Author: Mary Tucker
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1429112417
Size: 12.43 MB
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Children of today are so used to going everywhere quickly and comfortably in the family car, they take the whole thing for granted. They don't have a clue about the problems and challenges that had to be met by early inventors and automobile factories to make a smooth ride possible for us today. So why not bring one of the inventors of the automobile right into your classroom! Introduce Henry Ford to your students and let them discover for themselves the exciting early history of cars!
Language: en
Pages: 32
Pages: 32
Children of today are so used to going everywhere quickly and comfortably in the family car, they take the whole thing for granted. They don't have a clue about the problems and challenges that had to be met by early inventors and automobile factories to make a smooth ride possible
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Where can you find dinosaur footprints or rune stones? How salty is the Great Salt Lake? Where can you find a moon bow? From Maine to Hawaii, from Alaska to Florida, students tour the USA with a collection of fun facts, games and puzzles. Enhance your geography and social studies
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Treat your students to an exciting hot air balloon ride across the USA. There's lots to see and do as each state is visited (the District of Columbia, too), its history and geography explored, and fascinating facts explained. There are map activities, places and physical features to identify, and topics
Language: en
Pages: 32
Pages: 32
Welcome to the fascinating world of the American twentieth century — a time when changes in technology, communications, and transportation changed the world. The activities in this book provide an overview of social, historical, and cultural events in the U.S. during the twentieth century. People entered the twentieth century on
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Searching for creative ways to teach about the unique treasures, histories, cultures and people of each state? This book is divided into 51 units, each focusing on state and the District of Columbia. Within that unit, students are given Fun Facts about the state. These include the origins of the
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
This book in the popular Daily Discoveries series makes it possible for every day in the classroom to be a celebration! Celebrations include: Picnic Day, Fun with Puppets Day, Liberty Bell Day, Treasure Island Day, Man on the Moon Day, Pioneer Day, Beat the Heat Day, Beatrix Potter's Birthday and
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s
Language: en
Pages: 32
Pages: 32
When your students watch commercial airliners flying high in the sky, do they realize how much it took for that common sight to become a reality? When they see military jets blasting through the clouds, do they know how far flight has come in the last 100 years? Creative activities,
Language: en
Pages: 144
Pages: 144
In Meet the First Ladies, your students will find a biographical sketch with detailed information, followed by questions for discussion and research. A page focusing on some aspect of life in the time is also included. Students will learn that not every First Lady was a wife (daughters and relatives
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
This book features five sections of cards with each section pertaining to a different social studies topic. The cards can be used in any number of ways including trivia games, learning centers and fill-in moments when you need a little something extra in those last few minutes of the day.