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Texas-Lone Star Land
Its History * Its Geography * Its Government * Its People
by Crawford, Kennamer and Reese

Written in an interesting and informative manner, this text is a must for all libraries and classrooms. Texas-Lone Star Land is high interest reading and uses primary source material that presents a variety of Texas events and people, including coverage of women and ethnic groups.

Features include: Word Watch, Texchecks, Texans Write, Texans Talk, Meet the Texans, End of Chapter Summaries, Exercises, Unit Links, Atlas. Sample Page

Texas-Lone Star Land Video Companion: Geography, Revolution, Republic, Government
Explore 15 minutes on each of the four regions of the state, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas lifestyle, tour the capitol and see how legislation is passed.
Interviews included. (60 minutes).

Texas Skill Builder
This student workbook is the companion to the textbook Texas: Lone Star Land with activities for each chapter including matching, true/false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions. This workbook is adaptable to any junior high classroom.
Paperback,64 pages, 8.5 x 11 in., illustrated, grade: 7

1. History-A Record of the Past
2. Exploring Geography
3. The Geography of the Lone Star State
4. Native Texans
5. Exploring Texas
6. Colonizing Texas
7. A Frontier Province
8. Texas-Spain's Last Frontier
9. Life in Spanish Texas
10. Mexican Texas

11. The Road to Revolution
12. The Texas Revolution
13. The Republic of Texas Begins
14. "This Great Drama"
15. Building the State of Texas
16. Life in Early Texas
17. Texans in the Civil War
18. Reconstructing Texas
19. A Changing Texas
20. A New Political Era

21. The Cattle Kingdom
22. King Cotton
23. Reform in Texas
24. From Progressivism to World War I
25. Texas-From World War I to New Deal
26. The Centennial State
27. Politics in a Changing State
28. Texas Culture-Texas Sports
29. Governing Texas
30. Participating in Local Government

Texas-Lone Star Land Textbook, Video, Workbook-grades 4-7 & above

Pupil Edition .....155-7....... $45.00
Annotated Teacher Edition........ 156-5...... $45.00
PDF Teacher Edition Annotations.......FREE (
Click Here)
Texas Skill Builder (workbook) ........165-4........ $ 7.95
PDF Texas Skill Builder.......FREE (
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Video (60 Minutes) ...........157-3.......... $34.95

 

Texas-Lone Star Land
Interactive Multimedia CD-ROM
A Comprehensive Social Studies Reference For 4th to 8th Grade Students
o State adopted text
o Easy to read
o Word search features
o Over 700 color and B&W full screen images
o Meet the Texans
o Maps
o Video
o Animation Clips

Featuring:

Cultures of Texas
Material, information, and photos related to the 4th grade Social Studies test
Designed for the 4th grade reader
Print feature
27 cultures included
8th Grade Social Studies test practice
Full color
On screen interactive
Print feature
On screen instructional objective practice
Performance tasks
Sample stimuli practice

Historical Narratives
Short stories from Texas history
Designed for the 4th grade reader

End of Chapter Activities
On screen interactive
Matching, multiple choice, etc.

Time Line
Dates of Texas history
Leaders of Texas

Maps
Interactive activities
Texas highway map with activities

State adopted Texas-Lone Star Land text
Text
Over 700 images
Maps and more…

PC and Mac based program
System requirements:

PC: 386 or better with Windows 3.1, 256 color VGA display, CD-ROM drive (double speed recommended), mouse, 4 MB memory, and Quicktime for Windows.
MAC: System 7, 256 color monitor, CD-ROM drive double speed recommended, mouse, 4MB memory, and Quicktime.

Texas-Lone-Star-Land CD ROM-grades 4-8 & above

Multimedia CD-ROM Single copy........ 172-5........... $ 17.50
Multimedia CD-ROM Site license.........172-7............ $150.00

Note: Purchase of one CD-ROM site license for your school entitles you to 10 CD-ROMS free for student use. Additional CD-ROMs may be purchased at $15.00 each for student use only. Usage limited to school site or library site only. Buyer required to follow all usage and copyright instructions. License applies. Printable images based on copyright availability.

 


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