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$3.00Add to CartHelp students grow their vocabulary and practice Language Arts skills with this MLK – Martin Luther King, Jr. resource! Use as a standalone resource or as a springboard to further MLK study during the month of January or anytime.
Includes:
- – Vocabulary Packet: 39 words
- – MLK Creative Writing assignment
- – Alphabetical Order
- – Scrambled Letters Worksheets
- – Word Search
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By the Shores of Silver Lake Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$4.50Add to Cart
This engaging literature unit for the chapter book, “On the Shores of Silver Lake” by Laura Ingalls Wilder offers a reading journal, vocabulary work, discussion questions, writing assignments and 11 reading comprehension quizzes (with keys). Designed to keep students thoughtfully engaged. 58 pages.
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About the book: On the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1939, the fifth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1940.Interest Level: Grades 4 – 7 Reading Level: Grades 4 -6 BUNDLE & SAVE: Little House of the Prairie Literature BUNDLE | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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A book from 1912 with the ins and outs of embroidery and weaving! It includes detailed information on the tools and materials needed, pattern designing, types of stitches (with illustrations) and much more! (227 pages)
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This 5 page booklet will guide students through common minerals which are found in rock, rock textures and the major rock types: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Biography & Analysis of Works of Emily Dickinson
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This Biology / Anatomy resource includes 2 informational text passages. The first details how the digestive system works and the second informs students of the most common health / medical issues that can occur within the system.
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Here is a fun, colorful poster listing the months of the year in English and Spanish!
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🌽 Bring the “Heartland” to life with this creative, hands-on geography resource! As your students explore the Midwest region, these scrapbooking pages provide a structured yet artistic way for them to document their discoveries. From the Great Lakes to the rolling prairies, students will transition from passive readers to active explorers as they curate their own regional “travel log.”
This 5-page set is designed to be a flexible companion to any geography curriculum, allowing students to combine factual research with personal expression.
🧠 The “How” and “Why” (Educational Benefits)
Why choose scrapbooking for geography? It’s all about engaging the whole learner:
- Visual & Kinetic Memory: By drawing or searching for pictures to paste, students create strong visual anchors for geographical concepts like landforms and landmarks. 🎨
- Synthesized Writing: Writing “short sentences” requires students to summarize what they’ve learned, which is a higher-level thinking skill than simply copying definitions. ✍️
- Student Agency: The “Personal Opinion” section empowers students to connect with the material on a human level—deciding for themselves what makes a location worth visiting. 💭
- Multi-Category Mastery: These pages ensure students don’t just learn “where” a place is, but “what” it is, covering: Climate, Landforms, Water, Natural Resources, Landmarks, and Culture. 🚜🏗️
🛠️ Ways to Use These Pages in Your Classroom
- The “Midwest Research” Project: Have students use “Regions of the U.S. – Midwest Region | Informational Text and Worksheets”, library books or safe search engines to find the facts needed to “fill their scrapbook” independently. 🔍
- A Creative Unit Wrap-Up: After finishing a unit on the Midwest, use these pages as a fun alternative to a traditional test to assess what information stuck.
- Travel Journaling: Pretend the lesson time is a time to go on a cross-country road trip. Each day, “stop” in the Midwest and have students update their scrapbooks with what they “saw.” 🚗💨
- Collaborative Portfolios: Collect the pages over the course of the year as students study every region, eventually binding them into a complete “Tour of the USA” book. 📁
📝 What’s Included:
- 5 Creative Scrapbooking Pages: Specifically tailored to the Midwest region.
- Guided Prompts: Dedicated sections for drawing/pasting and writing about climate, resources, landmarks, and more.
- Map Integration: Practice naming the states within the Heartland.
- Personal Reflection: A “Where to Visit” section to spark imagination and travel dreams.
Pro Tip: This set is designed to pair perfectly with Regions of the U.S. – Midwest Region | Informational Text and Worksheets for a comprehensive, ready-to-go geography unit!
🚀 Start the Heartland Adventure!
Turn geography into a keepsake! Download the Midwest Scrapbooking Pages today and give your students a creative way to master the map!
⭐ This product is included in a $$$ SAVING BUNDLE: Regions of the U.S.A. | Geography Bundle
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About the book: A Modern Cinderella is a collection of four short stories by Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. Like her more famous novels, Alcott tells stories of young women interacting with people and events from the late 1800s. A great addition to the Alcott library of stories.About the Author: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys.
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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.
There is a 4-page planning / organization tool for students to use throughout the process plus a bonus ‘How to write a strong thesis statement’ handout. This resource can be used for any subject: Language Arts, Literature, History, Science…any subject in which you can assign a research writing project!
Please note: This resource does not guide beyond the topic selection and the writing of a thesis statement. Its purpose is to give students an easy to follow, 7-step guide to starting a terrific research project!
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About the book: Lady Susan is shortest and least known novel of Austen’s and was written in 1794 but not published until 1875 after her death. It is about the horrible flirt Lady Susan Vernon, a widow in her thirties who has an affair with a married man.About the Author: Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security.
