AS IT WAS SERIES
published by Educational Impressions
This series is an interdisciplinary approach to history. Multicultural
activities in language arts, social studies , science, math, and art or music help
students learn about the people, places, and issues of the past. Each book is 48 pages.
Intended for use with grades 4-8.
American History Set 1
Each book in this set contains 27 topics grouped into three units, and
each topic provides five multicultural activities. In addition, each unit has an
introductory activity and and open-ended culminating activity. Here are a few of these
activities: Create Signs Protesting the Intolerable Acts; Calculate the Number of States
that Equaled Two-Thirds in 1789, 1889, and 1989; Create a Travel Brochure for Salem, MA;
and Make a Venn Diagram Comparing the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. $9.86-D
each
Exploration / Discovery / Encounter.: Written by
Jim McAlpine, Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. Published by Educational
Impressions for grades 4-8. Covers 27 topics including Marco Polo, Magellen, Cabot,
Tobacco, Gold, Northwest Passage, James Cook, Pizzaro, Vikings, Fur, Balboa,
Coronado, Champlain, Horses, and many more. BTH-399
Settlement and Colonization. Written by Jim
McAlpine, Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three
units in this book are Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered
are The Mayflower Compact, Salem Witch Trials, Colonial Cash Crops, Slavery,
Indentured Servants, Native Americans and Settlers, Ann Hutchinson, Roger
Williams, Phyllis Wheatley, Puritans, Chief Powhatan Peter Stuyvesant,
Jamestown, Plymouth, Plantations, Lost Colony, St. Augustine, Quebec, and more.
BTH-400
War to Constitutions. Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book are
Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are Boston Massacre;
Intolerable Acts; Declaration of Independence; Constitution; Bills of Rights; Second
Continental Congress; John Peter Zenger; Abigail Adams; James Armistead;
Founding Fathers; Betsy Ross; Swamp Fox; Bunker Hill; Valley Forge; Yorktown;
Williamsburg; Philadelphia and more. BTH-401
Westward Expansion. Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book are
Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are Louisiana Purchase; Log
Cabins; Monroe Doctrine; Indian Removal Act: Manifest Destiny; Homestead Act; Lewis and
Clark; Sacajawea; Mormons; Cowboys; Chief Joseph; Horace Greeley; Boonesborough;
California; St. Louis; The Alamo; Pike's Peak and more. Cat BTH-402
American History Set II
Similar to Set I in format. $8.96-D
each
 The Civil War: Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are State's
Rights, the Economy, John Brown, Clara Barton, Frederick Douglass, Antietam,
Gettysburg, and Medical Practices. BTH-403
 Reconstruction: Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are Lincoln's
and Johnson's Plans, Carpetbaggers and Scalawags, Thaddeus Stevens, Ulysses S.
Grant, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Five Military Districts.
BTH-404
 The Industrial Revolution: Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are
Technology, Mass Production, Urbanization, Immigration, Eli Whitney, Thomas
Edison, Henry Ford, Tenements, Sweatshop Girls, and Factories. .BTH-405
Immigration: Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Among the 27 topics covered are Quotas and
Restrictions; Henry Cabot Lodge; Western, Southern, Northern, Slavic, Asian,
African, and Latin American Immigrants; Steerage; Destinations; Statue of
Liberty; and Ellis Island.
.BTH-406
Ancient History Set
The books in this set are similar to the ones in the American
History set. Each book is divided into the three units: Issues, People, and
Places. Each unit is divided into three sections:
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Get the idea! This introduces and defines the concept and
includes an activity which teaches the concept.
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Get the Facts! These pages provide multi-curricular activities
based on the concept. Students demonstrate their understanding of concepts and
content through the provided integrated activities.
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Make the Connection! Each of the pages in this section contains
an open-ended activity which enables students to synthesize and evaluate the
relationship between the concept and the content.
The introduction to each book contains objectives, instructions
on how to use the book, charts for Bloom's Taxonomy, Research Scheme, and
Integration of the two. At the end of each book is a map of the region being
studied and a bibliography.
 Ancient Africa:
Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. I don't' have the book in front of me right now
to detail the topics as above. But by reading the descriptions of the other
books in the series, you will get the idea. BTH-397. $8.96-D
Ancient Egypt.
Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Issues topics include Hieroglyphics,
mummification, Book of the Dead, religion, art, irrigation, dynasties, slavery,
and food production. People topics include Isis and Osiris, Amon-re, Menes,
Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Seti I, Ramses II, Imhotep, and Cleopatra. Places include
the Nile Delta, cities of the dead, Memphis, Thebes, Nubia, Abu Simbel,
pyramids, upper and lower Egypt, and cataracts. .BTH-394. $8.96-D
Ancient
Greece: Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Issues topics include philosophy and sophistry;
city-states; democracy; humanities; the Peloponnesian War; women; classical
Greek architecture; stoicism; and the Hellenistic Age. People topics include
Athena, Homer, Pericles, Sophocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and
Archimedes. Places include Mycenae, Troy, Mount Olympus, Thebes, the Parthenon,
Delphi, Acropolis, Marathon, and Sparta. BTH-395. $8.96-D
Ancient Rome:
Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Issues topics include the Roman Republic, the
Punic Wars, Pax Romana, the Roman Empire, Roman architecture, city
planning, Roman legions, gladiatorial combat, and slavery. People topics include
Romulus and Remus, Cato the Elder, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Virgil,
Ovid, Nero, and Constantine the Great . Places include the Tiber River, the
Forum, the Appian Way, Gaul, Pompeii, Hadrian's Wall, catacombs, Circus Maximus,
and aqueducts.BTH-396. $8.96-D
Mayas,
Incas, and Aztecs Written by Jim McAlpine,
Betty Weineek, Sue Jeweler, and Marion Findbinder. The three units in this book
are Issues, People, and Places. Issues topics include the Mayan Society, Mayan
Religion, Mayan Accomplishments, Incan Society, Incan Religion, Incan
Accomplishments, Aztec Society, Aztec Religion, and Aztec Accomplishments.
People topics include Mayan Royalty, Zac Kuk; Smoke Jaguar, Atahualpa, Francisco
Pizarro, Sapa Inca, Hernán Cortés, Montezuma, and Doña Marina
. Places include Mayan Monuments, Mayan Cities, Yucatán
Peninsula, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Incan Construction, Lake Texcoco, and
Tenochtitlán. BTH-398. $8.96-D
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