Books in Missouri Experience series

The Missouri Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Missouri. We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The Missouri Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The 20 Missouri Primary Sources are: 1. Illustration of Chief of the Little Osages – 18072. Map of the Lewis and Clark Expedition – beginning in Missouri – published 18143. Portrait of frontiersman Daniel Boone – settled in Missouri in 1799 – only known portrait made in his lifetime – 18204. Replica of the Senate joint resolution declaring the admission of Missouri into the Union – February 26, 18215. Oil painting entitled Fur Traders on Missouri River – 18456. Notice of reward – for finding slave family that escaped from owner in St. Louis – 18477. Illustration of courthouse in Independence, Missouri – 18558. Poster for the Pony Express advertising fast mail delivery from Missouri to California – 18609. Photograph of Laura Ingalls Wilder as an adult – circa 190010. Map of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair11. Photograph of Missouri native and famous author Mark Twain – 190712. Photograph of an Anheuser-Busch refrigerated boxcar – Adolphus Busch was first American brewer to use refrigerated railroad cars – 191013. Photograph of Tommy Hawkins – age 5 – selling newspapers on the streets in St. Louis – 191014. Photograph of the St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the influenza epidemic – October 191815. Photograph of Charles Lindbergh working on engine of his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis – made first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic Ocean – 192716. Political cartoon about erosion – Missouri State Conservationist – 193517. Poster entitled "One of America's Greatest Scientists" - referring to Missouri-born George Washington Carver – 194318. Democratic Party election poster featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman – 194419. Photograph of surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri – General Douglas MacArthur signs the agreement between the Allied nations and Japan to end World War II – September 2, 194520. The Gateway Arch, or "Gateway to the West" - centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis – circa 1980Your students will: - think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. - participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations. - integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. - experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.

I’m Reading About Missouri is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Missouri unique. I’m Reading about Missouri helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Missouri. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I’m Reading About Missouri topics include:Native AmericansExplorersSettlementStatehoodFlagCapitalSealNicknameBordersPresidentPeopleBirdFlowerTreeInsectCavesMountainsRiversLandmarkAgricultureSportsClaim to FameGlossaryAnd More!

The Mississippi Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is one of our NEW products for 2017! A true-time saver, the Mississippi Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.The Mississippi Interactive Notebook is more than just a notebook for taking notes it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Mississippi Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Mississippi Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?Interactive Notebooks are great for students! Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources. The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity. Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers. And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests. Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers! You can easily customize your instruction. You direct the learning process and pace. You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz! You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments. You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects. And, you meet the unique needs of your students in each and every year!A true time-saver! Step-by-step teacher instructions Ready-to-use, reproducible pages Writing and reflection prompts Student letter Supply lists Rubric And more!This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

I spent one winter researching the holiday history, folklore, legend, and more of each and every state,' says Carole marsh. A great coffee-table book or classroom read, this book-in an edition for each U.S. state-shares a wealth of fascinating historical material and trivia about everything from holiday traditions to how we got the Christmas tree, superstitions, and more. From the Yule logs of Maine to snow on the Alamo, you'll love your own state book, but wish you could read them all. Don't forget to send your favorite teacher or grandchild a copy for their state!

I’m Reading About Mississippi is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Mississippi unique. I’m Reading about Mississippi helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Mississippi. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I’m Reading About Mississippi topics include:Native AmericansExplorersSettlementStatehoodFlagCapitalSealNicknameBordersCountiesPeopleBirdFlowerTreeInsectBeachesForestsRiversLandmarkAgricultureSportsClaim to FameGlossaryAnd More!

Modeled after the popular TV game show; features categories like state History, Geography, Exploration, People, Statehood, State Attractions, and lots more. Each category lists educational and entertaining answers--the student gives the correct question. Includes approximately 30 categories and 150 answers and questions. Kids love the Jeopardy-style format! This reproducible book features categories of your state to build quick-thinking skills. The categories includes missions, animals, landmarks, flag facts, ancestors, politics, settlers, statehood, trivia, first, potpourri and more.

This unique book combines state-specific facts and 30 fun-to-do hands-on projects. The History Project Book includes creating a cartoon panel to describe how your state name may have come about, creating a fort replica, making a state history museum, dressing up as a famous explorer and recreating the main discovery, and more! Kids will have a blast and build essential knowledge skills including research, reading, writing, science and math. Great for students in K-8 grades and for displaying in the classroom, library or home.