For Teachers
Enhance and Enrich the Social Studies Experience
Beautiful Books Engage Students with Great Storytelling and Graphics
Enrich your social studies resources with our exciting and engaging books. Written to inspire a love of reading for middle school students, these easy-to-hold spiral-bound books feature beautiful illustrations, exquisite maps, and a student-friendly design and text. Each book is informative and entertaining, covering the standards by using compelling narrative techniques. Students love them (and so will you)!
They make great additions to any classroom library—and are useful for any teacher’s personal reference. All the books come with extensive teacher’s guides, too, that can be used with the books or independently, and are loaded with project-based lessons, assessments, essay prompts, vocabulary, and techniques for teaching to strengths.
Our American history, world history, or civics education book sets are now available at a special discounted rate for teachers! See below.
Look Inside Our Books and Teacher’s Guides
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Civics Collection
Our comprehensive civics history package includes two student-friendly, beautifully designed, books along with accompanying teacher’s guides containing inquiry-based projects for a variety of learning styles, assessments, vocabulary, essay prompts, and research citations.
The books include Civil Discourse and How to Survive It, a workbook for students developing their own sense of virtues, ethics, and morals before going on to explore laws and governments and their individual genius; and The U.S. Constitution: An Owner’s Manual, operating instructions for the foundational documents of the United States such as the English Magna Carta, the Iroquois Great Binding Law, the Declaration, the Constitution, the amendments, and key Supreme Court decisions.
American History Collection
Our inclusive American history package includes three student-friendly, beautifully designed books along with accompanying teacher’s guides containing inquiry-based projects for a variety of learning styles, assessments, vocabulary, essay prompts, and research citations.
The books include American Hero, a 216-page narrative of American history from the view of an immortal teenager who stands witness to the key events and people who influenced the United States; First Person American, a 168-page curated collection of primary sources, including speeches, confessions, and love letters; and The U.S. Constitution: An Owner’s Manual, operating instructions for the foundational documents of the United States, including key Supreme Court decisions.
World History Collection
Our creative world history package includes three student-friendly, beautifully designed books along with accompanying teacher’s guides containing inquiry-based projects for a variety of learning styles, assessments, vocabulary, essay prompts, and research citations.
The books include Time Travel Tours: Your Guide to Human History, a 216-page travel guide by a witty alien leading time travelers through the highlights of human history; Mysteries That Changed History, a 160-page detective’s casebook about critical crimes that changed the course of history such as the suspicious deaths of King Tut, Alexander the Great, and Anne Boleyn; and Civil Discourse and How to Survive It, a workbook for students developing their own sense of virtues, ethics, and morals before going on to explore laws and governments and their individual genius..
Reading Matters
Reading Matters is our blog where parents, educators and students can come to learn about and discuss the power of reading. It’s no secret that we want to inspire a generation of readers. Having a place to openly and honestly discuss the benefits of reading.
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American Hero:A Journey Through 400 Years of American History
Primary textbook for the middle school American history curriculum
This primary textbook combines middle school American history content standards with a picaresque adventure story. A fictional teenager comes to America with Columbus, becomes an immortal being, and stands witness to the real-life birth pangs, heartbreak, breakthroughs, and ultimate promise of the United States. Over the course of four centuries of this expansive and inclusive narrative, we meet major influencers such as Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as the African American, Native American, and immigrant men and women who had a profound impact on the development of the American story.
Student “Re-Action” pages are included for each chapter.
Time Travel Tours:Your Guide to Human History
Primary textbook for the middle school world history curriculum
What if time traveling aliens ran tours of human history? This primary textbook offers a firsthand, eyewitness experience to the rise and fall of civilizations on five continents. During a “week-long excursion,” a humorous tour guide leads us as we stack bricks in Mesopotamia, build pyramids in Ancient Egypt, argue with Greek philosophers, meditate with Indian gurus, scale the Great Wall of China, and stand with Galileo as he defends science. The content standards for middle school world history are covered and there is plenty of time for photo ops during the tour. Student “Re-Action” pages are included for each chapter.
