Books by Dennis Adams

This book recognizes the importance of the STEM subjects and presents ideas for making those subjects more relevant and interesting.

This book makes a case for a STEM-based approach across the curriculum.

This book sets out to challenge teachers to make literacy and learning more relevant and lasting for their students. It gives teachers a road map and helps them with good activities and professional development along the way.

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning.

Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. It surveys today's most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices.

Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful to educators who want to encourage students to solve problems and express themselves in imaginative ways.

This book provides teachers with research-based and standards-driven techniques that are especially useful for reaching all students in the classroom.

Tomorrow's Innovators: Essential Skills For A Changing World focuses on approaches and methods to help teachers infuse their basic subject matter lessons with creativity, innovation, and adaptability. On a broader scale, we provide elementary and middle school educators with insights into current educational issues and suggestions for converting new ideas into practical classroom applications.

Technology is pushing against the linear boundaries of traditional story-telling. Moving in the direction of multiform stories and digital formats takes literacy well beyond the 3Rs. Students increasingly need to be critical and creative users of the new media. This text discusses the topic.

Offers a practical survey of the most important trAnds in education----including critical thinking, cooperative learning, and portfolio assessment----and shows how they can be translated into classroom practice. .