Rand McNally to Distribute MindSparks History Programs; New History Resources for Elementary, Middle Grade and High School Students and Teachers.Business/Education Editors SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 2002 Rand McNally Rand McNally & Company is the preeminent American publisher of maps, atlases, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data. , the world's premier provider of mapping, routing and travel solutions, announces a distribution agreement with Highsmith(R) Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary MindSparks(R) Learning Resources LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Rand McNally's educational publishing division will distribute MindSparks history education programs: Excursions in History(TM) and History Unfolding. Excursions In History is a new program from MindSparks that includes printed and visual primary-source materials with a cross-curricular approach to teaching the American revolution American Revolution, 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. in grades four through six. The MindSparks History Unfolding series features content based on primary sources, as well as a carefully sequenced program designed to teach middle school and high school students to answer Document-Based Questions DBQ redirects here. For the airport, see Dubuque Regional Airport. A document-based question (DBQ), also known as data-based question, is an essay or series of short-answer questions that is constructed by students using one's own knowledge combined with support (DBQs) and write effective history essays in U.S. and world history classes. "Rand McNally is excited to bring Excursions in History and History Unfolding to the education market, further enhancing our nationwide reputation in K-12 education and using our powerful distribution network," said Patrick V. Riley, general manager of Rand McNally's educational publishing division. "This highly regarded history resource prepares students for standardized testing A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] that places increasing emphasis on interpreting primary sources and answering DBQs with essays." The Excursions In History: American Revolution program features a variety of materials that provide six weeks of instruction and help students of varying abilities examine historical events in context. This resource program has a teacher's guide with step-by-step lesson plans and reproducible worksheets, transparencies of visual and printed primary sources, an American revolution An American Revolution is an advertising campaign started on New Year's Eve 2003 by Chevrolet, originally to promote its "ten new cars and trucks in twenty months", released since January 2004, but the lineup of advertised cars was later expanded. timeline, posters, 1700s replica maps, board game for interactive learning, newspaper poster templates, replica historical documents and other supplemental materials. History Unfolding has four programs: 1. U.S. History: 1600-1865; 2. U.S. History: 1865-Present; 3. World History: Ancient Times-1500 (available January 2003); 4. World History: 1500-Present Each History Unfolding program includes more than 160 visual and written primary sources, as well as booklets with background information and lessons on each visual primary source. Each program contains a set of ten student workbooks with exercises to teach students to interpret primary sources and write effective DBQ (DataBase for Quality) An RDBMS from Murphy Software, Southfield, MI, that runs on Windows clients and the AS/400. Specialized for quality management, it is used to promote ISO 9000 compliance. essays. The programs have teacher's manuals that include objectives, teaching strategies and assessment guidelines. "There isn't anybody we'd rather be associated with than Rand McNally," said Matt Mulder, director of Highsmith Inc. "Rand McNally has a long-standing reputation for quality products and services and they have extensive experience in this market. We feel it's a perfect match for our high quality educational history programs." The price for the Excursions in History: American Revolution program and the History Unfolding programs is $325 each. More information is available through Rand McNally's education sales representatives, directly from Rand McNally Educational Publishing at 1-800-678-7263, or k12online.com. About Rand McNally Rand McNally & Company, founded in 1856, is America's indispensable travel guide, providing mapping, routing and trip-planning tools for the consumer, business, education and commercial transportation markets. The company produces print and electronic products featuring national and local maps for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada, including the Rand McNally Road Atlas A road atlas is a map or set of maps that primarily display roads and transport links rather than geographical information. Types Road Atlases come in many shapes, sizes and scales. and Thomas Guides Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, Salem, San . Rand McNally offers trip planning on randmcnally.com and operates retail stores across the United States. For more information, call (800) 333-0136 or visit www.randmcnally.com. History Unfolding is published by Highsmith(R) Inc. as a part of its MindSparks(R) line. Excursions in History(TM) is produced by MindSparks(R) Learning Resources LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Highsmith(R) Inc. Highsmith and MindSparks are registered trademarks of Highsmith(R) Inc. |
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