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Product Catalog > Browse by Series > History Connections
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This new series of complete lesson and activity guides offers an innovative combination of activities, lessons, and primary and secondary sources to help teachers incorporate major, unfolding world events into their social studies classes.
The dynamic drama of U.S. presidential elections… The spectacle of the Olympic Games... These are the kinds of headline-dominating events that spark students' interest in learning. They provide rich opportunities to bring the here-and-now into the classroom, showing students the enduring relevance of the study of history.
How do you tap into student interest in current events? How do you sort through the mass of available teaching material to find the most effective lessons and activities? The answer is ABC-CLIO's new series History Connections.
The History Connections series offers a wealth of easy-to-implement ideas for incorporating current events into the classroom—ideas that help students draw important connections while making history more meaningfully alive. The series offers the best in flexibility and authority—each volume offers expertly prepared, standards-based units accompanied by reproducible primary and secondary sources that offer an authoritative foundation for class activities.
Highlights
- Motivates students to uncover the connections between the important concepts they are learning in the classroom and the events that are captivating the world's attention at that moment
- Aligned to social studies standards so teachers know they are satisfying curriculum requirements
- Organized around the ways teachers view instruction: how they start a class each day, what types of weekly assignments they give, and what major projects they assign
Features- An introductory essay in each volume, written by a leading scholar, provides historical context for current events and classroom activities
- Five different types of activities that align with the way teachers organize lessons: warm-up activities, classroom assignments, project-based activities, homework, and independent research
- A wealth of reproducible primary and secondary sources, providing a number of options that save teachers from searching through the vast amount of available material
- A visual timeline of each event throughout history, giving students a fascinating context through which to analyze the event unfolding before them today
- A rich collection of lessons and activities (up to 80 ideas in each volume) giving teachers a solid basis of innovative, proven, easy-to-implement approaches to the subject
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