New IB Diploma Texts & Resources
Check out our 15 new IB Diploma texts and resources in History/Physics/Spanish and Mathematical Studies.
History - click here
Physics - click here
Spanish - click here
Mathematical Studies - click here
Psychology (Coming soon!) - click here
Anti-Bullying Resources
These resources will help to make your school a safe, secure and positive environment for all students, every day of the year.
1. Stop Bullying Pocketbook (click here)
2. Charter for Children (click here)
3. I Can Dance A Better World (click here)
Build & Grow
(ESL & Language Arts Resources)
We are excited to offer this NEW series which is an English learning system that progressively improves young students' English ability, starting from grasping the fundamental elements of English to developing basic study and critical thinking skills in English. These resources are grouped into the following areas: Phonics, Reading, Listening, Grammar, Speaking, and Writing. For more information click here.
Teachers' Pocketbooks New!
We are pleased to offer these superb teacher resources.
Topics include:
Assessment & Learning - Bullying - Restorative Justice
Inclusion and Differentiation - Asperger Syndrome - and much, much more....
Click here for more detail.
ECO Series
Build awareness and understanding of key eco-issues with
this topical series....
ECO World Savers are reproducible books with interactive CD that offer lively student activities in eight thought-provoking books. Titles include: Recycling; Sustainable Development; World Energy Issues; and Protecting our Food & Water Supply.
ECO Photo Packs contain colour workcards plus CD-ROM with information, activities and photos for whiteboard use. Choose from six titles:Climate Change; Global Warming; Protecting our Environment; Recycling; Reducing your Carbon Footprint; and Sustainable Development.
Click here, for details on this contemporary series for your senior elementary or junior high classroom.
Collins Canadian Student Atlas
Looking for an atlas for the 11-14 age range? Look no further.
For details on the Collins
Canadian Student Atlas
click here.
Charter for Children
Author and Lawyer, Dustin Milligan
This new series, based around the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fosters an awareness of our rights for children and Canada's culture. Terrific for the elementary grades.
To listen to an interview of the author with Alan Neal of CBC's All In A Day, click here.
For more information about this series, click here.
Spanish B for the IB Diploma
Includes a text with audio CD and comprehensive Teacher's Resource Book
Click here for details and to see sample pages.
SPRINGBOARD INQUIRY BOXES
Springboard Inquiry Boxes are collections of literature based around relevant themes and supported by a Teacher's Manual containing activities, assessments and a wealth of ideas to help students become well-educated global citizens.
Three levels: Ages 3-6, 6-9 and 9-12.
Click here to expore...
I CAN DANCE, A Better World
I Can Dance, A Better World (Hannah Beach)
For Grades 6-9 (Book, CD & DVD)
A 12 session Character Education program which uses dance and drama as a tool for exploring social issues.
Includes a DVD, Book and CD.
Click here for details!
Hannah Beach was interviewed by Hollie Cotnam, CBC's Ottawa Morning Show Field Reporter on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at her dance studio, Dandelion Dance Company and Tournesol Dance to discuss Hannah's new resource, I Can Dance, A Better World.
Click here to listen to the interview.
I CAN DANCE, Author Hannah Beach
The I Can Dance series has been listed/authorized in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Manitoba for use in the elementary classrooms.
This series explores inclusive interpretive dance in six imaginative and engaging titles (The Zoo\The Outdoors\ Textures\My Feelings\My Dinner\Colours). They link literacy, imagination and dance, illustrating to children that dance is for people of all abilities and that dance is about more than just steps. It is also about communicating, exploring, and reflecting on our world through an artistic medium.
For more details about this series, click here.
Identity Texts
The collaborative creation of power in multilingual schools
Edited by Canadians - Jim Cummins and Margaret Early
This book shows how identity texts have engaged school students around the world.
Jim Cummins and Margaret Early describe the nature of identity texts and how they relate to broader orientations to pedagogy and discuss two pedagogical frameworks within which identity texts have been integrated.
Identity Texts is essential reading for everyone concerned with developing appropriate pedagogy for school and for all who work with multilingual children.
For more information about this text, click here.
2011-2012 Elementary Catalogue JK-9
Consult our Elementary Catalogue to fill your classroom and library needs. New products, new prices, new look!
Available here or call 800-563-2468 to request your copy.
Contemporary Case Studies - The Energy Issue
An essential read on world wide energy issues .... including a case study dedicated to the Canadian Tar Sands: A Toxic Investment?
