Didactic Library
 

 

 

Thematic areas
Theory based fundamental resources for 1st to 6th grade teachers

MATHEMATICS
NATURAL SCIENCES
SOCIAL SCIENCES
HEALTH EDUCATION
ARTS
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
SCHOOL JUORNALISM
TECHNOLOGY
CHESS
VALUES
CURRICULUM ADEQUACY

A collection of didactic resources that covers a varied range of subjects and disciplines for the first and second cycle of basic education. Specialists in didactics develop projects and design tools for classroom application. They also discuss curricular aspects of the different areas.

 

Language and Literature


THE CENTER FOR DIDACTIC RESOURCES.
TOWARDS A COMMUNITY OF READERS

Hebe Solves
- Schools as literacy developers.
- Creative writing and document writing.
- Procedural skills and communication nets.
- Pedagogy on the net; the Internet; the search for information.
- The school library.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-019-9 / Pages: 112

READING AND LITERATURE. STRATEGIES AND DIDACTIC RESOURCES
TO TEACH HOW TO READ AND WRITE

Hebe Solves
- Readers/ actors/ tutors.
- The stage and the experience.
- Rhythm, emphasis and repetition.
- Working with the written language.
- The dramatic action and analogy.
- Reading, experiencing and creating. The experience of story telling.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-010-5 / Pages: 96

TO TEACH AND TO LEARN HOW TO READ
KINDERGARTEN AND 1ST CYCLE OF BASIC EDUCATION

Mirta Castedo, Ana Siro and María C. Molinari
- Reading circumstances during initial literacy.
- Selection of reading materials for classroom libraries.
- How to create a Reader's Club.
- The teacher´s participation during initial literacy.
- To know how to read or to read in order to know.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-65-X / Pages: 96

IT IS POSSIBLE TO READ AND WRITE DURING THE FIRST CYCLE. TESTIMONIES AND PROPOSALS
María Laura Galaburri
- Possible ways to start the process.
- The organization of time in the classroom.
- Reading scientific communications.
- Reading and writing journalistic texts.
- Story writing.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-77-3 / Pages: 88

TEACHING PROJECT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF READERS AND WRITERS
María Laura Galaburri (Coordinator)
- A treasury of stories about animals.
- Our pupils… do they know how to study?
- The production of a talking book of poetry.
- A challenge: terror stories that are actually frightening
- The transcription of interviews is not an easy undertaking. Provocative reading.
- To write stories at school: is it a frightening, a moving or a confusing experience? Writing of a play for puppets.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-071-7 / Pages: 128

TEACHING THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE. A PROCESS IN CONSTRUCTION
María Laura Galaburri
- How to make writing interact with the previous knowledge of the pupils.
- How to create readers and writers.
- Didactic situations devoted to writing.
- Planning reading and writing projects.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-91-9 / Pages: 144

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES USING THE INTERNET
Alejandro Spiegel and Gabriel Bajarlía
- Promotion of reading and activities for the interaction of books and the Internet.
- Development of activities with didactic sequences
- Dragons of the 21st Century. The fish-man. Those damned books. What is your beacon?. Who do you want to talk to?
- Theory topics.
- Sites of interest.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-047-4 / Pages: 160

SPELLING CLINIC. AN OPEN RESEARCH TO NEW RESOURCES
Juan Carlos Dido
- To read and to write.
- Importance, problems and difficulties of spelling
- Reading based methods. Normative based methods.
- What are the resources and how to use them?
- Capital letters, punctuation marks, accents.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-041-5 / Pages: 112

CHILDREN AS THE PROMOTERS OF READING.
TO ENJOY READING AND TO UNDERSTAND MEANINGS

Bettina Caron
- How does the teacher relate to reading.
- Basics for the creation of reading promoters
- To have a conception about reading. A model for an evocative survey
- On reading, the ways in which we read.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-052-0 / Pages: 128

ISSUES ON THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGE STILL TO BE RESOLVED PROPOSALS FOR THE 2ND CYCLE
Mónica Rojo (editor)
- Diagnosis on reading. From diagnosis to proposals.
- The production of written fiction.
- School equipment and didactic purposes.
- Reflections on spelling.
- Oral and written argumentation..
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-79-X / Pages: 82


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Mathematics
 


MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONS DURING THE FIRST CYCLE.
CONTRIBUTION FOR CLASSROOM WORK

Claudia Broitman
- Adding and subtracting
- Problems and resolution procedures.
- Calculus strategies.
- Teaching to multiply.
- Teaching to divide.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-57-9 / Pages.: 96

THE STUDY OF THE GEOMETRIC PLANE AND SOLID FIGURES.
ACTIVITIES FOR THE FIRST SCHOOL YEARS

Claudia Broitman and Horacio Itzcovich
- Didactic sequences. - Covering of solids.
- Folding and forms. - Covering designs with figures.
- Tracks and figures - Construction with solids.
- Messages with figures. - The development of plane solids.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-060-1 / Pages.: 112

REASONS TO TEACH GEOMETRY IN BASIC EDUCATION.
TO LOOK, TO BUILD, TO SAY AND TO THINK...

