Kagan

Foster positive virtues through the study of celebrated individuals who portray the best of humanity. Students learn about Mother Teresa's selflessness, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, and Christa McAuliffe's courage. Each six-page card includes a reproducible story focused on desirable character traits, ready-to-do activities based on Kagan Structures, reproducible higher-level thinking questions, vocabulary builders, and writing ideas. Bring out the best in your students!

Image	Title	Item #	Was	Clearance	Qty
	Rosa Parks	TRP	$4	$2
	Mother Teresa	TMT	$4	$2
	Desmond Tutu	TDT	$4	$2
	Martin Luther King, Jr.	TMK	$4	$2
	Christa McAuliffe	TCM	$4	$2

All 5 Character Cards $20 $10

A practical, year-long program for building a cooperative, creative classroom community. Twelve illustrated chapters each contain three linked activity units, along with blackline masters, follow-up suggestions, teacher tips, and resources. Lessons are sequenced to build students’ social and intellectual skills, and draw on examples from nature to connect to classroom behavior. 448 pages.

Hands-on, interactive science lessons that develop your students’ naturalist intelligence. Includes content, ready-to-use activities, and blackline masters on topics such as cooperation and interdependence, pollinators, nature’s recycling, animal survival, and spiders. Use it as a complete natural science curriculum or as a supplement. 488 pages.

Over 100 cooperative math problems for groups. Each team member gets a different clue card, so teammates must share information and work together to solve each problem. 180 pages.

Sturdy classroom spinners that add a game-like element to practice and review. Ideas for use are printed on the back of each spinner.

Multiple Intelligences Activity Spinner – Randomly selects one of eight MI activities you can use with just about any learning topic. Great for MI learning centers, team projects, or sponge activities.

MSMI $3 $1.50

O’Clock Spinner – What time is it? It’s O’Clock time! Students learn to tell, write, and set time, quiz partners, and play team Showdown.

MSO $3 $1.50

Shape Selector Spinner – Watch your students’ learning take shape! Students learn shape names, draw and name shapes, create shape patterns, and count sides.

MSSH $3 $1.50

Each poster set includes six, extra large, 17" x 22", colorful posters that illustrate Kagan’s most popular structures. Kagan-approved steps for each structure are prominently displayed—a great visual reminder for you and your students. Decorate your classroom, create a structures bulletin board, or hang them on a poster rack to pull up the structure you’re using. Teaching Kagan Structures to your students has never been easier!

Poster Set 1 – Mix-Pair-Share, RallyCoach, RallyRobin, RoundRobin, Think-Write-RoundRobin, Timed Pair Share.

PKST1 $14 $7

Poster Set 2 – AllWrite RoundRobin, Both Record RallyRobin, Fan-N-Pick, Instant Star, Quiz-Quiz-Trade, StandUp–HandUp–PairUp.

PKST2 $14 $7

Poster Set 4 – Find-the-Fiction, Match Mine, Numbered Heads Together, One Stray, Spend-A-Buck, Talking Chips.

PKST4 $14 $7

Poster Set 5 – Carousel Feedback, Find Someone Who, Pairs Compare, Sage-N-Scribe, Showdown, Team Up!

PKST5 $14 $7

Please note: These are the previous versions of the Kagan Structure Poster sets. For the most recent versions, click here.

Celebrate Multiple Intelligences! At Kagan’s Multiple Intelligences professional development events, we post MI icons on the wall to visually depict the eight intelligences. We’ve had so many participants ask, "Where can I get those posters? Are they for sale?" By popular demand, they’re now available. The MI poster set includes nine, colorful, 11" x 17" posters on durable poster paper. There’s a poster for each of the eight intelligences, plus "Many ways to be smart" which shows all the intelligences on one poster. Use the posters to create an MI bulletin board. Place the "Picture Smart" poster over your art center. Use the posters as visual aids as you teach your students about the multiple intelligences. These posters will simultaneously brighten your classroom and validate your students’ many ways of being smart.

