A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Magician. Inside: 27 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 22-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities (including a change-blindness attention test, a real key-card trick every student can master, a patter-writing workshop, and a live false-memory demonstration — no special equipment beyond a deck of cards), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and performing arts), and standards alignment with NGSS sensory processing and Common Core. Designed to flex from a one- to two-week unit that ends with students performing one trick they have actually mastered to a longer ELA, theater, or psychology integration — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: that nothing a magician does is real but the feeling is; that the audience is fooled not by the trick but by their own brains; that the magician is a neuroscientist who never went to school; and that the method is just the skeleton — the feeling is the art. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling the book's most emotionally weighty passage, a magician performing for someone with Alzheimer's, and on the strange ethics of a profession whose entire purpose is to deceive in order to give.