4MAT Lesson Plan Book
It will change your plans forever!
- Laminated 4MAT Wheels
- Extensive Tutorials and Guidance in 4MAT Unit Development
- Suggested Activites for Helping Reach Out to More Students
The 4MAT Lesson Planning Kit
The new lesson recipe, blank planning wheels, assessment planning pages, a set of instructional checker cards to assist in planning a complete 4MAT unit.
Lesson Planning Guide
The revised 4MAT Lesson Planning Guide includes our latest thinking on the process of designing and creating effective instruction. We've completely revamped our lesson-planning recipe to provide teachers with the most comprehensive educational planning resource available.
The Lesson Planning guide includes step-by-step instruction in the process of creating effective instruction, including…
The core components of effective instruction
Distinguishing between concepts and topics
The qualities of effective concepts
Creating performance based assessments
Designing brain-compatible instruction
Using essential questions to guide student applications and adaptation
Order code: LPKIT Price: $28.65
The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition
The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition is a collection of over 300 high-quality images that help teachers connect learning to students in new and innovative ways. The Visual Explorer is the ideal tool for helping teachers of all levels increase the quality of instruction with visual images and metaphors. All images were carefully chosen to deal with a wide range of topics and to support prominent concepts in education. The images are categorized into a number of groups, including: Courage, Communication, Celebration, Diversity, Earth and Sky, Patterns, Relationships, Signs and Symbols, Solitude, Symmetry and Technology. These concepts wer e drawn from curriculum standards in Art, Literature, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
To support teaching of these key concepts, images are grouped into fifteen different sets. Each set includes between twelve to eighteen images along with 10 suggested classroom activities. These activities are appropriate for students of all ages and support a variety of classroom activities including: high level discussions, research tasks, independent project work and more! Set includes images and Teacher's Reference Guide.
8.5"x11" size Order code: VISEXP Price: $454.25
NEW SIZE! Due to requests from the field, we are pleased to offer a smaller size version of The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition. The new images are 5.5"x4.25" making them more portable and easier to work with at training tables. The quantity and quality of the images remain the same and the very useful Teacher's Reference Guide is included. If this smaller set would fit your needs and your budget, please order this version.
5.5"x4.25" size Order code: VISEXP-SM Price: $304.75
4MAT Quadrant HandBook
This is the ultimate handbook for designing 4MAT units. The 4MAT Quadrant Handbook is a compilation of strategies, best practices, rubrics, scaling criteria and tricks for all four quadrants. It can be used as a coaching tool and as a refresher workshop for those already practicing and using this instructional design model. It was developed for a special 4-day workshop for Ysleta School District in El Paso, Texas.
Order code: 4QHB Price: $17.20
Teacher/Parent Intro to Learning Styles
This special classroom kit has been designed for teachers to have a conversation with parents about 4MAT and the learning preferences of their children. Included in the kit are the following items from About Learning:
1 Teaching Around the 4MAT Cycle by Dr. Bernice McCarthy
1 Learning Type Measure
1 Teaching Style Inventory
1 Student Learning Preference Survey
25 4MAT Parent Handouts
1 It all starts here CD
1 4MAT Parent Book
Order code: TPLSB Price: $148.80
Teacher/Student Intro to Learning Styles
This special classroom kit has been designed for teachers to have a conversation with students about 4MAT and their learning preferences.
Included in the kit are the following items from About Learning:
1 Teaching Around the 4MAT Cycle by Dr. Bernice McCarthy
1 Learning Type Measure
1 Teaching Style Inventory
25 Student Learning Preference Surveys
1 Student Learning Preference Survey Presenter KIt
1 It all starts here CD
Order code: TSLSB Price: $243.75
4MAT 4 Middle School Literature
Bring Literature to Life
About Learning has created full 4MAT Wheels and related Student Activity Books to help teachers create more dynamic middle school literature instruction. We have taken some of the most popular books in middle school and created full Teachers Guides and related student materials for helping teachers teach these books in ways that students will never forget.
The following student activity books and teachers guides are now available. Download our brochure for more information.
The Giver by Lois Lawry
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
More titles will be available soon!
Children's Literature Series
 Alexander and the
Terrible, Horrible,
No Good, Very Bad Day
Order Code: KLAL Price: $5.50 |
An Egg is an Egg Order Code: KLAE Price: $5.50 |
 Blueberries for Sal
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Hey, AL Order Code: KLHA Price: $5.50 |
 The Lighthouse
Keeper's Daughter
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Officer Buckle and Gloria
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 Owen
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Song of the Swallows
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 Stellaluna
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When I Was Young
in the Mountains
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 Wilfred Gordon
McDonald Partridge
Order Code: KLWG Price: $5.50 |
 Frederick
Order Code: KLAL Price: $5.50 |
 Yo! Yes?
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 The Talking Eggs
Order Code: KLTE Price: $5.50 |
 Make Way for Ducklings
Order Code: KLMW Price: $5.50 |
 Owl Moon
Order Code: KLOM Price: $5.50 |
4MAT in Action on CD: Lesson Plans for Applying 4MAT
Experience the latest advancements in 4MAT lesson planning with 4MAT in Action. Brilliant, ready-made 4MAT lessons at your disposal. In one, easy-to-use volume. 4MAT in Action contains sixty-seven exemplary 4MAT units from all subjects and grade levels; including Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Community College and Post-Secondary. An invaluable resource for any 4MAT practitioner. Specific unit plan examples include: A Man for All Seasons, Action Verbs, Adaptation, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Descriptive Language, Elasticity in Economics, Gender Stereotypes, Graphing Functions, Maximum/Minimum Value.
Order code: ACT/CD Price: $12.00
4MAT LessonBank Units on CD
4MAT Full Scale Units for High School
About Learning, Inc., creators of the 4MAT System instructional model, have created LessonBank Units, a series of field-tested unit plans for classroom teachers. Rather than simply offering strategies for discussion, 4MAT LessonBank Units offer complete step-by-step instruction in teaching a unit from start to finish.
These complete 4MAT unit plans are built on solid, teachable concepts, making lessons easy for students to grasp. Each unit plan employs a variety of activities to engage students in learning, and diversifies the instructional process. Lessons are geared to capture students’ attention, encourage meaningful dialogue, promote real-world problem solving and stimulate new ideas and beliefs. Unit plans cost a small fee and come with student handouts, a complete bibliography and detailed instructional guidance.
About Learning is pleased to introduce a new CD compilation of its turnkey 4MAT Unit Plan collection for High School teachers. This collection includes seventeen complete unit plans, with twelve History units, three English Literature units and one Science unit. These unit plans include everything a teacher needs to deliver these instructional units over a 1-3 week timeframe, including full resource lists, worksheets, and step-by-step guidance in how to orchestrate these in the classroom. Unit plans include: Night by Eli Wiesel, The Cold War, Defining Life, World War II, Absolute Monarchs, Eastern Religions,
Order code: LBCD Price: $18.35
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