Tag: US History
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FREEBuy NowThis 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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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. -
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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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Susan B Anthony – Informational Text is a resource designed to give your students a better understanding of who this famous American really was and what she accomplished. Students will learn about her childhood, her work as an Abolitionist, her involvement in the Temperance movement and how she was eventually honored through their reading of one page of informational text. To help assess student understanding, I’ve included a short answer worksheet and a crossword puzzle! Answer Keys provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.7
Automated Readability Index: 7 -
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This informational text resource centers around the life of 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and created for 3rd-4th grades. It begins with his early life in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his presidency and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. This is a cross-curricular resource and may be used for both Social Studies/History and Language Arts!
Automated Readability Index: 3
Grade level: 8-9 yrs. old (Third and Fourth graders) -
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This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
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Students will learn about the first Thanksgiving with this resource. It includes a 13 slide PowerPoint presentation and a pdf file of the slides for printing. Information includes the arrival and first winter, the befriending of Native Americans, proclamation of the first celebratory feast and the food that was most likely eaten and President Lincoln’s proclamation of a national Thanksgiving.
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Give 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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I’ve created this shape book of Lincoln to be versatile and is perfect for any type of student-created writings about the 16th President of the United States!
(See description below for details)
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This 47-page resource, “Thanksgiving Notebooking Project”, will provide a month full of learning including expository and creative writing, vocabulary and more!
Included:
- Student Project Pages (Cover, Table of Contents, Project KWL and others)
- Informational Text:
– What is Thanksgiving Day?
– Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations (Washington’s and Lincoln’s)
– History of Thanksgiving
– Symbols of Thanksgiving - Vocabulary List and Cards
(You choose which words fit your students abilities!) - A variety of note-taking, report creating pages designed for multi-age / ability use
– Some are blank with pictures
– Some with these titles: “I’m Thankful for…”, “Life as a Pilgrim”, “Thanksgiving Traditions”, “Thanksgiving History” - 3 Acrostic Poetry pages (Thanksgiving, Turkey, Pilgrim)
- Several FUN pages including 2 word search puzzles
Watch a preview video.
Use year after year!
