The Core Skills Social Studies series engages students with easy-to-understand passages that help students build a better understanding of the world around them. Interactive lessons encourage active participation with the text, including practice with maps, charts, and illustrations. Students are given many opportunities to reflect on the text through higher-level thinking questions. Social studies focuses on developing knowledge and skill in history, geography, culture, economics, civics, and government. Core Skills Social Studies addresses these areas of study and correlates with social studies curriculum throughout the United States.

It's fun to learn the Who Was? way! Introducing a new series of workbooks that explore Social Studies and Science topics for curious kids and Who Was? fans alike. Fans of Who Was?, the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series, are sure to love this workbook filled with reading passages based on their favorite historical figures! The interactive writing prompts at the end of each passage make the educational material more engaging, and allow young learners to apply the skills they've been practicing in an exciting, and creative way. With material that aligns with national Common Core Standards and is vetted by a top educational consultant, Who Was? Workbooks are designed to reinforce social studies and science lessons introduced in the classroom in an accessible way for young learners everywhere. This workbook also includes stand-alone activities like crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blank word games, and word searches that readers can solve for extra Who Was? fun!

Winding through purple mountains majesties and amber waves of grain, the standards-based Spectrum Geography: Communities for grade 3 guides your child’s understanding of landforms, oceans, rivers, communities, the environment, and more using colorful illustrations and informational text. Spectrum Geography is an engaging geography resource that goes beyond land formations and maps—it opens up children’s perspectives through local, national, and global adventures without leaving their seats.

Course of study includes history, geography, culture, government, and economics.

Social Studies: A How To Skills Resource integrates skills and content, which maximizes precious classroom time without interfering with your core curriculum. It utilizes social studies content to teach valuable cross-curricular skills in a step-by-step format. The skills and strategies the students learn to master include: map skills, reading and thinking skills, writing and research skills, chart and graph skills, and test-taking strategies. Each grade level contains skill lessons that are integrated with grade-specific social studies content. Students use social studies content as they develop and practice skills from across the curriculum (such as reading, writing, language arts, math and geography). Each book also contains specific Test-Taking Strategies designed to help students develop techniques for analyzing and answering test questions.

Supplement your social studies curriculum with 180 days of daily practice! This essential classroom resource provides teachers with weekly social studies units that build students' content-area literacy, and are easy to incorporate into the classroom. Students will analyze primary sources, answer text-dependent questions, and improve their grade-level social studies knowledge. Each week covers a particular topic within one of the four social studies disciplines: history, economics, civics, and geography. Aligned to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and state standards, this social studies workbook includes digital materials.