Bags, Boxes, Buttons, and Beyond with the Bag Ladies

The Bag Ladies are back with more creative ideas to motivate your students. Full of hands-on activities for social studies and science--or any other part of your curriculum--this valuable resource will help you organize whatever theme you are working on into a fun and functional activity package. Bags, Boxes, Buttons, and Beyond is full of good ideas and is easily incorporated into any level curriculum. Comes complete with blackline masters, stories, and solutions to daily questions in the classroom about management, time, and budgets. A great guide for teachers everywhere!

An educator in Palm Beach County for 18 years, Cindy Guinn has taught all elementary grades, as well as serving as primary resource specialist for three years. Cindy has been nominated for the Dwyer Award for Excellence in Education, the Florida League of Teachers in 1999, and was recently nominated and featured as the Palm Beach Post's "Teacher of the Week." Cindy and Karen Simmons started the Bag Ladies in 1993. Both believe in the value of keeping teachers excited and full of creative ideas. Since then, they have created 13 thematic units and presented make-n-take manipulative workshops in schools and at conferences in Florida. Their easy and inexpensive make-n-takes give teachers inexpensive and fun tools to create integrated thematic units.