Richard Worth Release Date: 01 September 2004 Format: Library Binding Pages: 124 Publisher: Children's Press(CT) ISBN: 9780516245690 ISBN-10: 0516245694
- Re-launch of the highly successful series The Thirteen Colonies. - Four-color illustrations, photographs. Timelines, and activities, enhance student experience. - Series targeted directly to the grade children study the colonization of America (5th) - At 128 pages, this book provides the most in-depth coverage of the subject matter for this age group. (Competing series by Child's World is for 3rd-5th graders and is 40 pages.) - Each book adheres to national social studies standards. Grades 5-8 National Social Studies Standards Time, Continuity & Change: II - Identify and use processes important to restructuring and reinterpreting the past - Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict and complexity to explain, analyze and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity. Power, Authority, & Governance: VI - Identifies basic features of the U.S. political system - Describes how government powers are acquired, used, and justified - Describes how governments respond to forces of unity and diversity