There are also six Activities Guides which provide ideas for hands-on station activities. The guides are organized by skill objectives, topics, Florida benchmarks, and include blackline masters, teacher and student directions, and task cards for each activity. Each station activity has a task card which directs the student s work. Specific objectives and directions are given so that students can work independently and constructively. The Passport is a practice record used to assess students effort at the learning stations.
Students also use the Passport to set and assess goals.
Students bring home the Passports at the end of each six-week unit. Parents become an integral part of the learning team when they have a visual record of their child s work in the classroom. The Passport helps parents and children understand the academic significance of the station activities. Textbook integration applications, as well as integrated hands-on station activities for reading, language arts, and math are provided. Along with background information on inclusion and special needs students, there are behavior management blackline masters, over 100 fully illustrated station activities, task cards, and suggested computer software.