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NEA Today, Sep 1999

When Death Impacts a School Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers provides educators with practical tips and step-by-step information on what to say and do following a death that impacts students. Includes information on developmental issues with specific classroom activities. $9.95 plus $3 s&h from the Dougy Center for Grieving Children. 503/775-5683, Fax 503/777-3097. On the Web at www.dougy.org.

Independent Learning

How can you teach your students to learn without turning your class into a study skills lab? Inspiring Independent Learning: Successful Classroom Strategies by Mary Ann Rafoth shows how to foster independent learning in K-12 classrooms. Includes questionnaires and scoring guides to help assess students' metacognitive and study skills, as well as a peer tutoring manual. $10.95 plus s&h for NEA members. Stock #2954-2-00-FF. Contact the NEA Professional Library at 800/229-4200 or on the Web at www.nea.org/books.

Sight and Sound

Awesome Experiments in Light and Sound provides kids ages eight to 12 with more than 45 experiments requiring mainly easy-to-find materials, to satisfy curiosity, enter a science fair, or just have fun. $17.95 plus $5 s&h from Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 800/367-9692.

About AIDS

Teaching AIDS is a practice-based, interactive curriculum about the risk of AIDS and HIV infection. $19.99 plus $4 s&h from Routledge. 800/634-7064, Fax 800/248-4724. Send E-mail to cserve@routledge-ny.com. On the Web at www.routledge-ny.com.

Classroom Critters

Classroom Critters and The Scientific Method contains simple, animal-- friendly studies and experiments that allow students in grades 3-8 to explore the scientific method with common classroom pets. $17.95 plus $4 s&h. Contact Fulcrum Publishing, 350 Indiana St., Suite 350, Golden. CO 80401, 800/992-2908, Fax 303/279-7111. Send E-mail to fulcrum@fulcrum-resources.com. For details on the Web. go to www.fulcrum-resources.com.

Every Minute Counts

With more Minute suggestions, Jump Starters offers K-6 teachers quick classroom activities that develop selfesteem, creativity, and cooperation. $21.95 plus $5 s&h from Free Spirit Publishing, 800/735-7323, Fax 612/337-5050. On the Web at www.freespirit.com.

Making Math Fun

From addition and subtraction to plane and space geometry,

graphing, and probability, Math Games for Middle School provides hands-on challenges and skill-building exercises for 11 to 14-year-old students. $16.95 plus $5.00 s&h from Independent Publishers Group, 800/888-4741, Fax 312/337-5985. Send E-mail to frontdesk@ipgbook.com.

Got Six Minutes?

Satisfy kid's natural curiosity with Six-Minute Nature Experiments. The 50 easy, educational experiments for seven to 10-year-old students demonstrate concepts of nature and require only basic household items. $17.95 plus $5 s&h. Contact Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 387 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016-8810, 800/3679692.

Days To Remember he Teacher's Calendar maKes it easy for teachers in grades K-8 and librarians to plan school-year calendars, create bulletin boards, and develop lesson plans using holidays, historic events, birthdays, and special anniversaries. Divided by date, the book begins with August 1, 1999 and ends with July 31, 2000. $19.95 plus $5 s&h. Contact Contemporary Books, 800-3234900, Fax 800/998-3103. Send E-mail to ntcpub@tribune.com.

Student Writing Two Decades of The ALAN Review collects the best writings by and about young adult authors and their work as determined and published by the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). $26.95 for non-NCTE members, $19.95 for NCTE members, plus $2 s&h from the National Council of Teachers of English, 877/369-6283, Fax 217/328-9645. Send E-mail to orders(ncte.org. On the

Web at www.ncte.org.

Sexual Assault

So What's It To Me?, What's The Big Deal?, and Top Secret include useful questions and answers as well as quizzes and advice on the topic of sexual assault. $4.50 each plus $2 s&h (bulk rates and school room packs available) from King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, PO. Box 300, Renton, WA 98057, 425/226-5062 ext. 215. Fax: 425/235-7422.

High School Poets

Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry With High School Students explains the necessary steps for teachers and students to read and write poetry. $15.95 ($11.95 for NCTE members) plus $2 s&h. ISBN# 0-8141-4171-4. Contact National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801-1046, 877/369-6283. Fax 217/328-0977. E-mail public_info@ncte.org. On the Web: www.ncte.org.

Bringing Art to Life

Based on the Guggenheim museum collection. Learning Through Art provides elementary students with a specially coated. reusable activity book that helps educators use art to explore basic subject areas. $19.95 Call 800/329-6109

Substance Abuse

ATOD-TV's (Alcohol. Tobacco and other Drugs) CD-ROM and Teacher's Guide provides information about substance abuse, addictions, and where to go for help. Also includes suggestions on how to incorporate the CD-ROM into middle and high school curricula. $85 includes s&h. Contact Missouri Institute of Mental Health, 5400 Arsenal, St. Louis, MO 63139, 314/ 6448803, Fax 314/644-7843.