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CURIOSITY BAIT

Would you like to know more about each of our CURIOSITY BAIT publications?  If so, read on!  Currently we have five CURIOSITY BAIT products to offer.  You will find them in alphabetical order as you scroll down this page.  

  • MONEY BAIT

  • PRESIDENT BAIT

  • SHAPE BAIT

  • STATE BAIT

  • TIME BAIT

In order to implement CURIOSITY BAIT you will need one of our custom-designed blue vinyl holders.  These vinyl holders are designed exclusively to display the CURIOSITY BAIT pattern pieces. 
ORDER YOUR CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER NOW
Product Catalog Number Price for One
CURIOSITY BAIT CARD  HOLDER XMPE01

$22

MONEY BAIT

MONEY BAIT is a favorite of teachers and students of grades K-5!  One MONEY BAIT kit includes a text, cardstock pattern cards and blackline masters.

MONEY BAIT is a collection of one hundred and twenty pattern cards that feature pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, one-dollar bills, and five-dollar bills.  The coins and bills are arranged in a variety of combinations and orientations.  As each day's pattern card is revealed, children practice recognizing pieces of money, counting the number of pieces of money, and determining the value of the collection of pieces of money.

One of the most innovative features of MONEY BAIT is the use of the hundred grid to visually show one square for the value of each penny, five squares for the value of each nickel, and twenty-five squares for each quarter, etc.  The use of this visual model makes it easy for very young children to connect coins with their values.  Older children use the same grid to determine change from a dollar or the possible coin combinations that make a value.  Intermediate children use this same hundred grid to visually model percentages, decimals and fractions!  

You will also find a set of ready-to-duplicate charts, graphs, and tables. Younger children use these charts, graphs and tables to determine the difference between the number of pieces of money and the value of the pieces of money.  Meanwhile, they learn to skip count by ones, fives, tens and even twenty-fives.  Older children learn to check the graph with the total value, very much as an accountant would do.

We have done the thinking for you by providing thirty clever pattern choices that range in varying levels of difficulty to challenge learners of all ages.  All you have to do is cut apart the cards, choose a pattern, choose and an additional display or two, and read the teacher-friendly text.  Preparation will take you very little time!  Rewards will be bountiful!
Click Here to learn more about our very popular professional development that prepares teachers to implement MONEY BAIT successfully!
ORDER YOUR MONEY BAIT KIT TODAY!

If you do not have a CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER (shown at the top of this page), remember to order one of those, as well.
Product Catalog Number Price for One
CURIOSITY BAIT: MONEY BAIT

CBDLO3

$46

SHAPE BAIT

Imagine a group of kindergarten children sitting in a circle looking a  picture of a trapezoid, discussing its attributes.  They count the sides.  They count the points.  They discover that this shape has the same number of sides and point.  Then a child shares that it looks like a car.  Another child says that you can fold it right down the middle and the two parts match just right!  You say, "NO WAY!".  We say, then you should visit Miss Sherry Noland's class at Wendall Watson Elementary School in Lakeland, Florida!  Not only do her children do just what we have described, they also use terms freely, such as "quadrilateral", "symmetry", and "trapezoid". Across the county, in Kelly Roberts' 5th grade children are examining the same trapezoid.  They measure the interior angles, the perimeter in centimeters and inches, the area in square centimeters and square inches!  What we have just described is what happens in classrooms across the country who use SHAPE BAIT.  For many it is the favorite, because it provides such a comfortable setting for learning about the attributes of shapes.  

When you receive  your SHAPE BAIT kit, you will find seventy-two plane geometric figures, each on its own pattern card.  As you reveal a new shape each day,  your children will become deeply intrigued with the relative size and shape of plane geometric figures.  They will love the way the BIG WORDS roll off their tongues, very much like they love learning the cool names of dinosaurs!  Before long, your children will sound like mathematicians as they use the language as if it were the most natural thing in the world.  And-wow-will your children ever make some brilliant observations!  They will see things that you might have never noticed.  For example, they may notice that every quadrilateral can be cut to form 2 triangles!  How exciting!  Or they may notice that the sum of every triangle's interior angles is always 180 degrees!  Because the shapes are oriented in all sorts of directions, your children will learn that a square is a square...no matter how it is turned!  

