The U.S. Constitution: An Owner’s Manual
This instruction manual for middle school students supplements American History and Civics classes. The accessible text and accompanying lesson plans provide a one-stop, essential guide to understanding American government. Students will gain insight into what led to the U.S. Constitution, discover details about the articles and amendments, learn how key Supreme Court decisions impact our lives, and develop skills for how to be an engaged American citizen.
American Hero: A Journey Through 400 Years of American History
This hybrid textbook uses American history facts to engage students in an exciting adventure story. A fictional teenager comes to America with Columbus, becomes an immortal, and stands witness to four centuries of history. Living through key events and meeting major figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, students experience history up close and personal, and their knowledge is tested in end-of-chapter “Re-Action” pages.
First Person American: The Story of America Through Speeches, Confessions, Testimonies, and Love Letters
This curated collection of primary sources from key figures of American history puts students inside the action. They get first-hand accounts from the pilgrims to the founders to the pioneers, from soldiers during wartime to the great inventors who improved our lives, from the famous to the infamous, and from all walks of life. These true accounts make for a vital supplemental research source book for Social Studies and American History.
Mysteries That Changed History: Hot Takes on Cold Cases
Students get to join an investigative team on six famous unsolved crimes of the past. In this supplemental text for History and Social Studies classes, students learn how to evaluate facts, ask critical questions, argue legal points, and render judgments on the mysterious circumstances around the deaths of King Tut, Alexander the Great, Anne Boleyn, and others. Teachers can use this book to engage students in lively debates, mock trials, or other inquiry-based projects.
Civil Discourse and How to Survive It: A Guide to Getting Along
A stand-alone course in Social Studies or Civics, this primer teaches students how to argue, debate, think about, and write about major issues of our time. It prepares students to become informed and involved citizens with exercises that develop critical thinking skills about virtues, morality, ethics, law, and government. Fun and funny, this essential workbook will help students form their own opinions and learn how to express them in a productive and positive way.
Time Travel Tours: Your Guide to Human History
Human history is presented as a tour guide to Earth by a visiting time-traveling alien in this engaging text. Through this unique, often humorous, perspective students get to “visit” the earliest stages of human evolution, through various migrations and empires around the world, to modern day societies and the latest innovations. Along with the accompanying teacher’s guides with fun activities and lesson plans, this is a wonderful introduction to World History.
