This textbook follows the structure of the Bristol Project (OCR Syllabus C). Aimed at the full ability range, it covers skills, techniques and approaches to coursework. The material supports students preparing for the decision-making exercise and the final exam.

Fifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4–8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology. This book will also help educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Each 40-minute lesson plan includes an NCSS theme, materials and sources, procedure, and evaluation. Each lesson is followed by an optional 10-25 minute chess exercise, composed of teacher background, procedure and materials, expected time, and evaluation. A separate chapter teaches the chess basics necessary for your students to actually play chess and successfully complete the optional exercises. Lesson plans complement upper elementary and middle school curricula in world history, U.S. history, geography, and social studies.

In the war-ravaged England of 1940, Charlotte Bromley is sure of only one thing: Kitty McLaughlin is her best friend in the whole world. But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves, Charlotte is faced with an impossible choice between danger and safety. Should she remain with her friend or journey to another time and place? Her split-second decision has huge consequences, and when she finds herself alone in the world, unsure of Kitty's fate, she knows that somehow, some way, she must find her way back to her friend. Written in the spirit of classic time-travel tales, this book is an imaginative and heartfelt tribute to the unbreakable ties of friendship.

Edited by John Elderfield, Peter Reed, Mary Chan and Maria del Carmen Gonzalez. Essays by Starr Figura, Beatrice Kernan, Judith B. Hecker, Elizabeth Levine and M. Darsie Alexander, Magdalena Dabrowski, Wendy Weitman, Peter Reed, Susan Kismaric, Sarah Ganz, Mary Lea Bandy and Deborah Wilk. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.

A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair. Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet… It didn’t look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked…elegant. It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images—a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider—and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand. The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.

A word book featuring real-life people, places, and things--as well as beloved characters and objects from the works of Dr. Seuss! This super-sturdy board book introduces 100 essential vocabulary words describing real people, places, and things that babies and toddlers encounter every day--and the artwork of Dr. Seuss! Adorably illustrated with images based on Dr. Seuss's most beloved classics, it stars Little Cats A, B, and C--the tiny cats from The Cat in the Hat Comes Back--doing something fun on every spread. A perfect choice for learning and play, Dr. Seuss's People, Places, and Things is an ideal gift for newborns and baby showers!