In celebration of the centennial of Roger Tory Peterson’s birth comes a historic collaboration among renowned birding experts and artists to preserve and enhance the Peterson legacy. This book is invaluable for birders, and is easy to use for everyone, from experience birder to amateur. The guide provides pictures of several members of the same family of birds, showing the juvenile, adult and female variety. Many young students will be captivated and perhaps pursue birding as a lifelong hobby as a result of this book.

Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars. These editions include updated material by Michael O'Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon.

This new book combines the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds and Peterson Field Guide to Western Birds into one volume, filled with accessible, concise information and including almost three hours of video podcasts to make bird watching even easier.

Hawks are probably the most popular and interesting birds among bird watchers. Because hawks are notoriously difficult to identify using the traditional field-mark methods, Hawks in Flight will have a special place for amateur and expert alike. It shows how to recognize hawks the way we often recognize our friends at a distance: byk their general body shape, the way they move, and the places they are most likely to be seen. The clear, lively text brings to life each species' distinctive characteristics, and their visual essence. The drawings are elegant and the photographs are well done. Hawks in Flight covers the twenty-three most common diurnal raptors of North America, including butcos, accipiters, falcons, kites, eagles, vultures, and the osprey and harrier.

PETE DUNNE is the author of nine books, including Pete Dunne on Bird Watching, Hawks in Flight, and The Wind Masters. He is the vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and the director of its Cape May Bird Observatory and has written columns and articles for virtually every birding magazine as well as the New York Times. David Allen Sibley, 1961 - David Allen Sibley son of the well-known ornithologist Fred Sibley, began seriously watching and drawing birds in 1969, at age seven. He has written and illustrated articles on bird identification for Birding and American Birds, which is now Field Notes, as well as regional publications and books. Since 1980, David has traveled the continent watching birds on his own and as a tour leader for WINGS, Inc. He is best known for his birding guides. Clay Sutton has years of experience as a professional naturalist and teacher. He lives in Cape May, New Jersey.

This excellent book is suitable for students and teachers and offers a complete and up-to-date guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. It should be in every classroom where American History is taught; elementary, middle school, and high school. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, broken down into short, easy to understand chapters, complete with tables, charts, and nearly 150 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through the final surrender.

Coverage includes the opening of war, battles and campaigns, the common soldier, technology, weapons, women, African American and Native American participation, hospitals, prisons, the naval war, artillery, and much more. In addition to these important areas, Hughes includes dozens of quotations, battle losses, strengths, a breakdown of troops furnished by state, engagements by state and territory, major causes of death, a complete glossary, and an extensive list of Civil War sites around the country, including contact and website information. Hughes completes his work with a helpful chapter detailing the Civil War on the Internet, including some of the most comprehensive and popular blog and web sites.

Experienced Civil War buffs will find The New Civil War Handbook an invaluable quick reference guide, and one that makes an excellent gift for introducing the Civil War to novices of any age. Teachers will find it especially helpful for motivating and educating students about the importance of the seminal event in our nation’s history.

A skillfully woven tapestry, rich in gripping detail and with vivid descriptions of the greatest of all of the Civil War battles. Gettysburg was a momentous three-day battle that became the turning point of the war. Sears tells the whole story of the campaign, the big picture, the generals, the individual battles, the daily lives ot the soldiers, in a single volume. From the first gleam in Lee’s eye to the last Rebel hightailing it back across the Potomac, every moment of the battle is brought to life with the vivid narrative skill and impeccable scholarship that has made Stephen Sears’s other histories so successful. Based on years of research, this is the first book in a generation that brings everything together, sorts it all out, makes informed judgments, and takes stands. Even the most knowledgeable of Civil War buffs will find fascinating new material and new interpretations, and Sears’s famously accessible style will make the book just as appealing to the general reader. It is replete with 544 pages and 67 black and white illustrations. This is the one book on Gettysburg that should be available to all middle school and secondary students and to teachers of American history.

Globalization, technological advances, and demographic shifts have changed our economy. It is imperative that we understand the fundamental shifts in an economic situation so new that we can barely comprehend it, and yet we must devise new ways of educating our high school students to succeed in this new economy. In the twenty-?rst century, our high schools are increasingly challenged to provide young people with new skills that are different from those around which we have organized our educational system in the past.

