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16" Inflatable Transparent Globe
$11.99
This 16″ inflatable transparent globe features updated cartography with geographical boundaries and bright vivid colors.Other features include:
- Dry Erase Markable
- Incredibly durable
- Educational & Reference tool for classroom
- Great visual aid for geography & social studies
- Students can identify continents, countries, capitals and oceans
- Perfect for celebrating Earth Day April 22
- Hang from ceiling for display (loop included)
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Using these historical documents, students make observations, generate questions, think analytically, and cite evidence to support their opinions and conclusions. Each pack contains 20 historical source documents including photos, maps, paintings, newspaper clippings, lithographs and letters in a mix of color, black-and-white and sepia finishes. Printed on sturdy 8-1⁄2" x 11" card stock. Includes free 15-page online Teacher's Guide.
American Milestones, The Great Depression
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This book provides an in-depth look at the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the great depression. This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! Each book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation and lost opportunities. Your students will also learn how the depression caused major political changes, particularly the New Deal and how it relieved much of the economic hardship. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 28-page comprehensive book is reproducible and educational.
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Using these historical documents, students make observations, generate questions, think analytically, and cite evidence to support their opinions and conclusions. Each pack contains 20 historical source documents including photos, maps, paintings, newspaper clippings, lithographs and letters in a mix of color, black-and-white and sepia finishes. Printed on sturdy 8-1⁄2" x 11" card stock. Includes free 15-page online Teacher's Guide.
Spectrum® Geography: Communities, Grade 3
$11.99
Help your child navigate his or her way to success with a series that explores and explains important aspects of geography. Spectrum® Geography: Communities for grade 3 doesn't stop with improved geography skills—it provides pages of informational text to strengthen comprehension while children learn about the environment, maps, and more.
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 by taking them on local, national, and global adventures without having them leave their seats.
Features:
- Answer Key
American Milestones, The American Civil War
$6.99
No war is more frightening--or more deadly--than a war between the peoples of one country. The repercussions of the American Civil War are still rippling through time, affecting the history we're part of every day. Kids need to know the truth. What started it? Did it really end April of 1865? This book describes fascinating facts and fun activities your students will love! The American Milestone series are a favorite among teachers nationwide! This book includes ideas for lesson plans, hands-on activities, biographies, fascinating facts and stories. Your students will be amazed as they study the Civil War. The American Milestone series meets national and social studies standards. This 32-page book is reproducible and educational.
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Among our most popular models. Striking colors invite students of any age to explore. The 12" blue-ocean globe offers a vibrant contrast to a metal gold-colored base. The Explorer contains more than 4,000 place names and distinctive political boundary markings.
Black Heritage: Celebrating Culture!™, The Best Book of Black Biographies
$7.95
The Black Heritage series has updated content and a new look. Using failures as the stepping stones to success. Lives lived with pizzazz! Perseverance in spite of all the obstacles. Each bio proves to young readers that you, too, "can do!" This educational book tells about how other people had to live their lives, how they chose to live their lives, and how everything you learn and do becomes a part of you that can often go on and do great things in spite of (and often because of) a hard life, poverty, discrimination, handicaps, and other negative things that only you can turn to a positive! This fascinating 35-page reproducible book also includes quotes, black history trail, noted black Americans, black servicemen, black lifesavers of the Outer Banks, and black heroes of September 11th.
A few of the biographies include:
A few of the biographies include:
- Chief Anderson
- James A. McPherson
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Ray Charles
- Jesse Owens
- Nat King Cole
- Harriet Tubman
- Thurgood Marshall
- Leontyne Price
- Ethel Waters
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From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Maryland Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
$9.99
From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Maine Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
$12.99
The War of 1812 Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary sources. Each primary source pack includes historical documents, maps, photographs, political cartoons, lithographs, diagrams, letters in a mix of color and black-and-white, and sepia finishes and is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.
The War of 1812 Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Your students will:
The War of 1812 Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Your students will:
- think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
- participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
- integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
- experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
- Cartoon showing a boxing match between King George III and James Madison - makes fun of British naval losses early in the War of 1812 - published 1813
- Portrait of William Henry Harrison, U.S. Army general during the War of 1812 and 9th President of the United States - 1813
- Illustration of the ruins of the U.S. Capitol after the British burned Washington, D.C., in August 1814
- Letter written by First Lady Dolley Madison to her sister - when the British invaded Washington, D.C., Dolley stayed in the White House to help retrieve a valuable portrait of George Washington - 1814
- Wood engraving showing Washington, D.C., under attack by British forces in August 1814 - published October 1814
- Copy of broadside printing of "Defence of Fort McHenry," the poem that later became the national anthem of the United States - 1814
- Painting titled The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814 by Am»d»e Forestier - 1914
- Cover for sheet music for the "Star-Spangled Banner" - circa 1861
- Engraving of the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815
- Wood engraving depicting the American warship Hornet sinking the HMS Peacock during 1813 battle - sailors are seen in rowboats abandoning ship - published circa 1815
- Lithograph depicting the 1813 Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh - published 1833
- Lithograph of General Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans - circa 1835
- Lithograph showing portraits of War of 1812 naval officers around a vignette of the Battle of Lake Champlain - published 1846
- Engraving depicting a soldier's wife lifting cannon balls in an artillery bunker during a battle at Fort Niagara, New York - published 1860
- Photograph of the flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814 and inspired the lyrics of America's national anthem - photo taken 1873
- Painting titled Battle of Lake Erie by William Henry Powell - shows Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry transferring from the USS Lawrence to the USS Niagara during the 1813 battle - 1873
- Illustration depicting British officers inspecting a group of American sailors for impressment into the British navy - published 1884
- Photograph shows montage of portraits of Lawrence Swinyer, who served in the War of 1812, and his eight sons who served in the Civil War
- U.S. Navy engraved portrait of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry - published 1917
- Photograph of Boy Scouts setting a flag on tomb at Arlington National Cemetery holding 14 veterans of the War of 1812 - photo taken 1925
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From KWLs to “foldables” and more, the Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! resource includes activities that will have students exploring their state's history, geography, people, government, economics, and symbols in a whole new way! A true-time saver, the Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.
The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
A true time-saver!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.
The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes—it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Alaska Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!
WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?
Interactive Notebooks are great for students!
- Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources.
- The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity.
- Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers.
- And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests.
Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers!
- You can easily customize your instruction.
- You direct the learning process and pace.
- You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz!
- You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments.
- You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects.
- And, you meet the unique needs of your students—in each and every year!
A true time-saver!
- Step-by-step teacher instructions
- Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
- Writing and reflection prompts
- Student letter
- Supply lists
- Rubric
- And more!
This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.