Teacher's Guide to Science Fair Projects eBook Review

Science fair season is upon us and teachers and parents alike are planning their strategies to get kids excited about this event. Traditionally, teachers have two options, to make participating in the science fair mandatory or to make it optional. Either option requires teachers to think about how they will teach their students the skills that are needed to complete a science fair project. If you are in this position now, then read The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects.

Overview of The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects

The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects is a great resource for teachers, homeschool teachers and parents. It provides guidance on how to teach kids to complete a science fair project. This eBook covers each skill used in a science fair project including research, topic selection, experiment design, hypothesis development, data collection, data analysis, display board design and presentation delivery.

Highlights of The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects

The feature of this eBook that I found to be the most useful is that it breaks down the science fair project process into logical lesson plans. If you are a public school teacher, a homeschool teacher or even an involved parent, this makes understanding your role as the science fair coach and cheerleader so much easier to do.
Another feature that I enjoyed was that it contained actual lesson plans for each step of the process. In fact, this eBook contains 20 complete lesson plans that you can use right now. Each lesson plans covers goals and objectives, introductory activities, group learning activities, independent study activities and gradable assignments. If this is the first year your child or student will be participating in a science fair, then these lessons plans will be invaluable for you.In addition to providing guidance on how to teach kids how to create a winning science fair project, this eBook also gives guidance on how to prepare for the actual science fair.

For example, it provides information about what you need to bring to a science fair, what your student will be expected to do at a science fair and how judges approach the scoring of each project. This information will reduce your stress and help you to more effectively prepare for this academic adventure.

Finally, this book is logically assembled. It walks you through the process from A to Z. At each step you are provided with background information, technical details and Q&As. Overall a very useful product.

The Teacher's Guide to Science Fair Projects is written in lesson plan format. It also included the Student's Guide to Science Fair Projects

Your Ethical Will eBook Review

When you are an adult you have responsibilities to the people that you leave behind. These responsibilities include the business side of passing away, namely writing a will and/or establishing trust accounts, and they also include the personal side of passing way, taking care of the emotional and spiritual needs of your loved ones. One tool that you can utilize to meet this personal responsibilities of passing on your ethical and spiritual viewpoints is the ethical will.

An ethical can be written at any time in your life, and it can be shared at any point. It is a living, fluid document. This is one of the great features of an ethical will. One eBook that has outlined the process of writing an ethical will is Your Ethical Will: How to Write Your Legacy in Your Own Words.

What Is an Ethical Will?

The first thing that Your Ethical Will covers is what an ethical will is, and more importantly, what it is not. Many people see the word “will” and assume it has something to do with passing on physical assets and dealing with the legal requirements of estates. This is not the case, as the author of this eBook pointed out. Instead it is a document that addresses the inheritance of knowledge, values, beliefs, lessons learned in life, ethical standards and moral traditions. This means, that an ethical will can be completed and shared at anypoint in your life.

How to Write an Ethical Will

The bulk of this eBook focuses on how to write an ethical will. It provides detailed, but easy to follow instructions on writing several types of ethical wills. For example, there is the ethical will letter and the ethical will narrative. You can quickly browse through the components of each to determine which format meets your needs the best.

Highlights

One of the components of this eBook that I liked the most is the section of brainstorming techniques. If you are not a writer, and even if you are, approaching the process of writing an ethical will may pose some challenges. The brainstorming techniques presented can help you to overcome these initial obstacles and help you get down to business.

Another component of this eBook that I liked was the template section. These templates allow you to quickly format your ethical will, no matter which type of ethical will you want to write. You can use these templates to play around with all the options before settling down on a single format.

Finally, this eBook can be the inspiration that you need to attempt an even more ambitious writing project, writing your memoirs. If you are interested in writing your memoires, then you can use your ethical will as a springboard.

Madeline Binder, author of this ebook, passionately states, "I love sharing about how to write an ethical will because it has nothing to do with material possessions, but about leaving behind the Wealth of Your Life, the best of who you are. It is a way of being true to yourself and to those you love." We invite you to share your journey and ask questions at the Spiritual Ethical Will Blog.

Children and Divorce eBook Review

Many of the resources that you run across while getting a divorce will focus on how to become an independent person, how to rebuild “your” life and how to separate emotionally and physically from your ex-spouse. Unfortunately, while these processes may be necessary to some degree, if you have children with your ex-spouse they can be counter-productive to your parenting responsibilities. To resolve the blatant oversight of helping kids through their parent’s divorce one eBook emerged, 101 Ways to Diffuse the Divorce Battle for Your Kids Sake.

Highlights of the eBook

When you go through a divorce it is easy to fall prey to bitterness and self-preservation tactics that feed divorce battles over money and things. Unfortunately, these tactics also often drag your children into the battle as one more “thing” that needs to be won. What 101 Ways to Diffuse the Divorce Battle for Your Kids Sake presents, is that you need to stop thinking of your children as a marital asset that has to be won, and instead view them as the treasure that needs to be protected.

Throughout this ebook you will be given ideas, tips and steps to take to put your kids’ well-being first in your divorce. One strategy, for example, that is given, is to divide your divorce process into two unique negotiations. One negotiation will focus upon the material assets of your marriage. This negotiation can be all business and you can do what it takes to preserve your rights to the “things” that you amassed during your marriage. The second negotiating realm will relate to your children and your parenting. Here, you are not negotiating “things,” but rather developing a new parenting partnership with your ex-spouse.

This concept of parenting partnership development is my favorite aspect of this ebook. Taking this perspective allows parents to recognize the need to establish a whole new relationship with their ex-spouse so that their children have two parents active in their lives. While this relationship will have conflicts, it will help to reduce how many conflicts you experience.

The utilization of a mediator is one recommendation made by this eBook. A mediator will help you to overcome your initial conflicts and help you to establish a more functional avenue of communication.
Whether you are just starting the divorce process or if you have already been divorced for years, this ebook is helpful. Read this eBook and you will learn how to build a stronger divorced family unit.

Smart Divorce: Raising Happy Healthy Kids was written as a result of the author, Madeline Binder's own divorce experience and her Master's Degree thesis. Come join the discussion at the Children and Divorce Blog.