Mind mapping is a fast and fun way for students to take visual notes and for you to present concepts to students. Use mind mapping in your class to foster creativity, boost comprehension and retention of what you teach, and simultaneously engage multiple intelligences! This colorful SmartCard describes the rationale for using mind maps in the classroom; provides ideas and activities to introduce and use mind mapping in your class; describes how to create mind maps step-by-step; offers many helpful hints; illustrates sample mind maps; provides mind mapping ideas for mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science; and illustrates how to use mind maps for lesson, theme, and unit planning. A great resource you’ll turn to time and time again.

Stretch your students’ many ways of being smart! If you want to make multiple intelligences theory a reality in your classroom, here’s your activity guidebook. This book will help you make multiple intelligences come alive in your classroom. It features 10 easy-to-use, use-again structures that engage and develop your students’ multiple intelligences. Each structure has numerous fun and creative reproducible blackline activities, nearly 200 in all! Your students will be sequencing, sharing, solving problems, singing, lining up, comparing, drawing, writing, cooperating, and taking imaginary guided trips. Also includes easy-to-understand descriptions and indicators for each intelligence to share with your students. A terrific resource for teachers to help students learn in many ways, and to make learning much more engaging. 280 pages.

Each team receives their own colorful Question Spinners. A teammate gives the spinners a whirl and randomly generates one of 36 possible question starters across the levels of thinking: "What Is?", "How Might"?, "What Would?", and "Why Can?" Use the Question Spinners before a lesson to have students generate questions about what they want to learn, during a lesson to create thinking about the content, and after the lesson for reflection on what was learned. Students are so absorbed asking and answering their own questions that you are free to circulate from team to team for authentic assessment. Spanish version also available. Includes class set of eight spinners and storage pack.

Watch as your students work together successfully. This spinner ensures that everyone participates as teams lead themselves through any set of review questions. Works great with math and science problems. Perfect for book, chapter, and unit review questions. Teammates spin the spinner to find out who asks the question, answers the question, checks the answer, and offers praise or help. Play with any number of questions by teams of 2, 3, 4, and 5 students. Includes class set of eight spinners and storage pack.