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Textbook Companion Web Sites
Over the last few years several textbook publishers have created online companion web sites to their textbooks. Many of these companion sites contain an impressive amount of technology tools and materials such as PowerPoint presentations, primary sources, interactive maps, interactive tests and quizzes, essay questions, bulletin boards, chat rooms, and more. Even if you don't teach with these textbooks you may well find many uses for their online companion resources. Some textbook companion web sites (or parts of them) are restricted to those who purchase the textbook, but many companion website resources are available to everyone. The list below features history and social studies textbook companion websites where all, or most, of the resources included are available to all at no charge.
[Editor's note 09/15/09: Unfortunately Prentice School has retired many of its free textbook companion resources. -Tom Daccord]
1. The McGraw - Glencoe Online Teacher Center
The McGraw Hill - Glencoe Online Teacher Center includes companion textbook web sites access to Student Center activities and resources, as well as a teacher's forum, research guides, related interactive websites, and more.
Middle School:
High School:
Note: The McGraw Hill-Glencoe Social Studies "Beyond the Textbook" interactive Web sites provide students and teachers with extended knowledge and skills through the integration of technology based on thematic lessons.
2. Pearson - Prentice Hall Textbook Companion Websites
The Pearson - Prentice Hall Textbook Companion Websites offer many teaching resources, including: online quizzes; writing activities; essay questions; web links; chat rooms and message boards; key word searches; PowerPoint slides, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities.
- Making A Nation: The United States and Its People
- The Heritage of World Civilizations, Sixth Edition
- The Human Venture: Volume I
- The Human Venture: Volume II
- Out of Many: A History of the American People, Media and Research Update, Fourth Edition
- The American Journey: A History of the United States, Volumes 1 and 2
- The American Journey: A History of the United States, Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition, Brief Fourth Edition.
- American Perspectives (author's website)
- American Roots: Readings on American Cultural History
- The African-American Odyssey, Third Edition
- The Western Heritage
- Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History
- World Civilizations, AP* Edition
- The World's History, Volume I and II
- Social Studies for the Elementary and Middle Grades: A Constructivist Approach, 3/e
3. Wadsworth - CENGAGE Learning
Wadsworth textbook companion websites include a crossword puzzle, essay question, flashcards, glossary, Internet exercises, Infotrac reading, and quizzes.
- Western Civilization 6e
- Western Civilization: A History of European Society, Compact Edition
- Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Ninth Edition
- Western Civilization (Student Resource Center)
- The West Transformed: A History of Western Civilization, Volume II, Since 1648
- Liberty, Equality, Power: Enhanced Concise Edition
- A Brief History of the Western World
- World History
- World History to 1500
- World Civilizations (Student Resource Center)
- American Passages: A History of the United States
- A People and a Nation, Eighth Edition
- A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Sixth Edition
- The American Pageant: 14th edition
- The Brief American Pageant
- The American Past: A Survey of American History, Enhanced Edition
- The American Experiment: A History of the United States, Third Edition
- Making America: A History of the United States
- On the Edge: The United States in the Twentieth Century
- The Essential World History
- The Enduring Vision, Concise, Sixth Edition
- Essentials of Western Civilization: A History of European Society, Volume I: To 1715
- Gardner's Art through the Ages
- Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Edition
- Twentieth-Century World History
See a list of all Wadworths's History and Social Studies textbook companion websites
4. Routledge Textbook Companion Web Sites
The Routledge textbook companion resources typically include a bibliography, a chronology, and key terms or glossary. Some guides include PowerPoint presentations, flashcards, maps, and video. Overall they lack some of the interactive features available on other publisher web sites:
5. Sage Publications (Higher Education)
Content varies across subject areas and titles, but some of the features you can find on the companion web sites include PowerPoint slides, test questions, online glossary, web links, and teaching notes
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