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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?
🛒 Add to Cart and Download “A Moment in History” Today!
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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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Students will love this engaging, hands-on lapbooking project as they learn a brief history about the circus starting in Europe and then coming to the United States. They’ll also learn the difference between the early circus and the circus of today!
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Students will have fun coloring the story of the California gold rush! The story will begin with an American construction worker, James Marshall, and his discovery of gold while building a sawmill for a businessman named John Sutter. It continues as 25,000 people travel to California calling themselves ‘forty-niners’ and finally tells what happened after the gold rush ended.
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Students can use this worksheet again and again to record short biographies on any person for any subject. This worksheet can be used alone or as part of a larger report or notebooking project. Students can report on inventors, scientists, explorers, mathematicians, musicians, famous Americans, etc!
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As students learn about different types of ‘homes’ throughout the world and history, this is a perfect resource to incorporate into your lesson plans. It includes 9 worksheets. Each will display a different type of home. Students are asked to ‘add to the picture, color and write a story.’
Types of homes included:
- – hut
- – chalet
- – adobe
- – Japanese Minka
- – palace
- – Spanish colonial
- – tipi
- – yaranga
- – yurt
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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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Teaching about U.S. elections? These colorful 5 election posters are packed with information about our government’s election process! Designed for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades.
Information you’ll find detailed on these posters include:
- What are our 2 major political parties
- The presidential election process (start to finish)
- Who can vote (plus when, how and where)
- Election terminology: debate, issues, platform, campaign, political party, nominate, candidate, incumbent, opponent, delegate, president, running mate, term, inauguration, oval office, ballot, citizen, democracy, election, electoral college, poll, vote
- Who are our elected officials in the U.S.? (examples of federal, state and local officials)
