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Popular history, science, and geography topics brought out of the classroom and into your home with fast facts, activities, and quizzes.

Some subjects are too interesting to be left at school! Carry on your love of history at home with Ancient Egypt–an activity-packed guide to one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.

Divided into sections, the book starts with fast facts on topics such as the pharaohs, the afterlife, religion, and the pyramids and ends with charts of famous Egyptian gods and rulers. Using this information, you can complete the puzzles in the main part of the book, plus there are hands-on activities such as designing a mummy’s case and writing in hieroglyphs. Finally, test your newfound knowledge with the quick quizzes (with answers supplied). You can keep track of your achievements throughout with a star chart to fill in every time you finish a page.

Note to parents: The Eyewitness Workbooks series is devised and written with the expert advice of educational and reading consultants and is designed to appeal to children ages 8 years and up. First published in 2007-2009, this series has been fully revised and updated for 2020.

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Interactive Notebook: Life Science enhances learning through personalized note-taking.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with Interactive Notebook: Life Science for grades five through eight. This Mark Twain interactive notebook includes 29 lessons in these three units of study:

• structure of life
• classification of living organisms
• ecological communities

This personalized resource helps students review and study for tests.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

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Help students understand the integration of history and language arts with hands-on projects.

The 64-page Mark Twain Hands-on History Projects Resource Book for grades 5–8 allows students to use hands-on presentations and activities to understand the integration of history and language arts. Students will research historical and geographical topics and then produce written, graphic, or oral presentations to demonstrate their knowledge. Lessons highlight specific concepts in language arts and geography, and each lesson gives students guidelines and step-by-step instructions. Projects cover topics from ancient civilizations and the Middle Ages to the Civil War, the Renaissance, and much more.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

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Help students learn about our nation’s leaders and innovators with an informative social studies book.

The American Leaders & Innovators: Colonial Times to Reconstruction workbook provides biographical sketches that help students identify American leaders and innovators of the past as real people. The biographies deal briefly and concisely with people who helped make the republic great. Each of the 19 units contain a reading selection, a key details page, and an activity page, featuring graphic organizers, map analysis, writing activities, research opportunities, and more. Profiles include Benjamin Franklin, Tecumseh, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Blanche Kelso Bruce.

This workbook is correlated to current national and state standards.

64 pages

Grade 6-Grade 12 / Ages 11-18

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The History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide contains everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of History Quest: Middle Times, the narrative history series, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of the Middle Ages through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more.

Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four cultures across the world. The History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is your child’s first step in a lifelong quest to explore and appreciate history.

From the Fall of Rome to the Ottoman Empire, the study guide to History Quest: Middle Times is a complete one-year curriculum guide that combines history with activities, world geography, great books, and writing. Young students study events and people from medieval times including the Middle East, China, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, Japan, India, Mali, Mongolia, Great Zimbabwe, Polynesia, and Russia.

This comprehensive curriculum combines history studies with geography, literature, hands-on activities, and writing. History Quest: Middle Times Study Guide is a teacher/parent guide that provides step by step lessons to teach world history from the Fall of Rome to the 17th century CE.

This study guide includes: 34 weekly units with lessons for:

• History reading assignments from History Quest: Middle Times (#7344) and history encyclopedia History Travel Log entries (timeline/geography activity)
• Terms & Concepts (learning goals)
• Map work
• Comprehension/Writing/Dictation/Copywork
• Crafts/Cooking/Artwork hands-on activities
• Medieval history blackline maps
• Hands-on activity instructions
• Literature and weblink enrichment recommendations
• Unit schedules and supply lists
• Student coloring and activity pages

Grade level: 1st through 6th

Pages: 264

From Pandia Press

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Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920s for use by middle school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations! Mills’ books include quotes from great classical historians such as Herodotus and Cicero, making them a great preparation for reading these authors in high school. We also wrote study guides so that you can have a total classical history curriculum in the middle school years.

Our study guides contain reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, enrichment activities, maps, and tests. The Mills’ series concludes with The Book of the Middle Ages, where students are privileged to see how the West spread out, building a new civilization on the remnants of the Roman Empire. From the foundation of monasteries to the bell towers of universities, from the crowning of Charlemagne to the execution of Joan of Arc, the travel through the West unfolds beautifully. 61 pages

See also 8814, 8815, 8816.

