Teachers Resource Manuals

  "The Age of Exploration" includes 100 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the golden era of exploration. Topics include: Ferdinand Magellan, Juan Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Coronado, Jacques Cartier, a close look at the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures, and more. Each of the 22 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

   "Colonial America" includes 136 pages related to the major figures and events of the colonial era of American History. Topics include: Roanoke, Jamestown, Pocahontas, Triangular Trade, the Pilgrims, Massachusetts Bay, Colonial Daily Life, Slavery in Colonial America, the Salem Witch Trials, and much more. Each of the 31 lessons has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions.

  “The American Revolution” includes 158 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the American Revolution. Topics include: the French & Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, “Common Sense”, the Declaration of Independence, “The Crisis”, The Battle of Saratoga, Valley Forge, the Battle of Yorktown, and much, much more. Each of the 36 lessons has several pages of student activities.

 "Early America" includes 198 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of early America. Topics include: the Northwest Ordinance, Daniel Boone, the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution, the Alien & Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, the War of 1812, and more. Each of the 46 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions

"Westward Expansion" includes nearly 150 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of westward expansion. Topics include: the California Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War, and much more. Each lesson has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"The Road to Civil War" includes 207 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events during the build-up to the American Civil War. Topics include slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Fugitive Slave Law, abolitionists, and much more. Each lesson has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions.

"The Gilded Age" includes nearly 200 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Topics include: the Robber Barons,  immigration, the inventors, the Spanish-American War, and much more. Each lesson has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"The Progressive Era & World War I" includes over 180 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the early 1900s, all the way up through the conclusion of World War I. Topics include: Teddy Roosevelt and his efforts at trust busting,  food and drug regulations, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Panama Canal; as well as the causes of World War I, trench warfare, and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Each lesson has several pages of student activities.

"The Roaring Twenties" includes 159 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of an exciting decade. Topics include: prohibition, speakeasies, the Red Scare, the Tea Pot Dome scandal, flappers, the Scopes Trial, electricity, radio, automobiles, jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, and much, much more. Each of the 38 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"The Great Depression & the Dirty Thirties" includes 162 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of this difficult, yet fascinating decade. Topics include: the stock market crash, Hoovervilles, Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, the Dust Bowl, the demagogues, big band music, movies, and more. Each of the 40 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions.  

"World War II" includes nearly 250 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of World War II. Topics include: Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Battle of Midway, the Atomic Bomb, the Holocaust, and much more. Each lesson has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions.

"The Cold War" includes 96 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of the Cold War. Topics include: the Soviet Union, the Truman Doctrine, Cold War spies, civil defense, fallout shelters, the Korean Conflict, the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and more. Each of the 38 lessons has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"The Sixties: Vol. 1" includes 165 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the 1960s, with a specific focus on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, as well as the Civil Rights Movement.  Topics include: the Kennedy / Nixon debates, the election of 1960, John F. Kennedy, the Peace Corps, the Kennedy assassination, the Great Society, Martin Luther King Jr., the March on Washington, Selma, Malcolm X, the Black Power Movement, and more.

"The Sixties: Vol. 2" includes 188 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the latter 1960s and early '70s.  Topics include: the Vietnam Conflict, the Counterculture, the 1968 presidential election, Robert Kennedy, the Super Bowl, Muhammad Ali, Wilt Chamberlain, The Beatles, Woodstock, Bob Dylan, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more!  Each of the 42 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple-choice questions, student response essay questions and more.

 "The 1970s & 1980s" includes 161 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of two great decades in American History. Topics include: Watergate, the Wounded Knee Incident, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Camp David Accords, the oil embargo, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Iran-Contra affair, and more. Each of the 36 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

 "The 1990s & 2000s" includes 141 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of the past three decades in American History. Topics include: Bill Clinton, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Columbine Massacre, the 2000 presidential election, September 11th, the War on Terror, Barack Obama, and  more. Each of the 31 lessons has several pages of activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"African American History: Volume One" includes 159 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of African American History from the colonial era up through the 1940s. Topics include: the Middle Passage, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, the 13th, 14th, & 15thAmendments, Buffalo Soldiers, Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws, Booker T. Washington, and more. Each of the 31 lessons has several pages of activities.

