Educational: History
Capstone Global Library Ltd Malaria
Book SynopsisMalaria is spread by infected mosquitoes. Millions of people are infected by malaria each year. Read this book to learn more about the history of this infectious disease.
£11.69
Capstone Global Library Ltd The Ancient Maya
Book SynopsisWho were the Ancient Maya and how did they live? Using your powers of analysis, work out what primary sources tell us about this ancient civilization.
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd Horrible Haircare
Book SynopsisFind out how society and culture has influenced hairstyles throughout history. Did you know that Louis XIV employed 48 wigmakers? From wigs to beehives and the Beatles to sideburns, this book uses fascinating facts and stories to help children understand the historical, scientific and social aspects of weird and wonderful haircare.
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd Ancient Egypt
Book SynopsisUncover some of the most chilling practices in ancient Egypt. This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and sieges, with a detail that young readers will love! Prepare to be horrified by the customs and culture of the ancient Egyptians!
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd The Roman Empire
Book SynopsisUncover some of the most chilling practices of the ancient Romans! This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and sieges, with a detail that young readers will love! Prepare to be horrified by the customs and culture of the ancient Romans!
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd Lets Look at Countries Lets Look at China
Book SynopsisWelcome to China! See the sites. Enjoy the food. Hear the language. Discover this country''s land, people and traditions.
£9.93
Capstone Global Library Ltd Lets Look at Colombia
Book SynopsisWelcome to Colombia! See the sites. Enjoy the food. Hear the language. Discover this country''s land, people and traditions.
£7.59
Capstone Global Library Ltd Irena Sendler
Book SynopsisIrena Sendler was a social worker who wanted to help people. World War II left many people in society vulnerable. Irena helped them to get medical care and the necessities to live. Then she took the greatest risk. Learn more about this courageous woman who smuggled Jewish children to safety.
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd Fighting to Survive in the Wilderness Terrifying
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£11.63
Capstone Global Library Ltd The History of Toys
Book SynopsisHow did teddies get their name? When were yo-yos first made? What were the Teletubbies? From toy cars to Barbies, Rubik''s cubes to Fortnite, the toys children play with have changed a lot over the past century. But some of the toys that your grandparents played with in their youth may not be that different to the ones you play with now! Find out all about the history of toys, what has changed and what hasn''t, and what children have loved to play with through the decades.
£13.29
Capstone Global Library Ltd The History of Toys
Book SynopsisHow did teddies get their name? When were yo-yos first made? What were the Teletubbies? From toy cars to Barbies, Rubik''s cubes to Fortnite, the toys children play with have changed a lot over the past century. But some of the toys that your grandparents played with in their youth may not be that different to the ones you play with now! Find out all about the history of toys, what has changed and what hasn''t, and what children have loved to play with through the decades.
£8.54
Capstone Global Library Ltd Why Should I Care About the Ancient Egyptians
Book SynopsisThe Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pyramids and mummies, but how have these ancient times impacted your life today? From hieroglyphs evolving into emojis and kohl around the eyes evolving into eye liner and mascara, the inventions and discoveries of Ancient Egypt offer us endless reasons to appreciate history.
£9.49
Capstone Global Library Ltd Why Should I Care About the Ancient Chinese
Book SynopsisFrom pasta to paper, the inventions of the Ancient Chinese remain part of everyday life in our modern world. Learn how items like wheelbarrows, the first toothbrushes and early earthquake detectors have evolved into devices we know today and discover just how big of an impact the Ancient Chinese have had on your life.
