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Featured Publication
The Arizona Story, the award-winning fourth grade social studies textbook, was created in response to the special emphasis the Arizona Department of Education Standards for Social Studies placed on analyzing and assessing primary resources. The Arizona Historical Society textbook provides ample opportunities for students to discover Arizona history through the use of the society's collections. The resulting text tells the state's story with illustrations from AHS's photographic, archival, and object collections.
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Not Your Ordinary School Textbook: |
Studies in Arizona History integrates Arizona history into the American history course by focusing on local issues that illustrate national trends. Primary sources, diverse perspectives, and historians' research techniques are emphasized. This text can be used for both high school and middle school levels. The Arizona Historical Society earned the American Association for State and Local History's prestigious national "Award of Merit" for this outstanding textbook. Hardback
copies are priced at $32.00; soft-cover copies are available at
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Great Arizona History Book Now Available
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Based on the actual stories Addie Slaughter passed on to her daughter, and in-depth interviews with Dr. Reba Wells Grandrud, the John H. Slaughter Ranch historian, Addie Slaughter: The Girl Who Met Geronimo, succeeds in capturing the interest and imagination of young readers with its youthful voice, colorful descriptions, historical photographs and exciting recount of actual events.
ACSS features special publications on the web site and offers lesson plans and other curriculum as well as our quarterly newsletter. Your membership helps us keep the site updated so everyone can benefit from the rich resources we have here in Arizona.
ACSS Curriculum Packages
For the first time ever, the ACSS is pleased to offer classroom-ready curriculum materials by Arizona teachers, for Arizona teachers, and all tied to Arizona's Social Studies Standards. The following publications are currently available:
The ACSS curriculum is currently under revision and will be available soon.
Politics, Power and Patterns: Arizona's Voice in Elections (Grades 9-12)
This high school integrated unit of four lessons briefly traces Arizona's road to statehood culminating in the 1910 Constitution and overviews Arizona's political impact on a national level. The four lessons focus on Arizona Constitutional history, the processes of direct democracy; how the Populist and Progressive Movements impacted Arizona's Constitution; Arizona's national voting patterns; the Electoral College; and brief biographical sketches of five prominent Arizona political leaders.
Geography Basics in Social Studies: Focus on Arizona (Grades 1-3)
This set of six lessons helps young students explore the fascinating and diverse geography of our state. At the same time, students meet standards in history, economics, science, and mathematics. The lessons include invaluable hands-on strategies that can be employed in more than just the lessons in this package.
By Foot, Mule, or Boat: Learning Journeys Through the Grand Canyon (Grades 4-8)
The ten lessons in this package, plus an extensive unit assessment, engage middle level learners in the history, geography, and economics of our state's very own natural wonder, the Grand Canyon. Using a variety of instructional strategies, students learn about the geology of the Grand Canyon; major figures associated with the Canyon, such as Teddy Roosevelt and John Wesley Powell; the legislative history of the Arizona Territory and the Grand Canyon National Park; the economics of building the Canyon's first suspension bridge; and much, much more!
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Do you have an item of information, an activity, resource, website, or editorial you would like to submit for the quarterly ACSS Newsletter? You may submit it via e-mail as body or attachment in pdf or Word.doc format to ACSS Newsletter Editor Ken de Masi at kfdemasi@gmail.com.
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