Gifted & Enrichment (pages 214-221) - Mind Resources

BESTSELLERStock Market GameA Simulation of Stock Market TradingGrades 5-8 (64 pages)The Stock Market Game is a fun,informative simulation gamethat provides the informationand framework for studentsto learn about the economicsand psychology of the stockmarket. This easy-to-use guideincludes reproducible pages withinformation about all aspects ofcompany ownership and buyingstocks, a minisimulation that can be completed in oneweek, and directions for a longer simulation that followsthe real stock market for several months.MR #016097 Stock Market Game $14.95Money MattersHow to Become a Smart ConsumerGrades 4-6 (48 pages)Teaching students how to bebetter consumers just got easier.This usable format has everything—lessonplans, projectideas, and reproducible worksheets—toprovide a completecurriculum. Students will learnabout money and credit, wantsversus needs, budgets, checkingaccounts, smart buying, packageanalysis, and more. These are skills and concepts thatthey will use now and in their adult lives.MR #023732 Money Matters $13.95Open for BusinessA Simulation for Student-Run EnterprisesGrades 5-8 (32 pages)Give students an experiencethey won’t soon forget—onethat could launch them intocareers as entrepreneurs. Thiseasy-to-use simulation includesinstructions for the teacher andreproducible worksheets to helpstudents organize their companies.While students enthusiasticallydelve into the world offree enterprise, they will be building decision-making,problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.MR #000104 Open for Business $10.95Our TownA Guide For Studying Any CommunityGrades 1-3 (64 pages)No matter where you live, youcan use these activities to letyoung students explore theirsurroundings. Includes ideasfor group lessons and projects,individual projects, learning centers,and worksheets. Studentswill learn the following thingsabout their community: thelocation, history, transportation,economy, buildings, communication,recreation, and government.MR #000107 Our Town $14.95Historic HappeningsProjects to Integrate History and Language ArtsGrades 2-4 (64 pages)Integrate language arts and socialstudies with motivating projectsthat take students from ancienttimes to the future and give themopportunities to present their researchand thinking in a variety ofways, including stories, posters,plays, letters, speeches, brochures,and newspaper articles. Eachattractive student page includesbackground information and/orsamples, along with detailed assignment guidelines.MR #000074 Historic Happenings $14.95130 SHOEMAKER STREETKITCHENER, ONTARIO N2E 3G4Lights! Camera! Action!A Guide to Video Instruction andProduction in the Classroom(92 pages)This comprehensive guide willmake you and your studentsvideo masters! 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The teacher’s section givesoutlines for directed lessons,warm-up ideas, and guidelines for learning centers andbulletin boards, as well as pretest and invention referencelists. The student section includes reproducibleworksheets that explore both inventions, inventors,the inventive process, and 27 project ideas. Theseactivities take your class through the entire inventiveprocess with many opportunities for side trips. Usefor a unit on creative thinking or on the history andsocial impact of inventions or to enhance the study offamous inventors.MR #000081 Inventions, Inventors & You $14.95Family TapestryAn Examination of FamilyHistories, Immigration, PersonalChoices, & HeredityGrades 6-8 (64 pages)Weave several topics into aninterdisciplinary unit that is personallyrelevant for all students.Using worksheets and simulations,students will explore theirown family’s history, immigration,the role of heredity and biotechnology, and howtheir choices will affect future generations. This unitunites social studies, science, and personal values inactivities that are sure to spur thinking and debate.MR #016707 Family Tapestry $14.95M.A.P.S.Map Activities for Primary StudentsGrades 2-5 (32 pages each)Here’s a truly integrated ap-proach to geography. Each booktakes learners to aspecial location toshare in adventuresvia captivating stories.Following eachintriguing story arereproducible worksheetsthat relateto the events of thestory and teach andreinforce map read-ing skills. Each bookalso includes a full-color poster of the book’s locationand ideas for additional hands-on activities.MR #000093 Book 1 (Grades 2-3) $13.95MR #000094 Book 2 (Grades 4-5) $13.95www.mindresources.caGIFTED & ENRICHMENTYou Be the JudgeLessons to Build Evaluative Thinking SkillsGrades 5-8 (64 pages)You Be the Judge helps studentsmaster essential skills for decision-makingand evaluation.Complete lessons and reproducibleworksheets introduce studentsto three types of decisionmaking: Criteria Evaluationsmeasure against a predeterminedstandard, Value Judgments employmoral training and personalvalues, and Judicial Decisionsrequire students to weigh facts before making an evaluation.Each unit helps build important evaluative skillsstudents will use throughout their lives.MR #000141 You Be the Judge $14.95Creating History DocumentariesA Step-by-Step Guideto Video Projects in theClassroomGrades 4-12 (152 pages)Bring the past to life in yoursocial studies classroom. CreatingHistory Documentaries offersan easy introduction to teacherswanting to challenge theirstudents with creative media.This guide shows you and yourstudents the techniques needed for researching, ing, filming, and editing a historical documentary.script-Using a video camera and computer software, yourstudents can integrate historical photos, film footage,interviews, and primary-source materials to create awonderful project that can be shared with students,parents, and community members. Your students willlearn to research using the newest tools, write narrativescripts that integrate historical facts, and build aproject that allows history to come alive.MR #036963 Creating History Documentaries $25.95On TrialA Criminal Trial SimulationGrades 4-6 (48 pages)You know the story of the BigBad Wolf and the Three LittlePigs. You know what the wolf did.You know that if the wolf weretried for his crimes, that he wouldsurely be guilty. Well, here’s anactivity that will shed doubt onyour previous convictions. Afterall the evidence has been presented, you’ll questionwhether the wolf is really guilty or merely a victim ofwolf prejudice and circumstantial evidence.This clever simulation, which teaches about the workingsof the trial system, puts the Big Bad Wolf on trial fordestroying the pigs’ houses. By assuming roles and usingthe nonscripted character profiles, students present informationthat has you wondering if the wolf is guilty orinnocent. A jury of classmates will decide. The book notonly teaches about the judicial system, but also developscommunication, cooperation, and evaluation skills.MR #016098 On Trial $13.95Understanding AdvertisingGrades 4-6 (48 pages)Squeezed between the covers ofthis book is a tantalizing unitdesigned to increase students’understanding of the advertisingpressures they face every day andalso give them opportunitiesto create their own ads. Usingthe worksheets and activities,students will learn about howadvertisements appeal to humanneed, persuasion techniques, advertisementsin different media,and what makes advertisements effective.MR #023733 Understanding Advertising $13.95PHONE: 1-877-414-6463FAX: (519) 895-0331(TOLL FREE)221