Social Studies

• 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.

• 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!

• Step-by-step teacher instructions
• Ready-to-use, reproducible pages
• Writing and reflection prompts
• Student letter
• Supply lists
• Rubric
• And more!

Gallopade has created the Missouri Decorative Set to make shopping easier for you AND at a fantastic price! The Missouri Decorative Set has six decorative products including bulletin boards, borders, nameplates, a map, a big timeline, and a poster. Perfect for decorating your walls, windows, hallways, doors and more. Great for the classroom, home or office.

Below is a list of all the educational and fun products you will receive when you purchase the Missouri Decorative Set:

Missouri Borders for Bulletin Boards
Missouri Bulletin Board Set with over 30 pieces
Missouri Nameplates - Pack of 36
Missouri Flag Poster that is 11” x 17”
Missouri Big Timeline that is over 8' long
The Missouri Experience Poster/Map which is 22” x 34”

Missouri Bulletin Board Set with over 30 pieces
Add Pizzazz to your classroom, hallway, bulletin board, wall or door! The Bulletin Board Set includes over 30 different pieces including the state bird, flag, tree and other state symbols plus original character art and colorful state photo postcards.

Missouri Borders for Bulletin Boards
Brighten your classroom and teach students about their state with Missouri Borders for Bulletin Boards! The Missouri Borders feature the Missouri official state tree, bird, flag, seal, and other symbols. Borders are 3” wide and 32' in total length.

Missouri Nameplates - Pack of 36
Students can learn the state tree, bird, flag, seal, and other symbols of Missouri right at their desk! State-specific nameplates will add pizzazz to your classroom decor and make learning about Missouri fun!

Missouri Flag Poster that is 11” x 17”
Decorate your walls with this 11” x 17” Missouri Flag Poster. The Missouri Flag Poster is printed on high quality, heavy, gloss card stock with a full bleed and ready to be framed.

Missouri Big Timeline that is over 8' long
This Timeline of awesome achievements and events will stimulate students' imagination to help them visualize important events in history! Over 8' long.

The Missouri Experience Poster/Map which is 22” x 34”
This 22" x 34" poster map features a map of the state with neighbors, cities, counties, and landmarks plus state symbols, a state timeline, geography and history information, and lots more.

Themed sets of Photographic Learning Cards are a great classroom value for speech and language, special education, ESL and ELL programs, Title I programs, Head Start, resource rooms, early childhood, and elementary classrooms.

The People and Emotions set includes 90 photo cards and 6 resource cards (5.5” x 8.5” each):

• Emotions
• Families
• Children Learning Together
• People in My Neighborhood

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”

Features:

• Resource Guide

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.

Students read, observe, and analyze primary and secondary sources to answer document-based questions (DBQ) that range from identifying cause and effect, predicting possible outcomes, explaining point-of-view, summarizing main ideas, defining vocabulary from textual clues, and much more!

DBQs (Document-Based Questions) integrate literacy, standards-based content, and critical-thinking.

The U.S. Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights includes:

• Literacy DBQs students read, analyze, and write.
• Rigorous DBQs challenge students to use critical-thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• DBQs connect reading and analysis to purposeful writing supported by evidence.

The U.S. Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights has higher-order thinking questioning techniques to help students build inquiry skills! Students learn to support their conclusions with evidenceóan essential 21st Century skill.

The U.S. Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights include:

• Text, Data, & Primary Source Analysis
• Writing
• Charts & Graphs
• Inference
• Cause & Effect
• Point of View ï Categorization
• Technology
• Experiments
• Order of Events
• Categorization
• Predict Possible Outcomes
• & Lots More!

Add critical thinking and rigor to your classroom!

Learning cards are a wonderful way to build language and encourage vocabulary development.

The Positional/Directional Concepts set includes:

• 14 cards, featuring photographs of a plush puppy in different positions relative to a doghouse
• 14 positional word cards
• a 2-piece doghouse
• 2 puppies
• resource guide with additional activity ideas and card descriptions in English, Spanish, and French

The set supports NCTE, NCTM, and NAEYC standards and can be used for used on a flannel or magnetic board. Positional concepts include:

• over
• under
• inside
• next to
• between
• behind
• in front

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”

Features:

• Resource Guide