Think Tank Library: Brain-Based Learning Plans for New Standards, Grades 6–12

Transform your library into a "think tank" by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards. • Provides diverse, brain-friendly, and field-tested lesson plans that feature thinking targets, texts, and standards and enhance students' deep thinking skills • Presents a school-library focus driven by inquiry process and information literacy skills • Features graphical illustrations and practical schemas that explain, illustrate, and model how brain-based learning works • Includes an extensive, research-based bibliography

Reasoning and sense making are simultaneously the purpose for learning
mathematics and the most effective means of learning it. Unless students can
reason with and make sense of the mathematics that they are learning, they are
likely to ask the age-old question, “Why do we need to learn this?” They need to
see a purpose in studying mathematics beyond the goal of preparing for the next
mathematics course or standardized test. Moreover, research shows that
students are more ...