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$45.00Original price was: $45.00.$35.00Current price is: $35.00.✏️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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Haiku is a Japanese poetry form and uses just a few words to capture a moment and to create a picture in the reader’s mind! This resource will teach students how to write a Haiku and includes a teaching poster, 20 Fall related picture prompts and 37 different publishing papers for students!
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This 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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A 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. -
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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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$60.00Original price was: $60.00.$30.00Current price is: $30.00.Here is 365 days of writing prompts created into a daily journal for students. This resource has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc. (Please Note: Each month is also available individually here on our site!)
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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of July and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of May and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts are light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
This resource is included in: Daily Writing Prompt Journal – ONE YEAR BUNDLE
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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 Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of March and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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This all subject resource has been designed to help students ‘step by step’ when assigned a research paper to select a topic and then write a solid thesis statement. This product will encourage and guide students to understand the assignment fully and then to brainstorm, focus, research, ask the correct questions and to develop a refined topic and a strong thesis statement.
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This resource, Pumpkin Poetry, has been created to spark your students’ imaginations and creative writing!
Watch a preview video here.Covering 9 different types of poetry:
- Acrostic
- Diamante
- Haiku
- Limerick
- Mono rhyme
- Cinquain
- Minute
- Tanka
- Shape
See description below for more details.
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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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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of September and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of December and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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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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Nine ready to use writing prompts (topic: the Olympics) to get students thinking and writing! Use in a writing center and allow students to choose which they want to use or assign as part of a writing lesson. (Recommended for grades 4th-8th)
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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of June and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of April and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.
There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.
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This layered research assignment gives students the opportunity to delve deeply into a topic and give students a variety of tasks from which to choose, all designed to guide and build a meaningful learning experience. Also, when using this layered approach, students will move through Bloom’s Taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. (See below description for more details.)
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