Mayan Incan And Aztec Civilizations Grades 5 8

Provides lessons and activities on the history, literature, music, geography, and art of the three ancient civilizations.

Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Mayan, Incan, and Aztec Civilizations! This 96-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Hands-on activities, research opportunities, and mapping exercises engage students in learning about the history and culture of Mayan, Incan, and Aztecan civilizations. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. This book aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

Provides lessons and activities on the history, literature, music, geography, and art of the Renaissance period.

Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Holocaust! In this 80-page book, students examine Holocaust-era political views, the Nazi rise to power, concentration camps, the Jewish resistance, and Nuremberg. The material entrances students, and the reproducible vocabulary, quotes, and critical-thinking exercises challenge them. The book includes historic sketches and a complete answer key.

Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using Meteorology. This 62-page book covers topics such as air pressure, measuring temperature, air movement, types of clouds, making a hygrometer, and weather forecasting. Students develop scientific knowledge and methods and critical-thinking skills with meteorologically themed projects, experiments, questions, and activities.

Bring U.S. politics to life for students in grades 5 and up with Elections! In this comprehensive text, students learn the basics of democracy, what makes up the electoral college, how to compare election systems, and how political parties work. They also explore who votes and how voting systems and elections are run. This 80-page book includes a complete glossary of political terms, creative ideas for class campaigns, and answer keys.

Write on! Write with students in grades 5 and up using Writing: Fundamentals for the Middle-School Classroom. This 128-page book helps students learn how to express themselves through writing. It provides open-ended lessons of personal writing, descriptive writing, short stories, poetry, and reports. This excellent classroom supplement also includes chapters arranged in order of increasing difficulty and activities that allow students to choose their own writing topics. It supports NCTE and IRA standards.

Provides lessons and activities to help students with their map reading skills.