Grades 6-9

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Dorothy Mills wrote some wonderful history books in the 1920s for use by middle school students, and Memoria Press is proud to bring these books back into publication—with added illustrations! Mills’ books include quotes from great classical historians such as Herodotus and Cicero, making them a great preparation for reading these authors in high school. We also wrote study guides so that you can have a total classical history curriculum in the middle school years. Our study guides contain reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, enrichment activities, maps, and tests.

The Mills’ series concludes with The Book of the Middle Ages, where students are privileged to see how the West spread out, building a new civilization on the remnants of the Roman Empire. From the foundation of monasteries to the bell towers of universities, from the crowning of Charlemagne to the execution of Joan of Arc, the travel through the West unfolds beautifully.

See also 8814 and 8815.

Grades 6-9

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The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc, among others. Famous Men of the Middle Ages guides students through the turbulent “dark age” of history and illustrates the transition from the end of ancient times to the birth of the modern era. This exciting book is a perfect precursor to Famous Men of Modern Times.

This Student Guide #8791, comprehensively covers Famous Men of the Middle Ages #8788. Each of the 30 workbook lessons includes famous quotes, a drill of key people and places, 10 vocabulary words, 5-10 comprehension questions, and an activities section that includes mapwork, timelines, discussion questions, and art projects. The program also comes with an appendix of supplements, including maps, a “Who Said That?” worksheet, a timeline, drill questions, and drawing pages. The Teacher Guide #8792 includes tests.

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The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Edward the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc, among others. Famous Men of the Middle Ages guides students through the turbulent “dark age” of history and illustrates the transition from the end of ancient times to the birth of the modern era. This exciting book is a perfect precursor to Famous Men of Modern Times.

Our Student Guide #8791, comprehensively covers Famous Men of the Middle Ages #8788. Each of the 30 workbook lessons includes famous quotes, a drill of key people and places, 10 vocabulary words, 5-10 comprehension questions, and an activities section that includes mapwork, timelines, discussion questions, and art projects. The program also comes with an appendix of supplements, including maps, a “Who Said That?” worksheet, a timeline, drill questions, and drawing pages. The Teacher Guide #8792 includes tests.

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Ages 6 and up.

Format: 2-Disc Audio CD 

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes on 2 CDs.

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The Door in the Wall Teacher Guide features teaching guidelines, notes on reading activities, lessons for the 10 chapters of The Door in the Wall including answers to The Door in the Wall Student Guide #1130, all tests, and the key to all assessments. Grade 6 Learn More

The Door in the Wall Student Guide consists of literature guidelines and lessons for the 10 chapters of The Door in the Wall each containing reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, quotations, discussion questions, and enrichment activities. The appendix includes “Hope is the Thing with Feathers ” by Emily Dickinson and “Untitled” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The answers can be found in The Door in the Wall Teacher Guide.#1131 Learn More

Oil Pastels have excellent color opacity and provide smooth color laydown for rich oil pastel effects. Vivid colors with intense luminosity for encaustic, pastel and scraping techniques. In addition to their good lightfastness, they are very soft and easy to blend with your finger or white spirit. There are endless possibilities of blending individual colors to create new hues. Aspiring artists also have the option of thinning with baby oil. Acid-free.

Ages: 12 and above

Contents Include: 36 Oil Pastels: #101 White, #105 Light Cadmium Yellow, #102 Cream, #107 Cadmium Yellow, #108 Dark Cadmium Yellow, #111 Cadmium Orange, #115 Dark Cadmium Orange, #127 Pink Carmine, #128 Light Purple Pink, #123 Fuschia, #129 Pink Madder Lake, #139 Light Violet, #125 Middle Purple Pink, #136 Purple Violet, #151 Helioblue Reddish, #143 Cobalt Blue, #110 Phthalo Blue, #145 Ligh Phthalo Blue, #154 Light Cobalt Turquoise, #161 Phthalo Green, #163 Emerald Green, #171 Light Green, #167 Permanent Green Olive, #173 Olive Green Yellowish, #172 Earth Green, #130 Salmon, #131 Coral, #132 Beige Red, #187 Burnt Ochre, #186 Terracotta, #184 Dark Naples Ochre, #180 Raw Umber, #176 van Dyck Brown, #231 Cold Grey II, #233 Cold Grey IV and #199 Black in a box.