"African American History: Volume Two" includes 154 pages of activities related to the major figures and events of African American History from the 1950s up through the modern era. Topics include: Brown v. The Board of Education, the Little Rock Nine, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, Emmett Till, the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Black Power Movement, and more. Each of the 38 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"Women in American History: Volume One" includes 154 pages of activities related to the major women who have played a significant role in American History from the earliest days through the 1920s.  The Women's Suffrage Movement, Daily Life for American Women through the Ages, prominent activists and reformers are amongst the many topics focused on in this volume.  Each of the 33 lessons has several pages of student activities. 

"Women in American History: Volume Two" includes 200 pages of activities related to the major women who have played a significant role in American History throughout the 1800s, 1900s, as well as the modern era.  First Ladies, Governors, Congresswomen, authors, artists, actors, singers, and athletes are all featured.  There are also lessons about the Equal Rights Amendment, Title IX, and much more.  Each of the 47 lessons has several pages of student activities. 

"Oklahoma History: Volume One" includes 167 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of Oklahoma History from the earliest native settlers up through statehood. Topics include: early exploration, Indian Removal, the Five Civilized Tribes, Worcester v. Georgia, Sequoyah, the Civil War in Indian Territory, Stand Watie, the Chisholm Trail, the Boomer Movement, the land run, statehood, and much, much more. Each of the 29 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"Oklahoma History: Volume Two" includes 177 pages of student activities related to the major figures and events of Oklahoma History from the 1910s up through the modern era. Topics include: Jim Thorpe, the Green Corn Rebellion, the Tulsa Race Riot, the Dust Bowl, “Alfalfa” Bill Murray, Will Rogers, Wiley Post, Woody Guthrie, oil booms (and busts), Oklahoma!, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and much, much more. Each of the 32 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"The Great Supreme Court Cases" includes 184 pages of activities related to the landmark Supreme Court cases which have shaped America. Court cases include: Marbury v. Madison, Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. The Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Tinker v. Des Moines, Lemon v. Kurtzman, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, an introduction to the history and procedures of the US Supreme Court, and more. Each of the 41 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"The President & The Executive Branch" includes 101 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with America’s chief executive. Topics include: primary elections, the Electoral College, the roles of the presidency, the vice presidency, the First Lady, the White House, Air Force One, the Cabinet, the bureaucracy, executive orders, impeachment, and much, much more. Each of the 21 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"The United States Congress" includes 96 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with America’s legislative branch. Topics include: How a bill becomes a law, the House of Representatives, the Senate, Speaker of the House, committees, procedures, leadership roles, congressional apportionment, gerrymandering, filibusters, a history of both the House of Representatives and the Senate and much, much more. Each of the 21 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"Personal Finance" includes 75 pages of activities related to the major concepts associated with financial literacy. Topics include: earning an income, taxes, budgeting, financial service providers, saving for the future, credit, consumer fraud, housing, bankruptcy, gambling, charitable giving, and much more. Each of the 16 lessons has several pages of student activities including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. 

"The History of Halloween" includes 111 pages of student activities related to the history of one of America’s favorite holidays. Topics include: the origins of Halloween, trick-or-treating, traditional Halloween foods and games, Jack o’ Lanterns, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, black cats, spiders, bats, Halloween around the world, and more. Each of the 20 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"The History of Christmas" includes 113 pages of student activities related to the history of this wonderful holiday. Students will learn about the origins of Christmas, as well as the history connected to the following topics: Santa Claus, Christmas trees, traditional Christmas foods, Christmas cards, caroling, candy canes, the Magi, Christmas pageants, the twelve days of Christmas, Christmas literature, and much, much more. Each of the 20 lessons has several pages of student activities.

"Holiday Round-Up" includes 246 pages of activities related to the history of every major holiday on the calendar (except Halloween and Christmas). Students will learn about the origins and traditions associated with the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, Fathers’ Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and more. Each of the 51 lessons has several pages of student activities.