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Using Medical Terminology: A Practical Approach | Judi Lindsley Nath | This comprehensive medical terminology textbook includes detailed coverage of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology. The author's unique teaching approach emphasizes using the full terms in context, rather than breaking down words and memorizing word parts, lists, and definitions. Vibrant illustrations, a variety of exercises, and numerous other features engage students visually, auditorily, and kinesthetically to address various learning styles. A bonus CD-ROM includes an audio glossary plus interactive exercises. LiveAdvise: Medical Terminology online faculty support and student tutoring services are available free with each text. A complete online course for use with WebCT or Blackboard is also available. | |
Start Your Own Child-Care Service | Jacquelyn Lynn | Get Paid to Care for Kids! Do you enjoy working with children? Would you like to help lighten the load on busy moms and dads? With more and more parents needing help to care for their children, the market for child-care services is exploding. Whether you want to start a family-style child-care center in your home, a large center at a commercial site or a niche business like child transportation, this guide can help you get started. Business experts and successful child-care service owners offer valuable information on: Legal and insurance concerns Facility location and setup considerations Security issues How to establish and revise rates Hour and policy considerations Records to obtain from parents Sample forms, updated resources and step-by-step instructions will get you on the road to success. | |
Your Kids Can Master Their Money: Fun Ways to Help Them Learn How (Focus on the Family Books) | Ron Blue, Judy Blue and Jeremy L. White | Current research tells us today's kids and teens don't know how to budget or spend wisely. They have purchasing influence, but they aren't prepared to handle money. Parents presume that their kids “get it” or that they are learning these skills in school. Yet kids still need parental guidance on how to manage money. Your Kids Can Master Their Money reveals key traits of financially wise people and gives parents tools to instill those traits in their children. | |
Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies (9th Edition) | Arthur K Ellis | Are you looking for a resource that will provide you with practical, yet proven, social studies strategies to use with children in grades K-8? Look no further, explore the new edition of Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies to find a wealth of lesson plans and practical guidance. This perennial best-seller provides instructional strategies for involving K-8 children in social studies content that emphasize concepts, inquiry, and moral development. Widely admired for its warm voice and abundance of children’s art and writing, this text integrates constructivist philosophies of active learning with the essential knowledge, basic skills, and positive values required of citizens in a healthy and diverse democracy. | |
Working at Home While the Kids Are There, Too | Loriann Hoff Oberlin | Entrepreneur Loriann Oberlin shows readers how to successfully combine having a career and children through home-based employment. This book is a smart approach to business that allows a person to work while handling the duties of caring for the children. Through humor, advice and encouragement, Working at Home While the Kids are There, Too covers choosing a successful career, keeping the kids stimulated while getting the work done, and setting up budgets and space with limited resources. | |
Money Matters for Kids | Larry Burkett and K. Christie Bowker | Children need to be taught at a young age the importance of stewardship, but giving them financial advice that's too complex can overwhelm and discourage them. In Money Matters for Kids, financial author and teacher Larry Burkett provides fun and creative tools to help children understand and apply the biblical concept of stewardship. Contains jokes, puzzles, and other fun activities and exercises that make it easy for parents to teach children godly money management principles. | |
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry | Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett | The classic, inspiring account of a poet's experience teaching school children to write poetry When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to work with an instructor able to inspire their talent and energy, would clap and shout with pleasure. In this vivid account, Koch describes his inventive methods for teaching these children how to create poems and gives numerous examples of their work. Wishes, Lies, and Dreams is a valuable text for all those who care about freeing the creative imagination and educating the young. | |
I Think, I Am!: Teaching Kids the Power of Affirmations | Louise Hay and Kristina Tracy | “Your thoughts create your life!” This is the message that Louise Hay has been teaching people throughout the world for more than 27 years. Now, children can learn and understand the powerful idea that they have control over their thoughts and words, and in turn, what happens in their life. Within the pages of I Think, I Am! kids will find out the difference between negative thoughts and positive affirmations. Fun illustrations and simple text demonstrate how to make the change from negative thoughts and words to those that are positive. The happiness and confidence that come from this ability is something children will carry with them their entire lives! | |
Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning (Kindle Single) (TED Books) | Sugata Mitra | Ten years ago, educator Sugata Mitra and his colleagues cracked open a hole in a wall bordering an urban slum in New Delhi, installed a networked PC, and left it there for the local children to freely explore. What they quickly saw in their ‘Hole in the Wall’ experiment was that kids from one of the most desperately poor areas of the world could, without instruction, quickly learn how the PC operated. The children also freely collaborated with each other, exploring the world of high-tech online connectivity with ease. It was the dawning of Mitra’s introduction to self-organized learning, and it would shape the next decade of his research. This important update on Mitra’s groundbreaking work (which provided the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire') offers new research and ideas that show how self-directed learning can make kids smarter and more creative. He also provides step-by-step instruction on how to integrate it into any classroom. It’s an important lesson that could reshape our schools and reinvigorate our educational system. With a foreword by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of both MIT's Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child Association. | |
Play and Child Development (3rd Edition) | Joe L. Frost, Sue C. Wortham and Stuart C. Reifel | With significantly expanded discussions on key topics, here is a revised edition of the popular early childhood book that, more than any other book on the market, ties play directly to child development. Through a seamless blend of research, theory, and practical applications, its comprehensive coverage addresses the full spectrum of play-related topics. The book analyzes play theories and play therapy; presents a history of play; and discusses current play trends. It explores ways to create safe play environments for all children, and how to weave play into school curricula. Finally, the authors examine the role of adults in leading and encouraging children's natural tendencies toward learning by playing. Special coverage includes a full chapter on play and children with disabilities, and the value of field trips in supporting learning. For pre-service and in-service, pre-school and primary grade teachers. |