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Oil Pastels have excellent color opacity and provide smooth color laydown for rich oil pastel effects. Vivid colors with intense luminosity for encaustic, pastel and scraping techniques. In addition to their good lightfastness, they are very soft and easy to blend with your finger or white spirit. There are endless possibilities of blending individual colors to create new hues. Aspiring artists also have the option of thinning with baby oil. Acid-free.

Ages: 12 and above Contents

Include: 24 Oil Pastels: #101 White, #105 Light Cadmium Yellow, #107 Cadmium Yellow, #111 Cadmium Orange, #115 Dark Cadmium Orange, #127 Pink Carmine, #128 Light Purple Pink, #123 Fuschia, #125 Middle Purple Pink, #136 Purple Violet, #151 Helioblue Reddish, #143 Cobalt Blue, #110 Phthalo Blue, #154 Light Cobalt Turquoise, #161 Phthalo Green, #163 Emerald Green, #171 Light Green, #167 Permanent Green Olive, #132 Beige Red, #186 Terracotta, #180 Raw Umber, #176 van Dyck Brown, #233 Cold Grey IV and #199 Black a box.

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Although many people have been taught that the period from 400 to 1522 A.D. was marked by darkness, ignorance, and struggle, this guide will show you that the opposite is true!

Links to websites, hands-on activities, discussion questions, mapping activities and much more will bring the Middle Ages to life.

Hands-on activities add depth to the history while vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, research topics, and website links make this both an academically strong study and one that will engage your entire family in stimulating discussions. Our teacher guide provides the structure you want and the flexibility you need to successfully teach this complex time period.

In the accompanying homeschooling curriculum, students will learn about King John, King Arthur, Saladin, Queen Eleanor, Joan of Arc, Shahrazad, Marco Polo, Peter Abelard, Geoffrey Chaucer and many others. They will learn about Martin Luther who revealed a new way to approach God and about John Wycliffe who organized the Bible. Students will read about the life of Columbus, whose voyage to North America changed the world forever. By reading some of the best literature on the subject, homeschooling students will be encouraged to discuss new ideas and social changes.

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THE SILVER BRANCH The Roman Britain Trilogy (Volume 2)

Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor. In fear for their lives, they gather together a tattered band of men and lead them into the thick of battle, to defend the honor of Rome. But will they be in time to save the Emperor . .

208 Pages, Ages 10-15

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A true Renaissance man, Henry VIII was an accomplished musician, author, and poet as well as the founder and supreme head of the Church of England. Although his court was a center of scholarly and artistic innovation, the king is best remembered for his many marriages. This collection features nine dolls — one of each of the six wives, plus three of the king in early, middle, and later years. Their sixteen lavish costumes include royal armor and elegant gowns of brocaded silk, taffeta, and velvet. Each accurately rendered outfit appears with informative notes. Dover Original. Learn More

Who were the cavaliers, and what elaborate hairstyles did they introduce? Did Puritans really wear only simple, unadorned black clothing? Tom Tierney answers these questions and more in this carefully researched and rendered coloring book on seventeenth-century apparel worn by the English, the American colonists, and other Europeans.

Forty-five illustrations reveal that cavaliers (those loyal to the royal cause during the English civil war) loved ribbons, bright colors, and fancy hats on heads of long, curly hair. Puritans preferred browns, grays, deep greens, and other dark colors but didn't always wear black. And — they liked white cuffs and collars! Other figures portrayed include farmers, soldiers, prosperous middle-class couples, and landed gentry.

Informative captions and descriptive notes accompany handsome, full-page drawings that will not only appeal to coloring book fans of all ages but will also be valued by costume historians and fashion designers.

