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The 4D Cityscape USA History Over Time Puzzle is a unique 4-D puzzle that enables you to incorporate the fourth dimension of time as you piece together the growth of the USA.

Models include The Alamo, Fort Gibson, Hoover Dam, and many more. Fun, challenging, educational, and memorable, the 4D Cityscape USA History Over Time Puzzle allows your entire family to see the defining moments in history unfolding before your very eyes!

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This puzzle recreates Washington D.C.'s historic skyline, not only in three dimensions using scale-model buildings, but also along the fourth dimension of time, spanning over 215 years of architectural history.

The puzzle includes 57 replica buildings that depict the city as it appeared as far back as 1792 through to the present day.

The puzzle includes iconic structures such as the Washington Monument, The Pentagon, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, The White House, and the US Capitol.

The buildings fit into pre-cut holes in a traditional 2D jigsaw puzzle composed of 1,076 pieces that form the city's street layout and islands.

The product includes a Time Poster that directs you through time as you rebuild Washington D.C.'s history.

Recommended ages 14 and up.

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Build your own highly-detailed version of 'the city that never sleeps' in the center of your bedroom or living room with the 4D Cityscape: New York City time puzzle.

This interactive experience is sure to thrill and excite both geography buffs and puzzle lovers alike.

The first layer of this best-selling, interactive puzzle forms the foundation with a vivid map of New York.

The second layer is a unique foam layer to add dimension that has cutouts for inserting the miniature buildings.

Once atop of the first map layer, the 2nd dimension brings New York to life!

The puzzle includes over 100 plastic buildings that depict the city as it appeared as far back as 1812 through to 1971 with the addition of the World Trade Towers, and into the future in 2013 with the completion of the Freedom Tower.

Including icons such as the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, and the United Nations, the buildings fit into pre-cut holes in a traditional 2D jigsaw puzzle composed of 575 pieces that form the city’s street layout and islands.

Includes a Time Poster that includes a history of the city.

Ages 14 and up.

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History Quest: Middle Times | Homeschool History Book from Pandia Press

Pages: 530

Grade level: appropriate for 1st – 4th grade as a read-aloud, 5th grade+ as an independent read

Book type: Narrative history book with many backline illustrations and maps

Through an exciting and rich narrative, History Quest: Middle Times takes you on a journey through the Middle Ages—a time of knights and ninjas, princesses and sultans, great explorations and technological advances, exciting cities and fascinating figures. You’ll visit faraway places to meet and learn from everyday folks, famous world leaders, and characters in medieval literature.

Designed as a read-aloud for elementary-age children, an independent read for older students, or a journey of exciting adventures for family storytime, the History Quest series presents an immersive study of history in an engaging and memorable format.

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This thought-provoking book offers a balanced exploration of the beliefs, history and customs of all the major world religions, as well as many less well-known faiths, past and present. Spiritually inspiring photographs and illustrations, as well as informative maps and a time chart, will help you to gain a better understanding of: What people of different faiths believe; Where and how people worship; The impact of religion on society; Rites of passage, customs and festivals. Internet links on almost every page take the reader to subject specific world wide web sites for further learning and exploration of the concepts of the religion being discussed.

Ages 10+   Publisher: Usborne

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By Jane Chisholm

A gorgeously illustrated guide to the history of the world, from wars and revolutions to ground-breaking inventions, discoveries and artistic movements. With over 3,500 key dates from the Stone Age to the year 2000, organized geographically so readers can compare what was happening in different parts of the world.

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By Holly Bathie, Illustrated by Wesley Robins

This fascinating book is packed full of dinosaur bones, Egyptian mummies and dozens of other curious objects. There are over 120 stickers to complete the scenes and bring each museum to life, including a science museum, costume museum, natural history museum and more. A great follow-up activity after a trip to a museum.

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Mark Twain's Civil War Interactive Notebook for grades 5-8 reinforces students' knowledge of the American Civil War as they create a personal resource to use for review and test prep. Topics covered include the road to war, secession, the first and second parts of the Civil War, and the victory for the North.

What impact did the Civil War have on American history? Teach children about the American Civil War with The Civil War Interactive Notebook. This social studies workbook teaches your child about pre-war tensions, important battles, and the victory of the North. The American history workbook features multiple lessons and units of study focusing on the Civil War through interactive content. Students become active participants in their own learning by providing an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining a notebook with essential information. 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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EXIT: The Mysterious Museum

You are on a trip to the Florence Natural History Museum, intent on visiting the sunken treasure of the Santa Maria. Your relaxing day at the museum is quickly derailed by an incredible adventure! Can you solve the mysteries of the museum and find a way out?

