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$3.00Buy NowGive your students another way to learn about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim’s journey over to the New World! Perfect addition to your lesson plans if you are beginning a study on the founding of the 13 Colonies or during the month of November, leading up to Thanksgiving.
In this 18 slide PPT presentation, students will learn about…
- The Mayflower before the Pilgrims
- The Pilgrims securing the Mayflower for the journey
- About the ship itself
- Life aboard the Mayflower
- The arrival at Cape Cod
- Did the Mayflower return to England?
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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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$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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$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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$1.50Buy 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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$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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$2.00Buy NowThis informational article will teach students about the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford. After reading, there are three worksheets for students to complete to help assess student comprehension. Answer Keys provided
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$3.00Buy NowThis resource will create a classroom wall timeline (over 7′ long) showing famous explorers of the Americas! The timeline begins with Hoie Shin: a Chinese monk who explored the west coast of Mexico in 499 and ends with John Fremont: nicknamed the “Pathfinder” who explored the American West in 1838. (Examples of other explorers included: Leif Ericksson, Columbus, Cabot, Cortez, Coronado, Daniel Boone, John Cook, Davy Crockett and others)
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$3.50Buy NowThis 261 page book holds a 1900 copyright and was thought of as the ‘first book on American history used in schools in preparation for… more ‘formal’ textbook learning.’ It is however not for young readers. It is not a textbook but rather reads as an informational book that explains the history of the United States and is best read by 5th -8th graders but can also be used by high school students as a reference as well! It would be a good addition to read along side your normal curriculum.
See description below for chapter titles.
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$4.00Buy NowGive students a interactive way to reinforce and share their knowledge as they learn about the history of the 13 colonies by creating a fun project with this notebooking resource.
Completing this project will require students to gather, organize and present the material through writing and illustration. **It can be as thorough as you assign or you can leave the assignment completely student driven.
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$3.00Buy NowAnne Bradstreet was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature.
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!
This unit is a notebooking project. It 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!
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$3.00Buy NowBarack Obama is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to be elected to the presidency.
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!
This unit is a notebooking project. It 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!
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$3.50Buy NowTeach students about the Pony Express, a business that lasted just 18 months during the American Westward Expansion (1860-1861). In this cross-curricular resource, students will learn the how, when, where and why behind this mail delivery system which stretched from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. They will also learn about the riders and horses that made it possible, how much it cost to use and how a new ‘telegraph’ system lead to the company’s closure.
This is a true cross-curricular unit as students will learn U.S. History while engaging in Geography (map work), Language Arts (comprehension, writing, dictionary work, research) and Math (word problems) activities. There are 4 passages about the Pony Express which are the foundation for all activities. Answer Keys are provided.
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$3.00Buy NowThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England’s abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, Higginson was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.
Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson’s interest in both man and nature, Army Life in a Black Regiment ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author’s near escape from cannon fire, to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands.
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$3.00Buy NowAnne Hutchinson was a religious liberal who became one of the founders of Rhode Island after her banishment from Massachusetts Bay Colony. She organized weekly meetings of Boston women to discuss recent sermons and to give expression to her own theological views. Before long her sessions attracted ministers and magistrates as well. She stressed the individual’s intuition as a means of reaching God and salvation, rather than the observance of institutionalized beliefs and the precepts of ministers.
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!
This unit is a notebooking project. It 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!
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$3.75Buy NowIs your Social Studies class studying the ancient civilization of Greece? If you’d like to engage your students in active research and need a way to help them organize and produce a fantastic notebook type project, this product is for you! The benefit of using this type of resource: It will enable students to be creative, independent thinkers and writers. It will allow your students to express their ideas in unique ways and process information they are learning. Their finished notebook projects will become a valuable study tool for students to reflect back on, and are great as a record of student progress over time.
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$2.25Buy NowThis Informational Text resource has three parts: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. In each section, students will have one page of informational text and then 2 pages to assess understanding / comprehension through multiple choice and short answer questions. Answer Keys provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.7 – 8.8
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$1.50Buy NowThis article will help students understand about the famous American pilot, Amelia Earhart. This product includes one page of informational text. After students read the text, there is a graphic organizer to complete and a short (7 question) multiple choice reading comprehension assessment.
This product can be a quick mini-lesson on the life of Earhart or the springboard to a more in-depth study. This product is recommended for 5th-6th graders based on the ARI (Automated Readability Index) of 6.80.
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