Tag: Colonial History

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)