Ages, a book from the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, leads students on an exciting journey through history. The books in Prufrock's new Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, students will discover the history before them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Students will discover architecture and the evolution of the calendar in the book's conceptual look at the word ages. From Sputnik and the dawn of the space age, to the computer revolution that is forever changing our lives, students will explore the issues that shape our world. How has advertising evolved over the past 100 years and illustrated the different ages? What made the Dark Ages dark? The Golden Ages golden? These questions and many others will be explored as students deal with their own coming of age.

Ages (Multiage Curriculum - Middle School)

Education & Teaching

McGee, Brenda

Triska Keiser, Debbie

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press

Balances, the first book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, asks students conceptual questions in regard to balance such as, "Is it possible for our world to ever again be ecologically balanced?" or "What?s the connection between the inner ear and seasickness?" The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students? natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, students will discover the balance that exists around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In this book, students will examine the universal concept of balance from many different and exciting perspectives. Balance in art, government, diet, mathematics, and even elevators will be studied. "Balances", along with the other books in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6 ("Choices", "Explorations", "Questions", and "Viewpoints"), makes teaching advanced learners easier!

Balances (Multiage Curriculum - Intermediate)

Wolfinsohn, Sarah

Conflicts, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, asks conceptual questions of students in regard to conflict. Conflicts, old and new, have plagued our world since the beginning of time. The books in Prufrock's new Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students? natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6-8, students will discover the conflicts of the past and gain a lifelong desire to learn. In this differentiated curriculum, students are challenged to consider discrimination, propaganda, misrepresentation of data, and war. Conflict of interest also is examined as students study examples and then search for events in history when it has occurred. Students also ponder questions such as, "Are all men created equal?" and "Does the Food Guide Pyramid represent the healthiest choices for the nutritional needs of all people?" Conflicts, old and new, have plagued our world since the beginning of time.

Conflicts (Multiage Curriculum - Middle School)

From the Gold Rush in California, to the many uses of crayons, students will explore the diversity and complexity of the concept of discoveries in "Discoveries", a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students? natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3, students will appreciate the discoveries around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Through the eyes of a tiny mouse, students are led to evaluate and discover what they are truly made of. Students investigate why discoveries from the past are important to the present and the future. Students also will examine how discoveries are made by studying those made by historically significant explorers and researchers.

Discoveries (Multiage Curriculum - Primary)

Explorations, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, gives students the opportunity to explore our world. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery.By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, students will explore the world around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. From the mysterious depths of the ocean, to the craters of Mars, students will be challenged to go a step beyond the explorers who came before them. In one activity, students will act as explorers and examine the culture they live in. Students then will take characteristics from their discoveries and try to adapt them to another civilization. Social inequality and the effects of nutritional habits on the heart will be examined. Students also will explore winter survival tactics and retrace the steps of some famous explorers, such as Marco Polo.

Explorations (Multiage Curriculum - Intermediate)

Faces, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3, gives students the opportunity to see the faces of the world from an entirely different perspective. The books in Prufrock's new Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 1-3, students will discover the faces around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Students will design masks to reflect what is behind a human face. They will go on to analyze and scrutinize faces in art, as well as on the moon and Mars. "Faces" also presents students with geometric problems, and allows them to explore cultural differences. Students will study myths, folktales, and fairy tales that occur in different cultures around the world.

Faces (Multiage Curriculum - Primary)

Images, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6–8, asks students three main questions: What is your image? What image do you want to project? and Can you change or manipulate your image?The books in Prufrock's new Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 6–8, students will discover the images around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn.In addition to personal images, photographic images are studied in detail, both historically and scientifically. Also, propaganda is examined through visual and written images. Students will go back in time and explore image

Images (Multiage Curriculum - Middle School)

Questions, a book in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, asks students challenging questions that will change the way they look at their world. The books in Prufrock's new Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students? natural excitement and interest in discovery. By participating in the wide variety of activities in the Multiage Differentiated Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, students will question the world around them and gain a lifelong desire to learn. Students will learn about Socrates and his ideas about questioning. And, the Five W's are examined as students gather information to put together a school newspaper. Students also will examine a new type of comedy as they are challenged to create humorous scenes by only asking questions. These activities will help students gain an understanding about how our society has evolved due to people who were bold enough to ask questions.

Questions (Multiage Curriculum - Intermediate)

Viewpoints, a book in the Multiage Curriculum Kit for Grades 4-6, asks students to examine the concept of viewpoints from many different and exciting angles. From the history of child labor laws, to optical illusions, students will learn to consider other perspectives as they learn the process of formal debate. In one particular activity, students examine the different ways that viewpoints can be expressed through art, such as with linear perspective, orientation, orthogonals, and materials.The books in Prufrock's Multiage Curriculum Kits employ a differentiated, integrated curriculum based on broad themes. This all-in-one curriculum helps teachers save planning time, ensure compliance with national standards, and most importantly, pique their students' natural excitement and interest in discovery.

Viewpoints (Multiage Curriculum - Intermediate)

Nusinov, Chuck

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