Reinforce key social studies skills and concepts with these teacher-tested ideas and student reproducibles from the Mailbox magazine. Use these popular units to integrate social studies across all areas of your curriculum and increase your students' understanding of key topics.

Collection of teaching units in social studies selected from the 1987 to 1993 issues of The mailbox, intermediate ed.

Social Studies are brain snacks - truths, trivia, and tidbits of information written with sly wit for the entertainment and instruction of inquiring minds. For over five years, Michael Kesterton has been compiling them daily for the Globe and Mail, and Brian Gable has been illustrating them. Now they are making their debut as a book. Open up the covers and fall into the weird and delightful world of Social Studies. Here, peculiar statistics rub shoulders with absurd facts, and arcane anecdotes with historical oddities, in a potpourri of deliciously diverting epigrams, adages, and amusements. Gathered from a multitude of sources, both serious and silly, and illustrated by Brain Gable's quirky cartoons, Social Studies contains an abundance of idiosyncratic and bizarre topics, including the growth of Beatlemania and the origins of income tax, choice tabloid headlines, a personality profile of Godzilla, and accounts of attack rabbits. Social Studies readers can be found at the epicentre of the liveliest parties, their small talk sprinkled with strange facts and enchanting bon mots, thanks to Michael Kesterton.

Jam-packed with classroom-tested, hands-on activities such as wondercircles, fan-fold books, paper-chain timelines, and more mapping and report writing ideas!

A collection of teacher-tested ideas for special units, bulletin boards, management tips, learning centers, literature units, art activities, and reproducible patterns and worksheets for grades 4-6.