The Handbook for Teaching Secondary School Social Studies is a guide, a tool, and a reference for pre-service and in-service teachers, clarifying the most effective ways to teach social studies in secondary school classrooms. Its intention is to help teachers become creative practitioners who can motivate students, create stimulating learning environments, and bring the core disciplines of social studies to life. Its goal, in effect, is to help teachers make social scientists of their students. The information contained in this book will enable teachers to become the catalyst for students’ transformation into cognizant, con?dent citizens capable of making a difference in our world.

The handbook is brief and manageable, yet it provides pre-service and in-service teachers with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of research-based pedagogy, planning skills, standards-based instructional delivery approaches, and grade-level expectations for the core disciplines of the social studies.

New and Comprehensive! Covers wide-ranging topics that are included on the PRAXIS tests for elementary teacher certification. Pre-service and in-service teachers will find that social studies can be an enjoyable experience -- both for the students and for the teacher -- when the program weaves a rich tapestry of content, attitudes, skills, and perspectives, providing children with a holistic journey through learning and encouraging their curiosity and involvement. This multi-faceted volume does just that. It compiles well-researched, essential information on social studies education for the elementary and middle-school teacher. The author uses the standards recommended by the National Council for the Social Studies as a foundation, thoroughly discussing the core disciplines and thematic strands of social studies. The book is packed with useful information on an all-encompassing range of teaching methods and tools, including lesson planning, skills development, assessment, multiple intelligences, determining one's personal philosophy of education, and utilizing information technology.

Topical issues such as media ethics and influence, multicultural education, globalization, interdisciplinary studies, cooperative/collaborative learning and teaching, special education, and effective utilization of children's literature are featured. Special emphasis is given to information technology, from the basics of the Internet to an impressive collection of Web sites offering comprehensive resources and assistance on an abundance of social studies-related topics.

This is the first English translation of the earliest biblical documents ever discovered. Translated by three of the world's foremost Dead Sea Scroll's scholars (Martin Abegg, Jr., Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich), this is a fascinating and meticulously annotated collection of the world's most precious biblical manuscripts. These ancient biblical manuscripts contain a wealth of detail now presented in a way that is as accessible to the nonspecialist as to the specialist. This excellently conceived translation will especially becon to students, teachers, and professors as well as to pastors and ministers. Coming from the dramatic find in the caves of Qumran, the manuscripts from which The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible was produced are a thousand years older than any existing manuscripts. This magnificent work makes all of the biblical Qumran scrolls accessible, for the first time, in a user-friendly format. The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible presents all 220 of the Dead Sea biblical scrolls, arranged to be read in canonical order. An immensely useful work that will fascinate scholars and students alike.

For the many teachers who are now pursuing National Board Certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS ), here is a comprehensive blueprint for candidates. A result of the authors' 5+ years of experience in working with NBPTS candidates, the book includes a detailed outline of a seminar to introduce teachers to the NBPTS process, complete with written samples and reporducible overhead transparency masters. Additional chapters, contributed by National Board Certified teachers, share portfolio samples and activities in four certification areas. Also, the book includes helpful hints for facilitators as well as an extensive reference list. The book provides a rich resource from teachers who have, themselves, successfully navigated the certification process and contributes significantly as a professional development tool.

Teaches lesson planning, unit construction, selecting thematic topics, themeweb planning form, differentiating between goals and objectives, vital topics, grouping strategies, modalities of learning, questioning strategies, Bloom's Taxonomy, key words in questioning.

This resource volume for elementary school teachers features over one hundred mathematics-related activities that can be adapted for many grade levels by increasing or decreasing the complexity of the activity. Each activity is presented in lesson-plan format, using a modified version of the Madeline Hunter model. Using inexpensive materials that are readily available to the instructor, these exercises provide creative, hands-on learning experiences developed to enrich pupils' mathematical knowledge and understanding.

Also included is a hefty annotated bibliography of children's books helpful in teaching mathematics, as well as internet resources for teaching mathematics, and The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics National Standards for Teaching Mathematics. 300+ pages, $18.95.

Helps teachers understand, plan, and implement the research-based principles of integrated instruction in the elementary classroom. Grounded in the developmental theory of Piaget and Vygotsky, it connects learning theory and age-appropriate instruction to curriculum development. An effective balance of state-of-the-art theory and practice, the text offers clear explanations and numerous examples of important concepts and integrated teaching strategies.