Develop your students' imaginations through a series of guided activities in which they imagine different events or things. Scamper is a creative thinking technique that helps students imagine the world in a completely new way. Students are challenged to think creatively to develop their power of imagination. New combined issue of previous Scamper and Scamper On. Grades 2-8
Scamper On allows your students to develop their imaginations through a series of guided activities in which they imagine different events of things. Whether they think up animals like ele-cam-phant by combining characteristics of the two or try to imagine the perfect meal, students are challenged to think creatively to develop their power of imagination. Each activity includes a description for the teacher as well as a complete text for the activity. Teachers are led through the imagination exercise step-by-step with cues on when to wait, how to modify the activity for more or less participation, and how to extend the activity. Each of the imagination activities is designed to fit easily within class time and has been tested by an experienced educator. Ideal for helping students develop imagination for writing classes, the activities are also useful for any class where students must think creatively. By allowing students the freedom to explore their imaginations, they are able to better develop their creativity skills. Book jacket.
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO license. This book comprehensively covers topics in knowledge management and competence in strategy development, management techniques, collaboration mechanisms, knowledge sharing and learning, as well as knowledge capture and storage. Presented in accessible “chunks,” it includes more than 120 topics that are essential to high-performance organizations. The extensive use of quotes by respected experts juxtaposed with relevant research to counterpoint or lend weight to key concepts; “cheat sheets” that simplify access and reference to individual articles; as well as the grouping of many of these topics under recurrent themes make this book unique. In addition, it provides scalable tried-and-tested tools, method and approaches for improved organizational effectiveness. The research included is particularly useful to knowledge workers engaged in executive leadership; research, analysis and advice; and corporate management and administration. It is a valuable resource for those working in the public, private and third sectors, both in industrialized and developing countries.
Inspires you how to develop an innovative mindset, start innovation in practice, ideate new ideas, create a culture for innovation and how to implement innovation projects.
Molly and her sister hope that their horse Scamper's costume will win a blue ribbon in the horse show, but some unexpected rainfall changes the situation. Includes information on horse shows.
"This book's illustrations and story follow an inquisitive little mouse as she conducts experiments to figure out what's really happening in the garden. Intended to introduce the steps of the scientific method in an entertaining way to students in preschool through the third grade"--
“Not many people noticed the bloodstain... it was as if time had forgotten the heinous murder.” Scamper’s Find tells the story of a four-year old, unsolved crime that has baffled law enforcement agencies in the USA for years. Suddenly, the mystery picks up momentum when an inquisitive dog and a stumbling cyclist start a peculiar chain of events across the Atlantic, in Scotland... Could the two events be connected? Following on from Terry’s first novel, Call Mama, readers are reconnected with characters as detectives Tony Harvey and Carole Carr join forces with overseas detectives in an attempt to bring an end to a perplexing and heart wrenching atrocity. Readers travel with Tony and Carole in an attempt to investigate an unusual crime which seems impossible to solve. How will things change when life-long friendships are formed and the investigation turns into something different? Will the entrance of Brody Cameron, a forensic scientist, bring new light to the investigation? Will you work out what links a Scottish crime scene to a beach bar in Rio? This book will appeal to fans of adult, thriller fiction who enjoy fast paced plots with twists on every page.