£11.63
Usborne Publishing Ltd Lifttheflap Questions and Answers about Long Ago
Book SynopsisKatie has been writing non-fiction children's books for almost half her life and loves questioning the world from a child's point of view. She's developed some of Usborne's bestselling series, including the See Inside books and Lift-the-flap Questions & Answers. When she's not writing, she likes drinking coffee, walking on the moors and playing competitive board games with her children.Trade ReviewThis is an essential book for the inquisitive young mind. [...] Perfect for primary children, this book is a welcome addition to the growing trend for high quality, informative, but fun, information books for children. * June Hughes, The School Librarian *
£10.44
Rowman & Littlefield Bringing History Home
Book SynopsisBringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure. The book focuses on mobilizing pedagogy and curriculum through a variety of activities and resourcesmusic, poetry, field trips, simulations, crafts, current news and civicsto deepen students' involvement with the subject matter. History classes should be memorable. Bringing History Home provides support and inspiration to education majors, newly minted teachers, and seasoned professionals.Trade ReviewAs a master teacher, Schechter provides examples from his many decades of remarkable teaching and curriculum creation, based on his own interdisciplinary, constructivist and active learning approach. This is a wonderful and stimulating book, replete with rich examples from the author’s pedagogy that will help teachers – newer and experienced – to, as Schechter says, “find a style that fits them and utilizes their strengths to the best advantage.” His reflections on the nature of his discipline and the possibilities of “Doing History”; on "the normal vicissitudes of a teacher’s life”; and on "finding a way of being in the classroom” are particularly valuable. The most stimulating book on teaching today’s students I have read. It made me want to get into a social studies classroom and get to it! -- Robin L. Roth, PhD, professor, Graduate School of Education, Lesley University, Boston, Mass.History class has meant, for many, memorizing names, dates, and places for a never-ending series of multiple choice tests. Not, however, for students in Bill Schechter’s history classes. In Bringing History Home: A Classroom Teacher’s Quest to Make the Past Matter, Schechter deftly looks at the techniques and materials, the strategies and concepts that he put to work, to great effect, as a high school history teacher. This is not a collection of lesson plans; it is, rather, the revelation of ways to think about how to help students see the reasons that the past matters. Schechter uses poetry, music, field work, and controversy to hook students to the world around them. My son is a high school history teacher—I’m giving this book to him. -- Steve Cohen, senior lecturer, Education, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.Both practical and visionary, this book takes us into a classroom where history is not distant but is given to students to make. At once dynamic and moving, the book is filled with enlivening pedagogical tools that enable students to experience themselves as part of history. Thank you, Bill Schechter, for showing us how we can rescue public education from the current onslaught of desiccated metrics and make teaching and learning as ethical and transformative as today’s endangered world surely needs schools to be. -- Jessica Wender Shubow, History Dept., Brookline H.S., Brookline Mass.Bill Schechter is the best history teacher I ever had and a beloved legendary instructor from his days at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Bringing History Home is a godsend for educators looking for ways to inspire their students and foster a love of learning about the past. Bill beautifully chronicles how he and his students brought history to life by becoming musicologists, theater directors, Thoreau cabin builders, mural painters, mock trial judges, tour guides, poets, sociologists, and agents of change. Ultimately, Bill's creative ideas, humorous stories, and life lessons highlight why we need our schools to be innovative, supportive academic communities instead of test prep factories. -- Dan Peppercorn, author, “Creative Adventures in Social Studies”; 8th Grade teacher and curriculum coordinator, E.W. Thurston J.H.S., Westwood, Mass.A warm and inviting reflection on the art and craft of teaching, written by a master educator. This book offers both beginning teachers and veterans insights into how to inspire students to go beyond test scores and numbers. An important work in these troubled educational times. -- Kate Krahl, History Dept., Scarsdale H.S., Scarsdale, NYBe prepared for a journey through the mind and career of a legendary high school history teacher. Bringing History Home captures the practical frames of mind required of a teacher to keep history class relevant in the lives of young people. The author, Bill Schechter, speaks from a full career of experience, as he sculpts a vision for progressive education that goes beyond trendy analytics to caring deeply about sharing and feeling the human story. This is a no non-sense, right