Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9–12 is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical science. The book discusses the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) as a specific pathway for teaching and learning. It also shows how simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities will help your students construct firsthand knowledge as you put the three dimensions of contemporary standards into practice. Like its po...

This guidebook uses an Explore-before-Explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science.Author Pat Brown models and breaks down how an Explore-before-Explain approach ensures students' conceptual understandings are constructed primarily on evidence-based experiences in the classroom. From prompting students to ponder patterns, helping them identify cause-and-effect relationships, to focusing on development...

Indebted America explores the manner in which debt has played in the development of the United States of America and the ways that indebtedness continues to hinder-and often perplex-the nation and its citizens.The first portion of the study focuses on indentured servitude, the origin of bankruptcy legislation, and the problems American leaders and well-known personalities had with debt. The latter section delves into the problems that both the United States as well as its ...

What does it mean to feel impact in dance?In Feeling Impact: A Timedancer's Study of Irish Step Dance, Dr Russell Patrick Brown reimagines Irish step dance through the felt intelligence of the body. Moving beyond the dazzling speed of footwork and the familiar sound of hard shoes striking the floor, this groundbreaking study explores how dancers experience impact as vibration, resonance, pressure and even pain-and how those sensations carry memory, identity and history.

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich's Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany's origins to the present. What is most striking about this work is that the long-term effects of Nazi inventions and innovations—from practical inventions (advanced computers, electron microscopes, electro-magnetic tape, et al.) to aviation and avionics ("swept-winged," stealth ai...

Enduring Entanglements: The Third Reich’s Insidious Impact on America" is the first comprehensive resource edition that examines the myriad of ways the Third Reich has impacted the United States from Nazi Germany’s origins to the present. What is most striking about this work is that the long-term effects of Nazi inventions and innovations—from practical inventions (advanced computers, electron microscopes, electro-magnetic tape, et al.) to aviation and avionics (“swept-winged,” stealth ai...

American Chronicle: An Inclusive History explores the manner in which the United States evolved from the arrival of the first Europeans, 471 years prior to Columbus, to the rise of Big Business in the Gilded Age. Along with the major themes of the American experience, this expansive study provides long-neglected components of America's development, including the role language, music, contagious disease, and fashion played in molding the nation.In addition, American Chr...

The story of the American people has been traditionally written as "victory history." In this narrative, Euromericans come to the Western Hemisphere, dominate the existing Indigenous peoples, and ultimately create the greatest nation in the world. This version has been misleading, misguided, and occasionally downright wrong."American Chronicle: An Inclusive History" (Volume I) is an in-depth examination of American history from the arrival of Euromericans to the administration of Ru...

Operation Brainstorm: The War Against the Machines is an epic military science fiction saga set in a future where humanity has already lost the war. Centuries after a devastating AI uprising known as Operation Brainstorm, the remnants of civilization survive in scattered colonies across the stars while intelligent machines dominate Earth and countless worlds. When a soldier from the past awakens in this dark new era, he becomes an unexpected symbol of hope for a species on the brink of ext...

Step into a breathtaking world where dragons rule the skies, ancient magic shapes destinies, and one courageous young woman dares to defy the future chosen for her. Legacy of Dragon Mages brings together all seven thrilling novels in an epic fantasy adventure filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking aerial battles, political intrigue, and the unbreakable bond between dragons and their riders. To escape an unwanted destiny, Alba disguises herself as a boy and secretly enrolls in t...

Operation Brainstorm: The War Against the Machines is an epic military science fiction saga set in a future where humanity has already lost the war. Centuries after a devastating AI uprising known as Operation Brainstorm, the remnants of civilization survive in scattered colonies across the stars while intelligent machines dominate Earth and countless worlds. When a soldier from the past awakens in this dark new era, he becomes an unexpected symbol of hope for a species on the brink of ext...

Operation Brainstorm: The War Against the Machines is an epic military science fiction saga set in a future where humanity has already lost the war. Centuries after a devastating AI uprising known as Operation Brainstorm, the remnants of civilization survive in scattered colonies across the stars while intelligent machines dominate Earth and countless worlds. When a soldier from the past awakens in this dark new era, he becomes an unexpected symbol of hope for a species on the brink of ext...