Bookshelf: Books and Documents

Nova Scotia PowerPoint
A Power Point presentation on Nova Scotia.
Presentations in this series were created with the Living History Threads curriculum (Level 43) in mind, but they can also be used more generally. Each presentation covers a single Canadian province or territory, including quality photos of primary geographical features, capital city, and one or two visuals for a key historical event or other item of interest.
PA History Chapter 2 Ice Age and Origin of Indians
This article from Answers in Genesis discusses the Ice Age and how the Native Americans may have come to settle in America.
When we think of Ice Age man, we usually think of a brutish, ape-like caveman that hunted woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos. According to evolutionary theory, the Ice Age is the time when man evolved through a series of missing links.
Read the article at Answers in Genesis.
Improving Multiple Choice Tests
IDEA Paper 16
From the publisher: This paper discusses the importance of writing multiple choice test questions to ensure that higher level cognitive learning is being assessed. Both strengths and limitations of multiple choice tests are explored and several practical recommendations are given for writing multiple choice items as well as organizing multiple choice tests. Reproduced under Creative Commons license.
Although the authors wrote for an audience of higher education faculty, much of their article applies to middle and high school testing as well.
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