Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of important events in American history such as Colonial America, The American Revolution, American Indian Experience, The Civil War, the Oregon Trail, Immigration, and the Civil Rights Movement. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.

Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. 192pp.

Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.

This resource introduces biographies with fun and creative strategies and activities to teach literacy skills and more including: creating a time line; drawing a mural; writing a biography; and acting out a scene. Stimulate student interest with provided TIME magazine covers and background information and meet the needs of all students with specific English language learner strategies and open-ended activities. This resource also includes a Teacher Resource CD with full color reproducibles.

Here's an excellent resource to enhance history and civics programs by introducing and exploring national, state, and local elections. Developed for Grades K-2, Elections will expose students to primary sources and promote critical-thinking skills. Students will enjoy the opportunity to run a simulated election in the classroom and participate in interactive opportunities through discussions, and extension activities. Flexible, self-standing lessons allow students to study specific parts of the process, and differentiation ideas are provided within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels. The included Teacher Resource CD features primary sources and student reproducibles. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Here's an excellent resource to enhance history and civics programs by introducing and exploring national, state, and local elections. Developed for Grades 3-5, Elections will expose students to primary sources and promote critical-thinking skills. Students will enjoy the opportunity to run a simulated election in the classroom and participate in interactive opportunities through discussions, and extension activities. Flexible, self-standing lessons allow students to study specific parts of the process, and differentiation ideas are provided within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels. The included Teacher Resource CD features primary sources and student reproducibles. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

A resource to enhance history and civics programs explores national, state, and local elections and offers differentiation ideas within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels.

Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.

The Museum Educator's Manual addresses the role museum educators play in today's museums from an experience-based perspective. Seasoned museum educators author each chapter, emphasizing key programs along with case studies that provide successful examples, and demonstrate a practical foundation for the daily operations of a museum education department, no matter how small. The book covers: volunteer and docent management and training; exhibit development; program and event design and implementation; working with families, seniors, and teens; collaborating with schools and other institutions; and funding. This second edition interweaves technology into every aspect of the manual and includes two entirely new chapters, one on Museums - An Educational Resource for Schools and another on Active Learning in Museums. With invaluable checklists, schedules, organizational charts, program examples, and other how-to documents included throughout, The Museum Educator's Manual is a 'must have' book for any museum educator.

All students love learning history with these exciting, easy-to-read plays. The plays are all written on a 3rd grade reading level, so even your most challenged readers will be successful. Topics covered include Columbus’s explorations, Jamestown, the Pilgrims, the Boston Tea Party, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Immigration, and more. Also includes creative activities, Web and literature links, background information, and vocabulary lists. For use with Grades 4-8.