Ana María Bressan, Beatriz Bogisic and Karina Crego
- Geometry in basic education
- Activities for the development of visual abilities
- Activities for the development of drawing and building abilities
- Activities for the development of communication and thinking abilities
- Application and transference abilities.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-89-7 / Pages: 128

TO TEACH AND TO LEARN MATHEMATICS.
PROPOSALS FOR THE SECOND CYCLE

Héctor Ponce
- Proportion. Measurement.
- Fraction: meaning, relations and attributes.
- Geometry and measurement. Crossroads.
- Calculation of surface and volume.
- Notions on statistics.
- Probabilities: the uncertain, the probable, the certain.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-78-1 /Pages: 82

FRACTIONS, ARE THEY A BRAIN TEASER? SUGGESTIONS FOR CLASSROOM WORK
Mabel Pujadas and Liliana Eguiluz
- Problems.
- Rational numbers as a knowledge that must be taught
- Rational numbers as an object for teaching.
- Rational numbers as an object for learning.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-018-0 / Pages: 128

MATE MAX. MATHEMATICS EVERYWHERE
Alicia Dickenstein
- Mathematical problems and everyday activities.
- Mathematics in: the sports, the home, the street, the city and while travelling.
- Mathematics in the third cycle.
- Includes a booklet for teachers: "Matemax and problems at school"
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-000-8 / Pages: 128

 

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Natural Sciences
 

NATURAL SCIENCES: TO LEARN HOW TO DO RESEARCH AT SCHOOL
THE ART OF POSING QUESTIONS AND DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS

Melina Furman and Ariel Zysman
- What is this thing we call science?
- Eyes wide open and curious minds. Curiosity as the motor for learning.
- To ask in order to know. Science made to measure.
- Experimenting at school. Activities and experience..
- Performance of experiments and group discussion.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-049-0 / Pages: 128

HELPING TO BUILD ARGUMENTATIVE MINDS.
ACTIVITIES AND CONTENTS IN NATURAL SCIENCE FOR THE 1ST CYCLE

Beatriz Goldstein (coordinator)
- Not everything is what it looks like.
- Integration of proposals.
- How to benefit from visits to museums and zoos.
- The human body.
- Sexuality at school.
- Environment and health. Light and sound.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-69-2 / Pages: 82

INFORMATION AND CONSCIENCE DURING OUR DEVELOPMENT. WITH FOCUS ON GLOBALIZATION
Beatriz Goldstein (coordinator)
- Becoming conscious of our environment.
- An eco-artistic viewpoint of life.
- Nature as a mirror.
- Illusions, are they optical too?
- Research projects in and from the classroom
- Unity and diversity, an apparent paradox. Continuity and change. Genetics.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-70-6 / Pages: 82

THE SCIENCE THAT IS POSSIBLE. TEACHING AND LEARNING PROPOSALS
A. Sargorodschi, G. Dicovskiy, D. Pinchuk, N. Jelen and I. García Díaz
- On magnets and circuits.
- Magnetism, electricity, sequences.
- Exploring what is inside matter.
- Systems, mixtures and methodology.
- Living beings in their own environment.
- Ecology, vegetable garden and research.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-016-4 / Pages: 144

OUTDOORS SCIENCE WORKSHOP. ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND CURIOUS CHILDREN
Graciela Caironi
- Getting ready for outings, camps, colonies and other outdoor situations
- Observation and experimentation.
- Playful activities.
- The soil, the sky and the climate.
- Living beings.
- Water and air. Light and sound.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-024-5 / Pages: 144

BUILDING A PLACE FOR NATURAL SCIENCES IN THE 1ST CYCLE
Mónica Susana Grinschpun and Marina Gómez Ríos
- Classroom research. Science and the scientific method
- The wrapping of our body: the skin.
- Seeds and fruits.
- Those photosynthetic organisms: they reproduce, grow and develop.
- Animals.
- Birds
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-015-6 / Pages: 112


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Social Sciences
 


SOCIAL STUDIES FIRST! - 1ST CYCLE

Laura Marcela Méndez
- The city and its infrastructure: water.
- National commemoration is not what it used to be.
- Family and games.
- Social reality as an object of study.
- Men and women in society: gender.
- Geographic space. Culture: rural and urban lifestyles.
- What do neighborhoods live on? Economic activities.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-76-5 / Pages: 82