Songs include: Shake Rattle and Roll (Bill Haley & The Comets); Hound Dog (Carl Perkins); Love Potion No. 9 (Clovers); Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley); I’m Walkin’ (Fats Domino); Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley & The Comets); Jenny, Jenny (Little Richard); Charlie Brown (The Coasters); Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations); Sweets for My Sweet (The Searchers); Sea Cruise (Frankie Ford); Rip It Up (Bill Haley & The Comets); Rockin’ Robin (Bobby Day); Honeycomb (Jimmy Rodgers); Save the Last Dance for Me (The Drifters).

Who really discovered the Americas? Was there really a Trojan horse? Was Mozart murdered? Challenge students to explore several important unexplained events that helped shape history. Students use primary source materials, posters, and simulations to find clues and to make informed decisions about these events. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers. These real-life historical mysteries encourage students to research, think, debate, and form conclusions. 144 pages.

Become an effective, happy teacher! This lively book includes practices of an effective teacher, setting positive expectations, how to manage the classroom, how to design effective lessons, and much, much, much more! A lifesaver for new teachers. 352 pages.

Discover the fabulous educational song series by award-winning publisher/teacher Sara Jordan! Honored as one of the "10 Top Teachers" by Canadian Living magazine, Sara's unique, exciting music will have toes tapping and minds learning in no time. Students will sing themselves smart in a host of topics, including mathematics, U.S. Presidents, health, phonics, grammar, and the Internet. Songs are varied and multi-form, from acoustic to rock to rap. Voices rise and time flies when Sara's in the house!

From a primer on how the body hears music to music's impact on stress level, perceptual motor skills, memory, and emotional intelligence, you're in for a supersonic feast of facts and findings. Included are tips for choosing music and the various benefits of different music types. 132 pages.

Teach the times tables from 0 through 10. There's a track for each number from 0 to 10 along with corresponding pre- and post-tests, flash cards, and worksheets for students to fill out as they rap along.

Learn the many differences between impoverished, middle class, and wealthy students, then discover ways of applying your knowledge to more effectively teach students of all economic levels. Based on 24 years of research, you'll learn the role of language and story, the hidden rules among classes, and the characteristics of generational poverty. You'll understand how to help students choose role models and develop emotional resources, support systems, and positive relationships. You'll learn the best modes of discipline and the most effective methods of instruction to improve achievement. This book will give you the resources to relate to all students, regardless of social or economic class. 199 pages.

Singable lyrics and catchy melodies from best-selling children’s music duo. Songs include: It's a Beautiful Day, Hand Jive, The Ugly Duckling, Ballin' the Jack, and more.

Songs include: We're Tilted!; Six Simple Machines; I See the Light; The Scientific Method Blues; Animalia; Sources of Energy; Roots, a Stem and Some Leaves; Mixing it Up; It's Science Time.

According to experts in the field, reading and language arts skills are best acquired when students are actively engaged in their own learning. Includes over 300 activities from hundreds of teachers as well as the author's own classroom models. 200 pages.

This new edition updates you on multiple intelligences theory and its many applications to schools and classrooms. Along with proven strategies, it adds two new chapters on how to address common criticisms of the MI model and the success of international applications of MI theory. Updates throughout the book keep you on top of new MI resources, tools, and materials. 256 pages.

What do you do when, despite best efforts, a student does not learn? Begin using the power of the collective intelligence that already resides in your school! The authors guide you through using professional learning communities to solve the problem all educators face at some point during their career. Learn to develop a staff that works collaboratively to achieve common goals. 263 pages.

Learn how to teach for character and raise good kids in a time of declining moral values. Inspiring quotations, challenging dilemmas, activities, and true stories of real kids help students explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their community. Students are encouraged to understand themselves better, develop the traits that are most important to them, and become their best selves. 284 pages.

How do you divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct your students of diverse backgrounds, readiness, skill levels, and interests? Tomlinson shares the latest research on learning, education, and change that supports differentiated instruction. She offers much more than theory, filling the pages with real-life examples of teachers and students using and benefiting from differentiated instruction. She guides you through small changes, then even larger ones, until differentiation becomes a way of teaching for you and your students. 132 pages.