Category: Historical Figures
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$1.00Buy NowFun to use as a writing center activity (or) to create a student created bulletin board! Students will love writing about Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman using this apple-shaped shape book!
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$1.50Buy NowStudents 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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$3.00Buy NowMargaret Brent was the first woman in the American colonies to appear before a court of the Common Law to claim land in her own right or to pursue her own interests in court. She was also a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$3.00Buy NowMary Barrett Dyer was a British-born religious figure whose martyrdom to her Quaker faith helped relieve the persecution of that group in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$1.50Buy NowAre you preparing lessons around the great American aviator Amelia Earhart? Perhaps you are preparing for Amelia Earhart Day (January 11th) or Women’s History Month (March). Whatever the reason, your students will love using this resource to publish their writing about Earhart!
Students can self-publish poetry, short reports, or they can even ‘create’ a diary as if they were Earhart themselves.
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$3.00Buy NowMolly Pitcher is a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. However, various Molly Pitcher tales grew in the telling, and many historians regard Molly Pitcher as folklore rather than history, or suggest that Molly Pitcher may be a composite image inspired by the actions of a number of real women. The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during War.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$3.00Buy NowLady Deborah Moody is notable as the founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn, and is the only woman known to have started a village in colonial America. She was the first known female landowner in the New World.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$5.00Buy NowThis student-centered, engaging resource has been designed to give students a good working knowledge of Paul Revere and related information surrounding the American Revolution.
(See description below for more details)
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$2.50Buy NowSusan 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!
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$1.50Buy NowStudying Paul Revere, the American Revolution or famous people in American History? Here are three fun pages centered around Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride on which students can get creative!
Includes:
- – Coloring page
- – A page for students to draw their own interpretation of Paul’s ride
- – A page on which students will write what they believe each of the four people in the picture are either thinking or saying.
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$1.99Buy NowThis resource about the life of U.S. historical figure, Daniel Boone, is an easy to use (print and go) Social Studies and Reading unit! The students will be given 2 pages of informational text. The text is historically accurate but needs to be proofread and corrected! Once corrections are made, they will be asked to answer several questions about the text (multiple choice and short answer).
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$2.50Buy NowThis resource will teach students about the life of Samuel Morse his role in developing the telegraph. After reading the informational article, students will complete two worksheets to assess the comprehension of the material. On a third worksheet (short answer) students will be asked expanded learning and critical thinking questions. Answer keys provided.
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$4.00Buy NowThis resource has been designed to give students the materials necessary to create a lasting project designed around their learning and knowledge of Christopher Columbus. Notebooking projects can be teacher directed or student directed, (see description for more about ‘notebooking‘).
Included:
- – Creating a Notebooking Project – What is notebooking?
- – Supply list
- – Teacher pages
- – Student organizational pages
- – Notebooking pages and templates
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$3.00Buy NowDeborah Sampson became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more this is it!
Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$3.99Buy NowMultilevel & Cross-Curricular: This 42 page resource, Johnny Appleseed Unit – A Factual Unit for 4th-8th grades, is centered on factual information and contains a variety of Language Arts and Social Studies activities.
Students will be asked to complete writing activities, map and timeline activities and more. Activities can be assigned individually or within a cooperative learning setting.
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$3.00Buy NowHelp students celebrate famous African Americans during February, Black History Month, with these biography project pages! You can assign a specific person such as Maya Angelou, James Booker, Matthew Gaines, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass or countless others (or) you can allow students to choose their own person to research and then create a notebook project!
Why assign a notebook project? You want to engage your students in active research and have them organize and report what they’ve learned.
The benefit of using this type of resource: It will enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers. It will allow your students to express their ideas in unique ways and process information they are learning. Their finished notebook projects will become a valuable study tool for students to reflect back on, and are great as a record of student progress over time.
Unit includes:
- – What is notebooking? (explanation)
- – Using Biographical Notebooking Pages (instructions)
- – Supplies Needed List
- – Evaluation/Rubric Worksheet
- – Assignment Worksheet (optional)
- – Cover page
- – Table of Contents page (2 options)
- – Project KWL
- – 10 reporting pages (different layouts)
- – Sources for this Project worksheet
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$1.25Buy NowOne page informational text on Spanish explorers: Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, De Soto and Coronado. After reading the text, student comprehension will be assess through a short reading comprehension worksheet. To extend the lesson, students will be asked to short opinion based essay questions.
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$1.25Buy NowThis Johnny Appleseed resource is perfect for a quick U.S. History lesson, Science conservation lesson or a Language Arts lesson!
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.
This 3 page resource includes 1 page of information text and 1 page of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding of the text and 1 page of short answer questions that will require students to go ‘beyond the text reading.’ The short answer questions will require students to be creative in their thinking! Answer Key provided.
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$2.50Buy NowWith this resource students will learn about and be tested on the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford.
Students will learn about:
– Where he was born
– What he built at the age of 15
– Where he worked as an engineer and when he built his first gasoline powered car
– What brought people to him willing to finance his new concept of manufacturing…and more!After reading, there are three worksheets for students to complete to help assess student comprehension.
– A “Who, What, When, Where, Why and How” worksheet
– A multiple-choice worksheet
– A short answer worksheetAnswer Keys provided.
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$3.00Buy NowAnne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more this is it!
This unit is a notebooking project. It can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups.
Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
