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$50.00Add to CartTake 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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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
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✏️Student-centered units that includes 15 projects surrounding important women in U.S. History. These units will help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
✏️Students will use these 15 project-based units to learn about and create reports and presentations on the following people:
- Anne Hutchinson
- Anne Bradstreet
- Deborah Sampson
- Lady Deborah Moody
- Molly Pitcher
- Mary Barrett Dyer
- Margaret Brent
- Sojourner Truth
- Rosa Park
- Mary Rowlandson
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Phillis Wheatley
- Abigail Adams
- Harriet Tubman
- Maya Angelo
✏️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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This is a project-based country study on the South American country of Ecuador focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography: location, place, regions, movement and human/environment integration! 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 Ecuador
- Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Ecuador 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 changed or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
Students will need to have a good understanding of the 5 Themes of Geography to complete this project. Need teaching materials for the 5 Themes? Get My Teaching Library’s 5 Themes of Geography Bundle
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This is a project-based country study on the South American country of Suriname focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography: location, place, regions, movement and human/environment integration! 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 Suriname
- Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Suriname 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 changed or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
Students will need to have a good understanding of the 5 Themes of Geography to complete this project. Need teaching materials for the 5 Themes? Get My Teaching Library’s 5 Themes of Geography Bundle
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This is a project-based country study on the South American country of Guyana focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography: location, place, regions, movement and human/environment integration! 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 Guyana
- Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Guyana 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 changed or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
Students will need to have a good understanding of the 5 Themes of Geography to complete this project. Need teaching materials for the 5 Themes? Get My Teaching Library’s 5 Themes of Geography Bundle
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This is a project-based country study on the South American country of French Guiana focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography: location, place, regions, movement and human/environment integration! 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 French Guiana
- Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about French Guiana 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 changed or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
Students will need to have a good understanding of the 5 Themes of Geography to complete this project. Need teaching materials for the 5 Themes? Get My Teaching Library’s 5 Themes of Geography Bundle
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This United States Regions BUNDLE will immerse students in active, hands-on-learning geography learning about the four regions: Northeast, South, Midwest and West! Included are nomenclature cards, informational text, scrapbooking / notebooking project pages and worksheets that will give students the opportunity to not only learn about the Land and Water, Climate, Products and Natural Resources, Landmarks, Culture and Food of each region, AND create beautiful notebooking projects as well!
Included in this $$$ Bundle:
- – Geography: US Regions Nomenclature Cards
- – Regions of the U.S. – Northeast Region
- – US Geography – Northeast Scrapbooking Pages
- – Regions of the U.S. – South Region
- – US Geography – South Scrapbooking Pages
- – Regions of the U.S. – Midwest Region
- – US Geography – Midwest Scrapbooking Pages
- – Regions of the U.S. – West Region
- – US Geography – West Scrapbooking Pages
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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 -
$5.00Add to Cart
This is a project-based country study on the South American country of Paraguay focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography: location, place, regions, movement and human/environment integration! 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 Paraguay
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Paraguay 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 changed or modified the environment.
Students will need to understand the 5 Themes of Geography to complete this project.
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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 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
