Books in Hands on History series

Step into the world of the Ancient Egyptians! Make your own beaded collar, challenge a friend to the ancient game of senet, make papyrus paper, learn to write in hieroglyphs, measure time with a water clock, and paint a life-size pharaoh. Fascinating facts and thirteen easy-to-do activities involve young readers in exploring this ancient civilization and its people.

Your Mission: Find Victor’s missing sketchbook using spycraft tools to uncover hidden codes! It’s a true story of deception: Meet the top-secret Ghost Army, a group of artists and sound engineers trained to fake out the Germans in World War II with inflatable rubber tanks and loudspeakers broadcasting the sound of marching troops. And meet real-life Sergeant Victor Dowd, who served in the fight for Normandy, through France, and across the Rhine.It’s a mystery to solve: There are clues embedded in the story’s text and illustrations, and Spycraft materials come in an envelope at the beginning of the book. Now put on your own spy thinking cap and find out what happened to Victor Dowd’s missing sketchbook.

Travel back through the centuries to one of the greatest civilizations in history - the Roman Empire. Discover fascinating facts about the Roman way of life, the clothes people wore, the entertainments they enjoyed, and the food they liked to eat. Amazing projects allow you to construct a model Roman home, make a legionary's uniform, and fashion a headdress that will leave you looking fit to rule an empire! Ideal for home or school use for ages 8 to 12.

Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of land and water forms, map components, latitude and longitude, climate, vegetation, plate tectonics, natural disasters, global water issues, economics, and political systems. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

This fascinating fact and project book is the perfect introduction to Viking history. Discover how these amazing people lived their lives, the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their gods and heroes, the weapons they used, and the lands they conquered. Practical projects help young readers to understand what life was like in the past: build a model ship, bake a Viking loaf, and play an ancient Norse board game. Ideal for home or school use for 8 to 12 year-olds.

Journey back more than two thousand years ago, when the warlike Celts dominated northern and central Europe. Packed full of lively information, facts and pictures that show you what the Celts ate, where they lived, the brave heroes they revered and the deadly weapons with which they armed themselves, along with how-to projects so you can find out for yourself.