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$3.00Add to CartThis 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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This 42 page book is a biography of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
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This United States Constitution Lapbook will help students gain an good understanding of America’s foundational document and American History.
It is an interactive learning resource and can be student guided or teacher directed!
Included in this product…
- Lapbooking instructions
- Assignment page
- Lapbook Rubric
- Complete copy of the U.S. Constitution
- Lapbook templates
While completing this project, students will be asked to report on things such as…the purpose of the Constitution, when it was written, the amendments, Bill of Rights, the framers of the document, the Constitutional delegates, the Virginia Plan, separation of powers, checks and balances, the make up of the different branches of our government and more. A copy of the U.S. Constitution is included. Students will be required to research or read books to gather information to complete much of the project.
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Whether it is an election year or not, if you are studying the U.S. Electoral College, this is a great resource for your classroom.
Suggestions for Use:
* If it is an election year, you can assign it for students to complete on election night.
* Not an election year? You can still use it! Simply assign students to complete the assignment for a specific presidential election.
* Study a variety of past presidential elections in U.S. History and how the electoral college voted! This would be a wonderful cooperative groups activity where each group completed (and reported their findings) on a different election. -
$3.00Add to CartStudents should understand the significance of a terrible day in American history, September 11th, 2001, otherwise known as 9-11.This resource has been designed to help students gain factual knowledge of the events of that day, the heroic efforts of first responders and the U.S. military response.May be used as a standalone mini-lesson or as part of your own curriculum. (Designed for 7th-10th grades)
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🌽 Bring the “Heartland” to life with this creative, hands-on geography resource! As your students explore the Midwest region, these scrapbooking pages provide a structured yet artistic way for them to document their discoveries. From the Great Lakes to the rolling prairies, students will transition from passive readers to active explorers as they curate their own regional “travel log.”
This 5-page set is designed to be a flexible companion to any geography curriculum, allowing students to combine factual research with personal expression.
🧠 The “How” and “Why” (Educational Benefits)
Why choose scrapbooking for geography? It’s all about engaging the whole learner:
- Visual & Kinetic Memory: By drawing or searching for pictures to paste, students create strong visual anchors for geographical concepts like landforms and landmarks. 🎨
- Synthesized Writing: Writing “short sentences” requires students to summarize what they’ve learned, which is a higher-level thinking skill than simply copying definitions. ✍️
- Student Agency: The “Personal Opinion” section empowers students to connect with the material on a human level—deciding for themselves what makes a location worth visiting. 💭
- Multi-Category Mastery: These pages ensure students don’t just learn “where” a place is, but “what” it is, covering: Climate, Landforms, Water, Natural Resources, Landmarks, and Culture. 🚜🏗️
🛠️ Ways to Use These Pages in Your Classroom
- The “Midwest Research” Project: Have students use “Regions of the U.S. – Midwest Region | Informational Text and Worksheets”, library books or safe search engines to find the facts needed to “fill their scrapbook” independently. 🔍
- A Creative Unit Wrap-Up: After finishing a unit on the Midwest, use these pages as a fun alternative to a traditional test to assess what information stuck.
- Travel Journaling: Pretend the lesson time is a time to go on a cross-country road trip. Each day, “stop” in the Midwest and have students update their scrapbooks with what they “saw.” 🚗💨
- Collaborative Portfolios: Collect the pages over the course of the year as students study every region, eventually binding them into a complete “Tour of the USA” book. 📁
📝 What’s Included:
- 5 Creative Scrapbooking Pages: Specifically tailored to the Midwest region.
- Guided Prompts: Dedicated sections for drawing/pasting and writing about climate, resources, landmarks, and more.
- Map Integration: Practice naming the states within the Heartland.
- Personal Reflection: A “Where to Visit” section to spark imagination and travel dreams.
Pro Tip: This set is designed to pair perfectly with Regions of the U.S. – Midwest Region | Informational Text and Worksheets for a comprehensive, ready-to-go geography unit!
🚀 Start the Heartland Adventure!
Turn geography into a keepsake! Download the Midwest Scrapbooking Pages today and give your students a creative way to master the map!
⭐ This product is included in a $$$ SAVING BUNDLE: Regions of the U.S.A. | Geography Bundle
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To Honor All Children – Holocaust Curriculum for 5th-8th Grades to Pinterest (opens in a new window)FREEAdd to Cart
This resource is a FREE resource to promote Holocaust education. This resource is from the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
This is a 5th-8th Grade Holocaust / Genocide Curriculum
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Mary Rowlandson 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 Mary Rowlandson.Mary Rowlandson was a British American colonial author who wrote one of the first 17th-century captivity narratives, in which she told of her capture by Native Americans, revealing both elements of Native American life and of Puritan-Indian conflicts in early New England.
✏️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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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 resource, Child Labor – Industrial Revolution Informational Text, will introduce your students to how the Industrial Revolution led to children working in factories and the conditions they endured.
After students read the information, their comprehension and understanding will be assessed through 8 multiple choice questions and 2 short essay questions.
One essay question will ask students to compare and contrast a factory child’s life (of the 1800s) to a life of a child today. The other is an opinion piece on what they believe is appropriate (and not appropriate) work for children. They will also be asked to make a chart of this information.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
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Learning about the U.S.A. – State Maps (Outline – Capitals – Major Cities) to Pinterest (opens in a new window)
$8.00Add to Cart150 maps included in this download!
Each state has 3 pages / maps:
* Outline of the state
* Map showing the capital
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This is a downloadable copy of the book.
About the book: H. A. Guerber’s The Story of the Greeks provides a basic but thorough history of Greece. Beginning with Greek myth and legend, Guerber moves through major figures, the Trojan war, the city-states of of Sparta and Athens, the Persian War, the adventures of Alexander the Great, before ending with Greece’s absorption into the Roman Empire. Although recommended for young adults, The Story of the Greeks is a great introduction to anyone with an interest in classical Greek literature, philosophy, or history. -
Rosa Parks 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 Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott; its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities.
✏️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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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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The resource is an 11 slide PowerPoint to help students learn basic etiquette surrounding the American flag.
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13 Egypt vocabulary words.
Examples: Pyramids of Giza, coffin, cartouche, hieroglyphs, Nefertiti, mummification and others!Perfect to use during a study of the ancient world. Display on a word wall or bulletin board.
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Famous African Americans – 10 Projects | Research – Writing – Presentation to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$27.00Add to Cart
✏️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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