In Research & Writing Activities That Explore Family History students will learn to use resources such as family records, the internet, religious records, diaries and journals, cemeteries, census records, wills, photographs, newspapers, etc., to discover interesting family facts and events. They are given questions to answer and related activities to complete based on their findings. As students get a sense of their family history, they will be anxious to use their creative writing skills to tell the sometimes dramatic, but always unique, stories they have uncovered about their interesting families.

Milliken's Report Writing provides students with step-by-step instructions and careful samples in order to produce a high quality, carefully researched, and well organized report. Included in this guide are 180 challenging ideas for reports on social studies and health topics to help stimulate students' interest in subjects and aid them in cultivating their own ideas for topics and areas of interest.

Learning Tools collection -- lessons, activities and reproducibles for classroom and home schooling.

Activities to stretch imaginations and acquire critical thinking skills. Reproducible prose and poetry exercises for metaphors and similes, limericks, haiku, letters, editorials, tall tales, myths and legends. An extensive Teacher Notes section, literature references, vocabulary and other extras.

This book promotes the use of reference materials by offering simple guidance to the often baffling subject of how to use reference tools. The worksheets can be completed with minimal assistance from the teacher, but students will require access to the reference books presented. The intriguing subjects on the worksheets were chosen to challenge the imagination and lead to further independent study. The study skills presented here will also help students proceed toward more efficient and productive work habits.