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$50.00Add to CartTake your students on an unforgettable journey from sea to shining sea! 🗽
Are you looking for a way to teach U.S. Geography and History that actually sticks? Tired of dry textbooks and repetitive worksheets? The Comprehensive USA Unit Study is an interactive, cross-curricular, student-centered resource designed to transform your homeschool or classroom into a hub of discovery.
This isn’t just a packet of papers—it’s a complete investigative framework. Whether you are teaching a single second-grader, a multi-age group of middle schoolers or wanting a family style unit, this resource scales to fit your needs. Students will read, research, and report their way through all 50 states, producing 50 unique and beautiful projects along the way!
📝 What’s Inside This Massive Resource?
My Teaching Library has included everything you need to plan, execute, and evaluate a high-quality cross-curricular unit:
1. The Research & Reference Core 📚
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A Comprehensive 50-State Guide: Detailed facts for every state, including history, capitals, nicknames, mottos, symbols, major industries, and landmarks.
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Read Across America Literary Journey: Curated book suggestions for every single state to integrate literature into your lessons combining reading and geography!
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Research Recording Pages: Structured notebooking pages to guide students through the investigative process.
2. Student Notebooking & Reporting ✍️
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Wide Variety of Report Pages: From the history of the founding and lawmaking processes to local government, tourism, and economy.
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State Symbol Spotlights: Dedicated pages for state birds, flowers, mammals, insects, rocks/minerals, and more.
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Compare & Contrast: Use the included Venn diagrams to help students find similarities and differences between different states.
3. Maps, Flags, and Visual Aids 🎨
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Full-Page Maps: Includes Color and B&W maps of the U.S., regional divisions, and individual state maps (blank, with capitals, and with major cities).
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Artistic Templates: Full-page B&W images of all 50 state flags, flowers, and birds—perfect for coloring and report covers.
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Lined State Maps: Unique templates for students to write summaries directly within the state borders, how fun!
4. Teacher Planning & Active Learning 🍎
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“How-To” Planning Pages: Includes teacher assignment guides, a comprehensive supply list, and an evaluation rubric for easy grading.
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Organizational Tools: Student cover pages, Table of Contents, and a reusable K-W-L chart.
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Active Learning Games: Suggested games to keep students engaged and help them memorize state facts through play.
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State Capital Bookmarks: A fun, functional way for students to use throughout the unit.
✨ Why You’ll Love It:
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Multi-Age & Multi-Ability: Perfect for families homeschooling multiple children or teachers with diverse learners. Simply choose the reporting depth that fits the student’s level.
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Cross-Curricular: Seamlessly blends Geography, History, Language Arts, Art, and Civics.
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Student-Led: Empowers students to take ownership of their research and creativity.
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Flexible: Use it as a full-year curriculum, a summer enrichment program, or a “State of the Week” supplement.
🚀 Ready to start your cross-country adventure?
Give your students the tools to become experts on the United States. From the rocky coasts of Maine to the tropical shores of Hawaii, the Comprehensive USA Unit Study makes history and geography come alive while seamlessly intertwining language arts, art, and civics!
Add to Cart, Download & Start Exploring & Creating Today! 🛒
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🦥 Slow Down and Discover: The Ultimate Sloths Unit Study!
Take your students on a deep dive into the canopy with this comprehensive Sloths Unit Study! Designed to move beyond standard worksheets, this “boutique” style unit offers a rich, cross-curricular learning journey that explores the fascinating world of nature’s slowest movers. 🌿
Perfect for homeschooling families and classroom teachers alike, this unit is packed with high-quality informational text, stunning visuals, and cross-curricular activities that keep students engaged from start to finish.
📖 What’s Inside?
This unit provides a thorough exploration of sloth biology, geography, and ecology. Students won’t just learn about “sloths”—they will become experts on the specific species that inhabit our world!
Informational Text & Geography:
- 🦥Detailed Reading Passages: Includes both full-color and ink-friendly black and white pages covering:
- Nature’s Slow Movers: General sloth facts and biology.
- The Six Species: Detailed looks at the Pygmy, Maned, Brown-throated, Pale-throated, Hoffmann’s, and Linnaeus’s sloths.
- Predators: Understanding the threats sloths face in the wild.