Other new titles:
Climate Change
Health & Health Risks
Food & Famine
Population & Migration, 2nd ed.
For full CCS series, click here.
Nelson International Mathematics NEW!
This bright and engaging 6-level series has been written with an international focus and is designed to appeal to students from a broad range of backgrounds. This structured math program, for students aged 5-11 helps to lay the foundation for financial literacy.
For more information about this new series, click here
Nouveauté! Connais-tu? - Samuel de Champlain
Ce grand explorateur qu'on a surnommé. Le fondateur de la ville de Québec. Ce navigateur et cartographe de talent qui a laisssé des écrits et des dessins captivants?
Aussi disponible: Barbe Noire; Cléopâtre; Erik le Rouge; Marco Polo; et Maurice Richard, Diane Fossey. Par le biais d'illustrations amusantes, cette toute nouvelle collection dresse le portrait de grands personnages historiques. Autre détails ici.
Immersion 8-11 ans ou Français de base 11-13 ans
Collins Readers - Featuring: The Hobbit
Stretch precocious young readers' literacy skills, and introduce a new generation to the story of Bilbo Baggins. Written by Tolkien for his own children, this masterpiece was first published in 1937 - and remains a fantasy classic today. Especially recommended for 11-14 year old boys. Hardcover for classroom/library use.
Discover 12 other modern classics in the Collins Readers series by clicking here.
DC Canada Education Publishing
We are pleased to announce that Bacon & Hughes is now the distributor of the educational resources from DC Canada Education Publishing. DC Canada is a small innovative company based in Ottawa with a focus on developing top quality educational materials to meet the needs of students, parents and education systems in Canada and around the world.
Research shows that listening to, singing and enjoying music is a natural method of language acquisition. DC Canada has produced two Canadian series which are ideal for any English language learner, especially ESL students. Songs are about everyday life and experiences.
For more information about these resources and other DC Canada educational materials, click on the following links:
New Children's Songs (Ages 3-5)
Formative Assessment
The Province of Manitoba has recently posted its Assessment Policy.
To help you get a handle on your own assessment needs....come check out our website for resources written by the acclaimed author, Shirley Clarke. Titles include Active Learning Through Formative Assessment, and Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom.
For more information click here.
AQA History Series
Extensive and evergrowing, this series
provides in-depth study to local contexts and different cultural
perspectives. Resources are full-colour
and contain interactive questions, activities for group or individual work, and photographic/ documentary sources. New
titles...
A New Roman Empire? Mussonlini's Italy, 1922-45; and
From Defeat to
Unity: Germany, 1945-91.
For more information, click here.
Bonus
20% off when ordering 20 copies.
New IB Diploma Texts & Resources
Check out our 15 new IB Diploma texts and resources in History/Physics/Spanish and Mathematical Studies.
History - click here
Physics - click here
Spanish - click here
Mathematical Studies - click here
Psychology (Coming soon!) - click here
Anti-Bullying Resources
These resources will help to make your school a safe, secure and positive environment for all students, every day of the year.
1. Stop Bullying Pocketbook (click here)
2. Charter for Children (click here)
3. I Can Dance A Better World (click here)
(ESL & Language Arts Resources)
We are excited to offer this NEW series which is an English learning system that progressively improves young students' English ability, starting from grasping the fundamental elements of English to developing basic study and critical thinking skills in English. These resources are grouped into the following areas: Phonics, Reading, Listening, Grammar, Speaking, and Writing. For more information click here.
We are pleased to offer these superb teacher resources.
Topics include:
Assessment & Learning - Bullying - Restorative Justice
Inclusion and Differentiation - Asperger Syndrome - and much, much more....
Click here for more detail.
ECO Series
Build awareness and understanding of key eco-issues with
this topical series....
ECO World Savers are reproducible books with interactive CD that offer lively student activities in eight thought-provoking books. Titles include: Recycling; Sustainable Development; World Energy Issues; and Protecting our Food & Water Supply.
ECO Photo Packs contain colour workcards plus CD-ROM with information, activities and photos for whiteboard use. Choose from six titles:Climate Change; Global Warming; Protecting our Environment; Recycling; Reducing your Carbon Footprint; and Sustainable Development.
Click here, for details on this contemporary series for your senior elementary or junior high classroom.
Looking for an atlas for the 11-14 age range? Look no further.
For details on the Collins
Canadian Student Atlas
click here.
Author and Lawyer, Dustin Milligan
This new series, based around the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, fosters an awareness of our rights for children and Canada's culture. Terrific for the elementary grades.
