ROOT, ALEXEY W.

Thinking with Chess
Teaching Children Ages 5-14

In Thinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creating, and predicting.

Thinking with Chess

Teaching Children Ages 5-14

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Children and Chess
A Guide for Educators

Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. The relationship of chess to academic and humanistic educational goals is convincingly illustrated as curriculum and psychological theories from John D. McNeil, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Howard Gardner.

Children and Chess

A Guide for Educators

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Science, Math, Checkmate
32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving

Chess captivates children. Connect their interest to education with Science, Math, Checkmate, an activity book and teacher resource for grades 3-8. Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no chess knowledge, 14 of the piece activities build on students' growing familiarity with chess, and the two king activities challenge budding chess experts.

Science, Math, Checkmate

32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving

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Read, Write, Checkmate
Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities

Read, Write, Checkmate both teaches chess to students and provides educators with an outline for a classroom literacy project. Chess expert, Alexey Root, describes her project to have kids read and write about chess while learning to play and excel at the game.

Read, Write, Checkmate

Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities

Catalog Code: B0022OB

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People, Places, Checkmate
Teaching Social Studies with Chess

Implement the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum standards in your classroom with People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess. In this unique volume, 15 lesson plans teach culture, history, geography, and citizenship through the history of chess and its relationship to art, civics, culture, economics, geography, government, and technology.

People, Places, Checkmate

Teaching Social Studies with Chess

Catalog Code: B0035OB

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The Living Chess Game
Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14

>Living chess games have been referenced in works from classic authors such as Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut; this theater art was also mentioned in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. With The Living Chess Game: Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14, any parent, librarian, teacher, or after-school instructor can successfully stage an educational and entertaining living chess game.