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$3.00Buy NowA 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 Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist who was into slavery. Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women’s suffrage.
This notebooking, project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. 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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$3.00Buy NowA 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 Abigail Adams. Abigail Adams: Wife of President John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adam is a woman to be studied. An intellectual woman, she is remembered as a woman beyond her time. Her ideas on women’s rights and government influenced the U.S. during its founding! Here is a student-centered unit to aid students in researching and reporting about Abigail. Who was she? What did she believe? How did she influence U.S. History?
This notebooking project unit can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. 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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$3.00Buy Now✏️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 Phillis Wheatley. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.
✏️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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$2.50Buy NowDavid “Davy” Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet “King of the Wild Frontier”.
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$1.00Buy NowA 3 page quick learning reference for papyrus, scribes and hieroglyphs of Egypt’s ancient world.
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$2.00Buy NowThis 24 page resource gives students an wonderful insight into the Industrial Revolution throughout the world.
Includes:- The Beginnings of Industrialization
- Inventions
- Industrialization- Changes Ways of Life
- The Spread of Industrialization (into the U.S.)
- Age of Reforms (including the rise of Socialism and Capitalism vs Marxism)
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$3.00Buy Now✏️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 Mercy Otis Warren. Mercy Otis Warren was an American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and critical national events gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period. She is considered by some to be the first American woman to write primarily for the public rather than for herself.
✏️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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$1.75Buy NowSusan B Anthony – Informational Text is a resource designed to give your students a better understanding of who this famous American really was and what she accomplished. Students will learn about her childhood, her work as an Abolitionist, her involvement in the Temperance movement and how she was eventually honored through their reading of one page of informational text. To help assess student understanding, I’ve included a short answer worksheet and a crossword puzzle! Answer Keys provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.7
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$3.00Buy NowThis is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: Barton’s 1904 book “A Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work,” recounts the work performed by the Society under her direction.About the Author: Clara Barton (1821 – 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and patent clerk. Nursing education was not very formalized at that time and Clara did not attend nursing school, so she provided self-taught nursing care.
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$2.50Buy NowThis 42 page book is a biography of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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$5.00Buy NowThis United States Constitution Lapbook will help students gain an good understanding of America’s foundational document and American History.
It is an interactive learning resource and can be student guided or teacher directed!
Included in this product…
- Lapbooking instructions
- Assignment page
- Lapbook Rubric
- Complete copy of the U.S. Constitution
- Lapbook templates
While completing this project, students will be asked to report on things such as…the purpose of the Constitution, when it was written, the amendments, Bill of Rights, the framers of the document, the Constitutional delegates, the Virginia Plan, separation of powers, checks and balances, the make up of the different branches of our government and more. A copy of the U.S. Constitution is included. Students will be required to research or read books to gather information to complete much of the project.
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$1.99Buy NowWhether it is an election year or not, if you are studying the U.S. Electoral College, this is a great resource for your classroom.
Suggestions for Use:
* If it is an election year, you can assign it for students to complete on election night.
* Not an election year? You can still use it! Simply assign students to complete the assignment for a specific presidential election.
* Study a variety of past presidential elections in U.S. History and how the electoral college voted! This would be a wonderful cooperative groups activity where each group completed (and reported their findings) on a different election. -
$3.00Buy NowStudents should understand the significance of a terrible day in American history, September 11th, 2001, otherwise known as 911. This resource has been designed to help students gain factual knowledge of the events of that day, the heroic efforts of first responders and the U.S. military response. This can be used as a standalone mini-lesson or as part of your own curriculum. (Designed for 7th-10th grades)
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$3.00Buy Now✏️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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$1.50Buy NowThis 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.
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$2.50Buy NowThis is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: H. A. Guerber’s The Story of the Greeks provides a basic but thorough history of Greece. Beginning with Greek myth and legend, Guerber moves through major figures, the Trojan war, the city-states of of Sparta and Athens, the Persian War, the adventures of Alexander the Great, before ending with Greece’s absorption into the Roman Empire. Although recommended for young adults, The Story of the Greeks is a great introduction to anyone with an interest in classical Greek literature, philosophy, or history.
