Books in Connecticut Experience series

The Survivor GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to learn about their state through timed activities, prize suggestions and an official survivor certificate. The book includes timed, multiple-choice questions, fill in the blank questions, choose the appropriate dates and matching that are challenging and fun to answer. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards.

The Connecticut Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Connecticut. 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 Connecticut 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 Connecticut Primary Sources are: 1. Map of Connecticut – 17942. Photograph of African-American baseball team in Danbury – 18803. Composite illustration of Connecticut native Harriet Beecher Stowe and scenes from her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin – 18934. Advertisement for Webster’s International Dictionary – Connecticut native Noah Webster created first dictionary in early 1800s – 18965. Poster advertising Barnum & Bailey "Greatest Show on Earth" circus – P.T. Barnum was native of Connecticut – 19006. Photograph of Samuel Colt Memorial in Hartford – famous inventor and industrialist was born in Hartford – photo taken 19077. Photograph of Mark Twain – Twain lived in Hartford for 17 years and wrote many of his famous novels there – 19078. Young boy picking tobacco near Gildersleeve, Connecticut – 191710. Photograph of workers at electric shaver plant in Stamford – plant converted from making shavers to producing machine tool parts during WWII – 194211. Photograph of man working on hull of submarine at the Electric Boat Company in Groton – shipbuilding is important industry in Connecticut – 194312. Photograph of George H.W. Bush, captain of the Yale University baseball team, with professional baseball star Babe Ruth – Bush later served as 41st President of the United States – 194813. Photograph of President George W. Bush speaking at Ground Zero in New York City after 9/11 attack – George W. Bush was born in Connecticut – 200114. Photograph of nuclear submarine USS Connecticut departing New London on her first scheduled deployment – 200215. Photograph of statue of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale outside Department of Justice Building – photo 200716. Photograph of cotton gin at Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven – Whitney built a cotton gin factory and firearms factory in New Haven – photo taken 200717. Photograph of Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford – 200818. Population density map of Connecticut – 201019. Photograph of Old Campus at Yale University in New Haven – founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. – photo taken 201220. Satellite photograph of Hartford, Connecticut – 2012Your 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.

The All About My State-Connecticut FunPack (Pack of 30) is a 4-page booklet that includes 30 activity sheets. The front of the booklet includes state maps where students identify major cities, rivers and create physical symbols for physical features. The 11” x 17” inside includes drawing the state symbols including the state flag, animals, flower, and bird. Students will write the super state stats including statehood date, capital, governor, population and more. Students will write or draw three events for your state history to create a timeline. On the back, students will draw important crops, businesses, sports, thoughts about Connecticut and more.

The Wheel of Fortune GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to guess on geography, hypothesize on history, explore economics, speculate on civics and bet on biographies. The Wheel of Fortune GameBook can be used by an individual or by teams who tally their own scores. Having a wheel to spin to establish point values for questions adds a fun element to the game. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards. The book includes game instructions, a pattern for making a Lazy Susan Wheel and prize suggestions.