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A Moment In Time – Historic Events – May 18th – 24th | Cross-Curricular Lesson Ideas to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$3.00Add to CartTake learners on a fascinating journey through five major historical events that shaped our world during the week of May 18th to May 24th at different times in history. Designed with natural differentiation in mind, this resource includes tailored, engaging lesson ideas for grade levels 3rd–5th and 6th–8th. It is the perfect fit for and set up whether you are teaching one child or a classroom of students. You’ll have different assignment options from which to choose based on what is appropriate you the students you are teaching.
🌋 What’s Inside?
Lesson ideas to explore the historical context and dive into student-centered lessons surrounding:
- The Eruption of Mount St. Helens (1980)
- Amelia Earhart’s Solo Transatlantic Flight (1932)
- The Founding of the American Red Cross (1881)
- The First Official Telegraph Message (1844)
- The Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge (1883)
🧠 Cross-Curricular Assignments
History doesn’t happen in a vacuum! These assignments bridge multiple subjects to create a rich, holistic educational journey:
- 🔬 STEM & Engineering: Hands-on popsicle stick bridge building and technology timelines.
- 🌍 Earth Science & Ecology: Researching primary succession and ecosystem recovery after a volcanic eruption.
- 📐 Math & Geography: Plotting transatlantic coordinates and calculating average flight speeds.
- 📝 Creative Writing & Journalism: Crafting eyewitness news reports, historical diary entries, and 1930s aviation packing lists.
- 🤝 Social Studies & Civic Action: Designing emergency relief kits and drafting real-world non-profit community action plans.
🌟 Benefits of this Resource
- Multi-Age Flexibility: With prompts neatly separated between 3rd-5th and 6th-8th, you can seamlessly teach multiple ages.
- High Engagement: Fosters critical thinking and creativity through hands-on projects, stepping away from dry, standardized worksheets.
- Student-Led Discovery: Encourages kids to step into the shoes of inventors, explorers, and unsung heroes, making the past incredibly relevant to their present.
👇 Ready to bring history to life and add a fresh, engaging resource?
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FREEAdd to CartThis 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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Students can use this worksheet again and again. They can even compile a notebook throughout the year of all of their completed History Detective pages!
Imagine having students complete this page for each and every major event in history studied and all compiled into one project. What a powerful amount of knowledge they will have to keep!
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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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Studying the capitals of the United States? Want a couple fun, educational crossword puzzles for your students? Here they are!
Includes: 2 Crossword puzzles.
Each puzzle comes with 2 ‘clue’ pages. One without possible answers and one with a word bank from which to choose. You decide which one to give students!Answer keys provided.
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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 informational article will explain to students that the word “Hispanic” is a cultural word and that people from more than 20 countries and nationalities are considered Hispanic. This cultural people group can be divided in many ways. There are Indo-Hispanics, Afro-Hispanics, Cuban-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Students will also learn how those ethnic groups can be broken down into other groups and why there has been an entire month dedicated to celebrating the many cultural diversities and people of Hispanic descent.
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In this informational article, students will learn about Louis Braille and the system he invented so that people who can not see (the blind) can read!
Includes:
- -Informational text article
- -Reading comprehension assessment worksheet (short answer)
- -Answer key
Reading Level:
Automated Readability Index: 8
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Encourage your students to actively document and reflect on the history, significance, and traditions of America’s fallen heroes with the Memorial Day Notebooking Unit from My Teaching Library! Shifting away from rote worksheets and rigid, standardized memorization, this comprehensive resource provides a creative “show and tell” design that transforms traditional testing into a highly personalized student portfolio.
This project-ready unit includes flexible materials, featuring both a vibrant full-color edition and an ink-saving black-and-white print version. It provides everything required to guide your students through research-based or curriculum-aligned history and language arts projects.
Inside this multi-grade resource pack, you’ll find:
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The Essentials of Notebooking: Step-by-step introduction guidelines explaining how to pair visual components with written reports to capture deeper academic retention.
