Archers Alchemists And 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved Or Loathed

Discusses some of the possible jobs in Europe in the Middle Ages.

A fascinating guide to strange-but-true jobs.

Describes the kinds of jobs people did in Europe in the Middle Ages, from princesses, knights and friars to blacksmiths, bandits and jesters.

From knights to gong farmers, offers a look at the diverse careers available during the Medieval era, enhanced with illustrations, sidebars, and a timeline.

If your students love the Magic Tree House books, you will love this book! Cross all curricular areas and engage students in meaningful and stimulating learning experiences. Guide students on thrilling trips through time to Magic Tree House locations where they will discover dinosaurs, knights and castles, Egyptian mummies and pyramids, and pirates and buried treasure. Collaborate with technology specialists, art teachers, and classroom teachers to create units that touch every student. Find cross-curricular lessons and in-depth studies of time and place, designed to promote deep learning in students while motivating them to read both fiction and nonfiction. Designed for elementary students, these literature-based units are easily adaptable to middle school students.

Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.

With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.

This comprehensive guide empowers library media specialists to achieve full instructional collaboration, providing curriculum-coordinated lesson plans for grades 3–5, teaching content while fully integrating information literacy and technology skills. Destination Collaboration 2: A Complete Reference Focused Curriculum Guidebook to Educate 21st Century Learners in Grades 3–5 is a reference-focused book containing four chapters: Encyclopedias, Atlases, Almanacs, and Biographies. Each includes two lesson plans for each grade level (3rd, 4th, and 5th). Content-focused, learner-driven, and based on national content curriculum standards as well as media and technology standards, this complete curriculum guide provides unit plans as well as interactive electronic activities, manipulatives, worksheets, and presentations. Each chapter begins with information regarding the use of the lessons in isolation. Coordination and cooperation tips are provided at the beginning of each lesson, and ideas for collaborative, inquiry-based projects are included at the end of each grade-level unit. Each lesson plan is written in a comprehensive manner and includes suggestions for technology integration and modification of the lessons to meet the needs of all learners.