Message from jreynolds

[Anonymous]

The History Alive! textbooks are awesome. They are created by a teacher, and they are organized in ways that make so much more sense than some of the textbooks I have. They have great pictures, and if you can get your district to approve it (or department) or just buy a full set... it is absolutely worth it. You can get the pictures in the text in a program that you can show with detail to help compare and contrast. They encourage so much kinesthetic learning. I went to a seminar of theirs during the California Council for the Social Studies conference in San Diego... I would switch to their texts in all grades if I could (I'm doing what I can). In the meantime, I think using some of the info in them is a great resource that really benefits the students. The website is great too, and even has some help with primary resources when possible.