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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:

1. Get the idea! This introduces and defines the concept and includes an activity which teaches the concept.

2. 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.

3. 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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