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🦥Visual Learning: High-quality images of sloths and their predators to bring the lessons to life. 📸
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🦥Map Work: Detailed maps showing the specific locations of different sloth types, paired with student map work pages to reinforce geography skills. 🗺️
Language Arts & Literacy:
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🦥Vocabulary Suite: Includes vocabulary cards, a definition handout, and a dedicated vocabulary quiz to ensure mastery. 🧠
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🦥Writing & Paraphrasing: 5 specific paragraph exercises where students read a passage, create an original title, and practice the essential skill of paraphrasing in their own words.
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🦥Creative Expression: Acrostic poetry pages and “Color and Write” prompts. ✍️
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🦥Copy Work: Beautifully designed pages for handwriting practice.
Science & Research:
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🦥Notebooking & Report Pages: Flexible templates for students to record their research and findings. 📓
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🦥Curated Book List: A hand-picked selection of book suggestions for additional reading to expand the study. 📚
Art & Logic Fun:
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🦥Directed Drawing: A step-by-step guide to drawing a sloth. 🎨
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🦥Brain Games: Includes a themed Maze, Word Search, and Crossword Puzzle. 🧩
Assessment & Ease of Use:
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🦥Sloths Quiz: A comprehensive end-of-unit quiz to check for understanding.
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🦥Answer Keys: Fully included to save you time and make grading a breeze! ✅
✨ Why You’ll Love It
Whether you are looking for a deep-dive science unit or a way to integrate reading and writing into a high-interest topic, this study provides the tools you need. It’s designed to be flexible enough for various grade levels while remaining academically rigorous.Bring the wonders of the rainforest into your lesson plans today! 🦥🍃
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- 🦥Detailed Reading Passages: Includes both full-color and ink-friendly black and white pages covering:
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Get your students slowly (or quickly!) excited about poetry with this super cute and engaging Sloth Acrostic Poetry Writing Pack! 🦥 This student-friendly resource is designed to make poetry accessible, creative, and above all, FUN for young writers. With an adorable jungle theme featuring sleeping and star-holding sloths, it’s a perfect addition to your lesson plans to get students’ creativity flowing!
📖 What is an Acrostic Poem?
An acrostic poem is a fun and simple form of poetry! The first letter of each line spells out a key word or phrase (in this case, SLOTH). Students then write a word or phrase for each letter, creating a unique poem that describes the core word. It’s a great structural exercise for beginning poets and can build confidence in reluctant writers. ✍️
💡 Benefits to Students:
This resource goes beyond just being cute! It offers numerous learning benefits, including:
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🎨 Creativity & Imagination: Encourages students to think creatively to find words that fit the sloth theme.
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📚 Vocabulary Building: Promotes the use of descriptive language, adjectives, and strong verbs.
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🔡 Spelling & Phonics: Reinforces initial letter sounds and spelling.
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📝 Writing Practice: Provides a structured and guided way to practice writing short sentences or phrases.
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🧐 Structural Understanding: Helps students understand different forms of poetry.
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🖍️ Fine Motor Skills: The included B&W version is perfect for a creative coloring break.
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🥰 High Engagement: Sloths are an incredibly popular animal, making this resource highly motivating!
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🌟 Adaptable for All Levels: Reluctant writers feel successful with this simple, guided format. Reluctant poets feel successful with this pattern.
📦 What’s Included in this Pack?
You will receive:
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🦥 Two (2) Printable Worksheets: (As seen in the product image)
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🖍️ One (1) Black & White Line Art Version: Ideal for students to color, personalize, and then write their unique sloth poems.
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🎨 One (1) Full Color Version: Perfect for a quick writing session or for students who prefer to write and go.
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🍃 Both versions feature a charming sloth-and-tropical-leaf border with clear title fields (“ACROSTIC POEM: SLOTH”).
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A captivating and educational journey through time, designed to ignite curiosity and foster a love for history in students. This unique resource combines the creativity of coloring and writing as students learn the history of trains. Eight intricately detailed coloring pages depict key milestones, transforming the study of transportation history into an engaging and interactive experience that will keep your students absorbed from start to finish.
As students immerse themselves in coloring, they’ll uncover fascinating details about the origins of rail travel. The pages span from the earliest ‘wagonways’ and the surprising story of horse-powered trains to the game-changing innovations of the late 18th century, around 1776 and 1789. They will learn about the famous ‘Puffing Devil’, the first steam locomotive, and discover the visionary behind the first passenger train in the United States. This product provides a rich tapestry of information, made accessible and memorable through visual learning.
