Our cellphones, our clothes, our food: All are everyday things we consider essential, but we seldom think of what and who is involved in making them and getting them into our hands. In Follow Your Stuff, award-winning children's author Kevin Sylvester and business professor Michael Hlinka team up again, this time to tackle the complex dynamics of the global economy, examining the often-complex journey of ordinary goods from production right to our doorsteps. Using familiar examples, easy-to-follow charts and graphs, and a big helping of humor, Hlinka and Sylvester introduce young readers to concepts such as relative value and fair wages and how to think critically about our purchasing decisions. Sylvester's lively illustrations add even more kid-appeal making this sequel to the critically acclaimed Follow Your Money the perfect introduction to socio-economics and an eye-opening essential read for young people.

Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas for success in a variety of settings and with students of all ages. This one-stop resource offers dance teachers everything they need, including a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, instructional strategies, assessment, and other forms. It's like having a seasoned dance teacher at your side offering inspiration and guidance all year long. Internationally recognized master teacher and author Anne Gilbert Green presents creative dance for everyone and tips on meeting the challenges of teaching it. She offers a complete package for teaching creative dance that includes the theory, methodology, and lesson plans for various age groups that can be used in a variety of settings. Gilbert also offers an entire dance curriculum for sequential teaching and learning. The second edition of her classic text has been revised, reorganized, and updated to meet all the needs of dance teachers. The second edition of Creative Dance for All Ages includes these new features: * An easy-to-navigate format helps you quickly access the material and find lesson planning and assessment tools. * Content reflects changes in the field of dance education to put you on the cutting edge. * Forty age-appropriate and brain-compatible lesson plans are accessible through the web resource, which save prep time and help ensure compliance with the latest standards. * Five downloadable video clips demonstrate the lesson plans and teaching strategies and how to put them to work in the classroom. * Suggestions for modifying lessons help you include students of all abilities. * Eight assessment forms and curriculum planning templates are adaptable to your needs. If you're a novice teacher, the book also contains these features to ensure effective instruction: * The same conceptual approach to teaching dance was used in the first edition. * A sequential dance curriculum helps you systematically cover a 10-week quarter or 16-week semester. * Class management tips put you in control from the first day. Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, is an unparalleled resource for dance educators who are looking for a conceptual creative dance curriculum that will support teaching to learners of all ages. Whether in a studio, company, recreational, or educational setting, you will discover a comprehensive and well-rounded approach to teaching dance, emphasizing the how as much as the why.

Studying for your Social Work Degree is PERFECT for anyone wanting to train to become a social worker. After reading this fully comprehensive guide you will understand: the structure and culture of HE, and how social work fits into it what to expect, and what will be expected of you, as a university student teaching and assessment methods within social work, so that you can perform to the best of your ability in an academic environment how to manage your social work studies in an effective way and make the most of the resources available to you. The books in our Critical Study Skills series will help you gain the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy and practice, self-management, and research and communication. Packed with tasks and activities to help you improve your learning, including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Uniquely, this book is written by an experienced social work lecturer and an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lecturer.

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.

The best way to teach yoga to children is with games. With 52 vibrant, easy-to-follow yoga games requiring no previous yoga experience, this book will enable you to help children become better listeners, take responsibility, gain self-control, improve behaviour, become assertive and improve self-esteem and confidence. Within these pages Michael Chissick has distilled nearly twenty years' experience of teaching yoga to children aged 3-11 in mainstream and special needs schools. He explains the ideal yoga lesson structure to transform your children's behaviour: you will learn which games to teach, when to teach them and how to teach them, and how the additional benefits of improved co-ordination, flexibility, fitness, self-calming and relaxation can be accessible to all children regardless of impairment, need, culture, shape, mood or size.

Contains research-based content, richly supported by South African and international applications;Assessments effectively consolidate learning; Makes teaching and learning easy with important concepts and terminology listed; Has questions formulated in the style required by the examination guidelines; Provides a benchmark for Accounting courses used by South African Accounting teachers.