Difficulty Level: 2 of 5. This game can be played only one time because you must markup, fold, and tear the game materials to solve the riddles and escape.

Ages 10 + From Thames & Kosmos

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This 192-page book increases vocabulary, stimulates imagination, and boosts standards-based language arts skills. Each of the lessons teaches PSAT and/or SAT vocabulary words, which are made up of dynamic, real-life words students may encounter while reading or use in their writing. Each lesson contains definitions, pronunciation keys, parts of speech, and alternate choices for each word made up of synonyms, idioms, and/or phrases. There are several activities, including a story involving students in a classroom setting. Students complete a variety of exercises requiring critical reading and writing skills to contextualize the words. The exercises deliberately use other forms of the words as different parts of speech, so that students learn to recognize these forms as variations of the original words— further expanding their vocabulary and enabling them to use the words in more contexts. The correct spelling of vocabulary words are emphasized with the jumble activity that asks students to unscramble the word before writing the correct spelling. Whether used in the traditional classroom, as a homeschooling resource, or for independent study, Vocabulary Virtuoso is a highly effective and fun vocabulary resource! PSAT-SAT Book 2 — 180 Vocabulary Words and These Concepts: ancient Greek history, ancient Greek drama, Commedia dell’ Arte, mythological allusions in Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s London, Renaissance artists, epistolary writing, historical fiction, U.S. musical history, types of literary conflict. 192 pages. Grades 8-12. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

This 208-page book increases vocabulary, stimulates imagination, and boosts standards-based language arts skills. Each of the lessons teaches PSAT and/or SAT vocabulary words, which are made up of dynamic, real-life words students may encounter while reading or use in their writing.

Each lesson contains definitions, pronunciation keys, parts of speech, and alternate choices for each word made up of synonyms, idioms, and/or phrases. There are several activities, including a story involving students in a classroom setting.

Students complete a variety of exercises requiring critical reading and writing skills to contextualize the words. The exercises deliberately use other forms of the words as different parts of speech, so that students learn to recognize these forms as variations of the original words— further expanding their vocabulary and enabling them to use the words in more contexts. The correct spelling of vocabulary words are emphasized with the jumble activity that asks students to unscramble the word before writing the correct spelling.

Whether used in the traditional classroom, as a homeschooling resource, or for independent study, Vocabulary Virtuoso is a highly effective and fun vocabulary resource!

PSAT-SAT Book 1 — 180 Vocabulary Words and These Concepts: Literary - characterization, idioms, euphemisms, puns, aphorisms, jargon, allusions, irony, theme Rhetorical - The Art of Persuasion in Speech and Writing, Using the Extended Simile to Write a Poem History - The Renaissance, Renaissance artists

208 pages. Grades 8-12. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Teachers can decorate and educate with these economical learning tools! Package of 36 photographic accents with 36 different designs. Approximately 6 x 8". Learn More

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This study guide, designed for 5th grade-8th grade homeschoolers, makes teaching this literature-rich curriculum easy. The guide provides detailed background information, study notes, comprehension and discussion questions, writing assignments, website links, a Timeline for a fun hands-on activity, and recommended supplemental literature. Organized into easily followed lessons, students and parents will learn the modern history of our nation along with poetry, geography, and character studies.
 
Through the accompanying literature, your homeschool students will explore one of the most dynamic periods of history in our Modern American and World course that covers the American Civil War up to modern day! Read engaging literature to learn about the events that led to the Civil War, Reconstruction, the turn of the century, both World Wars, Civil Rights, Korean War, Vietnam War, and contemporary America. Study notes provided will cover historical figures like the Wright brothers, Teddy Roosevelt, Gladys Aylward, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Sergeant York, Jackie Robinson and many others.

