Category: Thematic Unit Studies
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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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$4.00Add to Cart🐨 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
– (Bonus) Nature’s Predators of the Koala Coloring Page -
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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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In this unit study, students will learn how 8 different animals (4 different habitats) use many of their body parts to live and survive. For each animal, students will be given a fact sheet, a short answer worksheet and a worksheet on which they will label and describe the specific body parts and how they are used.
Animals covered in this unit are:
– Desert Habitat: Camel, Fennec Fox
– Grasslands: Black-footed Ferret, Bison
– Tropical Rainforest: Sloth, Toucan
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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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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 -
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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. -
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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 -
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Students will love this hands-on resource designed to create a fun Mink Lapbook!
Includes Lapbooking instructions, templates to use as they record what they know or are learning about minks, (such as where they live, the types, size, predators, diet and more) and a lapbooking rubric.
Designed to use with multiple age / grade levels.
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Planning a study on the mink? Minks are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neogale and Mustela and part of the family Mustelidae! If you are planning to have students study the mink, help them be creative by providing them with these pages to create a report on the mink.
When is a good time to introduce such a project? Perhaps when you are studying semiaquatic habitats or carnivorous mammals! This is a cross-curricular resource that will require students to research and learn about the life of a mink (science), record and write what they have learned (language arts) and complete map work (geography).
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Sandhill Cranes are large birds that live in open habitats across North America. Students can use these pages to produce a beautiful report or project on these magnificent birds! Includes 5 notebooking pages (one with a North American map) and 1 coloring page.
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the polar bear! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the polar bear (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Learning about the Polar Bear!
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This Arctic Animal Notebooking Bundle includes three products: Arctic Wolf, the Arctic Ground Squirrel and the Caribou. Each individual resource can be used when studying the arctic habitat, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the lives of these animals (science).
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on caribou, also known as the reindeer! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the caribou (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Caribou or a Reindeer?
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the Arctic wolf also known as the polar wolf! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of the wolf (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Learning about the Arctic Wolf!
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Students will love using these pages to create a report on the cute, Arctic ground squirrel that lives in Alaska, Canada and Siberia! Perfect to use during a study of the arctic region, tundra animals or as a cross-curricular unit that will have students reading, writing, completing map work (geography) and learning about the life of this cute little squirrel (science).
Check out My Teaching Library’s article: Arctic Ground Squirrel
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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.
