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Pages of History 1 transports the reader through the timeline of the world-providing a view of God's work in every age. It's perfect for family story time or individual study.

From a mysterious safe in a dusty library comes the gateway to a journey through history. What James and Lance thought would be a boring school project is astonishingly transformed into an adventure that will forever change their lives.

In this exciting first volume, Pages of History 1: Secrets of the Ancients, James and Lance travel from Creation through the Reformation. Their adventures in history will captivate readers young and old. This volume covers 96 major historic events--all of the first three series in the Veritas Press History--and thousands of years of history in the format of a compelling story.

The series is written with an unapologetic Christian worldview and provides an engaging approach to classical teaching.

(This publication is not related to the service mark, PAGES OF HISTORY, registered by Gerald Docteur.)

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This distinctively Christian overview covers well-known works of art, from the Lascaux Cave paintings and Winged Victory to the Mona Lisa and American Gothic. But the program also takes time to focus on art by Christians and about the Christian faith. Two great works of art are on nearly all of the 32 flashcards along with information about each art movement studied. The full-color workbook (#3634) contains comprehension questions, crafts, activities, readings, and features on artists of the faith—both historical and contemporary. Fully integrated with the Veritas History Series, yet able to stand on its own, this art history program was designed to fill one year. It could also be stretched out from 2nd through 6th, to enjoy several cards at a time. Or it might be used as a transitional program in 7th, since it spans all of Western history. Learn More

This distinctively Christian overview covers well-known works of art, from the Lascaux Cave paintings and Winged Victory to the Mona Lisa and American Gothic. But the program also takes time to focus on art by Christians and about the Christian faith. Two great works of art are on nearly all of the 32 flashcards (#3890) along with information about each art movement studied. This full-color workbook contains comprehension questions, crafts, activities, readings, and features on artists of the faith—both historical and contemporary. Fully integrated with the Veritas History Series (yet able to stand on its own), this art history program was designed to fill one year. It could also be stretched out from 2nd through 6th, to enjoy several cards at a time. Or it might be used as a transitional program in 7th, since it spans all of Western history.

327 pages; softcover

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Sequel to Blackthorn Winter(#0489), yet clever enough to stand on its own. This second volume of the exciting historical fiction series once again captured the discerning interest of our four boys, and it will captivate your students, too. Set during the Great Awakening, this story provides an inimitable opportunity for proving how godly boys become godly men. Illustrated by Judith Hunt.

Young readers will continue to enjoy exciting advetures while learning about America's roots and history.

124 pages

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Build and program an amazing robotic buddy!

Discover the world of robotics — an exciting, interdisciplinary field combining physics, engineering, and computer science. This kit gives kids a simple, fun, and customizable introduction to robotics. Choose between the four-wheeled rover or the two-wheeled robot Sidekick, and get programming! Transform your Sidekick into its other mode any time you want.

As soon as your Sidekick is assembled, you can begin programming its movements directly on a built-in keypad. You can also download the free Sidekick app (Android or iOS) to unlock all of the Sidekick’s capabilities.

You control your Sidekick’s movements, sounds, and even facial expressions. Have fun and drive your Sidekick by remote control or by using your device as a gyroscope.

Code programs for your Sidekick using an easy, visual interface or the simulator, which are both included in the app. Your Sidekick is tons of fun! It can even play music and dance.

Choose from several styles of music and watch your Sidekick bust a move. Sidekick’s microcontroller — the robot’s “brain” — has separate inputs for LED lights, a speaker, two motors (left and right), a battery, and an infrared sensor that helps the Sidekick know where it is in the included maze game.

As you assemble this robot, you will learn how the Sidekick’s functions relate to each of these elements. Learn about the history of robotics and real-word roving explorers and humanoid robots.

A full-color, 36-page step-by step illustrated manual helps kids assemble both of the models and use all of the functions of the app — all while teaching them about robotics in the real world.

The app requires a tablet (recommended) or smartphone running iOS or Android. Please check the app stores for compatibility and device requirements.