To truly solidify comprehension and critical thinking, each page includes a short dedicated writing section at the bottom where students can summarize what they’ve learned, using their own words to capture the essence of the historical shift. This ‘Color and Write’ approach ensures that students are not just passive observers of history, but active participants, reinforcing their reading, synthesis, and writing skills simultaneously.
Make your history lessons unforgettable with “The History of Trains | Color & Write”!
Add to your purchase All Aboard! A Cross-Curricular Unit all about Trains
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Our 5/8″ dash-lined printable writing paper is the perfect launchpad for early elementary students continuing to fine tune their handwriting. Specifically designed for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students, the page features a generous primary-ruled landscape format that provides ample space for continued development. Print as many pages as you need to use again and again!
The solid top and bottom lines, paired with a clear dashed midline, offer a consistent visual guide to help children.
Ready to print and use immediately, this paper takes the frustration out of handwriting practice, allowing students to focus on the joy of writing sentences fluently and perhaps even in working on cursive!
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Looking for a print and go, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade science activity that makes learning about insects a blast? Get ready to buzz with excitement! Your search is over with this “Nonfiction Insect Mini-Book | Easy Reader Printable Science Activity.” It’s the perfect way to spark curiosity and make nonfiction science accessible and fun for your young learners.
✨ What’s Included:
- – A super fun, printable insect mini-book for students to create!
- – Engaging nonfiction content about where insects live, their body parts, and their impact on our environment.
- – Opportunities for students to color, draw, and write to deepen understanding and creativity.
- – Activities that help distinguish common insects from other creatures.
- – A wonderful way to create a special, keepsake mini-book that celebrates learning.
✅ Perfect For…
- – Introducing insects and their habitats.
- – Engaging emergent readers with nonfiction text.
- – Creating exciting project-based learning experiences.
- – Inspiring young scientists in 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade.
This resource is crafted with a passion for making science come alive through real-world connections. My Teaching Library believes in the power of project-based learning and hands-on activities to foster a deep love for science. By allowing students to actively create, explore, and express their learning, this mini-book transforms abstract concepts into tangible, memorable experiences. It empowers students to become active learners and critical thinkers, building confidence as they discover the amazing world of insects!
📚 Learning Objectives
- – Students will be able to identify and describe the basic body parts of an insect.
- – Students will be able to explain where common insects can be found.
- – Students will be able to understand how insects impact our environment.
- – Students will be able to differentiate between common insects and other small creatures.
- – Students will practice reading comprehension and writing skills through nonfiction text.
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Have students wanting to learn about dinosaurs? Want to incorporate hands-on, project learning into your science lessons that will not only help student learning ‘stick’ but will allow students to walk away with beautiful projects? Get ready to roar with excitement because your problem is solved!
PLEASE NOTE: This resource does not mention the age of the earth or periods of time.
Get My Teaching Library’s “Dinosaurs A-Z | Research, Report, Notebooking, Project Pages | Multi-Grade” and watch students’ love of learning ignite!
Regardless of whether you are teaching 1st grade or 12th, this resource will work because it has been designed with pages for all ages – abilities – grades!
✨ What’s Included:
- – 4 pages for each of these dinosaurs (Multi-level, ability writing/reporting plus map work): A – Allosauru,s B – Brachiosaurus, C – Centrosaurus, D – Diplodocus, E – Edmontosaurus, F – Fukuiraptor, G – Giganotosaurus, H – Hadrosaurus, I – Iguanodon, J – Jaxartosaurus, K – Kentrosaurus, L – Lambeosaurus, M – Megalosaurus, N – Nodosaurus, O – Oviraptor, P – Parasaurolophus, Q – Quetzalcoatlus, R – Rhabdodon, S – Stegosaurus, T – Tyrannosaurus Rex, U – Utahraptor, V – Velociraptor, W – Wannanosaurus, X – Xenotarsosaurus, Y – Yangchuanosaurus ,Z – Zuniceratops
- – 5 extra pages to continue reporting on each dinosaur if needed (both writing and drawing pages).
✅ Perfect For…
- – Dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages who love to dive deep into research and creative reporting.
- – Project-based learning units focused on paleontology.
- – Inspiring hands-on science activities that connect real-world learning.
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Introducing the 2nd-3rd Grade St. Patrick’s Day – March Math and ELA Activities No-Prep Pack, a delightful St. Patrick’s Day and shamrock-themed resource designed specifically for students working on 2nd Grade and 3rd Grade levels.