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Story line: Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety of harrowing circumstances. Using their knowledge of Morse code, the science of telegraphs, and the operation of railroads, the boys stir in native resourcefulness, quick-thinking, and when the occasion demands it, raw courage – to effect rescues, thwart thieves, and solve mysteries.Excerpt from the book: “When, after school that afternoon, Alex Ward waved a good-by to his father, the Bixton station agent for the Middle Western, and set off up the track on the spring’s first fishing, he had little thought of exciting experiences ahead of him. Likewise, when two hours later a sudden heavy shower found him in the woods, with but three small fish, it was only with feelings of disappointment that he wound up his line and ran for the shelter. Scarcely had Alex reached the doorway of the deserted house when he was startled by a chorus of excited voices from the rear. He turned quickly to a window, and with a cry sprang back out of sight. Emerging from the woods, excitedly talking and gesticulating, was a party of foreigners who had been working on the track near Bixton, and in their midst, his hands bound behind him, was Hennessy, their foreman…”
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This Science / Biology / Health resource will help your students learn the different sections of the brain and the major functions of each. Sections included: frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, cerebellum and medulla oblongata.
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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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North American Birds of Prey Cards includes 29 species of birds! These cards include beautiful colored images of each bird and include 2 sets: labeled and unlabeled.
Use alone or alongside: North American Birds of Prey Notebooking / Report Pages
Birds:
• Great Gray Owl
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Common Black Hawk
• Red-Tailed Hawk
• Barred Owl
• Barn Owl
• Short-Eared Owl
• Prairie Falcon
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Snowy Owl
• Turkey Vulture
• Eastern Screech Owl
• Burrowing Owl
• American Swallow-Tailed Kite
• Elf Owl
• Osprey
• American Kestrel
• Peregrine Falcon
• Bald Eagle
• Northern Goshawk
• Merlin
• Golden Eagle
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Saw-Whet Owl
• Crested Caracara
• Great Horned Owl
• Sharp-Shinned Hawk
• Harris Hawk
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Northeast Region U.S. Geography | Informational Text & Worksheets Unit to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$4.00Add to Cart
Take your students on a journey through the historic and rugged Northeast Region! This 12-page resource provides a comprehensive “textbook-style” experience without the bulk of a heavy manual. From the Appalachian Mountains to the bustling Atlantic harbors, students will explore the unique identity of this vital corner of the United States.
This resource is designed to be a “one-stop shop” for regional literacy, covering Land and Water, Climate, Products and Natural Resources, Landmarks, Culture, and Food.
🧠 The “How” and “Why” (Educational Benefits)
Why choose this informational text set? It’s built on proven instructional strategies:
- Activates Prior Knowledge: The Anticipation Activity primes the brain for learning, helping students make connections between what they think they know and the new facts they are about to discover. 💡
- Targeted Comprehension: By breaking the text into specific categories (like Climate or Culture), students learn how to scan for information and master the art of non-fiction reading. 📖
- Critical Thinking: The category-specific questions require students to synthesize the text rather than just skimming for a single word.
- Skill Reinforcement: The “State Name Unscramble” provides a fun, low-stakes way to reinforce spelling and geographical recognition of the Northeast states. 🧩
🛠️ Ways to Use This in Your Classroom
- The Foundation of a Unit: Use the informational text as your primary reading material for a week-long deep dive into the Northeast.
- Guided Reading Groups: Break into small groups, assign each group one category (like “Landmarks” or “Food”) to read and present back to the class. If homeschooling, this can be done as a family. 🏫
- Create an Independent Research Station: Place the worksheets in a center or folder for students to complete at their own pace.
- Easy Plans: With clear text, structured questions, and included answer keys, this is the perfect “grab-and-go” resource. 🍎
📝 What’s Inside This 12-Page Resource:
- Textbook-Style Informational Text: High-quality content covering all major regional pillars.
- Anticipation Activity: Get those gears turning before the reading begins!
- Comprehensive Student Worksheets: Detailed questions for every category.
- State Name Unscramble: A fun challenge to wrap up the unit.
- Full Answer Keys: For quick, easy grading. ✅
Pro Tip: For the ultimate hands-on experience, pair this resource with the US Geography – Northeast Scrapbooking Pages! Students can use the facts they learn here to create their own beautiful regional journals.
🚀 Ready to Explore the Northeast?
Give your students a clear, structured, and engaging way to master U.S. Geography.Add the Regions of the U.S. – Northeast Region to your curriculum today and start the adventure!
⭐ This product is included in a $$$ SAVING BUNDLE: Regions of the U.S.A. | Geography Bundle
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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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This resource, Child Labor – Industrial Revolution Informational Text, will introduce your students to how the Industrial Revolution led to children working in factories and the conditions they endured.
After students read the information, their comprehension and understanding will be assessed through 8 multiple choice questions and 2 short essay questions.
One essay question will ask students to compare and contrast a factory child’s life (of the 1800s) to a life of a child today. The other is an opinion piece on what they believe is appropriate (and not appropriate) work for children. They will also be asked to make a chart of this information.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
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About the book: This book was written in 1923 by Leonard Haseman and can be a good tool to use when beginning to study insects.
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