Explore shapes and angles!
(Book)

• This nonfiction title for ages 7 through 10 allows students to explore geometry in their immediate environments, including the classroom, community, backyard, and nature. • Readers form a thorough understanding of geometric concepts at an early age, developing a solid comfort level with mathematics that will serve as a foundation for later, more difficult concepts. • Meets the Common Core State Standards and NCTM. • Uses an experiential, hands-on approach to encourage readers to discover geometry in their world, and understand the reality-based underpinnings of geometry in their everyday lives. • STEAM activities are tactile and require movement, as students are “learning by doing,” which creates self-efficacious, accomplishment-based learning experiences. This enhances cognitive recall of learning and allows students to generalize geometric concepts in the context of their environments. • Encourages the development of important skills, including problem solving and model testing. • Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to experiment with engineering designs and reach their own conclusions about what works and what doesn’t. • Uses links to online primary sources to engage readers in further, independent study. • Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity. •$40,000 marketing and publicity budget (for series) •Exhibiting at national and regional conferences including: •American Library Association (ALA: 60,000 members) •National Science Teacher Association/STEM (NSTA: 60,000 members) •American Association of School Librarians (AASL: 10,000 members) •Public Library Association (PLA: 11,000 members) •Texas Library Association (TLA: 7,000 members) •National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS: 25,000 members) •International Literacy Association (ILA: 60,000 members) •Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE: 40,000 members) •Advertising in the following publications: SLJ display ads (3–4 times for series) •Booklist/Booklinks display ads (3–4 times) •Booklist/Booklinks online ads Follett Library Ingram (Children's Advance 2 times) •Baker & Taylor (Growing Minds) •Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements at bookstores, libraries, schools, museums, events, and conferences. Extensive social media outreach via author website, author blog, Twitter, Facebook , Pinterest, Instagram, Goodreads, and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/jeanette-moore)YouTube. This book is in the shape of a square. Or is it a rectangle? The pages are 2-dimensional. Or are the pages 3-dimensional? Geometry is all around us! In Explore Shapes and Angles! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 will have fun identifying the shapes and angles in their world. They’ll also learn how these shapes and angles are used in different situations and in different jobs, such as construction, engineering, and art. A kid’s world is made of shapes and angles—by encouraging readers to become savvy at identifying and using the different shapes, this book serves as the perfect introduction to geometry and a way to build a strong foundation in math skills that will serve them well as they are exposed to increasingly more complicated concepts. Hands-on, design-minded projects, such as designing a tree house, offer opportunities to discover how engineers and designers use shapes and angles to create strong structures. Readers are encouraged to use blocks, bodies, and yoga to mimic geometric shapes and find combinations so strong they’ll even hold up heavy weights. Links to online resources, fun facts, cartoon illustrations, and compelling content drive this introduction to basic geometry that will help children begin to establish a spatial relationship with real-world math and make it fun!