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A complete series of workbooks for the Social Studies, Grades 6-12
U.S. History, U.S. Government, Ancient History, Medieval History, Modern World History, World Cultures, Global Studies, World Regions, Geography
Everything you need
- Complete units from A to Z – you don’t need a textbook.
- Active learning – students perform what they know in front of the class.
- Brief lectures with maps, timelines, and graphic organizers.
- A wide variety of games: action games, brain games, and more
- Heavy on group analysis!
- Homework on the internet!
- Each workbook concludes with the “Mother of all Tests.”
Lessons are based entirely on Bloom’s taxonomy
| Recall | The ABCs game, Mars/Venus, The Last Man Standing, Honk if you hate history! |
| Interpret | Interpret maps, timelines, charts, documents, speeches, quotations, and political cartoons |
| Apply | Can you talk like an Egyptian? and What would you have done? |
| Analyze | The Bell Game, The Great Race, The Gong show |
| Synthesize | Life is like a rock group, The Great Debate |
| Evaluate | Bloom! This is pure Bloom’s taxonomy |
Students develop a sense of what Social Studies is all about
Brief lectures with graphic organizers, Timelines, Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast, Strengths & Weaknesses
Students develop a Social Studies vocabulary
Define terms, Identify people
Students compete in games
Memory games - Brain games - Action games - Board games - Guys v. Gals - Games for the Great Outdoors
Students learn skills
Interpret: a timeline, a map, a photo, a political cartoon, a quotation, a document, a film
Research: on the internet, in the library
Working in groups, students practice critical thinking
Practice in Bloom’s taxonomy
What would you have done? Personalizing history
The Great Debate
Students practice writing essays
The expressive essay!
The narrative essay!
The informative essay!
The persuasive essay!
Students learn the logic of a multiple-choice test
Read the test aloud!
Games for taking the test (“Honk if you hate history!”
Students practice for the state test!
Every workbook concludes with the “Mother of All Tests”