{"product_id":"brain-games-isbn-9780876281253","title":"Brain Games!","description":"Provides over 170 exciting, ready-to-use activities to spark critical \u0026amp; creative thinking in all students, grades 6-12! BRAIN GAMES! is an innovative resource that helps you quickly and easily turn virtually any spare moment into prime learning time for your students!  About this Resource.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION ONE: LISTENING AND REMEMBERING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Teacher Directions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 1-18.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"Stand and Deliver,\" \"Does It Look the Same?\" \"Listen and Make the Changes,\" \"Methods to Improve Your Memory,\" \"Remembering the Order of People, Places, and Things,\" \"Please Explain It to Me\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION TWO: ACROSS THE CURRICULUM.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Teacher Directions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 19-51.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"The Who, the What, the Where,\" \"What the Quote Means to Me,\" \"Social Studies Guess Who I Am Game,\" \"The Words (in Letters) of Famous Americans,\" \"Potpourri Guess Me in Three Clues Game,\" \"Faded Science Headlines\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION THREE: LANGUAGE AND WRITING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 52-85.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"When the Action Fits the Mood,\" \"How a Deed Becomes a Star,\" \"Let's Eliminate War and Hate,\" \"A Page of Tom Swifties,\" \"Ted's Ripped Shopping List,\" \"Reconstruct a Story Contest,\" \"The Right Write Thing To Too Two Do Due Dew\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION FOUR: LOGIC AND REASONING.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 86-104.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"The Art of Organizing,\" \"A Source of Analogies,\" \"Mysterious Sequences,\" \"Serious About Series,\" \"The Scrambled-Up Trios,\" \"Mets, Jets, Nets, and Other Sports Sets,\" \"Know Us by Our Slogans\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION FIVE: MATH.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 105-125.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"The Big Leagues' Spring Training League,\" \"The Percentages Are with You,\" \"A Taxing Situation,\" \"A Capital Experience,\" \"It's Stopwatch Time!\" \"Math and the Movies,\" \"Figuring Out the Ages and Numbers\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION SIX: THE WORLD AROUND YOU.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 126-153.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"Lights! Camera! Action!\" \"The World of Work,\" \"All Roads Lead to Some Confusion,\" \"Being Sensitive to Your Surroundings,\" \"I Wish I Could Have Been There,\" \"Connie's Confusing Calendar,\" \"The Seven Necessary Occupations\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e SECTION SEVEN: ME.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Activities 154-171.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Examples: \"The Me Page,\" \"Your Personal Wish List,\" \"Looking at Literature,\" \"In Touch with Your Emotions,\" \"Parents,\" \"A Page of Open-Ended Questions,\" \"Where You Live,\" \"A Change in Your Life,\" \"Arguing Your Case,\" \"Looking Ahead\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ANSWER KEY. Jack Umstatter, master English teach with over 25 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the Year Award. He is the author of Brain Games! Hooked on English! And other practical teachers resources published by The Center. He lives in Islip, NY.  Here's a unique collection of over 170 reproducible exercises to fill your extra classroom minutes with challenging and practical exercises that stimulate your students to think and reason more intelligently and critically!\u003cbr\u003e Better yet, the exercises are fun, can be used at any time for a variety of instructional purposes, and are perfect for large and small groups as well as independent work.  \u003cp\u003eFor your convenience, all of the Brain Games! activities are individually printed in a large spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying and are organized into seven sections covering a wide range of topics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eListening and remembering : 18 activities to give students practice in following directions, memorizing, and listening more effectively, for example, \"Stand and Deliver\" and \"Accidents Happen!\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcross the curriculum: A collection of 33 exciting exercises in a variety of content areas, including titles such as \"Time Marches On,\" \"A Stately Find,\" and \"Which Science?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and writing: 34 activities for building written and oral communication skills, including \"Mrs. Malaprop Has Arrived,\" in which students correct mangled proverbs (\"You are the apple of my pie\").\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic and reasoning: 20 unique thinking activities, for example, \"Mixed Up Advertisements,\" \" The Art of Organizing,\" and \"Know us by our slogans\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMath: 21 activities emphasizing fun and problem solving, such as \"Number Stumpers\" \"A taxing situation\" and \"Math and the movies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe world around you: 28 consumer and career-related activities to broaden students' experience, including exercises like \"Countries, Capitals, and Currencies\" \"The Needed Product,\" and \"Jobs...Jobs...Jobs\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMe: 18 activities to help teens better understand themselves, their values, and their interest, for example, \"If I were,\" \"Your Personal Timeline,\" and \"The Sounds and Messages of Music.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn short, \u003cb\u003eBrain Games!\u003c\/b\u003e is sure to benefit both you and your students, it gives you a ready store of stimulating activities that will build your students' knowledge and critical thinking skills as it sparks their sense of fun!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988853702885,"sku":"NP9780876281253","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780876281253.jpg?v=1761781783","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/brain-games-isbn-9780876281253","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}