Books in Delaware Experience series

The Delaware Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is one of our NEW products for 2017! A true-time saver, the Delaware 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 Delaware Interactive Notebook is more than just a notebook for taking notes it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Delaware 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 Delaware 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.

Exploring Delaware through Project-Based Leaning includes 50 well-thought-out projects designed for grades 3-5. In assigning your students projects that dig into Delaware’s geography, history, government, economy, current events, and famous people, you will deepen their appreciation and understanding of Delaware while simultaneously improving their analytical skills and ability to recognize patterns and big-picture themes. Project-based learning today is much different than the craft-heavy classroom activities popular in the past. Inquiry, planning, research, collaboration, and analysis are key components of project-based learning activities today. However, that doesn’t mean creativity, individual expression, and fun are out. They definitely aren’t!Each project is designed to help students gain important knowledge and skills that are derived from standards and key concepts at the heart of academic subject areas. Students are asked to analyze and solve problems, to gather and interpret data, to develop and evaluate solutions, to support their answers with evidence, to think critically in a sustained way, and to use their newfound knowledge to formulate new questions worthy of exploring.While some projects are more complex and take longer than others, they all are set up in the same structure. Each begins with the central project-driving questions, proceeds through research and supportive questions, has the student choose a presentation option, and ends with a broader-view inquiry. Rubrics for reflection and assessments are included, too. This consistent framework will make it easier for you assign projects and for your students to follow along and consistently meet expectations.Encourage your students to take charge of their projects as much as possible. As a teacher, you can act as a facilitator and guide. The projects are structured such that students can often work through the process on their own or through cooperation with their classmates.

The All About My State-Delaware 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 Delaware and more.

The Delaware Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Delaware. 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 Delaware 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 Delaware Primary Sources are: 1. Photograph of model of Fort Christina – first Swedish settlement in North America – fort built in 16382. Replica of nautical chart showing Zwaanendael and Godyn's Bay in New Netherland – Godyn's Bay later became known as Delaware Bay – 16393. Illustration of automated flour milling machine invented by Oliver Evans – important stimulus to Delaware's economy after the Revolutionary War – 17954. Portrait of E. I. du Pont – chemist and founder of gunpowder manufacturer E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company – circa 18005. Illustration of Peter Spencer, founder of the A.U.M.P. church in Wilmington – the first independent black Christian church in the U.S. – circa 18136. Text from Wilmington's "Thomas Garrett Day" proclamation – 19937. Photograph of slave quarters – Sussex County, Delaware – circa 18508. Map of the original thirteen colonies created for the United States centennial in 18769. Illustration entitled "Picking Peaches in Delaware" - state was major producer of peaches in 1800s – 187810. Illustration of Richardson and Robbins Cannery in Dover – pioneer in American canning industry – circa late 1800s11. 1898 map showing "The Wedge" as part of Pennsylvania – the land now belongs to Delaware12. Photograph of child workers at the American Tobacco Company in Wilmington – 191013. Advertisement for Du Pont smokeless shotgun powder – 191314. Photograph of Mabel Vernon speaking at a women's suffrage rally – 191615. WWI recruitment poster displayed in Wilmington – 191916. Cover of honor list of dead and missing soldiers from Delaware in WWII – 194617. Photograph of Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River – built as harbor defense facility – photo taken 199818. Photograph of Joseph Biden being sworn in for second term as Vice President of the United States – Biden served 36 years as a U.S. senator from Delaware – 200919. Photograph of first C-5M Galaxy "Spirit of Global Reach" aircraft landing at Dover Air Force Base – Dover AFB is major contributor to the state economy – 200920. Photograph of Holy Trinity Church (or Old Swedes Church) in Wilmington – built in 1698-99 – photo taken 2013Your 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.