Dover Original

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The frenzied search for gold and the territorial rivalries of European monarchs provided the necessary catalysts for much early exploration and colonization in the New World. This entertaining and educational coloring book recreates detailed pictures of many key moments—when European explorers and settlers left historical footprints on the North American continent. Thirty–nine realistically rendered line drawings — many of them double-page spreads — depict historic events that span centuries of exploration — from the arrival of the Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000 A.D.) to the establishment of colonies in Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts, and the exploration of the American Far West by Zebulon Pike and Jedediah Smith. Among the scenes captured by artist Peter Copeland are Columbus' ship Ni̴ña anchored off the Bahamian coast (1492), John Cabot exploring Canada's east coast (1497), Ponce de León in Florida (1513), Verrazano exploring the middle Atlantic coast (1524), Cortés' conquest of Mexico and overthrow of the Aztec empire (1519), Coronado exploring the Southwest (1540-1542), Francis Drake in California before completing his round-the-world voyage (1577-1580), the ill-fated Roanoke colony (1584-1587), Samuel de Champlain establishing the first permanent French colony in North America (1608) and 30 other excellent illustrations.

A fact-filled introduction and informative captions complete this carefully researched resource that will be welcomed by colorists, students, parents, teachers, and adventure-lovers of all ages.

Dover Original.

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In Basher Science: Extreme Biology, artistic designer Simon Basher and writer Dan Green join neurophysiologist Dr. Mark Lythgoe to put modern biology under a microscope in this fun and fact-filled illustrated book for middle grade readers.

Learn about the amazing research that is revolutionizing biology, from advances in medicine to genetic engineering. Meet the world’s toughest bacterium and a biologically immortal flatworm whilst learning about epigenetics, superbugs, nanomedicine and cloning. Extreme Biology is a compelling guide to developments at the very forefront of science—a must-read for anyone wishing to understand, and engage with, modern biology.

From Superbugs to Clones…Get to the Edge of Science with such topics as:

• Hardcore Herd: Water bear, Conan the Bacterium, Planarian flatworm, Superbug (antibiotic-resistant microbes), Aliens

• Gene Genies: Gene (including DNA, RNA, Nucleotides), Gene expression, Protein, Prion, Genome, Epigenetics

• BioHacker Crew: Gene splicing, Recombinant DNA, Recombinant protein, Polymerase chain reaction, Genetically modified organism, Cloning, Gene machine, Shmeat (including tissue culture), Designer baby, Synthetic life, Biosafety (including bioethics)

• Bioscience Buddies/Drug Dudes: Nanomedicine, Monoclonal antibodies, Broad spectrum antiviral, Pharming (the use of genetic engineering to grow drugs), Biosensors

• Medical Mavericks: Face transplant, Regenerative medicine, Gene therapy (including DNA vaccine), Functional MRI

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Wind in the Willows By KENNETH GRAHAME

The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad become the firmest of friends, but after Toad’s latest escapade, can they join together and beat the wretched weasels once and for all?

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is one of the twenty wonderful classic stories being relaunched in Puffin Classics in March 2015

Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Mar 27, 2008 | 288 Pages | Middle Grade (Ages 8-12)

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The Knight at Dawn By MARY POPE OSBORNE Illustrated by SAL MURDOCC

Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books

A castle with a secret passage! That’s what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the Middle Ages for another wild adventure. In the Great Hall of the castle, a feast is under way. But Jack and Annie aren’t exactly welcome guests!Learn More

First published in 1941, Walter Farley’s best-selling novel for young readers is the triumphant tale of a boy and a wild horse. From Alec Ramsay and the Black’s first meeting on an ill-fated ship to their adventures on a desert island and their eventual rescue, this beloved story will hold the rapt attention of readers new and old.

AWARDS Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award WINNER 1941

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Paperback

Published by Yearling Aug 20, 1991

224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 7-5/8

 Middle Grade (Ages 8-12) 

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ABOUT HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES

This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen’s magnificent stories. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor’s New Clothes, the tale of a man who cares only for his appearance and The Little Mermaid, who longs to one day marry a human prince. With a wonderful cover illustration and new introduction by award-winning picture-book creator Jan Pienkowski.

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