The Creative Teacher, 2nd Edition

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Give your lesson plans a jolt of creativity and get better results from your students.

Winner of a Teacher's Choice Award!

To keep your students engaged in the classroom, you have to get them excited about learning. From the authors of The Organized Teacher, this award-winning resource offers hundreds of creative ideas to reenergize your lesson plans for any subject, across all grades (K-6)―from waking up the tired book report to making math fun.

Just a few of the ideas inside The Creative Teacher, Second Edition:

• "I woke up five inches tall" and other quick-start creative-writing prompts
• How-it-works science experiments with electricity, ice cream, volcanoes--even how to make flubber
• Enthusiasm-generating math tools―from clock and fraction templates to creating your own money . . . and more!

This new edition has been revised to align with the Common Core Standards and boasts a new CD-ROM with many pages of reproducible content including worksheets, project ideas, templates for journal pages, and more. From submarine sandwich book reports to graphic organizers to help incorporating writing into math curriculum, The Creative Teacher, Second Edition, has ideas and materials to add zing to your classroom plans as you incorporate the Common Core Standards.

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Steve Springer, MA, is a full-time classroom teacher in Los Angeles, CA, with a special focus on the arts throughout the subject areas and the incorporation of technology into the curriculum. He presents at bilingual conferences and new teacher conferences, and he regularly attends children's literature conferences. He has also illustrated 11 McGraw-Hill Education titles.

Brandy Alexander, MFA, is a full-time classroom teacher in Los Angeles, CA. He serves as a master teacher for student teachers, while also presenting at new teacher conferences from year to year.

Kimberly Persiani, EdD, is an associate professor of curriculum and instruction at California State University, Los Angeles. She presents at local and international conferences for bilingual education, children's literature, gender equity and moral and character education, and has written ten books for classroom teachers including The Organized Teacher, The Organized Teacher's Guide to Classroom Management and The Organized Teacher's Guide to Children's Literature.