Interactive Notebook: Colonization Resource Book, Grades 5 - 8

Notebook Features:
• 64 pages, about 8 inches x 11 inches
• Ages 10-14, Grades 5-8
• Covers first settlements, colonies in North America, and more
• Helps students record, store, and organize information for review/test prep
• Correlated to state standards

Hands-On Learning: The Colonization Interactive Notebook allows kids to create their own history resource to access throughout the year. Students strengthen their history knowledge and creative and organizational skills through interactive learning.

What’s Included: The 64-page American history book features 19 lessons and 4 units of study focusing on colonization in America through interactive content. Students record, store, and organize essential information that is useful for test prep.

Correlated To State Standards: This standards-based notebook helps students build proficiency in US history through lessons such as First Settlements, Colonies in North America, Life in the Colonies, and Conflict Comes to the Colonies.

Benefits Of Interactive Notebooks: Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered, and become active participants in their own learning journey.

Why Mark Twain Media: Designed by leading educators, Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing captivating, supplemental books and resources in a wide range of subjects for middle- and upper-grade classroom success.

| Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Colonization for grades 5–8. | Interactive Notebook: Colonization is one of Mark Twain Media’s new American History Series of interactive notebooks. It provides students in grades 5 through 8 with opportunities to explore the significant events and people that make up American history. The book is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining the interactive notebook. Once completed, the notebook becomes a great resource for reviewing and studying for tests. The 19 lessons contained in Interactive Notebook: Colonization cover four units of study: First Settlements, Colonies in North America, Life in the Colonies, and Conflict Comes to the Colonies. This interactive approach to diagraming history concepts gives students many opportunities to utilize models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with manipulatives to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. •Helps students record, store, and organize essential information •Serves as a resource for review and test prep •Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information •Correlated to current national and state standards