Category Archives: Featured activity kit

Featured activity kit Peace Scholars: Learning Through Literature (call #CR 303.69 P355) will help students develop their conflict resolution skills as they explore a fascinating collection of ethnically diverse stories and folktales. The kit contains over 100 student activities. The … Continue reading →

Teaching with Manipulatives: Middle School Investigations (call #C.R. 510.71 W441T) includes a comprehensive teacher’s guide, as well as sets of polyhedra dice, interlocking centimeter cubes, and alpha shapes – all designed to help teachers teach (and students learn) difficult mathematical … Continue reading →

The  Salut, mon ami! Jeunesse en action! activity kit (call #MLC 448.2421 J58 1A) is based on the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) for foreign language teaching — a method which introduces high frequency vocabulary through stories, drama, dance, and song. … Continue reading →

Concepts in Physics: A Cartoon Approach (call # CR 530 C744) introduces the basic laws of physics through cartoon posters. Twenty posters feature Dr. J, the physics teacher, his son, J. Jr. and their three-legged dog Tripod explaining and acting … Continue reading →

Polydron  (call number C.R.516.15 P782) is a construction system comprised of 46 multi-coloured geometric plastic shapes that snap together to make 2-D nets and 3-D shapes – everything from basic shapes to a full set of Archimedean solids.  In addition to the … Continue reading →