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Government Common Core W.4.7 resources
Presidents Research Report:Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
“I can't get enough of your writing resources! They help to keep my students organized and feeling confident. Thank you so much!”
Instead of doing several Informative Essays, I like to focus on just one and help students make it better and better through multiple drafts that add new skills each time. This method makes research writing easier to manage for you and your students.
These "Ready To Print" student pages meet EIGHT of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts
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3rd - 5th
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PRESIDENTS DAY PROJECT: Summarize the Life and Biography of a President
Students will create a slide presentation, video, or any project format about a President of their choice. This project explains what students must research and includes a grading rubric for the teacher. Students will research both personal and executive events of their chosen Commander in Chief. It's great for a President's Day activity, a substitute teacher, or for any unit that studies the United States Presidents. Helpful websites are even included to help students find appropriate informati
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Economics Activity: What is Money? A Create Your Own Currency Activity
Overview:Students are in charge of designing new money or currency for a current nation or a fictitious country of their own. The currency will need to be detailed, creative, not able to be counterfeited, and meet the six characteristics of money as outlined in the student directions.What's Included:- Student directions including the 6 characteristics of money- Explanation of visual representation and written description of their currency- 10 specific details must be met (i.e. - symbols, anti-c
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Three Branches of Government Activities| Reading Passages| Flip Book and More
This assortment of 10 social studies activities for the three branches of U.S. and state government will keep your students excited and engaged. The Three Branches of Government and From a Bill to a Law informational texts will set the groundwork for all of the other activities. You can use these whole group, in centers, partner work and as independent practice. What's included:1) 3 Branches of Government anchor posters (one for each branch)2) 3 Branches of Government passage and assessment3) 3
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Citizenship and Character Bundle
American Revolution Biography Reports
This product is great for students to complete when you are studying the founding fathers and the revolutionary war. There are three options for each figure and both a color and black & white option. In this product you will find 13 revolutionary war figures.
These include:
• Abigail Adams
• John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• Betsy Ross
• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• Thomas Paine
• John Hancock
• Ben Franklin
• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Jefferson
• Elizabeth Willing
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3rd - 6th
Constitution Day - US Constitution Informational Text
Constitution Day : US Constitution Informational Text is perfect for Constitution Day or whenever teaching the Constitution. It includes separate texts on the Constitution, Preamble, Articles of Confederation, and Bill of Rights, all with follow up comprehension activities. In this engaging, Common Core connected package you will find:•The history of the writing of the Constitution, including the pros and cons of Articles of Confederation – with follow-up comprehension questions, answer key incl
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4th - 10th
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Three Branches of Government Baseball Card Research Project With Collector's Box
If you are wanting a fun and engaging way to teach the Three Branches of Government, look no further! This project is a creative way for students to show what they know, using research techniques and citations, all while learning what each branch of our government is responsible for. Students will research the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government, focusing carefully on the different powers of each unit. They will take those facts and create baseball cards, along with a
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4th - 8th
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Branches of Government Research Report
A research report guideline about the Branches of Government. Students can follow this guide to do independent research on the different branches of government. They can use the additional page to do extra research or compile a report.There are a variety of free books available on GetEpic for students to use for their research. There is a list provided on the last page of the branches of government that all have books available on GetEpic. Thank you for leaving feedback!
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1st - 9th
Comparing 3 Types of Government
What are the benefits of using this resource?This handout and lesson outline saves you time.Use your time away from school to do what you enjoy. Use your planning periods to catch up with your colleagues rather than doing more work.This handout:could be used as pre-assessment at the start of a unit or review at the endcovers absolute monarchy, dictatorship, and representative democracyasks your students to draw a symbol for each type of governmentmakes students think, by asking, "Would you want
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4th - 6th
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Powers of Government Branches: Speech Rubric
This one-page rubric is all you need to introduce and evaluate a project-based approach to learning about the balance of powers among the three branches of government: judicial, executive, and legislative. A project overview and letter to be sent home at the beginning of the project are also included.
Students can easily understand how their preparation, as well as their one- to three- minute speech content and presentation will be evaluated. Using a simple check list, the teacher can easily
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3rd - 8th
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The Biggest Cities in the USA - Interesting Facts about America
50 printable pages for students to learn more about the most populated cities in America:New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Austin, Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Columbus, Charlotte, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Seattle, Denver, Washington, D.C., Boston, El Paso, Nashville, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Portland, Las Vegas, Memphis, Louisville, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Albuquerque, Tucson, Fresno, Mesa, Sacramento, Atlanta, Kansas Ci
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4th - 10th
Women's History Month - Female Politicians
50 printable or digital investigations of female politicians. Students use a tablet, laptop or smart phone to search the INTERNET for information about these American and international leaders: Ilhan Omar, Indira Gandhi, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Merkel, Stacey Abrams, Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, Condoleezza Rice, Elizabeth Warren, Sarah Palin, Barbara Jordan, Rashida Tlaib, Mia Love, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maxine Waters,
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4th - 10th
Also included in: Women's History Month BUNDLE
A Day in History Investigation Station | September 5 First Continental Congress
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, stud
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4th - 7th
The White House - Internet Research
16 printable or digital pages exploring the White House. Students learn about the Oval Office, the Situation Room, the West Wing, the living quarters (second floor), the basement (a lot like a mini-mall), the outside grounds, Marine One, visitors - rules and experiences, disasters - several fires and deaths, improvements - indoor plumbing, electricity, elevators, a pool, a bowling alley, the architect, the Secret Service. Use on Presidents' Day or Election Day or any day of the year that you wan
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Distance Learning for Middle School BUNDLE (Print + Digital Activities)
President's Day Project
American Presidents Research ProjectDo you need to incorporate research writing into your curriculum? If you need something easy, look no further. I implement this easy Presidential Research Project for the goal of doing presentations on or near Presidents' Day. Students are also allowed to “dress up” as their president. This is an easy way to introduce meaningful researched writing, but basic enough not to get students off track or discouraged about it. I have done this product in a 2 weeks tim
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3rd - 6th
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Country Research - Where We Are In Place and Time
The purpose of this activity is to guide students in gathering the information required for writing a compare/contrast essay based on information they have researched. It was meant to be given after students had built a foundation on what characteristics make-up a civilization or society.
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3rd - 5th
A Day in History – Investigation Station | September 2 – US Treasury Department
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’.
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4th - 6th
Current Events: News Reporter
Add Current Events into your daily routine. Set up a class calendar and assign a daily news reporter. Students use the planner and write or record a news video for the class. There is also a student self-evaluation rubric for grading. My class looks forward to the daily reports. We do ours right after the morning announcements. Takes 4-7 minutes to share and discuss. Activity can be adapted to suit any grade.
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2nd - 8th
Declaration of Independence Choice Board
This is just something I created for use at our school to make sure we are allowing our students more time for exposure to the Georgia Social Studies Standards. It seems like it always got the short end of the stick, and we wanted to give them something not only differentiated, but interesting. I enjoyed using it for my gifted class and the EIP teacher enjoyed it with her students as well.
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4th
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