The best cooperative learning and science book for the elementary and middle grades! Use cooperative learning to teach both science content and process skills. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures, cooperative process science, and 15 fantastic step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons. Loaded with curriculum and literature links, science journal ideas, activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters. 296 pages.

Inspire the next generation of scientists! The science standards inform us what key concepts we should teach our students across four science domains. These books have ready-to-use activities and ideas focusing on those core ideas in Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Engineering and Technology. But the standards do more than tell us what students should learn, they call for scientific practices including communication, collaboration, inquiry, and problem solving. The activities in this book are all based on cooperative, interactive structures that have students work in pairs and in teams to build, deepen, and apply their science knowledge. Through interaction, students explore science at a deeper level and have more fun doing it! Stimulate students’ interest in science with these ready-to-go, engaging activities.

You want to make math engaging and take advantage of the power of peer tutoring and interaction, but you don't have the time to plan all-new activities, nor the time to re-create all those math worksheets. Don't fret. All the work has been done for you! All your need-to-teach numbers & operations and algebra curriculum is matched up with some of Kagan's best structures for math practice, including RallyCoach, Sage-N-Scribe, and Find-N-Fix. Plus you'll find more great math activities to keep students excited about math with structures wincluding Quiz-Quiz-Trade, Fan-N-Pick, Showdown, and Clue Linkages. Engaging math just got easy! 296 pages.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favorite! Transform need-to-know mathematics curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. Keeps everyone engaged. Each card set includes enough cards for your entire class. Card sets include: area and perimeter, balancing, big numbers, converting fractions, interpreting remainders, equivalent fractions, factors, word problems, ordering decimals, order of operations, place value, rounding, simplifying fractions. 192 pages.