Standards-based lessons to encourage students to take care of the environment by adapting the way they live and do things, beginning in the classroom. Each unit includes suggestions and adaptations to help ELL students and students in RTI (response to intervention) programs keep pace with the rest of the class.

This book is packed full of ideas for reusing everyday items to create learning activities, games, group projects, and artistic crafts! All the lessons are aligned to standards and benchmarks. Children are encouraged to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Parents are asked to get involved, too!

After a summer with Grandma in Euador and an encounter with Frozey the Polar Bear at the zoo, Josie decides it's time to take action on global warming. Her first idea for Going Green is to organize her grade to drive less by forming the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade. Best friends Matt and Lizzy, along with her brother Damien and other characters from the neighborhood go along for the ride. But not everyone is in favor of the plan, and trouble begins for Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade.

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI

Standards-based lessons to encourage students to take care of the environment by adapting the way they live and do things, beginning in the classroom. Each unit includes suggestions and adaptations to help ELL students and students in RTI (response to intervention) programs keep pace with the rest of the class.

On your mark, get set, go green! Did you know that every person in the United States creates about five pounds of trash a day? Did you know that recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees? Did you know that people in North America use more water than any other people on Earth? If not, then welcome to Ready, Set, Go Green! Environmental awareness is everywhere in the media today. It is a huge concern for many adults, and will soon impact children as well. Ready, Set, Go Green! explains current environmental topics in a way that students will understand. The goal is to increase students' sensitivity and concern about the environment while encouraging them to have fun at the same time. This book is filled with interesting facts and figures, fun activity pages, quick and easy tips, and engaging project ideas.

The experiments in this book fall under seventeen topics that relate to four aspects of physical science: Materials, Objects, and Building Things; Energy In Our Lives; Force and Motion; and Creating Color. In each section you will find teacher notes designed to provide you guidance with the learning intention, the success criteria, materials needed, a lesson outline, as well as provide some insight on what results to expect when the experiments are conducted. Suggestions for differentiation are also included so that all students can be successful in the learning environment. This book supports many of the fundamental concepts and learning outcomes from the curriculums for these provinces: Manitoba, Grade 1, Science, Cluster 3, Characteristics of Objects & Materials; Ontario, Grade 1, Science, Understanding Structures & Mechanisms, Materials, Objects and Everyday Structures, Understanding Matter & Energy in Our Lives; Saskatchewan, Grade 1, Science, Physical Science, Using Objects & Materials. 96 pages.