Summary: Why is it that involvement in physical activity for girls drops off more rapidly than for boys? This is a serious concern, as participation in school physical education programs has been shown to have a positive influence on a person's physical activity later in life. Do girls lose the attention of PE teachers who favor nurturing the physical development of boys, or do they make a conscious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Provides parents with strategies and tips for helping their fourth grade student prepare for the Common Core assessment, offering easy-to-follow lessons, practice questions, and mini-quizzes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 PARSummary: Smart athletes put their trust in their coaches. So what do smart coaches do to earn that trust? This program offers detailed suggestions, examining the physical and mental areas of a player's development in which a successful coach operates. Using interviews with professional coaches, training experts, and student athletes, the film explores various aspects of the coach's responsibilities....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Every goal, every touchdown, every home run is the product of years of arduous training-and, in most cases, a scientific strategy that melds the power of body and mind. This program explores the methods that help athletes become the competitors they long to be. In addition to weight training concepts, viewers learn the basics of a warm-up/cool-down system, focusing on decreasing the chance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Athletes of all levels require training programs that take into account the specific needs of their sport as well as their own individual strengths and weaknesses. What makes a successful athletics training program? This video identifies the key components and investigates the methods used to evaluate, modify, and improve training programs. From the goal-setting and motivation required for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHASummary: What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American sixth graders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.19 WHA1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHA
Summary: "A revised and updated edition of the ... guide for parents and teachers of fourth grade-age children, featuring all new full-color photographs and illustrations and revised material"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHAHirsch, E.D. Jr.
Summary: "A revised and updated edition of the bestselling definitive Core Knowledge guide for parents and teachers of third grade-age children, featuring all new full-color photographs and illustrations and revised material"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Provides parents with strategies and tips for helping their fifth grade student prepare for the Common Core assessment, offering easy-to-follow lessons, practice questions, and mini-quizzes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kaplan Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 PARSummary: Why do girls demonstrate greater reading and writing ability than boys? Is the female brain hardwired for faster verbal development? Should men let women do the talking? This program studies language differences between the sexes and explores the possibility that many communication skills are gender-specific. Following two teams of well-educated adults as they undergo a crash course in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHAHirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald)
Summary: "A revised and updated version of What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education, including achievement with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.19 HIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 HIRDanielson, Christopher
Summary: Danielson takes the intimidation out of Common Core math, so that you'll get a grasp on what your child is learning. You'll be able to help with homework and test-prep thanks to this friendly guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wylie & Sons, Inc. 2015
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Summary: "When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew. Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 371.829 SLAHirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald)
Summary: Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372 HIRSummary: Are advocates of the intelligent design theory really creationists in disguise? To what extent has the I.D. argument widened America's cultural divide? And if a clear winner emerges, who loses? This program thoroughly examines those questions, describing the theory's quasi-scientific origins and documenting the Pennsylvania court battle over teaching I.D. in biology classes. A historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Confronting one of the most complex and potentially divisive issues on the American cultural landscape, this ABC News program examines the intellectual and political forces that support the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. The video focuses on the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank that has generated widespread enthusiasm-and criticism-for making I.D. part of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Gong, Neil
Summary: "In 2022, Los Angeles became the US city with the largest population of unhoused people, a stark contrast with the city's luxurious hillside mansions. This book from sociologist Neil Gong traces the divide between the haves and have nots by looking to mental health treatment, a key factor in what kind of life a person can live. As Gong shows, the mental health options available to the wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago 2024
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Summary: This title guides readers through the challenges of school life, offering helpful advice on how to be successful both inside and outside the classroom. Features include an ask the expert section, tips on being healthy, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 0000
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Summary: "A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or "the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015