EDUPRESS AMERICAN HISTORY MATERIALS
ACTIVITY BOOKS
These books all contain hands-on activities related to the time periods they
represent. Activities include arts, crafts, cooking, and historical aids. They are best
used with grades 3-6.
Books are paper, 8½ x 11 inches, and 48 pages long.
Price is 7.19-D.
This series was revised at
the beginning of 2007. The main difference between
the editions are the text formatting and the covers. The actual content has not
been changed, but the organization of the pages has changed somewhat. Activities
are the same.
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 EP003:
Colonial
American Activity Book: Projects include charting the Mayflower's voyage on a 22-ft
length of wall; writing a classroom compact; making replicas of Plymouth rock from
papier-mache, of Pilgrim homes, a hornbook, and a quill pen; bartering with corn; cooking
colonial foods; writing almanacs; setting up an apprenticeship program in your home or
classroom, playing colonial games, and many more. Historical aids, patterns and
instructions are included. BTH-3795. $7.19-D
 Revolutionary War Era Activity Book
Projects include constructing a cardboard sickle; churning butter from cream;
sewing a "pocket" such as Revolutionary Era women used to carry their belongings
as today's women use a purse; preparing simple foods to serve at a Revolutionary
meal; recreating the clothing styles of Revolutionary men and women; making a
wooden doll; creating a mock cross-stitch sampler; making a flatboat replica;
painting a Tree of Liberty; baking a batch of hardtack; making a fife and drum
from simple materials; making a paper powder horn; reenacting the firing of a
Revolutionary cannon; crafting a cardboard musket and reenacting a battle; many
more. Historical aids, patterns and instructions are included. There is also a
list of related books for additional student reading. I'm currently waiting for
this to come in.
 EP108: Civil War Era Activity Book
Projects include activities for both the home and war fronts. Here are just a few of them:
make a hoop skirt and "poke" bonnet from simple materials; construct replicas of
some of the supplies sold through newspaper ads at the outset of the Civil War; design and
make a regimental flag; respond to commands issued by drum and whistle rhythms; dine on
Civil War soldiers' rations; gather round the fire and sing Civil War music; create a
newspaper using different kinds of paper; create a war correspondent's sketch book; make a
mobile representing symbols of the North and South; make representations of the Union and
Confederate flags; many more. Historical aids, patterns and instructions are included.
There is also a list of related literature for additional student reading.
BTH-3796. $7.19-D
EP000:
Native American Activity Book
Here are some of the projects: make replicas of a wickiup, a hogan, a tipi, a longhouse, a
chickee, and a pueblo; make a model canoe; learn some Indian sign language; make a
calendar stick; make a concho belt; craft an arrowhead; create a seed necklace; make a
wampum belt; make a clay pot using the coil method; weave a mat in the style of Native
Americans; many more. Historical aids, patterns and instructions are included. There is
also a list of related literature for additional student reading. BTH-3797.
$7.19-D
 EP017: Frontier American Activity
Book Here are some of the suggested activities: make individual or large-scale trail maps
(outline map included as model); decide what to take along and what to leave home; make a
shoebox conestoga; recreate Chimney Rock and Independence Rock from common materials; make
a mimi-mural of cactus plants the pioneers might have seen as they traveled west; build a
frontier fort and an Indian teepee village with popsicle sticks; build models of frontier
homes; make a sunbonnet and shawl (from construction paper and/or fabric) and dress like a
frontier woman; cook frontier food; make chaps from brown butcher paper; make a coonskin
cap from brown construction paper; many more.
Historical aids, recipes, patterns and instructions are included. BTH-3798.
$7.19-D
EP075:
Patriotic Symbols Activity Book
Inspire patriotism through art, crafts, cooking, and historical aids. There is a list of
related literature for additional student reading. Here is a sampling of activities: use
recycled materials to create a dimensional bald eagle; make decorations fitting for a
great Independence or Election Day celebration; make dioramas depicting different rooms in
the White House; make a stand-up model of the Washington Monument; make a mobile the
features symbols representing Presidents Washington and Lincoln; make a small model of the
Liberty Bell; many more activities suggested. Recipes, patterns and instructions are
included. BTH-3799. $7.19-D
PHOTO
FUN AND PHOTO HISTORY ACTIVITIES
These can be used independently or in conjunction with the books
above. Each package contains eight full page 8½ x 11color photographs of subjects
pertaining to the time period. There are related reproducible activities on the back,
including trivia questions. These are great to use on bulletin boards or activity centers.
Good for all grades.
