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$50.00Add to CartYou get 50 projects for $1 each as you take 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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$3.50Add to CartA 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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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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This Alabama State Symbols unit is designed to help students actively participate in research and create a beautiful project while learning more about the state! It can be used for 2nd-6th grades as there are ample pages for differing levels and abilities. To see a flipbook preview, click here. (Please allow time for the full-flipbook to load as it is a large file.)
See description below for details of what is included!
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Students can use these unique state shaped notebooking pages to create a report on Idaho after doing research on the state. It includes 2 different page types, one geared toward beginning writers (multiple colored lines) and the other is single lined.
BONUS: This resource includes “The Great 50 States – Questions for Research & Reports” that will inspire and guide students during research and writing!
Suggested uses:
– For a short report, students may only need one page.
– For longer reports, copy multiple pages for each student. Have students use one page for each different state topic and then compile into a small booklet -
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This BUNDLE includes six Central American country study resources and is designed to be used with Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students. Each resource is a mini-book project. Students will write and color as they learn about each of the following countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama
For each country, students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, animals, food and more. These minibooks can be used alone or in combination with your Social Studies, Geography or Cultural Studies!
** After completed, students will have a 12 page minibook for each country. **
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Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of Costa Rica while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, wildlife, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of Panama while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, wildlife, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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Students can use these unique state shaped notebooking pages to create a report on Arkansas after doing research on the state. It includes 2 different page types, one geared toward beginning writers (multiple colored lines) and the other is single lined.
BONUS: This resource includes “The Great 50 States – Questions for Research & Reports” that will inspire and guide students during research and writing!
Suggested uses:
– For a short report, students may only need one page.
– For longer reports, copy multiple pages for each student. Have students use one page for each different state topic and then compile into a small booklet -
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Students can use these unique state shaped notebooking pages to create a report on Arizona after doing research on the state. It includes 2 different page types, one geared toward beginning writers (multiple colored lines) and the other is single lined.
BONUS: This resource includes “The Great 50 States – Questions for Research & Reports” that will inspire and guide students during research and writing!
Suggested uses:
– For a short report, students may only need one page.
– For longer reports, copy multiple pages for each student. Have students use one page for each different state topic and then compile into a small booklet -
$2.00Add to Cart
Students can use these unique state shaped notebooking pages to create a report on Alaska after doing research on the state. It includes 2 different page types, one geared toward beginning writers (multiple colored lines) and the other is single lined.
BONUS: This resource includes “The Great 50 States – Questions for Research & Reports” that will inspire and guide students during research and writing!
Suggested uses:
– For a short report, students may only need one page.
– For longer reports, copy multiple pages for each student. Have students use one page for each different state topic and then compile into a small booklet. -
$2.00Add to Cart
Students can use these unique state shaped notebooking pages to create a report on Alabama after doing research on the state. It includes 2 different page types, one geared toward beginning writers (multiple colored lines) and the other is single lined.
BONUS: This resource includes “The Great 50 States – Questions for Research & Reports” that will inspire and guide students during research and writing!
Suggested uses:
– For a short report, students may only need one page.
– For longer reports, copy multiple pages for each student. Have students use one page for each different state topic and then compile into a small booklet -
$3.00Add to Cart
Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of Nicaragua while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, wildlife, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of Honduras while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, wildlife, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of Guatemala while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, national symbols, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the Central American country of El Salvador while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, wildlife, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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This Abraham Lincoln Informational Text Bundle includes two products:
- Abraham Lincoln | Informational Text and Activities
- Lincoln Memorial | Informational Text and Activities
(See description below for details of each)
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This BUNDLE includes eight South American country study resources and is designed to be used with Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade students. Each resource is a mini-book project. Students will write and color as they learn about each of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
For each country, students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, animals, food and more. These minibooks can be used alone or in combination with your Social Studies, Geography or Cultural Studies!
** After completed, students will have a 12 page minibook for each country. **
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$3.00Add to Cart
Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the South American country of Venezuela while the create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, animals, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country.
Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
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$3.00Add to Cart
Help students K-2nd grade learn about the culture of the South American country of Uruguay while they create a 12 page mini-book!
Students will learn about the country’s location, official language, traditional clothing, animals, food and more! There are two pages of copy work to practice handwriting and plenty of pictures to color while they are learning about the cultural highlights of the country. Use alone or with My Teaching Library’s other country study minibooks!