TEACHING HISTORY IN THE 2ND CYCLE
José Svarzman
- Student's previous knowledge and the working plan.
- Working with problem subject matters. Selection of contents. Frame of mind.
- Methodological problems in teaching social sciences.
- Didactic resources.
- The literary text as a didactic resource.
- Analysis of the information: procedural contents.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-75-7 / Pages: 82

OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE FROM THE SOURCES: THE TEACHING OF HISTORY THROUGH EVERYDAY LIFE.
José Svarzman
- Everyday facts and news. Everyday life as an object of study.
- Everyday life and the teaching of concepts, procedures and frames of mind.
- Sources of information.
- My neighborhood: from everyday life to concept.
- Considerations about methodology.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-013-X / Pages: 144

ORAL HISTORY. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCHOOL´S HISTORICAL ARCHIVE
Laura Benadiba and Daniel Plotinsky
- The archive as a means to create the history of the school.
- Oral sources. What is oral history?
- Construction and organization of the archive. Working plan. Recuperating historical documents
- Training for teachers and students. Planning
- Proposal for the usage of archive materials
- Contributions for the teaching of social sciences.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-042-3 / Pages: 128

FOLLOWING URBAN FOOTSTEPS. TEACHING HISTORY IN REFERENCE TO THE CITY
Graciela Augustowsky, Oscar Edelstein and Silvia Tabakman
- The history of the city, a historiographic journey. Local or social history?
- Field trip to a museum.
- Documentary sources. Textual documents and photographs.
- Resources: exhibitions - archives at school, historical footsteps in the urban space.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-90-0 / Pages: 112


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Health Education
 


HEALTH EDUCATION. CONCEPTS, REFLECTIONS, PROPOSALS.

Laura Piaggio, Anabella Saks and Gisela Schwartzman
- Health: something more than just a biological matter
- Processes of health - illness/Attention
- Nutrition and health.
- Sexuality, gender and health.
- Prevention of accidents.
- Environment and health.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-023-7 / Pages: 128

 

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Arts
 


A MATTER OF IMAGE.
THE MEANING OF ARTISTIC EDUCATION AT SCHOOL

Mariana Spravkin
- Images on paper. Collage.
- Photography in the classroom. Reading photographs.
- Light. Manipulation of images. Photograms.
- Boxes: small stages. Comics: images frame by frame
- Sculpture at school: the three dimensions.
- From the plane outwards and inwards. Relief.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-66-8 / Pages: 112

GAMES AND MUSIC. MUSICAL GAMES AT SCHOOL
Fernando Bozzini, Marina Rosenfeld, María Inés Velázquez
- Latin-American and universal manifestations.
- Rhythm, rites, rhymes and circle games.
- Games and communication. Games with movement. Games and cognitive abilities..
- Image and sound.
- Didactic use.
- Instructions, can openers and uncorkers
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-014-8 / Pages: 112

SONGS, GAMES, ACTIVITIES WITH QUAVERS.
THE ORGANIZATION OF GROUPS, BANDS AND CHOIRS.

Edith Raspo, Delia Capurro, M. C. Castro, Ariel Zimbaldo, Jorge Lutzow Holm
- Appreciation of music. The child and the production of music.
- The child as a performer. Production of music. The child and creativity.
- Percussion: audition and production.
- Wind instruments and keyboards.
- How to form and direct bands and groups..
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-68-4 / Pages: 82

PUPPETS AT SCHOOL. EXPRESSION, COMMUNICATION AND GAMES.
Viviana Rogozinski
- Puppets as a technique for expression. Why are puppets at school important?
- Recuperation of puppet games.
- The puppet language. The plot. The repertoire.
- The teacher´s role. Situations in class. Exploratory games.
- Puppets, are they a means or an end?: dramatic expression, school performances and campaigns.
- Suggested techniques. The stage and the materials. The tableau
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-046-6 / Pages: 160

A MANUAL OF THEATER FOR CHILDREN AND TEACHERS.
INSTRUCTIONS TO KILL BOREDOM

María Eugenia Ursi and Héctor González
- What does the teacher need in order to create and represent children's plays. Activities and games for the children to acquire basic notions about the theater
- Proposals for the organization of the work.
- Staging a play with the children.
- A teacher´s manual of theater .
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-92-7 / Pages: 144

THEATER GAMES OF THE CLOWN. TRAVELLERS THROUGH THE EMOTIONS
Jesús Jara
- The clown and the theater. The clown and the circus.
- Clowns in the movies.
- Philosophy and psychology of the clown.
- Social function; the mask with the red nose.
- Methodology and practice.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-022-9 / Pages: 128


