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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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A wonderful resource for teaching social studies, geography, cultures, and more!

Includes 5 pieces:
• United States political map
• United States physical map
• United States regions
• World political map
• World physical map

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Give third grade students important life skills by teaching them about money and financial concepts, and how to apply math to the world around them!

This dynamic teaching resource provides reproducible cut-out math manipulatives, reference sheets, and visual aids to support students as they explore real-world lessons and hands-on activities related to earning money at a job, making and following a budget, using credit cards, paying taxes, buying things at a store, and more.

Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities for Grade 3 is based on national and state standards and enriches any math curriculum in the classroom or home.

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Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities Grade 3 is based on current national and state standards, and each of the 10 units includes:

• Teacher overview with a suggested teaching plan, discussion questions, and vocabulary
• Real-world story that introduces each unit’s theme in the context of real life
• Cross-curricular activities including vocabulary, reading comprehension, and social studies
• Math application that presents scenarios using money-based word problems
• Hands-on activities such as partner and whole-class games and role playing that bring the concepts to life

Valuable teaching tools include these reproducible worksheets:

• Cut-out math manipulatives such as play money
• Reference sheets and visual aids such as number charts and balance sheets
• Glossary of vocabulary words

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Give second grade students important life skills by teaching them about money and financial concepts and how to apply math to the world around them!

This dynamic teaching resource provides reproducible cut-out math manipulatives, reference sheets, and visual aids to support students as they explore real-world lessons and hands-on activities related to using money, buying groceries, collecting allowances, paying at a restaurant, raising money to help others, and more.

Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities for Grade 2 is based on national and state standards and enriches any math curriculum in the classroom or home.

What’s Inside

Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities Grade 2 is based on current national and state standards, and each of the 10 units includes:

• Teacher overview with a suggested teaching plan, discussion questions, and vocabulary
• Real-world Story that introduces each unit’s theme in the context of real life
• Cross-curricular activities including vocabulary, reading comprehension, and social studies
• Math application that presents scenarios using money-based word problems
• Hands-on activities such as partner and whole-class games and role playing that bring the concepts to life

Valuable teaching tools include these reproducible worksheets:

• Cut-out math manipulatives such as play money
• Reference sheets and visual aids such as number charts and balance sheets
• Glossary of vocabulary words

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40 Hands-on Activities to Inspire a Love of Learning

By Ty Kolstedt, By Azeem Vasi

A multidisciplinary activity book from four core academic areas—math, science, language arts, and social studiesUnlike the many activity books devoted solely to one type of activity—science experiments, art activities, math games, brain teasers, and the like—Curious Minds takes a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating science, social studies, math, language arts, world languages, and more in 40 hands-on activities that promote kids' critical thinking and engaged interest in the world they live in. Designed for teachers, parents, or homeschoolers searching for new ways to motivate students aged 9–12, this illustrated resource provides a short mini-lesson for each activity, giving educational background information, related lingo, a materials list, step-by-step directions, and guidance for extending the activity. The wide range of activities—from exploring the physics of parachute flight to making homemade ink to testing how pollutants affect plants—ensures every learner's interest will be piqued.

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Designed for middle-school history curriculum, independent study, or tutorial aid, the American History series provides challenging activities that enable students to explore history, geography, and social studies.

Perfect to supplement your social studies curriculum, activities in Industrialization through the Great Depression include critical thinking, writing, technology, and more!

This 128-page social studies resource book includes topics such as:

• early American factories
• Morse code
• Henry Ford
• the roaring ’20s
• the New Deal program

Vocabulary words, time lines, maps, and reading lists are also provided.

Meets NCSS standards and is correlated to state, national and Canadian provincial standards.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including math, science, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character. Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards. Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

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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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The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- practice critical thinking skills in English, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Life Skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to providing students with structure and focus, they are a natural path to other classroom activities involving critical thinking skills. As students build their critical-thinking skills, they will be better prepared to for standardized tests, such as the PSAT and SAT.

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The Daily Warm-Ups series is a wonderful way to turn extra classroom minutes into valuable learning time. The 180 quick activities--one for each day of the school year-- help students practice critical thinking skills in language arts, math, social studies, science, and life skills. These daily activities may be used at the very beginning of class to get students into learning mode, near the end of class to make good educational use of that transitional time, in the middle of class to shift gears between lessons--or whenever else you have minutes that now go unused. In addition to helping students warm up and focus, they are a natural lead-in to other classroom activities involving critical thinking skills. As students build their critical-thinking skills, they will be better prepared to tackle standardized tests as well.

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World history is more than the "story" of our past. Its consequences can be felt today, and may impact our future. New World History Interactive is a modern, inquiry-based social studies curriculum that promotes critical thinking, immersive experiences, and informed action. It leverages the C3 Framework to make world history esperiential and culturally relevant for all students.

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Help students better understand the differences and similarities of governments around the world.

The World Governments workbook explores how governments are formed, what institutions and processes are needed to sustain a government, and how governments around the world are similar and different. World Governments compares 13 nations and governments from around the world. Each nation is profiled with information about the country, a brief summary of the type of government, and a discussion of current issues that are important to the nation. The reading selection is followed by review exercises that include matching, fill-in-the-blank, and critical thinking exercises. This workbook is correlated to current national, state, and provincial standards.

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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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Help students to better understand American history through the use of a personalized interactive notebook.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: The American Revolution for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover five units of study: British Rule, British Colonies, Road to Independence, War, and Peace. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

64 pages.

