Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students‎.‎ This book includes game‎-formatted activities for major historical topics‎.‎ While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study‎,‎ they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment‎.‎ Encouraging teamwork‎,‎ creativity‎,‎ intelligent reflection‎,‎ and decision making‎,‎ the games of Hands‎-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history‎.‎ This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills‎.‎ 204pp‎.‎