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1. La médiation d’éléments de culture à l’école 

Cet ouvrage vise à soutenir les enseignantes et les enseignants dans l’intégration, de manière rigoureuse et stimulante, d’une approche culturelle à leur enseignement. Agrémenté d’activités et de guides de discussion. 

2. Powerful Ideas of Science and How to Teach Them 

There are so many cool ideas that science can explain, but science curricula never seem to mention them. Author Jasper Green will inspire you to look at science with fresh eyes and consider new ways to engage your students in the exciting world of science.  

3. Teaching Reading Across the Day, Grades K-8: Methods and Structures for Engaging, Explicit Instruction 

Literacy expert Jennifer Serravallo is back with a new book featuring nine lesson structures that focus on content. She includes many resources for teaching science, social studies and language arts in this new way. 

4. Cultivating Mathematical Hearts: Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Classrooms 

This excellent book can help you transform your students’ math experiences. The suggested activities will provoke powerful discussions for students, and the useful planning tool supports your instructional design.  

5. Fail-Safe Strategies for Science and Literacy: Classroom Activities to Engage Students in Thinking, Exploring, and Making Sense of the World 

The ready-to-use activities in this book connect science and language arts by linking literacy strategies to learning key science concepts. 

6. Le primaire en plein air 

Ce livre est un guide étape par étape pour se lancer dans l’aventure de l’éducation en plein air. On y trouve cent idées d’activités pour enseigner dans la cour de récréation, dans un parc ou dans la forêt.

7. Beginners’ Guide to Reading Schematics 

Electronics teachers will love this guide that contains useful explanations about the symbols on schematic drawings. 

8. Hacking Group Work: 11 Ways to Build Student Engagement, Accountability, and Cooperation with Collaborative Teams 

In this book, teachers will find practical ideas for making group work in the classroom work for everyone. They will learn ways to support introverts, support productive listening and effectively manage multiple groups at different levels.  

9. Picoh 

This set of two talking robot heads can be programmed in three different systems: Blockly, Scratch and Python.

Information provided by ATA librarian Sandra Anderson