from the heart, must-read for any new high school history teacher full of little tips for the classroom, and big, important lessons for the education world. -- Dan Sullivan, Humanities Dept., Boston Arts Academy, Boston, Mass.The author is clearly the kind of teacher that we were lucky to have once or twice in our school career and that we fervently hope our children (ant grandchildren) will encounter. Bill Schechter's inspiring and engrossing book reminds us that a transformative public education is not about textbooks, curricula and tests. It's about humans, teachers and students, connecting and sharing challenging ideas and stories. It's a clarion call to give today's teachers the resources and autonomy to make their classrooms come alive. -- Lisa Guisbond, director, Citizens for Public Schools, Boston, MassBill Schechter's book is not a blueprint for teaching history. It would be counter to the author's philosophy to create something so proscriptive. Rather it is like a hand-drawn map, vividly rendered from memory after years of travel -- a guide to classroom discovery in which the quest itself is revealed to be the true treasure. In Schechter's classroom, teachers are set free to design lessons which engage young people and encourage critical thinking. Students are awakened to the urgency of historical debate. So engaged, they may remember a single lesson for their entire lives. Is this for real? Very much so. I know because I was his student. -- Robin Espinola, Emmy-nominated producer of historical films for PBSBill Schechter is The Master Teacher of Bringing History Home. I regard public schools as the citadels of America’s Democracy, and the social studies classroom as the crucible in which the narrative of our nation’s civic creed is conjured up, allowing students to gain a deep understanding, and in the words of Dr. King, “to one day live out the true meaning of its creed.” This book is a “must read” for any high school history teacher determined to enliven social studies and inspire their students’ imagination to what is truly possible in living out the America Dream. -- Larry Aaronson, History Dept., Cambridge Rindge & Latin H.S., Cambridge, Mass.Table of ContentsDedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue / It was only the first day of school Chapter 1: Beginnings / What helps make a history class compelling? Chapter 2: Let There Be Music / Singing our way through trials and tribulations Chapter 3: Theater in the Square / The power of make-believe in the classroom Chapter 4: Field Trips on My Mind / Taking it on the road Chapter 5: History Begins at Home / Is it knocking on your door? Interlude / A Morning Request Chapter 6: Taking History into the Hallways / Seed-time of an epiphany Chapter 7: Joining Hands to Minds / Building a cabin for a courtyard Chapter 8: Awakening the Muse / “Here once the embattled farmers stood…’ Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Attic Trunk / – A few other odds & ends Chapter 10: Getting Caught in History’s Web / Students, your family’s saga is before you Chapter 11: History in the Headlines / Why newspapers are a teacher’s best friend Chapter 12: Welcome to the Classroom World / Please take a seat Chapter 13: Bias Buzzing Around My Head/ The ‘no-see-ums’ of the history class Chapter 14: Charting A Course/ One way to develop history units Chapter 15: Not Just Civics Class, But A Civic Life/ Democracy makes its demands Epilogue/ Actually, there is no ending Coda / To Be A Teacher About the Author
£43.20
Rowman & Littlefield Bringing History Home
Book SynopsisBringing History Home focuses on how to make the teaching of high school history both an intellectual challenge and an experiential adventure. The book focuses on mobilizing pedagogy and curriculum through a variety of activities and resourcesmusic, poetry, field trips, simulations, crafts, current news and civicsto deepen students' involvement with the subject matter. History classes should be memorable. Bringing History Home provides support and inspiration to education majors, newly minted teachers, and seasoned professionals.Trade ReviewAs a master teacher, Schechter provides examples from his many decades of remarkable teaching and curriculum creation, based on his own interdisciplinary, constructivist and active learning approach. This is a wonderful and stimulating book, replete with rich examples from the author’s pedagogy that will help teachers – newer and experienced – to, as Schechter says, “find a style that fits them and utilizes their strengths to the best advantage.” His reflections on the nature of his discipline and the possibilities of “Doing History”; on "the normal vicissitudes of a teacher’s life”; and on "finding a way of being in the classroom” are particularly valuable. The most stimulating book on teaching today’s students I have read. It made me want to get into a social studies classroom and get to it! -- Robin L. Roth, PhD, professor, Graduate School of Education, Lesley University, Boston, Mass.History class has meant, for many, memorizing names, dates, and places for a never-ending series of multiple choice tests. Not, however, for students in Bill Schechter’s history classes. In Bringing History Home: A Classroom Teacher’s Quest to Make the Past Matter, Schechter