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Highlighting English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Spanish resources in SAS Curriculum Pathways.

Students & Educators

Ralph MooreMarch 2, 2015 0

Flex Your Brain with Math Stretch

Math can be difficult for students. But learning how to use numbers in flexible ways can be the key building block to understanding. SAS Math Stretch, available for free in the App Store, designed to develop elementary math skills and number sense includes activities focused on counting, number relations and

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonFebruary 12, 2015 0

Writing Navigator: Auto-Save to the Rescue

Perhaps you’ve had this nightmare. You’ve spent hours planning and drafting an essay for an assignment that’s due the next day. All of a sudden, your computer freezes or shuts down, and you can’t save your work. All that effort, all that time—wasted. And your deadline still looms. Well, there’s

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Students & Educators

Staci LyonFebruary 11, 2015 0

Teaching Students to Love the Value of Math

Mathematics, what a beautiful subject. It requires inquisitiveness, perseverance, and critical thinking. It promotes discourse, challenges the mind, and creates problem-solvers. Unfortunately, it also scares many students and adults. Why is that? How can one subject cause so much joy and at the same time so much discomfort? As a

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Students & Educators

Scott McQuigganJanuary 22, 2015 0

Taking the Museum Experience Mobile

Visiting a museum is a great way to expand our knowledge, see things we can’t ordinarily see, and learn in an informal setting. Whether for field trips, Saturday morning tours, or special events, museums reflect the importance we place on knowledge and learning. They are valuable resources to us all. But

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Students & Educators

Tim McBrideJanuary 19, 2015 0

A Crime-Scene Cure for Reluctant Readers?

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is one of those rare books people describe as “impossible to put down” that really is (figuratively) impossible to put down. As an English teacher, I found a marked increase in student participation when I substituted Capote’s “nonfiction novel” for one of the canonical works in

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Students & Educators

Mimi StapletonJanuary 14, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Spanish

In Curriculum Pathways, elementary students and teachers will find a wealth of thematically organized resources that are age-appropriate and help students learn basic expressions, words, and phrases in context. Students explore and discover the Spanish language and culture by interacting with the resources. Our Spanish Language Videos introduce and reinforce

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Students & Educators

Molly FarrowJanuary 14, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Geography

Elementary students need an engaging tool to learn the basics, the physical and political geography of their school, their neighborhood, their town, their state, and the world. Our Interactive Atlas was designed specifically to build those skills and expand that knowledge base. From identifying basic knowledge—continents, oceans, countries, and capitals—to creating unique,

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonJanuary 12, 2015 2

Elementary Spotlight: Writing

Let me start by stating the obvious: teaching students to write well is hard. Yet teachers who have had success at the elementary level know that young writers can thrive when certain conditions and practices exist in the classroom. For instance, they know students need to be given time to

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Students & Educators

Lucy KosturkoJanuary 12, 2015 0

Elementary Spotlight: Reading

In and around 3rd grade, students make a significant transition: rather than learning to read, they begin reading to learn. That transition has classroom implications as well: instead of teaching students how to read, we instead expect them to use their (assumed) reading skills to acquire new information on their own (e.g., reading

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Students & Educators

Terry HardisonJanuary 8, 2015 0

Teaching Poetry: It's a Slam Dunk

T.S. Eliot opens his poem The Waste Land by famously calling April the “cruellest month.” But for me, January has always offered up its own special form of cruelty. The holiday celebrations have come and gone, the days have frozen and withered into darkness, and the New Year is already

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