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Kanoodle [puzzle] : a caboodle of brain-easing puzzles! by Educational Insights,publisher.;
Contents: 12 puzzle pieces, 48-page puzzle book, and carrying case. "Can you Kanoodle? Using combinations of colored connected beads, players complete colorful puzzles in two unique formats: tricky 2D puzzles and twisted 3D pyramids. To start, pick a design from the puzzle book, place some of the puzzle pieces into position as shown...then fill the empty spaces with the remaining pieces. Sounds simple? It can be...or it can be deviously difficult, depending on the level of game play. Hundreds of possible combinations, but only one completes the puzzle. Puzzle pieces fit inside the handy pocket-sized case with built-in game boards, so you can Kanoodle anywhere." --Ages 7+
Subjects: Puzzles and games.; Games for one.; Problem-based learning.; Puzzles;
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Team challenges : group activities to build cooperation, communication, and creativity / by Bordessa, Krisauthor.(DLC)n 2005036151;
Subjects: Problem-based learning.; Group problem solving.; Critical thinking; Cooperation.;
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Team challenges : 170+ group activities to build cooperation, communication, and creativity / by Bordessa, Kris.(CARDINAL)472838;
Subjects: Problem-based learning.; Group problem solving.; Critical thinking.; Cooperation.;
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Awesome math : teaching mathematics with problem-based learning / by Andreescu, Titu,1956-author.; Cordeiro, Kathy,1968-author.; Andreescu, Alina,1972-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Awesome Math builds on the popular growth mindset by focusing on team-based problem solving. Applying a problem-solving approach to the education process develops the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively. This book will help teachers and educators form lifelong communities for their students that will expose them to the collaborators they can network with in the future. Students need to move beyond the calculus trap and study the areas of mathematics most of them will need in the modern world and problem solving is an efficient vehicle to get them where they need to go. The book will cover: curiosity; critical thinking, and creativity; getting into the mathemize mindset; coaching mathletes and thinkers; math as a team sport; developing a community through problem solving; creating lesson plans; identifying and developing resources"--Why problem solving? Rewards for problem-based approach : range, rigor, and resilience -- Maximize learning : relevance, authenticity, and usefulness -- Creating a math learning environment -- What is the telos? -- Gains and pains with a problem-based curriculum -- Teaching problem solving. Five steps to problem-based learning -- The three C's : competitions, collaboration, community -- Mini-units -- Full units. Angles and triangles -- Consecutive numbers -- Factorials! -- Triangular numbers -- Polygonal numbers -- Pythagorean theorem revisited -- Sequences -- Pigeonhole principle -- Viviani's theorems -- Dissection time -- Pascal's triangle -- Nice numbers.
Subjects: Mathematics; Problem-based learning.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Distracted : why students can't focus and what you can do about it / by Lang, James M.,author.(CARDINAL)674525;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.Introduction: From distraction to attention -- Theories of distraction. A brief history of distraction ; Distracted in the classroom ; The tech ban debate -- Practices of attention. Communities of attention ; Curious attention ; Structured attention ; Signature attention activities ; Assessed attention ; Mindful attention -- Conclusion: The classroom as attention retreat."A decade ago, James Lang banned cell phones in his classroom. Frustrated by how easily they could sidetrack his students, Lang sought out a distraction-free environment, hoping it would help his students pay attention to his lessons. But after just a few years, Lang gave in. Not only was his no-cellphones policy ineffective (even his best students ignored it), he realized that he, like many of his fellow teachers, was missing an important point. The problem isn't phones. It's our antiquated notions of the brain. In Distracted, Lang makes the case for a new way of thinking about how to teach young minds based on the emerging neuroscience of attention. Although we have long prized the ability to focus, the most natural way of thinking is distraction. Our brains are designed to continually scan our environment, looking for new information, occasionally wandering off in different directions in search of new insights. This is not to say that iPhones are not good at distracting us, but that what they represent is in principle nothing new, because sustained periods of intense focus are not what humans are good at. Of course, we still do need to pay attention to learn. The problem is that we think of learning as a matter of managing distraction, when we should instead think of it as actively cultivating attention. This starts with letting go of technology bans, which are little more than a fig leaf applied to the objective difficulty of paying attention. But it involves more active ways of rethinking classroom conventions too. For example, rather than structuring lessons as 45 or 60-minute blocks of lecturing, teachers could segment their classes into a series of smaller lessons, with regular shifts in focus, appealing to the brain's interest in novelty. Simple changes can drastically improve students' performance, and in Distracted, Lang takes readers on a sprawling tour of how some of America's best teachers are improving student performance using concepts such as modular classrooms, flow states, and student-directed learning. Together, these insights offer a new way of thinking about how to not only more effectively teach a lesson plan, but to teach students the most important lesson of all: how to learn"--A decade ago Lang banned cell phones in his classroom, frustrated by how easily they could sidetrack his students. After just a few years, Lang gave in. Not only was his no-cellphones policy ineffective, he realized that like many of his fellow teachers he was missing an important point: The problem isn't phones. It's our antiquated notions of the brain. Here Lang makes the case for a new way of thinking about how to teach young minds based on the emerging neuroscience of attention. What iPhones represent is in principle nothing new, because sustained periods of intense focus are not what humans are good at. We should instead think of it as actively cultivating attention, and find active ways of rethinking classroom conventions that will teach students how to learn. -- adapted from publisher info
