Interactive Notebook: Westward Expansion Resource Book, Grades 5 - 8

Interactive Notebook: Westward Expansion 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: Westward Expansion cover three units of study: The Louisiana Territory, Moving West, and California Gold Rush. 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