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Teachers Edition: The helpfulness of the teacher edition is tremendous. Each section has an aid of informative description of the topic and activities which include full lesson plans. The materials needed and steps are all available including alternatives to consider. The guided activities include the page numbers towards the textbook and the associated BLM, the guided activities even shows you what phase it is according to the triple A model (activate, acquire, apply). After the activities it gives the BLM’s which associate with the activities that the guide suggests. It does a great job of corresponding to the student textbook as each BLM and the activity let you know where the topic is in the student’s textbook and …show more content…
The guide has an array of different activities that could activate students quite well. However, it is in the assessment portion that seems to be the weakest. The guide does not include assessment tools; it only offers acquiring pages through the BLM’s and the icons. The guide does come with answer keys for the BLM’s which could possibly be used as an assessment strategy. Despite this the icons and BLM could easily inspire some assessment strategies such as reflections and projects. Since the grade 7 curriculum covers ways of life around the world the textbook covers many social justice issues and could be great for creating inquiry based teaching. There are many question the guide helps pose such as: “why is Canada a good place to live, it has crime and homelessness to name just a few. The guide encourages discussion and gets in depth into justice issues and gets students thinking about their …show more content…
The textbook discusses people and places in the world and how to make sense of the world today effectively. As for the implementation that is suggested by the curriculum that is up to the students and teachers themselves. Teachers would benefit from using the textbook but may also want to use more additional resources. The text does attempt to deal with some issues in depth encouraging debates, but it accomplishes it in a way that is quite extensive covering a lot of
Teachers Edition: The helpfulness of the teacher edition is tremendous. Each section has an aid of informative description of the topic and activities which include full lesson plans. The materials needed and steps are all available including alternatives to consider. The guided activities include the page numbers towards the textbook and the associated BLM, the guided activities even shows you what phase it is according to the triple A model (activate, acquire, apply). After the activities it gives the BLM’s which associate with the activities that the guide suggests. It does a great job of corresponding to the student textbook as each BLM and the activity let you know where the topic is in the student’s textbook and …show more content…
The guide has an array of different activities that could activate students quite well. However, it is in the assessment portion that seems to be the weakest. The guide does not include assessment tools; it only offers acquiring pages through the BLM’s and the icons. The guide does come with answer keys for the BLM’s which could possibly be used as an assessment strategy. Despite this the icons and BLM could easily inspire some assessment strategies such as reflections and projects. Since the grade 7 curriculum covers ways of life around the world the textbook covers many social justice issues and could be great for creating inquiry based teaching. There are many question the guide helps pose such as: “why is Canada a good place to live, it has crime and homelessness to name just a few. The guide encourages discussion and gets in depth into justice issues and gets students thinking about their …show more content…
The textbook discusses people and places in the world and how to make sense of the world today effectively. As for the implementation that is suggested by the curriculum that is up to the students and teachers themselves. Teachers would benefit from using the textbook but may also want to use more additional resources. The text does attempt to deal with some issues in depth encouraging debates, but it accomplishes it in a way that is quite extensive covering a lot of