The Inquiry Journal is a soft-covered worktext that students can write in. It starts the inquiry process with the Essential Question from the chapter. Following critical analysis of images, students share viewpoints and cite evidence for their opinions as they work together to problem-solve and complete chapter inquiry projects. Reader’s Theater scripts are also provided to bring social studi…
The IMPACT Explorer Magazine is a soft-covered collection of articles, in a variety of genres, including graphic texts, where students can go deeper in chapter content, experience other viewpoints and connect back to the chapter Essential Question.
The Research Companion is a hard-covered text where students investigate Essential Questions, gather evidence, evaluate primary and secondary sources, consider points of view, experience citizenship and understand how the past shapes the present and future.
from the back cover: Meet Bink and Gollie, marvelous companions who can always agree to put on their roller skates. In other matters, however (such as which socks to wear, the buying of goldfish, or venturing to the Andes Mountains), compromise is required. But even if one sees a tree house as halfway up and the other as halfway down, these girls are always the best of friends.