The Sea of Learning

The Sea of Learning

Author: Steven B. Miles

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13:

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Founded in the 1820s, the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) was a premier academy of its time. Miles examines the discourse that portrayed it as having radically altered Guangzhou literati culture. He argues that the academy's location embedded it in social settings that determined who used its resources and who celebrated its successes and values.


S.O.S. Songs of the Sea

S.O.S. Songs of the Sea

Author: Lynn Kleiner

Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780739051368

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S.O.S. Songs of the Sea is the perfect mix of music, creativity, and fun for music teachers, classroom teachers, child care providers and kids! Students will enjoy learning about the sea and its creatures through the engaging songs and activities. Classroom curriculum, music, crafts, and snacks are integrated, overlapped and joined to immerse students in a joyful, creative learning experience.


The Sea Book

The Sea Book

Author: Charlotte Milner

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 0241396018

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Featuring fascinating fishy facts accompanied by bright, bold, and beautiful illustrations, this book takes children on a journey through the sea and all its zones. Touching on mammals, fish, invertebrates, and reptiles, The Sea Book explores a wealth of incredible marine animals and their habitats, from up on the ice, down to colourful coral reefs, underwater forests, and right down to the deepest darkest depths where the weird and wonderful lurk. Following on from The Bee Book, Charlotte Milner continues to highlight to children important ecological issues faced by our planet, this time with a focus on marine life and the damaging effects humans are having on our seas. Children will discover what they can do to help, and there are tips on how to live plastic-free. Children will even get to craft their own recycled shopping bag! This charming celebration of the sea shows children just how extraordinary our oceans are, and is a reminder that it is up to us to keep it that way.


Colors Under the Sea

Colors Under the Sea

Author:

Publisher: Palm Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781607277002

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Children will swim with joy as they discover the rainbow of colors under the sea. Creatures of all sizes and colors entertain and educate the youngest of readers. This colorful board book with chunky die-cut tabs makes page turning easy. Rhyming text and colorful illustrations will engage children over and over again.


A Sea of Faces

A Sea of Faces

Author: Donald H. Graves

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325009902

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For years Don Graves' wisdom has helped create meaningful connections between teachers, students, and curriculum and brought a more humane approach to teaching and learning. In A Sea of Faces Don returns to the theme of knowing your students. With an extraordinary, personal vision, and his warm, hopeful touch, Graves offers reflections on the vital importance of knowing each child as a unique individual and important insights on how to do it. A Sea of Faces is both an idea book and a meditation on children and learning. Filled with Don's wisdom, wit, and one-of-a-kind storytelling, it describes how to create new opportunities to understand your students better. Don includes exercises that will sharpen your ability to observe children and get to know them as individuals-not just students-as well as seventy delightful poems, written by Don himself, that model the writing of poetry as a new and powerful way to express what you know about the kids in your classroom. If the first day of school feels like an overwhelming blur of youngsters, trust Don Graves and read A Sea of Faces. You'll find out that all those new faces are an opportunity to renew your teaching, and that you can connect with your students in more meaningful ways than ever before.


The Sea Knows

The Sea Knows

Author: Alice B. McGinty

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1534438238

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Dive in and explore the wonders of the ocean and its inhabitants in this lyrical, fact-filled ode to the sea! This beautifully illustrated picture book features extensive nonfiction backmatter for further exploration. We are young. The sea is old. The sea has secrets to unfold. The sea knows. In this playful, rhyming celebration of the marine world, readers can explore all of the wondrous things the sea knows. It knows huge whales and small krill; it knows short crabs and tall giant kelp; it knows brightly colored starfish in shallow pools; and in the inky depths it knows the alluring jewel of an anglerfish’s glowing lure. Discover all of the strange and magnificent underwater creatures in this accessible tribute to the power and mystery of the ocean.


Learning How to Learn

Learning How to Learn

Author: Barbara Oakley, PhD

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 052550446X

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A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying. We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first--the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power. This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box Why having a poor memory can be a good thing The value of metaphors in developing understanding A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating Filled with illustrations, application questions, and exercises, this book makes learning easy and fun.


Learning about Seashells

Learning about Seashells

Author: Sy Barlowe

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 0486838447

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Twelve accurately rendered sticker illustrations depict the mussel, scallop, razor clam, quahog, queen conch, and seven other shells. Easy-to-read descriptions are accompanied by numbered spaces for applying the matching sticker.


Tree in the Trail

Tree in the Trail

Author: Holling Clancy Holling

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1942

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780395545348

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The story of a cottonwood tree growing on the Great Plains, and its contributions to the history of the Southwest.