Subjects: Motivation in education.; Attention in adolescence.; Interest (Psychology); Effective teaching.; Classroom environment.; Active learning.; Problem-based learning.; Student participation in curriculum planning.; Cognitive neuroscience.;
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Learn to code by solving problems : a Python-based introduction / by Zingaro, Daniel,author.;
Introduction -- getting started -- making decisions -- reapeating code: definite loops -- repeating code: indefinite loops -- organizing values using lists -- designing programs with functions -- reading and writing files -- organizing values using sets and dictionaries -- designing algorithms with complete search -- bog O and program efficiency -- afterword."Teaches readers how to use Python to solve short, situational competitive programming problems. Each chapter requires the reader to learn a new feature or function of Python in order to solve a problem, while emphasizing basic programming concepts, problem-solving strategies, and critical thinking skills"--
Subjects: Computer programming.; Python (Computer program language);
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The docent handbook / by National Docent Symposium Council.;
Includes bibliographical references.Foundations -- Points of departure -- On language or what's in a word? -- Learning styles -- Know your audience -- On seeing or learning from objects -- Asking questions: observation-based touring -- Act it out! Hands on! -- Sensitive issues -- Dealing with problems and attitudes -- Looking back and facing the future.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Museums; Tour guides (Persons); Museum docents;
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On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Jack Reacher : never go back : [videorecording] / by Zwick, Edward,film director.; Cruise, Tom,1962-actor.; Smulders, Cobie,1982-actor.; Knepper, Robert,1959-actor.; Yarosh, Danika,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Child, Lee.Never go back.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Robert Knepper, Danika Yarosh, Aldis Hodge.Based on Lee Child's bestselling novel Never Go Back, finds the itinerant problem-solver accused of murder, and learning that he may have a child he has never met.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sequences of violence and action, some bloody images, language and thematic elements.Blu-ray, widescreen; Dolby Atmos; Dolby digital 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Blu-ray discs.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character); Military police; Murder; Retired military personnel;
© [2017]., Paramount Home Entertainment,
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Jack Reacher. [videorecording] / by Zwick, Edward,screenwriter,film director.(CARDINAL)360192; Cruise, Tom,1962-film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)346676; Granger, Don(Producer),film producer.; McQuarrie, Christopher,film producer.(CARDINAL)641242; Wenk, Richard,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)362226; Herskovitz, Marshall,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)847795; Smulders, Cobie,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)787707; Hodge, Aldis,actor.(CARDINAL)787484; Yarosh, Danika,1998-actor.(CARDINAL)793869; Heusinger, Patrick,actor.(CARDINAL)848995; McCallany, Holt,actor.(CARDINAL)848859; Knepper, Robert,1959-actor.(CARDINAL)849034; Jackman, Henry(Henry Pryce),composer.(CARDINAL)787742; Weber, Billy,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)848432; Wood, Oliver(Cinematographer),cinematographer.(CARDINAL)849937; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Child, Lee.Never go back.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)287167; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)141482; Skydance Productions,presenter.(CARDINAL)527556;
Music, Henry Jackman ; editor, Billy Weber ; director of photography, Oliver Wood.Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper.Based on Lee Child's bestselling novel, "Never Go Back" finds the itinerant problem-solver accused of murder, and learning that he may have a child he has never met.Rating: PG-13; for sequences of violence and action, some bloody images, language and thematic elements.DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen, Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Film adaptations.; Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character); Military police; Murder; Retired military personnel;
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Jack Reacher. [videorecording] / by Cruise, Tom,1962-film producer,actor.(CARDINAL)346676; Granger, Don(Producer),film producer.; Herskovitz, Marshall,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)847795; Heusinger, Patrick,actor.(CARDINAL)848995; Hodge, Aldis,actor.(CARDINAL)787484; Jackman, Henry(Henry Pryce),composer (expression)(CARDINAL)787742; Knepper, Robert,1959-actor.(CARDINAL)849034; McCallany, Holt,actor.(CARDINAL)848859; McQuarrie, Christopher,film producer.(CARDINAL)641242; Smulders, Cobie,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)787707; Weber, Billy,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)848432; Wenk, Richard,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)362226; Wood, Oliver(Cinematographer),director of photography.(CARDINAL)849937; Yarosh, Danika,actor.; Zwick, Edward,screenwriter,film director.(CARDINAL)360192; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Child, Lee.Never go back.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)287167; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)141482; Skydance Productions,presenter.(CARDINAL)527556;
Music, Henry Jackman ; editor, Billy Weber ; director of photography, Oliver Wood.Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Knepper.Based on Lee Child's bestselling novel Never Go Back, finds the itinerant problem-solver accused of murder, and learning that he may have a child he has never met.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sequences of violence and action, some bloody images, language and thematic elementsBlu-ray, 1080p high definition widescreen; Dolby Atmos (English); Dolby digital 5.1 (French, Portuguese, Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Blu-ray discs.; Blu-ray discs; Blu-ray discs; Action and adventure films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character); Military police; Murder; Retired military personnel; Asesinato; Policía; Reacher, Jack (Personaje literario);
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