Category: U.S. History
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Deep Roots of Revolution | A Project Based Study of 5 Major Events to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$9.75Add to CartBring American history to life with this comprehensive, ready-to-print, project-based learning (PBL) unit! Designed like a premium textbook but written at an accessible level, this curriculum guide details the volatile relationship between Great Britain and the 13 Colonies.
Instead of memorizing dry facts, students transform into historical detectives, royal treasurers, investigative journalists, and creative authors as they unpack the escalating tensions that sparked a new nation. 📥 With student text, adaptive project sheets, data matrices, and fully integrated evaluation rubrics, you will have everything you need to guide your students through history!
🎯 Target Grade Levels
This curriculum is carefully scaled to accommodate cross-curricular needs across two distinct educational tiers:
- Intermediate Elementary (Grades 4–5): Tailored reading comprehension levels (5th-grade readability indices) matching foundational geography, art expression, basic chronological math, and descriptive historical fiction.
- Middle School / Early High School (Grades 6–9): Advanced analytical prompts covering media literacy, economic systems, civil debate, and complex narrative prose.
⭐ Key Benefits of Using This Unit
- 🔍 Informational Text Included: The text gives complete factual coverage for all five major events—detailing exact calendar dates, geographic hot spots, and specific historical actors (e.g., Crispus Attucks, Captain John Parker, Chief Pontiac, Samuel Adams).
- 🏡 Flexible for Homeschool or Classroom: Every project comes with a dedicated Adaptability Note providing clear deployment strategies for either single-student kitchen-table instruction or interactive peer-to-peer classroom groups.
- 🎨 True Cross-Curricular Learning: Seamlessly blends History with STEM (buoyancy physics), Mathematics, Economics, Fine Arts, Journalism, and Creative Writing.
- 📐 Stress-Free Grading: Every project assignment includes its own comprehensive 3-tier matrix rubric embedded on its own page!
🛠️ Suggestions on How to Use
- The Master Guide: Distribute or read the cohesive historical text tracking the 5 crucial events:
- Event 1: The French and Indian War (1754–1763)
- Event 2: The Stamp Act (1765)
- Event 3: The Boston Massacre (1770)
- Event 4: The Boston Tea Party (1773)
- Event 5: The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
- The Imperial Budget Challenge: Use the Royal Budget Crisis of 1763 Worksheet after studying the French and Indian War. Have students compute the British deficit and draft a 3-step legislative tax plan to balance the empire’s ledgers.
- The Media Literacy Lab: Print the Propaganda Analysis Sheet alongside the full-page colored copy of Paul Revere’s original engraving. Have students examine the image to find the deliberate inaccuracies used to influence public opinion.
- The STEM Lab Experiment: Set up a water basin and gather craft sticks, foil, and clay to execute the Physics of the Plunge Lab Worksheet. This activity guides students through displacement physics to discover why the patriots had to smash open the tea chests with axes.
- The Journalism Workshop: Use the 3 Newspaper Layout Examples to let students act as colonial reporters detailing the breaking escalation at Lexington Green or Griffin’s Wharf.
🔥 Don’t spend hours piecing together separate worksheets, primary sources, and rubrics. Bring deep historical immersion and high-engagement project learning straight to lessons today.
👉 Get yours today!
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$3.50Add to CartA captivating and educational journey through time, designed to ignite curiosity and foster a love for history in students. This unique resource combines the creativity of coloring and writing as students learn the history of trains. Eight intricately detailed coloring pages depict key milestones, transforming the study of transportation history into an engaging and interactive experience that will keep your students absorbed from start to finish.
As students immerse themselves in coloring, they’ll uncover fascinating details about the origins of rail travel. The pages span from the earliest ‘wagonways’ and the surprising story of horse-powered trains to the game-changing innovations of the late 18th century, around 1776 and 1789. They will learn about the famous ‘Puffing Devil’, the first steam locomotive, and discover the visionary behind the first passenger train in the United States. This product provides a rich tapestry of information, made accessible and memorable through visual learning.
To truly solidify comprehension and critical thinking, each page includes a short dedicated writing section at the bottom where students can summarize what they’ve learned, using their own words to capture the essence of the historical shift. This ‘Color and Write’ approach ensures that students are not just passive observers of history, but active participants, reinforcing their reading, synthesis, and writing skills simultaneously.
Make your history lessons unforgettable with “The History of Trains | Color & Write”!
Add to your purchase All Aboard! A Cross-Curricular Unit all about Trains
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Studying Paul Revere, the American Revolution or famous people in American History? Here are three fun pages centered around Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride on which students can get creative!
Includes:
- – Coloring page
- – A page for students to draw their own interpretation of Paul’s ride
- – A page on which students will write what they believe each of the four people in the picture are either thinking or saying.
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Women in U.S. History – 15 Projects | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$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 Abraham Lincoln Informational Text Bundle includes two products:
- Abraham Lincoln | Informational Text and Activities
- Lincoln Memorial | Informational Text and Activities
(See description below for details of each)
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This 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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A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 24 Pony Express to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
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 Pony Express.
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 21 Edison – Electric Light to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | October 14 Martin Luther King Jr to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | September 9 – California becomes a State to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focus is on California. Investigation ideas include the ‘Gold Rush’, the Compromise of 1850, the state’s long and rich history, the geography and the natural resources.
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | September 5 – First Continental Congress to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource centers around the convening of the First Continental Congress. Investigation ideas include the study of the Intolerable Acts, the delegates that attended and finding out why Georgia did not send a delegate.
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | September 4 – Geronimo to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This investigation station begins with students learning about the surrender of Apache Indian Chief Geronimo in 1886. Exploration ideas include learning more about Geronimo, the Apache, Native Americans today and the American Indian Wars.
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | September 2 – US Treasury Department to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This investigation centers around the establishment of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1789. Exploration ideas include investigating the first Secretary of Treasury, the history of the treasury building and the duties and functions of the department.
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. -
A Day in History – Investigation Station | August 26 – 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
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.
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A Day in History – Investigation Station | August 18 – Virginia Dare to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$1.00Add to Cart
A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research activities based on a single event on a specific day in history!
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.
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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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Harriet Tubman Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
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 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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Abigail Adams Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
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 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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Phillis Wheatley Project-Based Unit | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.00Add to Cart
✏️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)
