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$5.00Buy NowThis is a country study resource on the South American country of Uruguay focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography! There are a lot of country studies but this one is different.
This study will ask students to ‘think like a geographer‘ in their research and recording. Using this resource, students will…
- – Learn about the country of Uruguay
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Uruguay through a 5 themes of geography lens.
- – Create a wonderful project displaying their learning.
Sample questions include:
- – (Location) Describe the relative location of the country.
- – (Location) What is the latitude and longitude of the capital city?
- – (Place) What major landforms are found in the country?
- – (Place) What is/are the climate type(s) of the country?
- – (Regions) When considering this country, describe and give examples of at least one type of functional region within it.
- – (Movement) Describe any historically important migration patterns of information you have found about past or current migration for this country. You may include internal, external migration, emigration, immigration, return and/or seasonal migration.
- – (Human/Environmental Integration) Give examples of how people who have lived in this country chanted or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
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$1.00Buy NowA 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. -
$3.00Buy NowA student-centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
Students will use this project-based unit to learn about and report on Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist who was into slavery. Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women’s suffrage.
This notebooking, project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. After completing the written portion of this resource, you can grade it (or) assign students to do an oral and/or audio-visual presentation based on their findings/work.
What is in this resource?
- Student instructions for using biographical notebooking, project pages
- Suggested research questions
- Student notebooking, project pages (includes covers, KWL, reference recording, report writing, and more)
- Teacher pages (instructions, assignment, evaluation)
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$2.25Buy NowA fun and whimsical cross-curricular activity that your students will love. Students will read a ‘going back in time’ narrative about a young man finding himself aboard a ship with Christopher Columbus. After reading the passage and answering a few ‘get you thinking’ questions, students will be asked to ‘complete the story’. Ask students not only to use their knowledge and skills of writing but also their knowledge about Columbus, the time, the passage to the ‘New World’, living conditions, etc. You may also ask them to do a little research to find out more about the subject before completing the story.
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Ignite students’ passion for writing by giving them an assignment to write a news story! This resource can be cross-curricular using it across all subjects: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, History, Government and even Math!
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Have your students complete a biographical research report on a Hispanic American with the help of this resource. Your students may need some guidance in the planning, organizing and presenting a wonderful project, so I have included several thing to aid them.
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This resource provides students with engaging materials to create a lasting Memorial Day project. Students are given suggested Memorial Day topics to study as well as a list of suggested books (to get them started). As students learn about Memorial Day and associated vocabulary (included), they will organize and record the information within their notebooking project. Templates are designed for collecting and recording research information, reports, timelines, vocabulary work, poetry and more.
Included:
– Creating a Notebooking Project…What is notebooking instructional page
– Supply list
– Evaluation rubric
– Organizational Pages for student use
– Suggested topics and reading list
– Related vocabulary list
– 3 Cover pages
– 27 different notebooking template pages (each in both color and b/w) -
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Susan B Anthony was a great influential woman in American History who was a major women’s rights activist and played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement. She was also an abolitionist and worked in the Temperance movement as well.
This resource, Susan B Anthony – Biographical Research & Notebooking, has been designed to provide your students with the materials they need to complete a research / report project about her!
