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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
by Dusti BowlingAven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. <p><p> Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms.
Inspire Science: Be a Scientist Notebook (Grade 5 Student Journal)
by McGraw-Hill EducationNIMAC-sourced textbook
Inspire Science, Grade 5, Be a Scientist Notebook, Student Journal
by McGraw-Hill EducationNIMAC-sourced textbook
Inspire Science, Grade 5, Science Handbook, Student Research Tool
by McGraw-Hill EducationNIMAC-sourced textbook
Inspire Science, Science Handbook, Grades 4, 5
by Hackett Mcgraw-Hill EducationInspire Science 2. 0 science handbook is an easy-to-use research and reference tool covering all core science topics which teaches students research and cross-referencing skills.
Inspire Science Unit 1: Investigate Matter
by McGraw-Hill EducationNIMAC-sourced textbook <p>Grade 5
Inspiring Insects (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Noelle ChildNIMAC-sourced textbook. Nature's Tiny Marvels. The technology of the future is coming as scientists and engineers get new ideas from nature's tiniest technological marvels: bugs!
The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty
by Richelle PutnamIn this colorful biography, explore the early years of the iconic Mississippi writer who came of age in the American South.Eudora Alice Welty led an exciting and surprising life. Before she won a Pulitzer Prize, as a little girl she made her own books and won national poetry prizes. As a young woman during the Great Depression, she was a photographer and took pictures all over the South. These and other stories pack the life of one of Mississippi’s most famous authors. With author and teacher Richelle Putnam, learn about the remarkable life of one of Mississippi’s literary treasures, complete with vivid illustrations by John Aycock that are as colorful as Eudora’s stories.
Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories
by Megan Whalen TurnerA leprechaun is sighted in small–town New Hampshire. A city boy becomes a hero in prehistoric Sweden. An elf prince tries to reward a girl who wishes he'd just leave her alone. In these and other delightful stories, magical adventure appears in the most unexpected places! Instead of Three Wishes is a captivating collection of witty and sparkling fantasy stories from the Newbery Honor author of The Thief. Ages 10+
Integrating The Arts Across The Content Areas
by Lisa Donovan Louise PascaleBring the arts back into the classroom with arts-based activities and strategies to use in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this resource helps teachers to gain a better understanding of why and how to use the arts to reach and engage students. Developed to help motivate disengaged students, this professional resource provides activities, concrete examples, and stories from teachers already implementing art-based curriculum. The strategies are presented in categories that include: dramatic movement, storytelling, poetry, music/rhythm, and visual arts. This resource supports College and Career Readiness Standards.
Intensifying Mathematics Interventions for Struggling Students (The Guilford Series on Intensive Instruction)
by Diane Pedrotty BryantThis key resource for K–12 educators offers a systematic guide to delivering Tier 2 and 3 math interventions within a multi-tiered system of support. The volume explains critical math areas in which many students have difficulty--early numeracy, time and money measurement, number combinations, fractions, word-problem solving, algebra, and more. Leading experts describe relevant standards and show how to use data-based individualization to plan, monitor, and intensify instruction in each area. Beginning with bulleted guiding questions, chapters feature a wealth of evidence-based intervention strategies, lesson-planning ideas, and case examples. Reproducible instructional activities and planning forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions
by Elham Kazemi Allison HintzMath teachers know the first step to meaningful mathematics discussions is to ask students to share how they solved a problem and make their thinking visible; however, knowing where to go next can be a daunting task. In Intentional Talk: How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions , authors Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz provide teachers with a framework for planning and facilitating purposeful math talks that move group discussions to the next level while achieving a mathematical goal.Through detailed vignettes from both primary and upper elementary classrooms, the authors provide a window into how teachers lead discussions and make important pedagogical decisions along the way. By creating equitable opportunities to share ideas, teachers can orient students to one another while enforcing that all students are sense makers and their ideas are valued. They examine students' roles as both listeners and talkers, offering numerous strategies for improving student participation.Intentional Talk includes a collection of lesson planning templates in the appendix to help teachers apply the right structure to discussions in their own classrooms.
Interactive Science 2016, Student Edition, Grade 5
by Scott ForesmanThe ©2016 update of Interactive Science focuses on an implementation of Problem-Based Learning, STEM, Performance Expectation activities, and support for new standards while transitioning to a brand-new digital platform, Realize.
Interactive Science [Grade 5]
by Don Buckley Zipporah Miller Michael J. PadillaNIMAC-sourced textbook
Interactive Science [Grade 5] (South Carolina)
by Don Buckley Zipporah Miller Michael J. PadillaNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Interdimensional Fish Sticks #4 (Locker 37 #4)
by Aaron StarmerHidden away at Hopewell Elementary School is a magical locker that always delivers a solution to your problems--just not quite in the way you might expect. This highly illustrated series is a fun and accessible read, perfect for reluctant readers looking for a little magic!In the fourth book in the Locker 37 series, it's Halloween at Hopewell Elementary, but when fourth-grader Bryce Dodd shows up in a costume, he's told it's too distracting. All Bryce wants to do is express himself (and maybe also to impress Keisha James...), and luckily, the magical Locker 37 has a solution to Bryce's costume conundrum - interdimensional fish sticks! Each time he eats one, he's transported to a different parallel universe, and each time he travels to a new one, things get weird, weirder, to off-the-walls weird. Will Bryce be able to make it back to his home dimension and Keisha, or will he be stuck in an alternate universe forever?
Interference
by Lorna Schultz NicholsonJosh has finally made it to an elite hockey team and is determined to play as well as his older brother, Matt. But Josh is so tired and sluggish at practice -- and so thirsty and hungry all the time -- he worries he'll be cut from the team. Little does everyone know, Josh's undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes is working against him -- and getting more serious by the day. Interference is a compelling novel about a determined young athlete struggling with many new challenges.
Intergalactic! 150 Cosmic Jokes About Space!
by Martin ChattertonWhat do you do if you see a space man? Park in it, dude, and don't forget to put money in the meteor! Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, here is an out-of-this-world collection of more than 150 jokes. With funny black-and-white illustrations on every page and a price point that's right for every pocketbook, this hilarious collection is sure to send young jokesters right over the moon.
Intern to a Monster (Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading)
by Jackie Parker Eoin CoveneyNIMAC-sourced textbook. A DREAM IN DANGER. Rudi's job as junior intern on a movie set is his first step toward the life of his dreams—being a screenwriter himself. But the star of the movie is threatening to stop Rudi's career dead in its tracks—before it even gets started.
The International House of Dereliction
by Jacqueline DaviesIn this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door—only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own? <p><p>Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time.She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you’re a whiz at fixing things? <p><p>But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can’t take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated and condemned, beckons Alice; it's the perfect new repair job! <p><p>As Alice begins to restore the House to its former splendor, she senses strange presences. Is there a heartbeat coming from the House’s walls? Is someone looking at her? Soon she realizes she’s not alone. Three ghosts have been watching, and they need Alice’s help to solve their unfinished business.Will Alice be able to unravel the mysteries of the House and find her forever home . . . before it’s too late?