Regular list price is 7.99. My discounted price is 7.19-D
Click on images with blue borders
to enlarge them.
Patriotic Photo Activity Cards
Pictures include Liberty Bell; Lincoln Memorial; Mount Rushmore; Statue of Liberty
Stars and Stripes; Bald Eagle; Washington Monument; Medal of Honor. BTH-4436.
$7.19-D
Colonial American Photo Activity Cards
Pictures include Apple Harvest; Water Wheel; Corn Crop; Colonial Quilting;
Sailing Ship; Colonial Weaving; Colonial Soldier; Colonial Church. BTH-4437.
$7.19-D
 EP041: Frontier American Photo Fun
Activities
Photos include Bears; Sights Along the Trail; Blacksmith; Log Cabin; Teton Mountains;
Cattle; Railroad Trains; Windmill. (Don't have scan yet for revised cover.
Pictures are the same as with the original version.) Waiting for this to come
in. Have some of older version left.
Native Americans Photo Activity Cards: Pictures include Totem Pole; Mesa Verde
Cliff Dwellings; Squash Crops; American Buffalo; Kachina; Pictographs; Pottery;
and Ceremonial Dress. BTH-4438. $7.19-D
Revolutionary War Photo
History Activities -- Events
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and research on the
back. For junior high age and above. Pictures include Revolt in Boston; Battle of
Saratoga; Winter at Valley Forge; Surrender at Yorktown; The Declaration of Independence;
Battle of Bunker Hill; War at Sea; Battle of Lexington and Concord. BTH-620.
$7.19-D
Revolutionary War Photo History Activities --
Profiles
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and research on the
back. For junior high age and above. Pictures include Benedict Arnold; Thomas Jefferson;
George Washington; Betsy Ross; Marquis de Lafayette; Paul Revere; Samuel Adams; and
Benjamin Franklin. BTH-621. $7.19-D
Civil War Photo History Activities
-- Profiles
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and research on the
back. For junior high age and above. Photos include Abraham Lincoln; Ulysses S. Grant;
Robert E. Lee; Prisoners of War; Jefferson Davis; The Soldier's Experience; "Stonewall" Jackson;
Frederick Douglas. BTH-616. $7.19-D
 EP098:
Civil War Photo History Activities --
Events
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and research on the
back. For junior high age and above. Photos include Ironclads in Battle; The Battle of
Gettysburg; The Fall of Atlanta; March to the Sea; Attack on Fort Sumter; Medicine; Raid
on Harper's Ferry; Media on the Battlefield. BTH-617. $7.19-D
 EP-3045:
Women in American History Photo Activity Cards. Pictures include Shirley
Chisholm; Susan B. Anthony; Eleanor Roosevelt; Sojourner Truth; Sandra Day
O'Connor; Harriet Tubman; Betty Friedan; and Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
Macy. BTH- $7.19-D
World War II Photo Events Photo History Cards
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and
research on the back. For junior high age and above. Photos include Attack on
Pearl Harbor; The Battle Of Britain; The Holocaust; The Battle for Iwo Jima;
The Atomic Bomb; Invasion of Normandy ; Nuremberg Trials; The Home Front.
BTH-618. $7.19-D
World War II Photo History Activities -- Profiles
The eight sturdy, authentic photos have ideas for cooperative projects and research on the
back. For junior high age and above. Photos include Enlisted Soldier; Army Nurse Corps;
Japanese Americans; Allied Leaders; General MacArthur; Adolf Hitler; General Eisenhower;
Prisoners of War. BTH-619. $7.19-D
 EP-3043:
Black History Photo Activity
Cards. Pictures include Former Slaves; Segregation; The Civil Rights
Movement; The Harlem Renaissance; W.E. B. du Bois; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and Malcolm X; Booker T. Washington; and Blacks in the Military.
Civil Rights - Events. The eight sturdy, authentic photos have
ideas for cooperative projects and research on the back. For junior high age and
above. Photos include Civil Rights Act of 1964; Freedom Riders; Voting Rights;
School Integration; Lunch Counter Sit-Ins; The Watts Riots; From Selma to
Montgomery; The March on Washington. BTH-4439. $7.19-D
Civil
Rights - Profiles. The eight sturdy, authentic photos have
ideas for cooperative projects and research on the back. For junior high age and
above. Photos include Thurgood Marshall; Fannie Lou Hamer; Slain Civil Rights
Workers; Jackie Robinson; Rosa Parks; James Meredith; James Farmer; Martin
Luther King, Jr. BTH-4440. $7.19-D
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