Category: Social Studies
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$1.99Buy NowThis resource about the life of U.S. historical figure, Daniel Boone, is an easy to use (print and go) Social Studies and Reading unit! The students will be given 2 pages of informational text. The text is historically accurate but needs to be proofread and corrected! Once corrections are made, they will be asked to answer several questions about the text (multiple choice and short answer).
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$2.50Buy NowThis resource will teach students about the life of Samuel Morse his role in developing the telegraph. After reading the informational article, students will complete two worksheets to assess the comprehension of the material. On a third worksheet (short answer) students will be asked expanded learning and critical thinking questions. Answer keys provided.
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$2.00Buy NowStudying 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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$4.00Buy NowThis resource has been designed to give students the materials necessary to create a lasting project designed around their learning and knowledge of Christopher Columbus. Notebooking projects can be teacher directed or student directed, (see description for more about ‘notebooking‘).
Included:
- – Creating a Notebooking Project – What is notebooking?
- – Supply list
- – Teacher pages
- – Student organizational pages
- – Notebooking pages and templates
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$3.00Buy Now5 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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$3.00Buy NowDeborah Sampson became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more this is it!
Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$4.00Buy NowThis resource, The Intolerable Acts – U.S. History Notebooking Project, has been designed to aid students in creating a thorough and organized History project. If you want students to do a deeper dive into the ‘Coercive Acts’ passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, this is the resource.
See description below for more details!
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$3.99Buy NowMultilevel & Cross-Curricular: This 42 page resource, Johnny Appleseed Unit – A Factual Unit for 4th-8th grades, is centered on factual information and contains a variety of Language Arts and Social Studies activities.
Students will be asked to complete writing activities, map and timeline activities and more. Activities can be assigned individually or within a cooperative learning setting.
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$4.00Buy NowHelp students celebrate famous African Americans during February, Black History Month, with these biography project pages! You can assign a specific person such as Maya Angelou, James Booker, Matthew Gaines, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass or countless others (or) you can allow students to choose their own person to research and then create a notebook project!
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$1.25Buy NowOne page informational text on Spanish explorers: Christopher Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Ferdinand Magellan, De Soto and Coronado. After reading the text, student comprehension will be assess through a short reading comprehension worksheet. To extend the lesson, students will be asked to short opinion based essay questions.
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$5.00Buy NowThis resource will take students through a journey of learning...a journey learning about the Wright Brothers and the beginning of aviation while weaving lessons throughout various subjects: Art, Science, Math, Language Arts, Geography, Economics and even Health. This 83 page resource provides detailed lesson plans, student information, student worksheets and many hands-on, engaging student activities.
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$1.25Buy NowThis Johnny Appleseed resource is perfect for a quick U.S. History lesson, Science conservation lesson or a Language Arts lesson!
John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.
This 3 page resource includes 1 page of information text and 1 page of multiple choice questions to assess student understanding of the text and 1 page of short answer questions that will require students to go ‘beyond the text reading.’ The short answer questions will require students to be creative in their thinking! Answer Key provided.
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$1.50Buy NowIn 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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$4.99Buy NowThis unit on Ancient Egypt includes information on Egyptian history, time periods, beliefs around the afterlife, mummification, pharaohs, Book of the Dead, hieroglyphics, gods and goddesses and related vocabulary.
Work pages for students include reading comprehension, map work, timeline and diagram creation, research and summation, poetry, pyramid model building and more. Includes: Interactive Notebooking Project!
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$1.75Buy NowThis informational article will help students understand one of ‘taxes’ imposed upon the colonies by King George prior to the American Revolution. After reading, students will be questions to assess their comprehension of the material.
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$1.50Buy NowThis resource includes informational text (1 page) about the U.S. Constitution. It includes a brief history of the document, the basics of what it accomplishes and the intent behind it. The 2nd page includes 5 multiple choice questions. The 3rd includes 5 short answer questions. Answer Key provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.0
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$4.00Buy NowThis resource will help students learn about Thomas Edison, the man, his inventions and his impact on our lives today. Unit includes…
- – Informational article on Edison
- – Timeline and list of important inventions
- – Worksheets to assess understanding of matieral
- – 14 Notebooking / Report pages
- – Make your own light bulb experiment
- – Answer Keys
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$7.99Buy NowThis 109 page Civil War teaching unit takes students through 9 different sections:
- Disunion
- Going to War
- Antietam & Emancipation
- Life at War
- The Home Front
- Shifting Tides of 1863
- Bringing the War to an End
- Post War Effects
- Preserving the Memories
** Includes 7 PowerPoints **
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$2.50Buy NowThis 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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$1.50Buy NowThis informational article will teach students about Memorial Day…
– Why we have set the day aside to celebrate
– Who we honor
– What it was originally called
– How it is observed (traditions)After reading the text, students will be asked 7 short answer questions to assess comprehension and understanding.
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