Interactive Notebook: The Civil War - Paperback

by Schyrlet Cameron (Author)

Notebook Features:
- 64 pages, about 8 inches x 11 inches
- Ages 10-14, grades 5-8
- Covers the road to war, secession of the states, and the victory of the North
- Helps students record, store, and organize information for review/test prep
- Correlated to state standards

Hands-On Learning: The Civil War Interactive Notebook helps 5th-8th graders create their own American history resource. Students strengthen their US history knowledge and creative and organizational skills through interactive learning.

What's Included: The 64-page American history book features multiple lessons and units of study focusing on the Civil War through interactive content. Students record, store, and organize essential information that is useful for test prep.

Correlated To State Standards: This standards-based notebook teaches US history through topics and lessons such as pre-war tensions, state secessions, important battles, and the North's path to victory.

Benefits Of Interactive Notebooks: Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered, and become active participants in their own learning journey.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.

Back Jacket

Interactive Notebook: The Civil War is one of Mark Twain Media's new American History Series of interactive notebooks. It provides students in grades 5 through 8 with opportunities to explore the significant events and people that make up American history. The book is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining the interactive notebook. Once completed, the notebook becomes a great resource for reviewing and studying for tests. The 19 lessons contained in Interactive Notebook: The Civil War cover five units of study: Road to War, Secession, First Part of the Civil War, Second Park of the Civil War, and Victory for the North. This interactive approach to diagraming history concepts gives students many opportunities to utilize models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with manipulatives to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. - Helps students record, store, and organize essential information - Serves as a resource for review and test prep - Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information - Correlated to current national and state standards