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Physical Education
 
RETHINKING PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT SCHOOL.
BETWEEN INTEGRAL EDUCATION AND MOTOR ABILITIES

Angela Ainsenstein (coordinator)
- Planning physical education classes. What to do at the beginning of the year.
- Sports at school; technique or tactics? The formative value of gymnastics
- The organization of space. How to benefit from class hours.
- From motor abilities to technique.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-67-6 / Pages: 82

UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS ABOUT LEARNING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
THE BODY

Alicia Grasso
- Critical reflections: concept and usage of the body from the training of teachers to school practice. How teachers teach and learn.
- Building the concept of body. Towards an intelligent body. Body identity.
- Pedagogic proposals towards corporal identity
- Innovative learning. Samples of activities
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-033-4 / Pages: 112

SWIMMING. TRAINING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
WATER RECREATION

Juan José Moore
- Resolution of learning problems.
- Exercises without elements. The use of elements.
- Exercises in contact with schoolmates.
- Circle games, relay, balls. The shower. Music during the swimming class.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-039-3 / Pages: 128


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School Journalism
 

STRATEGIES TO EXPLORE THE MEDIA
THE EDUCATION OF CRITICAL CITIZENS.

Gustavo Mórtola
- The media in the classroom. Activities. Transversal contents
- The news in the written press: are they a mirror of reality?
- The image: reading and multiple meanings.
- Visual conventions. Photography in the press.
- News reports, school and television. The portrait of the other.
- Publicity: the seduction of consumers.
- Marketplace of values. Bazaar of identities.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-044-X / Pages: 128

ILLUSTRATED MANUAL FOR THE YOUNG JOURNALIST.
FUNDAMENTALS AND PROPOSALS FOR THE 2ND CYCLE.

Juan Carlos Dido
- Journalism, knowledge, communication.
- Pedagogical possibilities of written journalism.
- Radio and education.
- Communication and public opinion.
- School journalism.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-017-2 / Pages: 96


 
Technology
 
THE PLEASURE OF TEACHING TECHNOLOGY.
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FOR DYNAMIC TEACHERS

Carlos Marpegán, María José Mandón, Juan Carlos Pintos
- From curriculum prescriptions to the multifarious practices in the classroom
- The pencils lifter.
- The production of food.
- Orange juice: analysis of the product.
- From home technology towards the conceptual field of circuits.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-011-3 / Pages: 144

TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION. PROBLEM SITUATIONS + CLASSROOM WORKSHOP.
Gustavo Gennuso
- Problem situations in technology as a didactic strategy.
- Concepts to understand.
- Problem situations with tools, supplies, machines, products and procedures during the first and second cycle.
- Evaluation in technological education.
- Procedural, conceptual and attitude contents.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-74-9 / Pages: 82

COMPUTERS FOR TEACHERS. PROJECTS AT THE SERVICE OF THE DIFFERENT AREAS.
Juan Carlos Asinsten
- The multiple usage of the computer at school
- Computers at the service of curricular areas.
- Programs that allow for the exploration of new languages.
- Multimedia at school. Sound edition.
- Click. A tool for three to eight years old children.
- Creation of puzzles and graphics.
Didactic resources/ ISBN: 987-9191-71-4 / Pages: 82


 
Chess
 


CHESS AT SCHOOL
TOWARDS A NEW FORM OF TEACHING CHESS

Miguel Soutullo
- Learning to play chess and the role of the teacher.
- Implementation, the club and the motivation.
- Basic rules of the game.
- Basic concepts of the game: the opening, the middle of the game, the end.
- The resolution of problems. Techniques and resources.
- Planning. Teacher´s materials.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-99-4 / Pages: 144


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Values
 


LIVING TOGETHER; SCHOOL-COMMUNITY: IS THIS CONNECTION POSSIBLE?
STRATEGIES FOR PARTICIPATION

María Esther Rodríguez
- Projects for ethics and citizenship education
- The school and the family: parents and grandparents
- The school and the neighborhood: a different point of view. The school and the world. The school and the arts.
- The school and the non for profit organizations: is this relationship possible?
- The school and the government organizations. The school together with other schools.
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-9191-72-2 / Pages: 82


 
Curriculum adequacy
 

CURRICULUM ADAPTATION.
NOTES CONCERNING DIVERSITY

María José Borsani
- New perspectives on curriculum.
- Different models of adaptation.
- Specific adaptation, groups.
- Textual adaptation. Special talents
- Prevention of failure at school.
- Mistakes and correction.
- Writing , a subjective construction.
- The child and the law in written language
Didactic resources / ISBN: 987-538-030-X / Pages: 160


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