Ages 8+ 

Requires 4 AA batteries (not included)

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A chronicle of American indigenous life, this guide captures the history of the complex societies that lived in North America when European explorers first appeared on the continent. Not only a history of tribal nations, this exploration also includes profiles of famous Native Americans and their many contributions—from early leaders to superstar athletes, dancers, astronauts, authors, and actors. Readers will learn about Indian culture through hands-on activities, such as planting a Three Sisters Garden, making beef jerky in a low-temperature oven, weaving a basket out of folded newspaper strips, deciphering a World War II Navajo Code Talker message, and playing Ball-and-Triangle. An important look at life before the settlers until present day, this resource shows that Native American history is the history of all Americans.

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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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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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With consultancy from a real Park Ranger, this must-have treasure for nature lovers, organized by region, offers detailed history, flora and fauna, and not-to-be missed sights and experiences, as well as information on what to pack for camping and hiking, environmental issues, endangered animals, park protection, and more.

Ages 7+

96 pages

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If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.’ Isaac Babel Tolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia.

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Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work.

A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary.

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Encourage students to make connections in history concerning social classes and divisions in societies while becoming familiar with this well-known novel. Written to support instruction of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton(#1877), these appealing and rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. This guide is the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions,and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature with this essential language arts resource. Grades 9-12 Learn More

Inspired by the art of Celtic and Scandinavian medieval craftsmen, as translated through intelligent 21st century engineering, Ugears is proud to introduce the Hurdy-Gurdy—the world’s first (as far as we know!) mechanical model for self-assembly that is also a musical instrument. This extraordinary mechanical model kit is truly one of the gems of our catalogue. This isn't just a toy, it's a full-fledged musical instrument that you build yourself. The Hurdy-Gurdy has a sound that's perfect for folk melodies or dancing, bringing medieval times into the present day. When you purchase the Hurdy-Gurdy you will experience a unique combination: the fun and challenge of building, the appreciation of outstanding engineering and design, and the joy of music. Feel like a modern-day Stradivari as you show your friends an instrument you created with your own hands, then start practicing so you can play popular tunes on your Hurdy-Gurdy!

Number of components: 292

Estimated time of assembly: 4-5 hours

Level: Medium

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Winner of: Parents' Choice Gold Award

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 48 pages 

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9 years

Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ NC1220L

Grade level ‏ : ‎ 2 - 4 Item

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.4 x 8 inches

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A History with 21 Activities

By Richard Panchyk, Foreword by Senator John McCain

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. Much more than an ordinary history book, it is filled with excerpts from actual wartime letters written to and by American and German troops, personal anecdotes from people who lived through the war in the United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Hungary, and Japan, and gripping stories from Holocaust survivors—all add a humanizing global perspective to the war. This collection of 21 activities shows kids how it felt to live through this monumental period in history. They will play a rationing game or try the butter extender recipe to understand the everyday sacrifices made by wartime families. They will try their hands at military strategy in coastal defense, break a code, and play a latitude and longitude tracking game. Whether growing a victory garden or staging an adventure radio program, kids will appreciate the hardships and joys experienced on the home front.

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Enrich content area reading and encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, history, and geography. A readers' theater is also included.

Topics include:

African Americans in Early America

Leaders Before the Civil War

War, Reconstruction, and Segregation

Leaders from the Civil War to the Great Depression

African American Heroes, 1865-1940

The Civil Rights Movement,

1945-1970 Moments and Movers in the Civil Rights Movement

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Enrich content area reading and encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of Native American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, history, and geography. A readers' theater is also included.

Topics include:

The Iroquois Confederacy

War and Revolution

Southeastern Tribes

The Western Plains

Conflict in the Southwest

The Far East

Native American Leaders

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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

Celebrate black history with an inspirational display! Includes photos and quotes from Barack Obama, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Fannie Lou Hamer, Langston Hughes, Jesse Owens, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Harriet Tubman, and Marian Anderson. Includes teacher guide with reproducibles. Set of 10 pieces. 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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Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages 

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 years and up

Grade level ‏ : ‎ 4 - 6 Item 

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches

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REA's Quick Access Study Charts contain all the information students, teachers, and professionals need in one handy reference. They provide quick, easy access to important facts.

The charts contain commonly used mathematical formulas, historical facts, language conjugations, vocabulary and more! Great for exams, classroom reference, or a quick refresher on the subject. Most laminated charts consist of 2 fold-out panels (4 pages) that fit into any briefcase or backpack.

Each chart has a 3-hole punch for easy placement in a binder.

Each chart measures 8 1/2" x 11"

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