Product Description: San Francisco Bay Area Missions (Exploring California Missions)

Product Description: Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized people. By focusing on a single important episode that describes a historical event, these books engage readers' interests and imaginations. Written in a story format, each account relates events that really happened, often followed by a brief summary of the historical event to further explain the significance it had on history...read more

Product Description: Charts the histories of the missions of San Francisco de Asis, Santa Clara, San Jose, San Rafael Arcangel, and San Francisco Solano, and briefly describes life among the Ohlone and Coast Miwok Indians before the arrival of the Spaniards. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The challenges keep coming for your Grade 5 and 6 students, requiring new and more complex thinking -- questions to be answered, solutions to be found, and discoveries to be made. The 44 lessons in critical thinking presented here are each comprised of: a chart that poses a problem or question, notes to the teacher with suggestions and an answer key, and a reproducible student page to be used with the chart or as follow-up practice...read more