Make world history an adventure. This book offers activity ideas galore to address students? various learning styles. Students will make posters, draw political cartoons, sing songs, conduct research, create graphs, and role-play events. With these meaningful activities, students are more engaged, more motivated to learn, and more immersed in world history. The book is loaded with great ideas to surpass the Global Studies Standards. The 20 chapters span from Ancient Egypt (4000BC) to recent events in the modern world. The 100 time-saving reproducible blackline masters come complete with a student-friendly description of the historical topic or period to provide context and meaning. 192 pages.

Questions to examine a current or historical event. Class Set of 8

Written by the Outstanding Teacher of the Year, this book is an excellent guide for making social studies exciting and active, while covering course content. This book will show you how to use cooperative learning strategies to make your social studies classroom come alive. Each of the 24 cooperative strategies includes an in-depth description, steps, activity ideas to use the strategy with other social studies content, and a lesson with ready-to-use blackline masters. Lessons are designed to teach the themes recommended by the National Council of Social Studies including issues, geography, historical events, historical characters, and current events. Also includes how to get started, how to manage the cooperative social studies class, what to do for assessment and evaluation. A favorite for middle and high school social studies teachers! 220 pages.

Over 1,000 activity ideas to make U.S. History engaging and experiential. The activities revolve around students' multiple intelligences to make history interesting and exciting for students with all intelligences and learning styles. Students create posters, draw cartoons, sing songs, create graphs, and relive historical events. From life and events in early America to recent events in our nation's history, you'll never be short of ideas to make history come alive for your class. The 84 time-saving reproducible blackline masters come complete with a description of the historical topic or period to provide context and meaning. Make history an unforgettable experience. 176 pages.

Use the hundreds of open-ended higher-level thinking questions in this book to venture beyond the basic facts of social studies. Watch as your students voyage into a whole new realm of thinking and learning. Includes intriguing questions for sixteen of the most popular social studies topics and themes including: Culture, Current Events, Explorers, Government, Historical Characters, Historical Events, Native Americans and more! Stretch the many facets of your students? minds with these thought-provoking questions: ?What do you think would happen if Congress tried to establish an official religion? What does your culture have in common with this culture? America wasn't discovered, it was stolen from the Native Americans. Do you agree or disagree?? Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Simultaneously explore social studies in depth and promote higher-level thinking! 160 pages.