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From George Washington to Donald J. Trump, this fact-filled coloring book chronicles the history of all 45 US Presidents. Each Chief Executive is depicted in an image drawn from real life, and most portraits feature backgrounds that reflect significant events from the president's administration. Every illustration includes a detailed caption, making this book a practical reference as well as a source of coloring fun. Gr. 3-8. 48 pages. From Dover Learn More

A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world. Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end on the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. Kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, but ordinary people all over the world seize power. New currencies are created, new weapons invented, and world-changing catastrophes alter the landscape: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill millions, the Black Death millions more. In the chaos of these events, our own world begins to take shape. Follow the story back; check out the History of the Medieval World and the History of the Ancient World! Hardbound. 816 pages. Companion Study Guide available (Sold separately, Item #12624) Learn More

This Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use with "History of the Ancient World Text" (Sold Separately, Item #4171) provides a full curriculum with study questions and answers, critical thinking assignments, essay topics, instructor rubrics, and test forms. Explanations for answers and teaching tips are also included. Contains Instructor Section (the first half of the book) and perforated Student Pages (in the second half). The Study and Teaching Guide, written by historian and teacher Julia Kaziewicz in cooperation with Susan Wise Bauer, makes The History of the Ancient World even more accessible to educators and parents alike. From Well-Trained Mind Press. Paperback. 537 Pages. Learn More

Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Egypt and the Middle East! 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 Egypt and the Middle East. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards. Grades 5-8. From Carson-Dellosa. Learn More

Designed to accompany the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind program, this Handbook of Rules assembles into one handy reference work all of the principles that govern the English language—from basic definitions (“A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea”) through advanced sentence structure and analysis. Each rule is illustrated with examples drawn from great literature, along with classic and contemporary works of science, history, and mathematics. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind is an innovative program that combines the three essential elements of language learning: understanding and memorizing rules (prescriptive teaching), repeated exposure to examples of how those rules are used (descriptive instruction), and practice using those rules in exercises and in writing (practical experience). Each year, parents and teachers go through the dialogue, rules, and examples in the Core Instructor Text (sold separately, Item #7946); students follow along in the Student Workbook (sold separately, Item #7947). This repetition solidifies the concepts, definitions, and examples in the student’s mind. Hardcover. 102 pages. From Well-Trained Mind Press. Learn More

This study and teaching guide is designed to accompany Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Medieval World (Sold separately, Item #2282). This Study and Teaching Guide, designed for use by both parents and teachers, provides a full curriculum with study questions and answers, critical thinking assignments, essay topics, instructor rubrics, and map exercises. Explanations for answers and teaching tips are also included. Contains Instructor Section (in the first half of the book) and perforated Student Pages, including 50 maps (in the second half). The Study and Teaching Guide, written by historian and teacher Julia Kaziewicz in cooperation with Susan Wise Bauer, makes The History of the Medieval World even more accessible to educators and parents alike. Grades 9-12+ From Well-Trained Mind Press. 884 pages. Learn More

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. 400 pages. Learn More

200 color stickers depicting beautifully detailed sketches of historical events and people from 6000 BCE to Present Day. There are 50 stickers for each time period. Each sticker is approximately 1″ x 1.5″ size. From Pandia Press. Coordinates with History Odyssey Timeline (sold separately, Item # 4785) Learn More

This comprehensive world history book for middle school and high school helps students research and respond to World War I. This World War I book for middle school and high school provides information and activities related to the war. Topics include causes of the war, the Western Front and propaganda.

The individual sections of the workbook addressthe national standards for ELA and literacy in history and social studies. This social studies book will help you teach your students the importance and effects of the First World War. Each unit includes opportunities for:

• •conducting student research
• •examining primary sources
• •interpreting graphs and maps
• •responding to constructed-response questions. 

By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media

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Enhance the way you teach middle school U.S. history with timelines, photos, and profiles that bring America’s past to life! This U.S. History: People and Events 1865–Present social studies book explains the decisions and events of America’s past. This American history book for middle school features historic photos, detailed timelines, and profiles of the people who shaped history during that time. U.S. History: People and Events 1865–Present helps middle school students understand how America came to be.

The workbook contains short reading passages followed by activities. There are a variety of graphic organizers that students use to recall main points and put them into their own words as well as compare/contrast, categorize information, distinguish fact from opinion, and more. These would be a great supplement to an American history curriculum, or an addition to a unit study.

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Shed light on America’s important historical events with images, profiles, and activities in a special American history book for middle school. This U.S. History: People and Events 1607–1865 social studies book highlights the decisions and events that have played an important part in shaping America during that time. This middle school history book includes profiles of the people who made those decisions and a timeline of events. U.S. History: People and Events takes your students on a journey through America’s past and challenges them with activities to spark discussion and deepen their understanding for how America came to be Learn More