Books in The Illinois Experience series

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.

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 Illinois Vocabulary Teacher's Edition book includes 60 vocabulary words from the Illinois Social Studies Standards. The Teacher's Edition includes a “week of words” in a straightforward, thought-provoking, and FUN format. Every day for the first four days of the week, you'll give students a new vocabulary word which includes a definition, an interesting fact, and a “Think About It” discussion question. On day five, students will take a quiz on the four words using the companion Student Practice Workbook. There are 15 weeks of quizzes. A must-have for every teacher! The Illinois Vocabulary Teacher's Edition: ¥ includes key vocabulary words hand-picked and correlated from the Illinois Social Studies Standards ¥ uses a focused approach to build students' comprehension of the social studies standards by developing their understanding of integral vocabulary¥ has a consistent format that is easy for teachers and effective for students¥ helps students learn how to apply their new words¥ includes assessments for each vocabulary wordThis Illinois Vocabulary Teacher's Edition is a valuable test-prep tool when used with the companion Student Practice Workbook. This Illinois Vocabulary Teacher's Edition is a valuable test-prep tool when used with the companion Student Practice Workbook. The vocabulary words are: agriculture ¥ American Revolution ¥ ancient ¥ assassinate ¥ assembly line ¥ campaign ¥ capital city ¥ capitol ¥ Civil Rights Movement ¥ Civil War ¥ Civilian Conservation Corps ¥ climate ¥ colony ¥ competition ¥ constitution ¥ consumer ¥ culture ¥ declaration ¥ democracy ¥ diversity ¥ Dust Bowl ¥ economic choices ¥ entrepreneur ¥ environment ¥ erosion ¥ explorer ¥ federal ¥ geography ¥ goods ¥ governor ¥ Great Depression ¥ human characteristics ¥ indentured servant ¥ industrialization ¥ interdependent ¥ inventor ¥ local government ¥ national park ¥ natural resources ¥ New Deal ¥ physical characteristics ¥ political ¥ population ¥ population density ¥ producer ¥ reaper ¥ region ¥ responsibilities ¥ rights ¥ scarcity ¥ services ¥ settlement ¥ slavery ¥ specialization ¥ state government ¥ statehood date ¥ suffrage ¥ territory ¥ transportation ¥ urban To view two sample pages of the Teacher's Edition, click .

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

Each Puzzle Book helps kids build higher order thinking skills and helps with deductive reasoning with these fun puzzles. Each Puzzle Book has a wide range of reproducible activities including logic, acrostics, word boxes, rebus, hidden pictures, crosswords, matching, word search, mazes and many more creative puzzles that will entice any child to learn more about YOUR state. Puzzles touch on history, geography, people, places, symbols, animals, and more!

One of the most popular misconceptions about American Indians is that they are all the same-one homogenous group of people who look alike, speak the same language, and share the same customs and history. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book gives kids an A-Z look at the Native Americans that shaped their state's history. From tribe to tribe, there are large differences in clothing, housing, life-styles, and cultural practices. Help kids explore Native American history by starting with the Native Americans that might have been in their very own backyard! Some of the activities include crossword puzzles, fill in the blanks, and decipher the code.