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Current industry trends create a need for this book. They include: state curriculum framework that suggests history topics for grade levels; some schools are focusing on history as the content for integrated curriculum with language arts and other skills; the whole-language movement suggests a literature-based teaching emphasis. History does not have to be dull and dreary in the classroom. Elementary teachers can now use the activities in this terrific hands-on book and selected titles from childrenOs literature to enrich their history lessons. Social studies teachers for grades 1-3 will want to use this wide collection of activities to enrich their lessons on prehistory to the Gulf War to the present. Topics include multicultural perspectives for each century, heritage of Africans, Asians, Europeans. and Native Americans, experiences of women. This book is designed for classroom teachers and all elementary teachers and supervisors. A Longwood Professional Book.