deftly looks at the techniques and materials, the strategies and concepts that he put to work, to great effect, as a high school history teacher. This is not a collection of lesson plans; it is, rather, the revelation of ways to think about how to help students see the reasons that the past matters. Schechter uses poetry, music, field work, and controversy to hook students to the world around them. My son is a high school history teacher—I’m giving this book to him. -- Steve Cohen, senior lecturer, Education, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.Both practical and visionary, this book takes us into a classroom where history is not distant but is given to students to make. At once dynamic and moving, the book is filled with enlivening pedagogical tools that enable students to experience themselves as part of history. Thank you, Bill Schechter, for showing us how we can rescue public education from the current onslaught of desiccated metrics and make teaching and learning as ethical and transformative as today’s endangered world surely needs schools to be. -- Jessica Wender Shubow, History Dept., Brookline H.S., Brookline Mass.Bill Schechter is the best history teacher I ever had and a beloved legendary instructor from his days at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Bringing History Home is a godsend for educators looking for ways to inspire their students and foster a love of learning about the past. Bill beautifully chronicles how he and his students brought history to life by becoming musicologists, theater directors, Thoreau cabin builders, mural painters, mock trial judges, tour guides, poets, sociologists, and agents of change. Ultimately, Bill's creative ideas, humorous stories, and life lessons highlight why we need our schools to be innovative, supportive academic communities instead of test prep factories. -- Dan Peppercorn, author, “Creative Adventures in Social Studies”; 8th Grade teacher and curriculum coordinator, E.W. Thurston J.H.S., Westwood, Mass.A warm and inviting reflection on the art and craft of teaching, written by a master educator. This book offers both beginning teachers and veterans insights into how to inspire students to go beyond test scores and numbers. An important work in these troubled educational times. -- Kate Krahl, History Dept., Scarsdale H.S., Scarsdale, NYBe prepared for a journey through the mind and career of a legendary high school history teacher. Bringing History Home captures the practical frames of mind required of a teacher to keep history class relevant in the lives of young people. The author, Bill Schechter, speaks from a full career of experience, as he sculpts a vision for progressive education that goes beyond trendy analytics to caring deeply about sharing and feeling the human story. This is a no non-sense, right from the heart, must-read for any new high school history teacher full of little tips for the classroom, and big, important lessons for the education world. -- Dan Sullivan, Humanities Dept., Boston Arts Academy, Boston, Mass.The author is clearly the kind of teacher that we were lucky to have once or twice in our school career and that we fervently hope our children (ant grandchildren) will encounter. Bill Schechter's inspiring and engrossing book reminds us that a transformative public education is not about textbooks, curricula and tests. It's about humans, teachers and students, connecting and sharing challenging ideas and stories. It's a clarion call to give today's teachers the resources and autonomy to make their classrooms come alive. -- Lisa Guisbond, director, Citizens for Public Schools, Boston, MassBill Schechter's book is not a blueprint for teaching history. It would be counter to the author's philosophy to create something so proscriptive. Rather it is like a hand-drawn map, vividly rendered from memory after years of travel -- a guide to classroom discovery in which the quest itself is revealed to be the true treasure. In Schechter's classroom, teachers are set free to design lessons which engage young people and encourage critical thinking. Students are awakened to the urgency of historical debate. So engaged, they may remember a single lesson for their entire lives. Is this for real? Very much so. I know because I was his student. -- Robin Espinola, Emmy-nominated producer of historical films for PBSBill Schechter is The Master Teacher of Bringing History Home. I regard public schools as the citadels of America’s Democracy, and the social studies classroom as the crucible in which the narrative of our nation’s civic creed is conjured up, allowing students to gain a deep understanding, and in the words of Dr. King, “to one day live out the true meaning of its creed.” This book is a “must read” for any high school history teacher determined to enliven social studies and inspire their students’ imagination to what is truly possible in living out the America Dream. -- Larry Aaronson, History Dept., Cambridge Rindge & Latin H.S., Cambridge, Mass.Table of ContentsDedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue / It was only the first day of school Chapter 1: Beginnings / What helps make a history class compelling? Chapter 2: Let There Be Music / Singing our way through trials and