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The Greater Boston SABES/ALRI library has a
subscription to ENC Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators, published by the Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse. ENC identifies effective curriculum, creates professional development materials,
and promotes materials to improve math and science teaching and learning. Subscriptions to the
quarterly are free and there is also an excellent companion Web site at www.enc.org.
Recent themes of issues have been on partnerships with business and the community, integrating technology,
the standards-based classroom, family involvement, and resources for staff development. The focus is
on K-12 educators, but the topics and information are useful and transferable to adult basic
education classrooms. Strong content is matched with practical instructional tools and techniques
from teachers.
Each issue also presents a listing of materials from the ENC collection of math and science
resources. Resources from publishers, government agencies, organizations, and schools are described,
and ordering information and price are included. Some of the materials are available at SABES
Resource Center libraries, academic or school libraries, and many are free on the Web. The Web
site of the ENC allows you to search for resources by topic, level, and price.
Subscribe online at www.enc.org/register, call
800-621-5785, or e-mail editor@enc.org.
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Science Materials Available for Borrowing in the ALRI Library
Contact Sandra Darling, Librarian, at 617-782-8956.
- Pocket compasses for lessons on magnetism
- Right-angle prism
- Measurement pitchers: 4-piece set for metric measurement and area and volume studies.
- Geometry solids: 12-piece set includes sphere, cylinder, cone, and cube.
- Exploring sounds: This kit includes a tuning fork, coiled spring, triangle, mallet, bells, clickers, tubes,
straws, and more. Teacher manusals include activities on hearing, timbre, pitch, and vibration.
- Scales: for balance and weight demonstration.
- Bar mass weights
- Image reflectors: translucent plastic reflectors to explain symetry, reflection, and congruence. (Classroom
set of eight and a text.)
- Geoboards and elestics
- Snakeskin
- Pattern blocks, foam quilting tiles, and unit cubes for pattern-matching, counting, sequencing, sorting,
measuring, and weighing.
- Calculators: simple solar power calculators, four pocket-size and two desk-size, with large
numeral displays are loaned together for classroom use.
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Sandra Darling is the librarian at the Greater Boston SABES Resource Center/Adult Literacy Resource
Institute. She can be reached at: sandra@alri.org
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