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$35.00Buy NowEasy Economics – This student text and teacher’s guide is an easy to understand and follow curriculum and can be used for both middle and high school students.
Students will gain a working knowledge of the world of economics, economic systems, supply and demand, institutions, government revenue and (finally) will examine the American economy. (Student text: 233 pages)
The teacher’s guide will follow along with the student text giving guidance on the focus of each unit, suggestions for enrichment and includes unit assessments and answer keys. (Teacher’s: 127 pages)
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Road to Revolution: 42-page unit teaches students about major events before and during the American revolution. Includes student text, assessments and teacher pages and keys.
Topics covered:
- – Beginnings of revolution
- – The First Continental Congress
- – The Second Continental Congress
- – Basic principles of the Declaration of Independence
- – Major Events
- – Articles of Confederation
- – Constitutional Convention of 1787
- – Creating a Federal Union
Includes student text, assessments, teacher pages and keys.
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Studying Paul Revere, the American Revolution or famous people in American History? Here are three fun pages centered around Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride on which students can get creative!
Includes:
- – Coloring page
- – A page for students to draw their own interpretation of Paul’s ride
- – A page on which students will write what they believe each of the four people in the picture are either thinking or saying.
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Ready to study Ancient Greece? This unit emphasizes the history and contributions of the ancient Greeks and how the Greeks have influenced modern culture.
Unit Focus:
– Characteristics of Greek culture
– Achievements of Alexander the Great
– Characteristics of Athens and Sparta
– Contributions of ancient Greek civilizationIncludes:
– Student text: Easy to read and understand. Includes vocabulary, maps, illustrations, student text and practice (both vocabulary and comprehension) questions.
– Teacher’s guide: Active, hands-on suggestions for enrichment including research ideas, game and art ideas, group activities, map work and more.
– Answer KeysWant a full-year of World History? Click here!
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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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Henry Ford was an inventor, innovator, industrialist, and entrepreneur. In this resource, students will read about Ford’s life and business journey.
After reading, students will be asked a series of questions (multiple choice and short answer) to assess comprehension.
Students will learn:
- – About Henry’s family and early life
- – What he did at the age of 16
- – When he went to, left and then returned to Detroit
- – How he was first involved in car manufacturing and when he started Ford Motor Company
- – How is business practices made a huge stir in the country
- – One of his biggest challenges…and more!
Answer Key included!
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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 full-year notebooking project will have students ‘thinking like a geographer! They’ll research 18 different countries and record important information that will have them investigate and record using a 5 Themes of Geography lens: location, place, human environment interaction, movement and regions.
PREREQUISITE: Good working knowledge of the 5 Themes of Geography (or) complete 5 Themes of Geography BUNDLE
As the students proceed and create a beautiful project, they’ll…
- – Learn about each country
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about each country through a 5 themes of geography lens.
- – Create a wonderful project displaying their learning.
Included Countries:
South America- – Argentina
- – Bolivia
- – Brazil
- – Chile
- – Columbia
- – Peru
- – Uruguay
- – Venezuela
North America
- – Canada
- – United States
- – Mexico
- – Costa Rica
- – Belize
- – El Salvador
- – Guatemala
- – Honduras
- – Nicaragua
- – Panama
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.
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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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This FREE crossword puzzle has been designed to help students connect facts, nicknames, and past events to U.S. Presidents (Washington to Biden)! Students can use your current curriculum, books and the internet to help them solve the clues or they can use My Teaching Library’s resource: US Presidents Fact Cards (All clues can be found on these fact cards)
This is a fun, challenging activity for any student or class studying U.S. Presidents, U.S. History or U.S. Government. Also, it is perfect activity for Presidents Day!
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Studying the U.S. Presidents? Check out this BUNDLE! It includes three products and when you bundle, you save!
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Help students dive into new text and get the most from their reading by using Guided Note Taking.
This resource will walk students through a process of reading the text 3 times.
Each time they read, they will be asked to perform a specific task:
- – The first time they read, students are asked to identify and write down important terms.
- – During the second reading, they are asked to identify important concepts and ideas. For this task, they are given lined paper as well as a page for illustrations.
- – During the third reading, students are asked to define the important terms they identified during their first reading.
This product can be used for any subject and used again and again!
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Help students learn about Washington State’s Space Needle in Seattle with this reading comprehension worksheet for 5th-7th grades. This resource includes informational text, a reading comprehension worksheet and answer key.
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 6.0
Automated Readability Index: 5.8
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Students will love learning vocabulary related to the U.S. Presidential inauguration with this crossword puzzle! Includes two puzzles (one with a word bank and one without).
(See included words in description below)
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A vocabulary activity designed to help students learn words associated with the U.S. Presidential Inauguration. Matching words with definitions.
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This is a country study resource on the European country of Denmark 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 Denmark
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Denmark
- 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!!
Related resource: 5 Themes of Geography Bundle
See all related COUNTRY STUDIES here
Here are just a few of them:- Switzerland Country Study | Notebooking Unit
- Germany Country Study | Notebooking Unit
- Venezuela Country Study | Notebooking Unit
- Brazil Country Study | Notebooking Unit
My Teaching Library as a lot of other Geography resources…Here are just a few:
