Getting to Know Your Textbook (Scavenger Hunt)- Adaptable

This product is a great opening to the school year activity for teachers and students. While this version of the product is adapted to an Ancient World Civilization or World History Early Civilizations and U.S. History: Beginning to 1877, it is easily adaptable to any textbook. This product gets the students aware of their new textbook, allows them to learn the vocabulary of their textbook, and offers the teacher insight to student abilities at the beginning of the school year. The Getting to Your Textbook Activity is great for both regular and special education teachers because understanding student abilities at the beginning of school year also for creating appropriate and effective cooperative learning groups, understanding interventions for students early in the school year, and giving a teacher the leveled abilities of her classroom.