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This book is focused on teaching your students the new Global History curriculum in Grade 9. You no longer need to rely on those 1,200-page $70 textbooks in which you have to search for a few lines of text, even if they have it, that covers one of the new Grade 9 Key Ideas. This book follows exactly the new Grade 9 curriculum. If it’s mentioned in the Framework, you’ll find it in this book in the chapter dealing with that Key Idea. Everything you need for this challenging new curriculum is covered in this textbook. It’s not just aligned to the new Grade 9 curriculum, it completely embodies it!!!

Educational research has demonstrated that engaging students in the learning process increases their attention and focus, motivates them to use higher-level critical thinking skills, and promotes meaningful learning experiences.

Active learning requires students to participate in class, as opposed to just sitting and listening. Teachers need to vary strategies and formats to get the students involved in the learning process. This is precisely the primary focus of this book.

Every Key Idea in the Grade 9 Global History curriculum is explored in a separate chapter, with a variety of activities and questions that employ the latest educational research on how students learn and remember.

Each chapter concludes with a Testing Your Understanding section that provides practice in answering stimulus-based multiple-choice questions that mirror the format and level of difficulty students will find in grade 10 when they take the Global History Regents.

A complete practice Regents is included to provide added practice in answering stimulus-based multiple-choice, Constructed-Response, and Enduring Issues Essay questions.

The book has been developed by nationally recognized experts in social studies education with extensive experience in test-writing and authoring almost 80 books in social studies. In addition, these authors have conducted teacher workshops throughout the nation.

You need to provide your students with a variety of formats that interact with the content. For example, creating an interesting story, completing a graphic organizer, finding an Internet visual about related content, and compiling information to fill in Study Cards.