All students engaged in early vocational training are required to master basic literacy and numeracy at level 2. In the different countries of the U.K. these are know by different names. In England they are called functional skills, in Scotland and Northern Ireland they are known as core Skills, whilst in Wales they are Essential skills Wales. Within this broad subject banner there is an element called Application of Number. This is the subject of this book. The purpose is to help trainees to develop basic statistical skills. These skills are essential in the construction industry. The ability to engage in lean manufacturing is essential for all workers and this book gives students the basics for lean manufacturing. In the book they are faced with basic scenarios that involve using the Q.C.A.I. model and collecting and analysing the data. The students then have to interpret the data and that is the fundamental skill that is needed in lean management production and this is why this is so important.

Apprentices in the construction industry need to have level 2 functional skills, this includes application of number and this si why this book is so important. The book is a series of lessons where the scenarios involve stock control calculations. It is essential that new entrants are numerate now that the U.K. is in a post Brexit world and that they can mentally calculate. This does fit in well with lean construction where progressive companies are looking at the value chain and the supply chain and aiming to reduce and then eliminate waste.

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological dynamics framework for understanding movement behavior, this heavily updated edition stays on the cutting edge, with principles of nonlinear pedagogy and methodologies from the constraints-led approach. Students and practitioners across a variety of professions-including coaches, physical educators, trainers, and rehabilitation specialists-will appreciate the applied focus of this second edition. Movement models throughout the text provide examples for visualizing task constraints and enhancing the study and understanding of movement behavior. Athletes and sports teams are presented as specific complex adaptive systems, with information on designing learning environments and adapting programs to foster skill development. Readers will learn the historical evolution of dynamical systems theory and the ecological dynamics framework. These foundational concepts illustrate the integration between intentional action, cognition, and decision making and their effects on performance and behavior. Complex theoretical concepts are explained in simple terms and related to practice, focusing on the implications of the work of pioneering researchers such as Nikolai Bernstein, Egon Brunswik, James Gibson, Scott Kelso, and Karl Newell. Case studies written by practitioners contain specific examples of the ecological dynamics framework in action, bringing theory to life. By learning how to identify and manipulate key constraints that influence learning skilled behavior, readers will gain insight into practice designs for creating positive learning experiences that enable individuals to develop and learn functional movements. Throughout the book, learning features guide readers through material with clear direction and focus to improve understanding. Spotlight on Research sidebars provide detailed descriptions of important studies to connect theory, research, and application. Lab activities teach application skills beyond the content, ensuring reader understanding. In addition, chapter objectives, self-test questions, and Key Concept sidebars highlight important concepts in each chapter. With the study of human movement now bridging many disciplines, including motor development, psychology, biology, and physical therapy, Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides a timely analysis of the ecological dynamics framework and presents a comprehensive model for understanding how coordination patterns are assembled, controlled, and acquired. The theoretical roots and development of the ecological dynamics framework provide application strategies for all people with an interest in movement coordination and control.

Covers the Cambridge IGCSE syllabus (0455) and the Cambridge O Level syllabus (2281), first examination from 2020. This series helps students understand economic theory, terminology and principles. By applying tools of economic analysis, undertaking calculations and writing longer responses, students learn how to look at the world like an economist. The workbook matches the Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Economics syllabuses and provides students with additional concepts to strengthen their understanding, as well as the quality of their answers. The answers to the workbook questions are in the teacher's resource.

application of number is a skills area that is essential for young apprentices. This title is a series of lessons to help teachers deliver this important subject area. Using the QCAI model the sessions take students through the model in a simple statistical investigation. The book comes withy smart board activities and is a copiable book.

All hair and beauty businesses need numerate staff. Data handling is a vital skill for the success of these salons. It takes trainees through the Q.C.A.I. cycle and therefore gives them a framework for data collection and analysis. The book provides a scenario where the students have to go out into the locality and engage in data collection that is relevant to our industry. They then have to analyse and interpret their findings. This is why this book is an important contribution to this area of vocational education.

Illustrates how to use yoga to bring calm and focus (and exercise!) to children with special needs. Childhood is a time filled with new motor challenges and hurdles; and this is doubly true for kids with autism and other special needs. The motor challenges children face require strength, coordination, and the ability to focus and attend. Yoga can help children with these challenges as it can strengthen their bodies while calming. This book demonstrates how to get children started with the discipline that so many of us use in our daily lives. Occupational therapist Britt Collins tells how to use yoga to support special needs, increasing body awareness and fine tune coordination skills.

