Social Studies

A boy from Puerto Rico who loved baseball.
An all-star, MVP, and twelve-time Golden Glove winner.
The first Latin American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted into the big leagues where he spent 18 seasons playing right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Who Was Roberto Clemente? tells the story of this remarkable athlete: a twelve-time All-Star, World Series MVP, and the first Latin American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This social studies interactive notebook for middle grades provides everything students need for successful, personalized note taking.

Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: U.S. Constitution for fifth to eighth grades. This interactive notebook emphasizes these important concepts:

• principles of U.S. government
• citizens' rights and responsibilities
• the Constitution

This social studies interactive notebook helps students review and study for tests.

Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, this product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

• Our Feelings banner (22.85" x 5.65")
• 12 feelings cards (6" x 8")
• How I Feel Today spinner with arrow (18" x 24", requires assembly)
• When You Feel Really Upset poster (18" x 24")
• Teaching guide

The Social Skills Puppet Set featuring Max and Millie is here to help enhance the social lessons in the classroom or therapy setting. Eight categories of behavior are covered and include sharing experiences, being nice, playing and working together, performing a task, presenting yourself, making choices, standing up for yourself, and dealing with conflict.

Each category includes a lesson featuring a story targeting the behavior, puppet dialogue to engage the children, illustrations for coloring, and different exercises to further discussion. Twelve full color cards are also included to aid children in exploring the feelings and emotions associated with different social situations.

CONTENTS: 1 Max hand puppet. 1 Millie hand puppet. 71 page book.

A girl who liked fishing.
A teenager who cleaned houses to make money.
The woman who took a stand by sitting on a bus.

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” This biography has black-and-white illustrations throughout.

A boy who loved to build and fix things.
A man who showed up barefoot to business meetings.
A genius who changed the way the world communicates.

Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co-found and run Apple, in addition to turning Pixar into a ground-breaking animation studio. A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to success and inspired the best and the brightest to come with him and “change the world.”