Message from cforfar

[Anonymous]

i'm a big fan of the History Alive Series(Teachers' Curriculum Institute. http://www.historyalive.com/) for augmenting the text. (and sometimes the other way around!)
Guided/Independent practice. Big picture concepts with attention to important details.
Kinesic activities, graphic organizers, visuals- combined with critical thinking development.
They provide great slides as well, but I read somewhere that the new version changed the slides into overheads?
They sell year long units (grades 6-8) that follow the standards rather faithfully.