Advertising Tricks Without Gimmicks. Job Skills For Career Video Series. The Princess Co. LTD. The School Co.: Vancouver, WA, 1991. (Sixteen minute video dedicated to showing students good advertising techniques without showy gimmicks.)
Cassidy, John
Explorabook: A Kids' Science Museum in a Book
. Klutz Press: Palo Alto, CA, 1991. (An excellent reference book that allows students to explore concepts right in the book.)
Friedhoffer, Bob.
Physics Lab in a Hardware Store
. Franklin Watts: New York, NY, 1996. (Excellent resource for the concepts of simple machines.)
Gardner, Robert.
Experiments with Motion
. Enslow Pub.: Springfield, NJ, 1995. (Another excellent reference book that explores experiments that show the concepts related to motion.)
Hamlin, Sonya.
How to Talk So People Listen
. Harper & Row: New York, 1988. (This book explains how to give great presentations in front of an audience. Gives students the skills to communicate more effectively.)
Hiam, Alexander.
Marketing for Dummies
. IDG Books: Chicago, IL, 1997. (Simple and easy to read reference for the teaching of marketing.)
Ind, Nicholas.
Great Advertising Campaigns
. NTC Business Books: Lincolnwood, IL, 1993. (Very interesting reading on the great advertising campaigns of the 20th Century, foreign and American.)
Krueger, Ellen and Mary T. Christel.
Seeing and Believing
. Boynton/Cook: Portsmouth, NH, 2001. (Excellent reference for teaching media literacy.)
Lafferty, Peter.
Forces & Motion.
DK Publishing: New York, 1992. (Excellent reference and resource for concepts concerning simple machines.)
Macaulay, David.
The New Way Things Work
. Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1998. (All of Macaulay's books deal with how things work. The writing and illustrations clearly show the reader simple and complex concepts.
The Way Things Work
series also includes a kit and CD-Roms, which allow students more exploration of concepts.)
Why Ads Work: The Power of Self-Deception
. Learning Seed: Lake Zurich, Illinois, 1996. (This is one of an excellent video series concerning advertising. This tape deals with the concept of self-deception and is 23 minutes long.)
www.howstuffworks.com is an excellent on-line resource that guides students through, in simple terms, how everyday (and not-so-everyday) things work. Many pictures and simple explanations are used. The simple machine source can be found using the side bars (engineering) or this website address: http://science.howstuffworks.com/channel.htm?ch=science&sub=sub-engineering
http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/curriculum/ is where you can find the Connecticut State Guidelines for curriculum standards.
