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EUROSPAN GROUP Powerful Understanding by Adrienne Gear
In these challenging times, teaching children to think critically and reflectively AND be compassionate, responsible and caring citizens at the same time is a tall order. Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. Strategic and critical thinking strategies revolve around core anchor books that help integrate thinking into everything you teach-from social responsibility, to immigration, to life cycles. This highly readable book includes a wealth of classroom examples and extensive hands-on activities designed to help students to think more deeply, learn more widely, and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be a responsible and compassionate person. 1. Population and its effects2. Energy conservation and the first law of thermodynamics3. Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics4. Non-renewable energy5. Nuclear energy6. Renewable energy7. Energy storage8. Transportation9. Climate10. Cost, benefit, risk