Grade 5-Grade 8 / Ages 10-14

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Help students to better understand American history through the use of a personalized interactive notebook.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Westward Expansion for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover three units of study: The Louisiana Territory, Moving West, and California Gold Rush. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

64 pages

Grade 5-Grade 8 / Ages 10-14

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Mark Twain's Reconstruction Interactive Notebook for grades 5-8 reinforces students' knowledge of the period after the Civil War as they create a personal resource to use for review and test prep. Topics covered include the beginning of President Lincoln's second term, President Andrew Johnson, the restoration, and more.

Why was Reconstruction an important period in American history? Teach children about the Reconstruction era with the Reconstruction Interactive Notebook. This social studies workbook teaches your child about Lincoln’s second term as president, the presidency of Andrew Johnson, and post-Civil War restoration. The American history workbook features multiple lessons and units of study focusing on Reconstruction through interactive content. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered.

64 pages

Grade 5-Grade 8 / Ages 10-14

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Mark Twain's Industrialization Interactive Notebook for grades 5-8 reinforces students' knowledge of US industrial growth as they create a personal resource to use for review and test prep. Topics covered include industrialization in America, improvements in transportation, expansion of technology, and more.

What impact did industrialization have on American history? Teach children about the industrialization of the United States with the Industrialization Interactive Notebook. This social studies workbook teaches your child about American industrialism, the expansion of technology, and improvements to infrastructure. The American history workbook features multiple lessons and units of study focusing on Industrialization in America through interactive content. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered.

64 pages

Grade 5-Grade 8 / Ages 10-14

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As students learn about social studies topics, they practice reading for detail, building vocabulary, using context clues, inferring, drawing conclusions and more. Cards feature full-color photo on front and Nonfiction text and comprehension questions on the back. Set of 32, 6" x 8" cards. Includes teacher guide. Grades 3+. Aligned with Common Core and State Standards. Supports requirements of Title I and other federally funded programs. Learn More

Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

Mark Twain Media also provides innovative classroom solutions for bulletin boards and interactive whiteboards.

Since 1977, Mark Twain Media has remained a reliable source for a wide variety of engaging classroom resources.

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myView Literacy English Language Arts Curriculum for Grades K-5 was built to help you reach "lightbulb moments" where your students light up with understanding texts, stories, and language.

This unique "workshop model" curriculum addresses literacy, content areas, and social-emotional learning through project-based inquiry (which tackles social studies and science themes).

Leveled Readers feature high-interest topics for both guided and independent reading.

The reading selections feature cultural relevant examples with positive images of secular gender roles and special populations.

Each Unit of Study introduces the unit theme and essential question.

The weekly sections build to the culminating project-based inquiry activity given at the end of each week.

Each lesson features a reading workshop with an infographic, a foundational skill to focus on, a main reading selection in a specific genre (realistic fiction, informational text, poetry, etc.), a reading-writing bridge, and a writing workshop

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Project-Based Learning creates active inquiry experiences that develop skills for active, responsible citizenship. myWorld Interactive focuses on inquiry skills and key concepts that support your homeschool standards and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies.

The bundle includes:

Student Edition Textbook

1-year student and teacher digital access to SavvasRealize.com, our award-winning online learning platform

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Inspire all students! myWorld Interactive is a K-8 social studies curriculum that encourages active inquiry while introducing civics, economics, geography, and history concepts. Students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for an engaged civic life. The program includes strong ELA instruction to support social studies inquiry and new literacy standards. myWorld Interactive is both comprehensive and adaptable, so it fits a wide range of homeschool settings and schedules. It’s the student-centered social studies curriculum that helps homeschool teachers achieve their instructional goals.

The bundle includes: Student Edition Textbook 1-year student and teacher digital access to SavvasRealize.com, our award-winning online learning platform

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Inspire all students! myWorld Interactive is a K-8 social studies curriculum that encourages active inquiry while introducing civics, economics, geography, and history concepts. Students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for an engaged civic life. The program includes strong ELA instruction to support social studies inquiry and new literacy standards. myWorld Interactive is both comprehensive and adaptable, so it fits a wide range of homeschool settings and schedules. It’s the student-centered social studies curriculum that helps homeschool teachers achieve their instructional goals.

The bundle includes:

Student Edition Textbook

1-year student and teacher digital access to SavvasRealize.com, our award-winning online learning platform

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Inspire all students! myWorld Interactive is a K-8 social studies curriculum that encourages active inquiry while introducing civics, economics, geography, and history concepts. Students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for an engaged civic life. The program includes strong ELA instruction to support social studies inquiry and new literacy standards. myWorld Interactive is both comprehensive and adaptable, so it fits a wide range of homeschool settings and schedules. It’s the student-centered social studies curriculum that helps homeschool teachers achieve their instructional goals.

The bundle includes:

Student Edition Textbook

1-year student and teacher digital access to SavvasRealize.com, our award-winning online learning platform

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Inspire all students! myWorld Interactive is a K-8 social studies curriculum that encourages active inquiry while introducing civics, economics, geography, and history concepts. Students develop critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills for an engaged civic life. The program includes strong ELA instruction to support social studies inquiry and new literacy standards. myWorld Interactive is both comprehensive and adaptable, so it fits a wide range of homeschool settings and schedules. It’s the student-centered social studies curriculum that helps homeschool teachers achieve their instructional goals.

The bundle includes:

Student Edition Textbook

1-year student and teacher digital access to SavvasRealize.com, our award-winning online learning platform

Learn More