✨ What’s Included:
- – Engaging shamrock-themed ELA and Math activity sheets.
- – Printable worksheets with answer keys for easy assessment.
- – A variety of PDF documents packed with fun learning opportunities.
- – 17 Student activity pages – Selected Answer Keys
✅ Perfect For…
- – No prep activities.
- – Enhancing ELA and Math intervention.
- – Boosting student engagement with thematic learning.
- – Homeschooling families seeking fun, educational resources.
- – Reviewing essential 2nd and 3rd grade skills in a festive way.
By incorporating a strong problem-solving focus and making real-world connections, students are encouraged to think critically and apply their learning in meaningful ways.
📚 Learning Objectives
- – Students will practice identifying and using adjectives and verbs (present tense).
- – Students will explore and apply concepts of alliteration and hyperbole in writing.
- – Students will reinforce fact families and foundational multiplication skills.
- – Students will develop problem-solving strategies through engaging math puzzles and word problems.
- – Students will practice telling time to the 5 minutes.
- – Students will strengthen understanding of place value concepts.
- – Students will practice identifying fractions
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Six Valentine’s Day holiday-themed math worksheets which include mixed 2nd and 3rd grade math concepts and skills: place value, time, money, addition and subtraction, greater and less than, fractions and geometry (shapes).
You may also like:
- Candy Box Directed Drawing | Holiday Edition: Valentine’s Day
- February Math | 2nd and 3rd Grades
- February Math Graphing | Heart Craft Activities
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Sloth – Amazon Rainforest Animal Report – Writing – Project Paper
This product includes 21 pages for students to use when writing or creating a project on sloths.Details on the pages in the resource:
– 9 unlined pages with a black-and-white sloth image on each (2 include an image of a mom and her baby)
– 3 unlined pages with a color, photo realistic sloth image on each (2 include an image of a mom and her baby)
– 6 lined pages with a black-and-white sloth image on each (2 include an image of a mom and her baby)
– 3 lined pages with a color, photo realistic sloth image on each (2 include an image of a mom and her baby)You may also like: Amazon Tropical Rainforest Animals – Realistic Images | Color and Write
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Students will love these Amazon Tropical Rainforest Animals Color and Write pages. It features twelve detailed, realistic black-and-white drawings of animals commonly found in the Amazon tropical rainforest. Can be used as a Language Arts, Geography and/or Science resource. Cross-curricular!
Each page includes a realistic, ready-to-color illustration of the animal and lines for students to write a paragraph about the animal.
Animals included:
– sloth
– jaguar
– capybara
– howler monkey
– macaw
– toucan
– harpy eagle
– resplendent quetzal
– green anaconda
– poison dart frog
– river dolphin
– piranhaSpace is provided for students to write a paragraph about each animal. You can assign what you’d like for them to include or you can allow them to choose what they include. Teachers often as students to describe the animal’s appearance, its habitat, unique behaviors, and any interesting facts they know or discover when reading about the animal(s) using outside materials.
Benefits of this resource:
- – Encourages children to learn about each animal.
- – Encourages children to express themselves through coloring and writing.
- – Reinforces writing, reading comprehension (through the gathering of information from outside resources to gather information to write) and science learning.
- – Improves attention span and concentration, as it requires careful attention to detail while coloring and while reading for detail (using outside resources).
- – Can reduce stress and anxiety when coloring.
- – Helps develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and dexterity through coloring.
- – Educational when using realistic images such as the ones in this resource
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🐨 Planning to study Koalas? Marsupials? Animals of Australia/ If so, your students will love the student-centered, hands-on, cross-curricular project where they’ll learn all about Koalas while creating a lapbook or an interactive notebook!
🐨This can be used as a stand-alone unit that includes all of the informational materials, a map, and templates needed to create a beautiful project. Although this can be used completely as a stand-alone unit, a booklist is given if further research and reading is desired.
🐨Includes:
– Instructions and lapbook/notebooking examples
– Supply list
– Required elements checklist (optional for teacher assigned elements)
– Grading rubric and grading sheet
– Informational text covering:- Taxonomy
- Closest Relatives
- Anatomy
- Where they live (Habitat and Map)
- Diet
- Life Cycle
- Predators
- Fun Facts
- Vocabulary
– 11 pages of templates
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🐧A book unit for Mr. Popper’s Penguins which is easy-to-use, print-and-go unit and provides everything you need to teach and guide students through the book!
