Elections Materials Deemed Best Candidates for Distinguished Achievement Awards!
Released on: August 15, 2008, 2:21 pm
Press Release Author: Teacher Created Materials
Industry: Education
Press Release Summary: Publishers Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education both thrilled with "elections-oriented" resources voted best in their respective categories during a big election year!
Press Release Body: Huntington Beach, CA July 11, 2008 - Teacher Created Materials (TCM) and Shell Education (Shell) are both honored to receive the coveted 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award (DAA) from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). The recent announcement is timely during this presidential election year for two instructional products that are designed to help teachers educate students about local, state, and national elections.
Winning the AEP award for Primary Sources: Elections kit was exciting news for Teacher Created Materials and the timing could not have been any better. Heading into the home stretch of this year's elections plus winning the Distinguished Achievement Award definitely put this resource in the winner's circle. Created in a convenient kit format, this easy-to-implement resource won in the social studies Curriculum Package category for grades 6-8. The Primary Sources: Elections kit provides teachers with authentically recreated documents and photographs combined with a timesaving Teacher's Guide and Teacher Resource CD to supplement social studies curriculum.
Shell Education also reveled in winning the 2008 DAA award for Elections, a book that guides teachers into simulations and activities such as running a simulated election right in the classroom. It includes ready-to-use lesson plans and activities plus Teacher Resource CD to help teach the elections process. Elections won in the Social Studies Instruction division for grades 6-8 in the Teacher Resources, Activity Books category.
Teacher Created Materials publishes award-winning, research- and standards-based educational resources for K-12 classrooms. Specializing in supplemental materials and professional development training, Teacher Created Materials provides classroom-tested products for all areas of the curriculum "created by teachers for teachers and students" to educators around the globe.
Shell Education develops supplemental educational resources that are research and standards based. By working closely with teachers to develop top-quality resources, Shell provides practical, classroom-tested ideas and professional development resources to administrators and educators worldwide.
The Association of Educational Publishers is a nonprofit, professional organization for educational publishers. Founded in 1895, AEP began as a university-based association, which has grown to aid communication between educational organizations including policy makers, teachers, educational foundations and associations, and the education media. AEP's primary focus is to actively create a public awareness of effective educational resources.
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