America: History of our Nation 2014

Essential Questions

Essential Questions introduce new concepts, topics, and ideas, and challenge students to gain a greater understanding of how enduring American history issues are relevant and still affect them today. Found at the beginning of each chapter, Essential Questions continuously reinforces the content while connecting what students are learning to their lives and the larger world around them.

PresentationEXPRESS™ Premium

PresentationeEXPRESS™ Premium offers a wide array of options to help students connect to the content: audio, video, and interactive resources can preview topics and give teachers options to delve deeper into key topics or issues.

Student Edition

The core components – Student Edition, the Interactive Reading and Notetaking Study Guide, hands-on activities, and the digital course – are tied together through Understanding by Design® based Essential Questions so that they can be used in any combination depending on teacher preference.

Activity-Based Learning

The Historian Apprentice Learning System extends the exploration of the Essential Question beyond the textbook. Using the Apprentice Pack hands-on materials, online interactivities, and Web Quests, students can interact with Essential Questions while developing 21st Century skills.

The Historian’s Apprentice Activity Pack offers Essential Question-based inquiry to drive student comprehension. These hands-on packs contain the primary and secondary source materials students use to explore and enrich the topics covered in the Student Edition

Historian’s Apprentice Learning System Activity Pack

Explore Essential Questions in United States History. The Historian’s Apprentice Learning System Activity Pack encourages students to use authentic primary sources to answer intriguing historical questions. By evaluating historical clues – documents letters illustrations political cartoons and more – students investigate both the pivotal and personal moments of the past.

Interactive Reading and Notetaking Study Guide

• The interactive Reading and Notetaking Study Guide allows for differentiated instruction and assessment success by offering study guides for students in on-level, adapted, and Spanish versions.

Success Tracker™

Success Tracker is an online, formative assessment and remediation management system correlated to state standards. It helps teachers provide personalized remediation for each student and provides you with powerful, disaggregated data analysis of student performance.

Students will take online assessments and be provided instant remediation on areas of weakness. Teachers will instantly receive feedback on test results, and get the reporting they need to evaluate students and classes on state standard performance.

ExamView® Test Bank

Assessments can be found online and on CD-ROM with the ExamView® Test Bank. Teachers have access to thousands of test items that can be used to create various types of exams in multiple formats.