To listen to an interview of the author with Alan Neal of CBC's All In A Day, click here.
For more information about this series, click here.
Spanish B for the IB Diploma
Includes a text with audio CD and comprehensive Teacher's Resource Book
Click here for details and to see sample pages.
Springboard Inquiry Boxes are collections of literature based around relevant themes and supported by a Teacher's Manual containing activities, assessments and a wealth of ideas to help students become well-educated global citizens.Three levels: Ages 3-6, 6-9 and 9-12.
Click here to expore...
I CAN DANCE, A Better World
I Can Dance, A Better World (Hannah Beach)
For Grades 6-9 (Book, CD & DVD)
A 12 session Character Education program which uses dance and drama as a tool for exploring social issues.
Includes a DVD, Book and CD.
Click here for details!
Hannah Beach was interviewed by Hollie Cotnam, CBC's Ottawa Morning Show Field Reporter on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at her dance studio, Dandelion Dance Company and Tournesol Dance to discuss Hannah's new resource, I Can Dance, A Better World.
Click here to listen to the interview.
The I Can Dance series has been listed/authorized in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Manitoba for use in the elementary classrooms.
This series explores inclusive interpretive dance in six imaginative and engaging titles (The Zoo\The Outdoors\ Textures\My Feelings\My Dinner\Colours). They link literacy, imagination and dance, illustrating to children that dance is for people of all abilities and that dance is about more than just steps. It is also about communicating, exploring, and reflecting on our world through an artistic medium.
For more details about this series, click here.
The collaborative creation of power in multilingual schools
Edited by Canadians - Jim Cummins and Margaret Early
This book shows how identity texts have engaged school students around the world.
Jim Cummins and Margaret Early describe the nature of identity texts and how they relate to broader orientations to pedagogy and discuss two pedagogical frameworks within which identity texts have been integrated.
Identity Texts is essential reading for everyone concerned with developing appropriate pedagogy for school and for all who work with multilingual children.
For more information about this text, click here.
Consult our Elementary Catalogue to fill your classroom and library needs. New products, new prices, new look!
Available here or call 800-563-2468 to request your copy.
An essential read on world wide energy issues .... including a case study dedicated to the Canadian Tar Sands: A Toxic Investment?Other new titles:
Climate Change
Health & Health Risks
Food & Famine
Population & Migration, 2nd ed.
For full CCS series, click here.
This bright and engaging 6-level series has been written with an international focus and is designed to appeal to students from a broad range of backgrounds. This structured math program, for students aged 5-11 helps to lay the foundation for financial literacy.
For more information about this new series, click here
Ce grand explorateur qu'on a surnommé. Le fondateur de la ville de Québec. Ce navigateur et cartographe de talent qui a laisssé des écrits et des dessins captivants? Aussi disponible: Barbe Noire; Cléopâtre; Erik le Rouge; Marco Polo; et Maurice Richard, Diane Fossey. Par le biais d'illustrations amusantes, cette toute nouvelle collection dresse le portrait de grands personnages historiques. Autre détails ici.
Immersion 8-11 ans ou Français de base 11-13 ans
Stretch precocious young readers' literacy skills, and introduce a new generation to the story of Bilbo Baggins. Written by Tolkien for his own children, this masterpiece was first published in 1937 - and remains a fantasy classic today. Especially recommended for 11-14 year old boys. Hardcover for classroom/library use.
Discover 12 other modern classics in the Collins Readers series by clicking here.
DC Canada Education Publishing
We are pleased to announce that Bacon & Hughes is now the distributor of the educational resources from DC Canada Education Publishing. DC Canada is a small innovative company based in Ottawa with a focus on developing top quality educational materials to meet the needs of students, parents and education systems in Canada and around the world.
Research shows that listening to, singing and enjoying music is a natural method of language acquisition. DC Canada has produced two Canadian series which are ideal for any English language learner, especially ESL students. Songs are about everyday life and experiences.
For more information about these resources and other DC Canada educational materials, click on the following links:
New Children's Songs (Ages 3-5)
The Province of Manitoba has recently posted its Assessment Policy.
To help you get a handle on your own assessment needs....come check out our website for resources written by the acclaimed author, Shirley Clarke. Titles include Active Learning Through Formative Assessment, and Enriching Feedback in the Primary Classroom.
For more information click here.
AQA History Series
A New Roman Empire? Mussonlini's Italy, 1922-45; and
From Defeat to
Unity: Germany, 1945-91.
For more information, click here.
Bonus
20% off when ordering 20 copies.
