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$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 Dred Scott. Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the “Dred Scott case”.
✏️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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Here is a free craft idea for those studying the vikings or (really) for anytime!
Using recycled materials from around your home, step by step instructions are given to help you create a viking longship.
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This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
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Leander Stillwell was typical of thousands of Northern boys who answered President Lincoln’s call for volunteers. In January 1862, only a few months past his 18th birthday, and only after he and his father had sowed the wheat, gathered the corn and cut the winter firewood, Stillwell left his family’s log cabin in the Jersey County backwoods of western Illinois and enlisted in Company D of the 61st Illinois Infantry Regiment. For three and a half years he served in the Western theater of operations as a noncommissioned officer before being mustered out as a lieutenant in September 1865. His first—and biggest—battle, Shiloh, was the one he remembered most vividly. He also took part in skirmishes in Tennessee and Arkansas, as well as the Siege of Vicksburg. In The Story of a Common Soldier Stillwell tells of his Army experiences, as critic H. L. Mencken observed admiringly in a review, “in plain, straightforward American, naked and unashamed, without any of the customary strutting and bawling.” Small for his age and given to taking solitary walks in the woods beyond the picket lines, Stillwell was nevertheless an enthusiastic and obedient soldier. “Just a little mortifying,” was Stillwell’s reaction when his regiment missed two battles because it had been left to guard a town in Tennessee. But, he hastened to add, “the common soldier can only obey orders, and stay where he is put, and doubtless it was all for the best.”
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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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✏️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 George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a “Black Leonardo”.
✏️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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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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✏️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 Sojourner Truth.Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
✏️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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Fun 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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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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This product includes the history of the Declaration of Independence, important annotated notes (to help students understand it) and a student copy work section where they are asked to write this historic document. The copy work section is broken into 17 sections. In each, students will copy the text and then be asked to write any unfamiliar words and ideas. Then, they are asked to look up the definition of those words and research the ideas.
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This Vikings resource will have students interactively learning (and creating) as they learn about the lives these Norsemen explorers. Students will learn about their exploration, trade, ships, clothing, every day life and more.
This resource includes:
- – Informational text and worksheets
- – Notebooking / Report pages
- – Lapbooking Section
- – Visual Aids
- – Map Work
- – Crafts
- – Recipes
- – Puzzles
- – …and more
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With this comprehensive, cross-curricular unit study on the Mayflower, your students are going to read informational text to learn about the ship, its voyages, and its passengers (the Pilgrims). Students will also work with vocabulary related to ship navigational instruments, sections of the ship as well as words used in a farewell letter written to the passengers of the Mayflower. Perfect to use when studying the founding of the New World or during November (prior to Thanksgiving).
Students will be asked to…
- – Answer comprehension questions and questions to challenge their thoughts
- – Research and define unknown terms and vocabulary
- – Write a first person narrative
- – Complete hands-on projects
Some of the included items…
- – K-W-L
- – Informational Text: Mayflower before the Pilgrims
- – The Mayflowers Crew (Job titles and duties)
- – Sections of the Mayflower (Rooms/Areas and uses)
- – Names of navigational instruments of the day
- – Farewell letter read to the passengers prior to departure from Pastor John Robinson
- – Mayflower Passenger List
- – Informational Text: Food and Life Aboard the Mayflower
- – Pilgrim Fact Cards
- – Class outdoor activity
- – Answer Keys
After completion, students will have gained invaluable knowledge about life onboard a ship such as the Mayflower as well many of the reasons such a voyage was taken and a bit about life after they arrived into the New World.
I have included a list of books and web links that can be used for additional learning.
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✏️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 Margaret Brent.Margaret 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.
✏️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 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 Barrett Dyer. Mary 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.
✏️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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Observed every November, Veterans Day is a special day set aside to celebrate the bravery and sacrifice of all U.S. Veterans. This resource has been designed to give students the opportunity to research various aspects of the holiday, the men who have served, branches of the military, and anything related to the United States armed forces. After they have completed their research, students will have materials to…
- *Create a stand-alone notebook project
- *Use the pages within to creatively add to their existing History / Social Studies interactive notebooks.
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This lapbook has been designed to give students a creative project to create about America’s Independence Day – the 4th of July!
Students are given various lapbooking templates on a variety of topics. They will then research or read books about each, record what they have learned and add to their lapbook. These topics include…
– Pledge of Allegiance
– The American flag and winning independence
– Founding fathers: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and others
– American Symbols, the words ‘patriotic’ and ‘freedom’ -
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This resource is a large 190-page resource with everything you need to create a fantastic study on the Native Americans of North America! Can be used by an individual student or as a family unit study!
You’ll begin the unit with a native Americans KWL (What I “Know” – “Want to Learn” – “Learned”) activity that you will use at the beginning and end of the resource.
As students go through the unit, they will learn:
- -Vocabulary surrounding life and culture
- -Major tribes and regions where they lived (including geography, animals, natural resources, etc. about each area)
- -Timeline information from the time of Columbus’ arrival until all were declared citizens of the U.S.
- -Culture of various tribes and how they lived, types of homes, clothing, rites of passage, spiritual beliefs, symbols, writing and pictograpsh
- -Famous Native Americans
…and more.
Students will read, draw, write, complete worksheets, timelines, arts and crafts, mapwork and more.
There is even a lapbook included!
You can do all of the activities or pick and choose what you want to do. This resource can be used as a couple weeks project or a couple months…You decide!
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This resource, Symbols of the U.S.A. – U.S. History Informational Text, has FIVE parts: The Statue of Liberty, The Liberty Bell, The Great Seal, The Bald Eagle and The American Flag.
In each section, students will have one page of informational text and then 2 pages to assess understanding / comprehension through multiple choice questions and writing prompt page. Answer Keys provided.
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This informational article will help students learn more about two French explorers: Cartier and Champlain. These men were early explorers of the St. Lawrence Bay area of the New World (Canada). After students read the text, they will complete two worksheets to assess their understanding and reading comprehension. Answer key provided.
Readability:
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 3.9
Grade level: Fourth Grade
Linsear Write Formula : 4.8
Grade level: Fifth Grade.
