Corwin Press Classroom books, please see:

Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Kindergarten
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Grade One
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Grade Two
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Grade Three
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Grade Four
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Language Arts, Grades 6–8
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Math, Grades 6–8
Engage the Brain: Graphic Organizers and Other Visual Strategies, Science, Grades 6–8

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.   Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.   Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.   Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.   Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.

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