Category: History
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A Day in History – Investigation Station | August 20 – President Benjamin Harrison to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$1.00Add to CartA 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 | August 18 – Virginia Dare to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
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 | August 17 – Davy Crockett to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
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 can use this worksheet again and again. They can even compile a notebook throughout the year of all of their completed History Detective pages!
Imagine having students complete this page for each and every major event in history studied and all compiled into one project. What a powerful amount of knowledge they will have to keep!
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This writing prompt will explain to students ‘who’ is a hero and ask them to write a bout a hero or heroic event in their lives or centered around September 11th.
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This U.S. Presidents resource has been designed for early learners (Kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade). Kids will begin learning U.S. History and the men who lead the country with these fun notebooking pages and mini-books!
EACH president section contains 5 student pages:
* Coloring page
* Color & Trace page with basic facts
* Color & Write page for students to complete the name of the president, his birthday and 2 facts about him
* Color & Write page for students to create a short report
* Mini-Book for students to complete about the presidentSee list of included presidents in description below.
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Harriet Tubman Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
A 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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Abigail Adams Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
A 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 Abigail Adams. Abigail Adams: Wife of President John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adam is a woman to be studied. An intellectual woman, she is remembered as a woman beyond her time. Her ideas on women’s rights and government influenced the U.S. during its founding! Here is a student-centered unit to aid students in researching and reporting about Abigail. Who was she? What did she believe? How did she influence U.S. History?
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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Phillis Wheatley Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
✏️A 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 Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
✏️This notebooking project unit 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! 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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Mercy Otis Warren Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
✏️A 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 Mercy Otis Warren. Mercy Otis Warren was an American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and critical national events gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. She is considered by some to be the first American woman to write primarily for the public rather than for herself.
✏️This notebooking project unit 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! 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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A 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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This United States Constitution Lapbook will help students gain an good understanding of America’s foundational document and American History.
It is an interactive learning resource and can be student guided or teacher directed!
Included in this product…
- Lapbooking instructions
- Assignment page
- Lapbook Rubric
- Complete copy of the U.S. Constitution
- Lapbook templates
While completing this project, students will be asked to report on things such as…the purpose of the Constitution, when it was written, the amendments, Bill of Rights, the framers of the document, the Constitutional delegates, the Virginia Plan, separation of powers, checks and balances, the make up of the different branches of our government and more. A copy of the U.S. Constitution is included. Students will be required to research or read books to gather information to complete much of the project.
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Help students get the most of any study on American Westward Expansion and the Pony Express! This resource provide themed pages that students can use to record information from class lessons, textbook reading or from their own research! Inspiring student creativity and productivity are the reasons behind the designing of this product. These pages are ready to use and flexible!
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Mary Rowlandson Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
✏️A 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 Mary Rowlandson.Mary Rowlandson was a British American colonial author who wrote one of the first 17th-century captivity narratives, in which she told of her capture by Native Americans, revealing both elements of Native American life and of Puritan-Indian conflicts in early New England.
✏️This notebooking project unit 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! 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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All Aboard! A Cross-Curricular Unit all about Trains (3rd-6th grades) to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$10.00Add to Cart
This is a fun, engaging unit on trains!
See description for details
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Rosa Parks Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
✏️A 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 Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott; its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities.
✏️This notebooking project unit 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! 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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Studying the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln? Wanting your students to develop their ability to research, organize, write and create a complete project? This interactive, hands on, resource is one that can be used in Social Studies, History and Language Arts classes and is designed to be either teacher led or student centered – whichever you prefer! This project resource can be assigned individually or to cooperative groups. You can give students as much latitude as you want – or – you can be very deliberate in what and how you assign students to use the pages.
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Famous African Americans – 10 Projects | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$27.00Add to Cart
✏️Student-centered units that includes 10 projects surrounding famous African American in U.S. History. These units will help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
✏️Students will use these 10 project-based units to learn about and create reports and presentations on the following people:
- Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Tubman
- Dred Scott
- Barack Obama
- Booker T Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Thurgood Marshall
- Rosa Parks
- Maya Angelou
✏️These notebooking projects can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. Use them within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
After completing the written portion of each 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 each unit?
- 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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