Activate your students' interest in environmental issues with these fun physical activities With "50 Games for Going Green: Physical Activities That Teach Healthy Environmental Concepts," teachers and youth leaders will find easy-to-present games and activities to inspire and educate students about caring for the environment.

Authors Carol Scaini and Carolyn Evans have created a range of innovative activities to help students learn the value of reducing, reusing, and recycling and explore concepts of carbon footprint reduction, climate change, and global warming. "50 Games for Going Green" includes

- warm-up, circuit, and station activities;

- physical fitness challenges, relay races, and literacy and drama activities; and

- cooperative games.

A special Eco-Thoughts feature offers simple take-aways with each activity, giving your students information to think about, discuss, and act on. Easily adaptable for a range of ages, abilities, and skill levels, this collection of activities will help your students get moving, thinking, and working together while learning what they can do to help the environment.

"50 Games for Going Green" makes learning a truly active experience and gives you creative ways to help students get their daily dose of moderate to vigorous physical activity. The activities can be played in the gym, classroom, or outdoors and require little or no equipment. Many activities repurpose everyday recyclable items for play, such as cards from recycled paper, balls from socks, and bowling pins from plastic bottles.

Detailed descriptions and illustrations make it easy to understand how to teach each activity, and the game finder helps you quickly choose the right one for each class. In addition, the book's easy-to-follow format provides information for each activity on equipment and setup requirements, instructions for play, variations, and safety considerations.

Taking an active learning approach to environmental stewardship makes caring for the Earth a tangible, memorable, and fun experience. By encouraging students to get active and go green, "50 Games for Going Green" offers a hands-on way for students to contribute to their physical health and improve the health of their environment.

Hierdie boek dien as ‘n toeganklike en doeltreffende hersieningshulpmiddel vir Graad 12-leerders. Dit kan regdeur die kwartaal, asook vir eksamenvoorbereiding, gebruik word. Dit sluit in: ‘n Blitshersiening van alle aspekte van die KABV-kurrikulum. Die noodsaaklike teorie en basiese konsepte word in hierdie afdeling gedek en 7 Eksamenvraestelle en Voorgestelde Antwoorde. Duidelike riglyne vir eksamentegniek en uitleg word deurgaans gegee. Die wenke, kommentaar en deurlopende advies deur die onderwyser-skrywer, bou leerders se selfvertroue soos hulle sistematies deur die boek werk. Die riglyne ten opsigte van berekeninge, opsommings van nuttige terminologie en afkortings, dra alles by tot ‘n een-stop-boek wat ‘n leerder deeglik sal voorberei vir toetse en eksamens. Hierdie studiegids sal Rekeningkundige vaardighede ontwikkel en Rekeningkundeleerders se prestasie verbeter, ongeag hul vermoe.

Hierdie studiegids bied die sleutel tot uitmuntende resultate vir hierdie vak. Die gids is volgens die KABV-kurrikulum saamgestel en bevat die volgende: Omvattende Notas met Uitgewerkte Voorbeelde vir elke Onderwerp, Vrae & Antwoorde vir elke Onderwerp en Eksamenvraestelle en Antwoorde sowel as handige wenke. Die spesifiek gekose vrae is gegradeer ten einde die studiemateriaal as geheel te verstaan en selfvertroue aangaande vakkennis by die leerder te kweek. Die omvattende notas, die addisionele verduidelikings en die gedetailleerde oplossings span saam om die teorie te verduidelik en dit motiveer die leerder om meer uitdagende vrae aan te pak en die konsepte te bemeester.

Discussions of physical activity in schools often focus on health-related outcomes, but there is also evidence for its integral role in academic achievement, cognition, and psychological adjustment. Written by a scientist-practitioner, Physical Activity and Student Learning explores the effects of physical activity within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings the topic to a wider audience. With chapters on positive school behavior, executive function, and interventions, this concise volume is designed for any educational psychology or general education course that includes physical activity in the curriculum. This book establishes physical activity as an important part of all learning-not just physical education and recess-and will be indispensable for student researchers and both pre- and in-service teachers alike.

A wonderful learning book which has been designed to nurture engaged learning for children into learning new words and phrases used in their everyday life.