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Suggested Study Materials: Curated lists of holiday book recommendations and a topical master list of research paths—including the history of the red poppy, the music behind “Taps”, military medals, historic war generals, and the biography of Medal of Honor recipient Mary Edwards Walker.
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Vast Vocabulary Builder: An expansive reference list featuring 240 themed vocabulary words alongside dedicated word-and-definition layout pages to bolster spelling and reading comprehension.
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Creative Writing & Poetry Layouts: Pre-designed templates for structuring historical timelines, writing quote reflections, and composing structured holiday poetry, including acrostic poetry frames (for words like Service, Memorial, and Remember) and historical ballad guides.
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Diverse Notebook Layouts: Customizable notebook cover sheets and multi-tier lined pages mixed with framed sketch areas, accommodating all age levels from primary handwriting practice to advanced secondary essays.
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Administrative & Grading Tools: A project K-W-L chart, formalized research source trackers, and a complete ready-to-print Notebooking Evaluation Rubric to easily assess content accuracy, effort, presentation, and organization.
Whether you use this resource to supplement your current history studies or as a standalone project-based research unit, it offers an honorable and highly customizable way to bring the meaning of Memorial Day to life in your learning environment.
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Students can use this worksheet again and again to record short biographies on any person for any subject. This worksheet can be used alone or as part of a larger report or notebooking project. Students can report on inventors, scientists, explorers, mathematicians, musicians, famous Americans, etc!
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Challenge students’ critical thinking skills and knowledge of the U.S. Presidents with these 5 Word Builder puzzles with a U.S. Presidents theme!
See description below for details about these puzzles.
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Students will need to unscramble 12 words (or phrases) associated with Flag Day to complete the puzzle! Answer Key provided
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This is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: A collection of stories by the American author, historian and Methodist Minister whose tales (especially the Hoosier series) were very popular in their time. -
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Studying or remembering the events of September 11, 2001? This resource will give students the templates needed to create a 9-11 shape book.
Includes:- – 2 covers
- – 9 inside pages (of which there are specific pages titled: heros, events, since that day…)
Students can use to write reports, create a ‘memorial’ essay and display display creative writing.
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5 code word puzzles designed to challenge students’ critical thinking skills. Puzzles will be completed using the names of U.S. Presidents. Fun puzzles for any classroom, especially a U.S. History or Government class. Use anytime of the year, or for Presidents’ Day. 40% of code letters have been given. Just enough to give students clues but not too many that these puzzle aren’t challenging. Answer Keys provided.
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In the United States, National Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. This informational text article will help 6th-7th grade students learn about this day set aside to recognize national flag, how it came about and facts about the U.S. flag. To assess reading comprehension and understanding, there is a short answer worksheet for students to complete after reading the text. Answer key provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.7
Grade level: Sixth Grade
The Coleman-Liau Index: 7
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This is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book:This collection contains many articles and a few stories. Among the articles are one about alligators and one about catching terrapins. There are also articles about New Orleans, St Augustine, an earthquake at Charleston, S.C. and American rivers. The St. Augustine article reads as though it was placed by the chamber of commerce or a tourist bureau. One of the better stories is The Watermelon Stockings by Alice Caldwell Hegan about a disobedient but brave little girl. Another is The Creature With No Claws by Joel Chandler Harris.
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Help your students discover the true meaning behind the holiday with the Memorial Day Informational Text & Review from My Teaching Library! Perfect for a focused, project-based history lesson, this concise resource features an engaging informational text detailing the rich history of the holiday. Students will learn about its origins as “Decoration Day” in 1868 , its expansion after World War I, and the official name change in 1967.
The packet features a beautiful “You are not forgotten” American flag coloring element paired with a comprehensive reading comprehension worksheet. Students will answer seven key questions to reinforce historical facts —including government traditions at Arlington National Cemetery and the significance of flying the flag at half-mast —plus a thoughtful prompt to reflect on local community traditions. Complete with a full teacher answer key, this easy-to-use printout provides a meaningful way to honor the over one million heroes who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
