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Lesson Plan Books

Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity.

Inspiration®
InspireData®
Kidspiration®

Inspiration® Lesson Plan Books

Inspiration 8:
The Thinking Classroom: Using Inspiration to Meet Curriculum Standards
Designed to support teachers as they help students develop their critical thinking strategies, each of the book's six sections provides teachers with a summary of a specific cognitive strategy, examples of templates and diagrams that students can use to apply the strategy to a wide-range of topics, and a sample lesson of the thinking skill in language arts, social studies and science.

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InspireData® Lesson Plan Books

Developing Data Literacy with InspireData
Designed by educators, Developing Data Literacy with InspireData offers 27 content-rich, standards-aligned lessons to help teachers incorporate InspireData into their science, mathematics and social studies curriculum. Each hands-on lesson contains step-by-step instructions that can be easily adapted for students in grades 4-12 working individually or in teams. Help students become engaged as they explore and analyze data with these innovative standards-based lesson plans!

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InspireData and Science: Question, Analyze and Predict
Supports teachers as they help students grades 4-12 develop the skills necessary to collect and analyze data, and predict outcomes. Offers 20 lesson plans designed specifically to support science laboratory activities and science instruction using InspireData 1.5. Aligned to McREL standards, the lessons focus on core content strands, including science as inquiry, nature of science, physical sciences, life sciences, and earth and space sciences, in contexts that develop the skills of data collection, analysis and prediction.

Each easy-to-use lesson includes suggested grade levels, standards alignment, a lesson description, step-by-step instructions, ideas for assessment, and adaptations for differentiating instruction and extending the lesson. 

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InspireData and Social Studies: Explore,

Analyze and Understand
Supports teachers as they help students grades 4-12 explore and analyze data to better understand social studies content. Offers 20 lesson plans aligned to academic standards and designed specifically to support social studies instruction using InspireData 1.5. Lessons focus on the core social studies content strands of history, geography, economics, and civics and government.

Each easy-to-use lesson includes suggested grade levels, standards alignment, a lesson description, step-by-step instructions, ideas for assessment, and adaptations for differentiating instruction and extending the lesson.

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Kidspiration® Lesson Plan Books

Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials

Designed for two grade spans, K-2 and 3-5, the Kidspiration in the Classroom: Reading Essentials lesson plan book offers 50 standards-based lesson plans designed specifically to support K-5 reading curriculum.

Lessons for grades K-2 focus on early literacy and the essential components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. For grades 3-5, the lessons focus on teaching comprehension, vocabulary and content literacy. Many of the book's lessons make use of the activities included in Kidspiration 3.

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Kidspiration in the Classroom: Math Made Visual

Includes 30 lesson plans aligned to NCTM standards and designed specifically to support K-5 math instruction using Kidspiration 3. Lessons focus on core content strands, including number and operations, algebra, measurement, and geometry, in contexts that promote problem solving, reasoning and communication. Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, these lessons help students develop conceptual understanding while communicating their thinking with pictures, models, words, numbers, math symbols in the Kidspiration 3 math tools.

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Kidspiration in the Classroom: Writing Essentials

Supports teachers as they use Kidspiration 3 to help K-5 students learn the process of writing well. Utilizing activities created in Kidspiration, this book offers standards-aligned chapters and lessons on prewriting, drafting and revising, editing and publishing and forms of writing. Also includes references to suggested reading materials and other resources for teaching students how to appreciate and learn the nuances of quality writing.

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