Mathematical topics used in SHAPE BAIT include line and rotational symmetry , parallel and perpendicular lines, concepts related to measurement, congruency, angle, polygons and non-polygons, open and closed figures, concave, convex shapes...and the list goes on and on!  Children are challenged to research geometric properties and attributes in order to "unlock the mystery of the pattern".  

Again, we have done all of the work for you by creating 24 awesome pattern suggestions! From very simple to complex, there are many pattern choices for each grade level.  Get yours today!
Our SHAPE BAIT professional development workshop is TOPS! Click here to learn more!
ORDER YOUR SHAPE BAIT KIT TODAY!

If you do not have a CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER (shown at the top of this page), remember to order one of those, as well.
Product Catalog Number Price for One
CURIOSITY BAIT: SHAPE BAIT

CBDLO2

$45

STATE BAIT

STATE BAIT is a favorite!  Your STATE BAIT kit will contain a set of fifty pattern cards, each showing the outline of a state boundary.  You will reveal one state each day,  in a mystery pattern.  Of course, you will tell your children nothing!  As your children "dig in" to solve the mystery, they will naturally turn to resources such as atlases, maps, and other reference materials.  Authentic research in a problem-solving setting...WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE?  

You choose the pattern, from the variety of suggested possibilities. Topics such as geographic location, alphabetical order, history, time zones, syllabication, vowels and consonants, and abbreviations set the stage for connections within the curriculum.  Your children's general knowledge of our fifty states will be raised as higher-level thinking skills are sharpened.

Beware... we must warn you...your children may get better than you at identifying isolated states.  What a problem!

We recommend using STATE BAIT with grades 2 and higher.
Click Here to learn more about our very popular professional development that prepares teachers to implement STATE BAIT successfully!  Often this professional development opportunity prepares teachers to use STATE and PRESIDENT BAITS in the same session.
ORDER YOUR STATE BAIT KIT TODAY!

If you do not have a CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER, remember to order one of those, as well.
Product Catalog Number Price for One
CURIOSITY BAIT: STATE BAIT

CBDLO1

$30

TIME BAIT

TIME BAIT will help your children make sense of the patterns we use to measure and keep track of time.  Time provides a natural setting for pattern exploration.  It plays an important role in our lives and mandates many of our daily actions.  Many of our routine patterns that repeat are connected with time such as day/night/day/night, etc.  

With TIME BAIT you will pose mystery patterns using the myriad of clock pattern cards.  Your pattern choices will include, to name a few:

Your children will develop the language of time such as morning, afternoon, evening, day, night, hour, minute, before, after, time zone, and elapsed time.  Meanwhile the calendar grid itself will be explored as a means of measuring time.  As the tools for measuring and recording times are explored, your children will practice counting by twos, fives, tens, twenty-fours, and sevens!  They will also explore adding and subtracting minutes and hours in a problem-solving setting.  TIME BAIT provides a natural setting for thinking about what is happening in other parts of the world.

The set of 20 ready-to-duplicate blackline masters will provide opportunities for your children to create Work Logs and Big Books, as well as charts dealing with time zones and world geography.  Analogies will be explored and recorded as the patterns emerge.  Recommended for grades K-5, you will have 30 pattern choices that are appropriate for the very young learners as well as the more mature learners!  

Make TIME BAIT part of your class routine and watch your children soar!
Click here to learn more about our TIME BAIT professional development experience!
ORDER YOUR TIME BAIT KIT TODAY!

If you do not have a CURIOSITY BAIT CARD HOLDER (shown at the top of this page), remember to order one of those, as well.
Product Catalog Number Price for One
CURIOSITY BAIT: TIME BAIT

CBDLO5

$42

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