The teaching guides developed for Middle/High schools were created to support 8th grade American history content standards and learning frameworks. They present concise menus of ideas for teachers working with developing critical thinkers. Where the Elementary level teaching guides focus on comprehension, the Middle/High School level teaching guides emphasize critical thinking and drawing connections. The core of each chapter lesson is a Connect-Understand-Check Understanding format, with activities for prereading, comprehension and extension. In addition, each lesson presents activity suggestions for linking disciplines, further research, nonfiction reading, geography skills and differentiated instruction. Groups of chapters are contextualized by Part activities, which include setting context for reading, written assessment prompts, debate suggestions, ethics discussion prompts, projects, and activities. Also, each Part contains a cooperative learning activity developed for A History of US by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools. Reproducible assessments, worksheets graphic organizers and rubrics are found at back.

The New Nation Middle/High School Teaching Guide, A History of US (A ^AHistory of US)

Children's Books

Leacock, Elspeth

Edwards, Karen

Park, Deborah

History

Oxford University Press

Thousands of visual and verbal facts map twenty journeys that have shaped America's past, from Columbus's sailing across the Atlantic to the pilgrims and explorers.

Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Buckley, Susan Washburn

Literature & Fiction

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Visit the places of America’s past, the places where real people led their lives and made American history. Places in Time takes readers to twenty sites that have shaped our national story. Each stopping point is a birds-eye view of a moment in time: Hear the Great Sun call out to his people at Cahokia, ride with General Benedict Arnold at Saratoga, step out of a sedan chair at Independence Hall, and join the Fergusons as they move into “the city as new as tomorrow.”

Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Buckley, Susan

HMH Books for Young Readers

Chapters include: Learning to Look, Introducing Perspective, Introducing Directions, Introducing Scale, Thinking about Distance, Introducing Symbols, Thinking about Seasons, Maps, Globes, Climates, Communities, Economic Geography, and Historical Geography.

Hands-On Geography/Grades K-3: Reproducibles and Activities to Develop Early Geography Skills

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

Each dynamic spread in Journeys for Freedom maps a factual account of real people pursuing freedom—and creating America’s story. Continuing their innovative storytelling approach, Susan Buckley and Elspeth Leacock invite you to trace the travelers across space and time as they forge a future for themselves and for our nation.

Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story

Biographies

Feel what it is like to participate in history as you follow in the footsteps of the young men and women who lived it. You will survive a harsh James Towne winter and battle the Redcoats in a Long Island cornfield; you will carry letters on the Pony Express and plant crops with Laura Ingalls; you will stow away on a whaling ship and help in the defense after the attack on Pearl Harbor. With hundreds of visual and verbal facts, each story in Kids Make History has been thoroughly researched and meticulously illustrated.

Kids Make History: A New Look at America's Story

Clarion Books

A tiny whaling village along the Pacific in 1490, New Plymouth as the Pilgrims settled in, Fort Mose as it welcomed African Americans escaping from slavery, Gettysburg on the day that decided the Civil War . . . Places in Time offers a bird’s-eye view of twenty sites where American history was made. Each page opens an unforgettable window to the past, where you can find out just what it was like to live in one place on one day in our nation’s history.

Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change — of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.

Joining the Be a Know-It-All! line of subject-specific Brain Quests, this newest addition presents 1,000 questions and answers in seven categories on the topic of geography--a subject that really seems to be slipping through the cracks. Geography covers customs, climate, ecology, population, resources, political borders, world trade, cities, and more. Two decks of cards, 72 cards per deck. Three-color throughout.

Brain Quest Be A Know-It-All!: Geography 4th-6th Grades (Cards)

Workman Pub. Co.

Map skills: The United States

Reference

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The New Nation Middle/High School Teaching Guide, A History of US (A ^AHistory of US)

Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Hands-On Geography/Grades K-3: Reproducibles and Activities to Develop Early Geography Skills

Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story

Kids Make History: A New Look at America's Story

Places in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Journeys in Time: A New Atlas of American History

Brain Quest Be A Know-It-All!: Geography 4th-6th Grades (Cards)

Map skills: The United States