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$42.00Add to Cart✏️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 bundle, “5 Themes of Geography Full Year Project-Based Bundle: North and South America,” is a comprehensive educational resource designed middle to high school educators and homeschooling families. It provides a modular, interactive approach to teaching geography by focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography across 18 countries in North and South America.
📦 What’s Inside the Bundle?
- Interactive Notebooking: Structured pages for 18 countries (listed below)
- Targeted Learning Pages: Each country section includes structured note-taking pages for:
- Location: Hemispheres, relative/absolute location, and capital city coordinates.
- Place: Physical characteristics (landforms, biomes, bodies of water, climate types) and human characteristics.
- Regions: Formal, functional, and perceptual region identification.
- Movement: Modes of transportation, migration patterns, import/export analysis, and globalization impacts.
- Human-Environment Interaction: Adaptation, modification, environmental dependence, and negative impacts/countermeasures.
- Map Work: Blank maps provided for each country, designed for students to draw and label climate types, vegetation zones, and economic/export data.
🌟 Benefits:
- Total Grade-Level Flexibility: Whether you are teaching a classroom, a co-op, or homeschooling individual children, the resources are adaptable!
- Pedagogically Sound: Resources are vetted, classroom-tested, and designed to move beyond one-size-fits-all programs.
- Hands-On Engagement: Perfect for visual and tactile learners and helps students go beyond rote memorization.
📅 Suggestions for Full-Year Use
- Pacing Strategy: To utilize this bundle for a full school year, assign one country section every two weeks.
- Sequential Learning: Students can work through the 18 countries systematically, completing the note-taking and map-work pages for each, allowing them to build a comprehensive “Geography Notebook” by the end of the year.
🎓 Core Standards – This resource is structured around the 5 Themes of Geography (Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Human-Environment Interaction), which form the foundational core of social studies and geography curricula in North America. These themes help students develop spatial awareness, understand human-environment relationships, and analyze the interconnectedness of global communities
Included Countries:
South America- – Argentina
- – Bolivia
- – Brazil
- – Chile
- – Colombia
- – Peru
- – Uruguay
- – Venezuela
North America
- – Canada
- – United States
- – Mexico
- – Costa Rica
- – Belize
- – El Salvador
- – Guatemala
- – Honduras
- – Nicaragua
- – Panama
ANSWER GUIDE included: A 5-page answer guide for each country is provided. Data used in the answer guide was updated in 2026. The guide is merely a “guide” as data may change. Not only will countries have population change but other changes may occur (government overthrows, change in currency, etc.) Map work is not addressed in the guide. There are questions within the resource that ask for students to give their opinions and thoughts. The guide will provide ideas (possible answers) but student answers will greatly vary often determined by the resources students use to gather their answers. This is a project / research-based resource.
Prerequisite: A good understanding of the 5 Themes of Geography. If not already studied, students may use: Understanding the 5 Themes of Geography BUNDLE
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These geography resources on Seven European countries has students studying each country through the lens of the 5 Themes of Geography! Country studies in the bundle:
This study will ask students to ‘think like a geographer‘ in their research and recording. Using this resource, students will…
- 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.
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This is a country study resource on the European country of France 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 France
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about France
- 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
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Thomas Edison invented a practical electric light for home use!
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize (October 14, 1964).
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
▪ (Write) Summarize and write what they have discovered. This also should include the recording of sources. -
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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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✏️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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‘North American Birds of Prey’ is a 41-page resource designed to help students organize and present reports for each 29 different birds of prey species!
Each species-specific page includes the name of the bird, an illustration and the following sections: description (size, weight, color, markings, etc.), behavior (breeding, nesting, feeding, vocalization, etc.) and range plus a map of North America.
In addition to the species-specific pages, there are ten additional pages on which students can included additional information, draw their own illustrations, plus add additional species to their projects.
Use alone or add to your lessons: North American Birds of Prey Cards
This resource includes pages for the following 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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This resource is a project-based activity designed to be used during any election (local, state or national). It can be completed individually or in cooperative groups. Perfect for any Civics, Social Studies, or Government classroom 6th-12th grades.
The assignment consists of comparing / contrasting two candidates and requires students to research, report, plus give their own opinions on several aspects surrounding the various activities listed below. You can also require students to create a presentation if you’d like of all their findings!
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Studying the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln? Wanting your students to develop their ability to research, organize, write and create a complete project? This interactive, hands on, resource is one that can be used in Social Studies, History and Language Arts classes and is designed to be either teacher led or student centered – whichever you prefer! This project resource can be assigned individually or to cooperative groups. You can give students as much latitude as you want – or – you can be very deliberate in what and how you assign students to use the pages.
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✏️Student-centered units that includes 10 projects surrounding famous African American in U.S. History. These units will help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
✏️Students will use these 10 project-based units to learn about and create reports and presentations on the following people:
- Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Tubman
- Dred Scott
- Barack Obama
- Booker T Washington
- George Washington Carver
- Thurgood Marshall
- Rosa Parks
- Maya Angelou
✏️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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✏️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 Dred Scott. Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the “Dred Scott case”.
✏️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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✏️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 George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a “Black Leonardo”.
✏️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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Have your students complete a biographical research report on a Hispanic American with the help of this resource. Your students may need some guidance in the planning, organizing and presenting a wonderful project, so I have included several thing to aid them.
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A student tool to aid them in research. Students will use to keep notes while researching. Each card has a place to record:
- -Important fact
- -Source
- -Author
- -Publication
- -Other
Can be used for any subject or research project.
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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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This Vikings resource will have students interactively learning (and creating) as they learn about the lives these Norsemen explorers. Students will learn about their exploration, trade, ships, clothing, every day life and more.
This resource includes:
- – Informational text and worksheets
- – Notebooking / Report pages
- – Lapbooking Section
- – Visual Aids
- – Map Work
- – Crafts
- – Recipes
- – Puzzles
- – …and more
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When doing research, students will find many written documents that could be appropriate to draw from. However, it is important to analyze each. Why? Analyzing historical documents requires students to identify the purpose, message, and audience of a text. This worksheets is a graphic organizer that will guide students through the analysis of these documents.
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✏️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 Margaret Brent.Margaret Brent was the first woman in the American colonies to appear before a court of the Common Law to claim land in her own right or to pursue her own interests in court. She was also a significant founding settler in the early histories of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
✏️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)