🐧Includes:
- -Teacher’s Guide – Brief and detailed chapter summaries, vocabulary with definitions, chapter questoins and answers.
- -Student Pages – Questions and vocabulary for each chapter
- -Student Art Pages – For students to draw a scene from an event that occurred in each chapter.
- -2 Quizzes – Short answer questions for Chapters 1-10 and 11-20
- -Vocabulary (extra) Work – Crossword puzzle and matching exercise. Can be used for review, reinforcement or testing.
- -Answer Keys
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Here is a penguin unit study that is a student-centered, hands-on, cross-curricular project where they’ll learn all about 15 types of penguins while creating a lapbook or an interactive notebook!
🐧This can be used as a stand-alone unit that includes all of the informational materials, maps, illustrations and templates needed to create a beautiful project. However, a booklist is given if further research and reading is desired.
🐧Includes:
– Instructions and lapbook/notebooking examples
– Supply list
– Required elements checklist (optional for teacher assigned elements)
– Grading rubric and grading sheet
– Informational text covering: taxonomy, general information about penguins and unusual facts about penguins
– Detail fact sheets about the following species (includes image and location map for each): Adelie penguin, African penguin, Chinstrap penguin, Emperor penguin, Erect Crested penguin, Fiordland penguin, Galapagos penguin, Gentoo penguin, Humboldt penguin, King penguin, Little Blue penguin, Macaroni penguin, Magellanic penguin, Rockhopper penguin, Royal penguin
– Vocabulary
– Book suggestions for additional reading
– Illustration of a penguin’s basic anatomy– Illustration of the penguin life cycle
– 21 pages of templates that can be used to either create a lapbook or use in an interactive notebook -
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Students will love to learn how to draw, step by step these woodland animals: 2 rabbits, cardinal, pileated woodpecker, fox, mouse, badger, hedgehog, wolf, raccoon and skunk.
Each page will illustrate how to draw one animal, starting with a single line and continue by adding additional lines and details as the drawing progresses. By the end, students will have drawn a woodland animal!
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Elf Owl Notebooking pages provides students with two recording pages to report on this small owl that is the size of a sparrow! The first page includes an image to color and lines for students to describe the owl’s appearance and behavior. They will also be able to report on the range where it is found and complete map work. The second page can be duplicated as many times as necessary needed for students to write a report on the bird.
Suggested research link: Elf Owl Overview
Get My Teaching Library’s full Birds of Prey Notebooking Pages Resource!
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This unit is full of hands-on, interactive science exploration and discovery! Students will work with 4 items commonly associated with autumn: a pumpkin, an apple, an acorn and a gourd.
Using each, they will be guided through several activities to observe, hypothesize, describe and explore the items. They will also draw, color and write throughout. Fall fun activities that will excite your young scientists. (14 pages)
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Art…Students love it but when it comes to drawing, most need a drawing guide to help. This resource will guide students in their drawing of many favorite parts about fall! Perfect for children and adults of all ages.
In this guide, you will find over 60 different fall images divided into categories:
– In the Kitchen
– Home Decor
– Autumn Foliage
– Layering Up for Cooler Weather
– October Themes
– On the FarmIn addition to the drawing guide, you will also find a template for students to draw their favorite part about autumn and also write about it. The perfect ELA cross curricular connection! (See description below for a detailed list images included in this drawing guide.)
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Looking for a fun and creative pumpkin themed activity? This resource will excite and motivate students to write. With 6 funny pumpkin faces and 3 differentiated writing papers, students will love writing and publishing an imaginative story.
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400+ pages – Little House on the Prairie engaging literature units!
Included in this BUNDLE:
- Little House on the Prairie
- The Long Winter
- Farmer Boy
- These Happy Golden Years
- Little House in the Big Woods
- By the Shores of Silver Lake
- On the Banks of Plum Creek
Each unit includes:
- Vocabulary work – Students are asked to find and write a definition, an antonym and a synonym for each word given.
- Reading journal for every chapter in every book
- Reading comprehension quizzes (including keys)
- Essay questions – Many will ask students not only about events in each book but also ask students to relate events to their own lives in some way.
- Oral discussion questions – Perfect for large or small groups (literature circle) discussions.
Studying early American history? The American frontier? Pioneers? Wonderful cross-curricular work!