tribulations Chapter 3: Theater in the Square / The power of make-believe in the classroom Chapter 4: Field Trips on My Mind / Taking it on the road Chapter 5: History Begins at Home / Is it knocking on your door? Interlude / A Morning Request Chapter 6: Taking History into the Hallways / Seed-time of an epiphany Chapter 7: Joining Hands to Minds / Building a cabin for a courtyard Chapter 8: Awakening the Muse / “Here once the embattled farmers stood…’ Chapter 9: Rummaging Through the Attic Trunk / – A few other odds & ends Chapter 10: Getting Caught in History’s Web / Students, your family’s saga is before you Chapter 11: History in the Headlines / Why newspapers are a teacher’s best friend Chapter 12: Welcome to the Classroom World / Please take a seat Chapter 13: Bias Buzzing Around My Head/ The ‘no-see-ums’ of the history class Chapter 14: Charting A Course/ One way to develop history units Chapter 15: Not Just Civics Class, But A Civic Life/ Democracy makes its demands Epilogue/ Actually, there is no ending Coda / To Be A Teacher About the Author
£23.75
Capstone Press Expanding a Nation
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£22.49
Capstone Press Into the West Causes and Effects of US Westward
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£22.49
Capstone Press To Preserve the Union Causes and Effects of the
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£22.49
Capstone Press The Child Labor Reform Movement An Interactive
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£25.99
Capstone Press Uncle Sam Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£21.99
Capstone Press The StarSpangled Banner Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£21.99
Capstone Press The Statue of Liberty Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£21.99
Capstone Press The Bald Eagle Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£21.99
Capstone Press The Pledge of Allegiance
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£21.99
Capstone Press Expanding a Nation Causes and Effects of the
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£8.09
Capstone Press Into the West Causes and Effects of US Westward
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£8.54
Capstone Press To Preserve the Union
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£8.09
Capstone Press The American Flag
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£8.99
Capstone Press Uncle Sam Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£9.49
Capstone Press The StarSpangled Banner Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£9.49
Capstone Press The Bald Eagle Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£8.99
Capstone Press The Pledge of Allegiance Pebble Plus US Symbols
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£9.49
Capstone Press Ellis Island
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£9.49
Capstone Press The Oregon Trail An Interactive History Adventure
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£8.99
Capstone Press The Child Labor Reform Movement
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£9.49
Capstone Press Freedom from Slavery Causes and Effects of the
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£22.49
Capstone Press Hurricane Katrina An Interactive Modern History
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£25.99
Capstone Press Diary of Sally Wister A Colonial Quaker Girl
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£22.49
Capstone Press For Life and Liberty
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£8.09
Capstone Press What Went Wrong Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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£8.09
Capstone Press What Went Wrong Hindenburg Explosion Core Events
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£8.09
Capstone Press Hurricane Katrina
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£10.13
McFarland & Co Inc Atomics in the Classroom
Book Synopsis After the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan''s unconditional surrender, America''s educational community quickly focused on preparing the younger generation for the atomic age. With the support of the federal government, elementary and secondary schools developed a curriculum known as atomics, emphasizing the bomb''s destructive power, peaceful applications of the atom and, most important, the need to control nuclear research. By the 1950s, with the Soviet Union''s acquiring of the bomb, atomics expanded to include civil defense topics and activities, such as duck and cover drills. This book examines the broad curriculum--in social studies, science, mathematics, English, home economics and art--that emphasized atomics in American classrooms of the early postwar era. Lesson plans, class projects and activities, resource materials and extracurricular experiences are included.
£20.89
Amazon Publishing Gandhi
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£15.29
Reycraft Books Spotted Tail
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£18.00
Reycraft Books Cuthbert Grant
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£9.45
Reycraft Books The Clues Are in the Poo The Story of Dinosaur
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£18.04
