Books in Maine Experience series

Your adventure starts here! Experience the mysteries and wonder of Pyramid. Come on an incredible visual journey through an ancient pyramid, exploring its secret chambers and finding the fabulous tomb of a king. Witness how it was built as fantastic digital images show you a pyramid as you've never seen it before. Follow an astonishing story with first-hand accounts, incredible facts and action-packed scenes. Read the story from start to finish or just dip in and out when you feel like it. This work is brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun. Plus, each book comes with a gigantic 1.8m free pull-out poster!

Take an incredible journey to 13th century Krak des Chevaliers and experience life inside a medieval castle. A horseman arrives with urgent news that the sultan's army is on its way to attack! Weave your way through the great halls, towers, turrets and passages as the message is passed on among the knights: 'Prepare for battle!' Breathtaking digital imagery takes you into the heart of the fortress. Meet the 'fighting monks', find out what it was like to be under siege in a medieval castle and see how everyday life was very different to your own. Eyewitness accounts and action-packed scenes turn discovering about castles into an edge-of-your seat adventure. Bring the past to life in your bedroom with the gigantic panoramic poster! It is brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun.

Journey across oceans and continents to experience the most extreme weather on the planet. Far out to sea, clouds form together as towering thunderheads, building and gathering strength. As the winds climb to incredible speed, the storm is ready to unleash terrible destruction: and it's heading straight for the city! Fantastic digital imagery takes you right into the heart of devastating tornadoes, hurricanes, storm surges, monsoons and blizzards. See lightning strike, find out how rain develops and visit the foggiest place in the world. Eyewitness accounts from a twister survivor and action-packed scenes turn meeting mother nature into an extreme adventure. Bring the weather inside with the gigantic panoramic poster - it'll blow you away! This book is brilliant for homework and school projects or just for fun.

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 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.

Each desk-sized “FunSheet” includes original illustrations are designed to be colored with markers, colored pencils, or crayons. The “FunSheet” includes YOUR state name, statehood information, state flag, state seal, and lots of state symbols and facts for kids to read, color, and learn, PLUS a state symbols word search and maze. The oversized 11” x 17” “FunSheet” gives kids lots of room to show their creativity and include lots of educational value! You can even laminate the fun sheets to use throughout the year as desk-sheets, placemats, wall displays, and more! These attractive coloring and activity sheets make it fun to learn about YOUR state’s symbols and other important facts. Each pack comes with 30 sheets. Put the “FunSheet” in the hands of every student.

The Maine Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Maine. 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 Maine 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 Maine Primary Sources are: • British map of Maine showing the region of the Piscataqua River – circa 1670• Painting entitled Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay, 14 August 1779 – American Revolution• Photograph of 1860 presidential election campaign button featuring Maine Senator Hannibal Hamlin as Abraham Lincoln’s vice presidential running mate – Lincoln’s picture is on the other side of the button• Photograph of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain – Maine-born Civil War general who received the Medal of Honor for his command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg – 1863• Political cartoon showing Maine politician James G. Blaine covered in his scandals – 1884• Telegram (top) sent to the Portsmouth Navy Yard directing that all flags be flown at half mast due to the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana, Cuba’s harbor – February 1898• Photograph of lobster traps, buoys, and nets near Grindstone Inn, Winter Harbor – lobster fishing is important industry in Maine – circa 1910• Diary entry of Robert Peary when his expedition reached the geographic North Pole – Peary grew up in Portland – April 1909• Workers unload potatoes in Caribou – potatoes have been grown in Maine since Irish immigrant farmers started planting them in the 1700s – 1940• Photograph of cargo ship for Britain being prepared for launch in Portland – workers in Maine shipyards built hundreds of ships during World War II – 1942• Photograph of workmen feeding logs through the sluice at Long Pond – state of Maine was once a world leader in lumber production – 1943• Photograph of Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith with Eleanor Roosevelt on Face the Nation television program – Smith was first woman elected to both houses of Congress –1956• Cover of TIME Magazine in 1939 featuring Nelson Rockefeller – born in Maine; served as 41st Vice President of the United States from 1974-1977• Photograph of West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, Maine, the easternmost point of the contiguous United States – circa 1990• Photograph of President George Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and President George H.W. Bush touring the coastline near H.W. Bush’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine – 2007• Photograph of the view from the top of Mount Katahdin – northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail – 2007• Aerial photograph of Acadia National Park – 2009• Population density map of Maine – 2010• Photograph of house in Brunswick where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin – photo taken 2013• Photograph of giant boot in front of L.L. Bean retail store in Freeport – famous retail chain is based in Maine – 2006Your 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 Millionaire GameBook is reproducible and allows kids to learn about their state symbols, tree, flower, motto, statehood date, capital city, natural resources, weather and borders. The book includes multiple choice questions that are challenging and fun to answer with established dollar values to tally for extra excitement. This book covers fascinating state facts and meets state standards.