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$3.00Add to CartTake learners on a fascinating journey through five major historical events that shaped our world during the week of May 18th to May 24th at different times in history. Designed with natural differentiation in mind, this resource includes tailored, engaging lesson ideas for grade levels 3rd–5th and 6th–8th. It is the perfect fit for and set up whether you are teaching one child or a classroom of students. You’ll have different assignment options from which to choose based on what is appropriate you the students you are teaching.
🌋 What’s Inside?
Lesson ideas to explore the historical context and dive into student-centered lessons surrounding:
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens (1980)
- Amelia Earhart’s Solo Transatlantic Flight (1932)
- The Founding of the American Red Cross (1881)
- The First Official Telegraph Message (1844)
- The Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge (1883)
🧠 Cross-Curricular Assignments
History doesn’t happen in a vacuum! These assignments bridge multiple subjects to create a rich, holistic educational journey:
- 🔬 STEM & Engineering: Hands-on popsicle stick bridge building and technology timelines.
- 🌍 Earth Science & Ecology: Researching primary succession and ecosystem recovery after a volcanic eruption.
- 📐 Math & Geography: Plotting transatlantic coordinates and calculating average flight speeds.
- 📝 Creative Writing & Journalism: Crafting eyewitness news reports, historical diary entries, and 1930s aviation packing lists.
- 🤝 Social Studies & Civic Action: Designing emergency relief kits and drafting real-world non-profit community action plans.
🌟 Benefits of this Resource
- Multi-Age Flexibility: With prompts neatly separated between 3rd-5th and 6th-8th, you can seamlessly teach multiple ages.
- High Engagement: Fosters critical thinking and creativity through hands-on projects, stepping away from dry, standardized worksheets.
- Student-Led Discovery: Encourages kids to step into the shoes of inventors, explorers, and unsung heroes, making the past incredibly relevant to their present.
👇 Ready to bring history to life and add a fresh, engaging resource?
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the Pony Express.
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Thomas Edison invented a practical electric light for home use!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize (October 14, 1964).
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focus is on California. Investigation ideas include the ‘Gold Rush’, the Compromise of 1850, the state’s long and rich history, the geography and the natural resources.
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
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Students will love playing ‘Double-Six Dominoes‘ with a Thanksgiving theme! Game instructions and game board example included!
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This lapbook has been designed to give students a creative project to create about America’s Independence Day – the 4th of July!
Students are given various lapbooking templates on a variety of topics. They will then research or read books about each, record what they have learned and add to their lapbook. These topics include…
– Pledge of Allegiance
– The American flag and winning independence
– Founding fathers: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others
– American Symbols, the words ‘patriotic’ and ‘freedom’ -
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This resource is a great extension activity for 2nd-3rd grade students who have just finished learning about Columbus. Students will use their creative imagination and write a travel log as if they were an actual crew member aboard a voyage with Columbus. They will then create a ‘telling telescope’ for their travel log and a fun little sailor hat!
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“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain…”This resource will have students copy the entire poem, 14 pages, 2 lines at a time of the famous Columbus poem, “He Sailed the Ocean Blue.” Designed for 1st-2nd grades.
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Transform your learning environment into an interactive historical discovery space with the Memorial Day Vocabulary Word Wall from My Teaching Library! This resource moves away from uniform delivery to provide a highly visual and flexible tool that enriches language arts, reading comprehension, and civic history lessons simultaneously.
This vocabulary pack includes 30 distinct holiday-themed words meticulously curated to help students master the vocabulary of remembrance. The collection spans foundational civic terms, historic symbols, and emotional concepts, including: Memorial Day, Holiday, May, United States, Remember, Wars, Sacrifice, Heroes, Honor, Flag, Half-mast, Flowers, Graves, Arlington National Cemetery, President, Speech, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Parades, Picnic, Decoration Day, Civil War, World War I, Red Poppy, Flanders Field, Taps, Medals, Purple Heart, Valiant, Valor, and Patriotic.
This set features:
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Bold, Large-Print Word Strips: Clean, easy-to-read cards perfect for bulletin boards, room displays, or direct manipulation during reading and writing assignments.
Options to use:
- Create Interactive Vocabulary Definition Matching Cards: Have students write definitions on the back of each strip. Then, have them write definitions on separate strips of paper. Once all definitions are written, students can match the cards to the separate definition strips and then self-check by flipping over the word cards!
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Create a Word Wall Display: Display the words on the wall of your room. Encourage students to use them in weekly writing or as their weekly spelling words.
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A fun Math graphing activity which will have students polling people they know about recycling habits and then graphing their results !
Suggested times to use:
- Students are learning to use tally marks
- Students need practice creating a graph
- An Earth Day project
- When learning about recycling
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This 47-page resource, “Thanksgiving Notebooking Project”, will provide a month full of learning including expository and creative writing, vocabulary and more!
Included:
- Student Project Pages (Cover, Table of Contents, Project KWL and others)
- Informational Text:
– What is Thanksgiving Day?
– Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations (Washington’s and Lincoln’s)
– History of Thanksgiving
– Symbols of Thanksgiving - Vocabulary List and Cards
(You choose which words fit your students abilities!) - A variety of note-taking, report creating pages designed for multi-age / ability use
– Some are blank with pictures
– Some with these titles: “I’m Thankful for…”, “Life as a Pilgrim”, “Thanksgiving Traditions”, “Thanksgiving History” - 3 Acrostic Poetry pages (Thanksgiving, Turkey, Pilgrim)
- Several FUN pages including 2 word search puzzles
Watch a preview video.
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Students will enjoy creating their own Christopher Columbus mini-book with this resource! After learning about Columbus (through their own curriculum, reading, watching a video or research), they can use these pages to create a story, report or poem about Columbus.
Includes:
- – 3 cover templates (blank, Christopher Columbus, A Story of Courage)
- – 12 inside page templates
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Students will love this creative project. This cross-curricular, Language Arts & Social Studies resource will give students templates to create two U.S. President flip books – one for George Washington and one for Abraham Lincoln. A great February activity around Presidents’ Day or when discussing Washington and/or Lincoln’s birthdays.
This can be used for 1st, 2nd or 3rd Grades. For younger students, you can opt to give them facts for each president and allow them to choose which ones to write in the books. For older students, you can also choose to have students read a passage that you already have or to do a little research on their own to find facts. Students should write at least 5 facts on each flip book as each will have 5 pages.
