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Wax Museum Biography Research Report for 3rd - 6th Grade Social Studies Project
Need an easy to use, meaningful research project that your students, parents, and principal will love? This Wax Museum Project is a highlight of the year and will guide your students to create a biography research report on a famous person. The culminating part of the project is an amazing Wax Museum event, where students dress up as the person they have learned about and stand “still”, like a Wax Museum, until someone walks up to them and presses the “button” on their backdrops to hear a short
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3rd - 6th
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Biography Research Project Digital Flipbook Template Report Graphic Organizers
If you are researching famous people for Biography reports, your students will love creating these digital interactive Google Slides Flipbooks using graphic organizers! Students click and type in the digital slides, making it easy to create a biography project presentation with interactive linked tabs. Flipbooks can also be printed for a cute tabbed booklet. It's a perfect writing activity! ➡️ Click the PREVIEW above to see more! ⬅️ ✅ 7 Tabs/Slides include:Cover pageTable of ContentsFamilyEducat
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2nd - 5th
New York City Landmarks Report Writing Research Postes Common Core
New York City, NYC research report postersStudents research an assigned a NYC landmark Supply students with note sheet. When research is complete, students fill in landmark poster. You have a great hallway display!Poster Includes:•Black and White photo picture •Box for Landmark Title• Who or What Does this Landmark Honor? •Box for Year Built •Box for Location•Box for Description/Materials Used•Box for Designer•Box to write Other Interesting FactsAlso included•Lined note page if extra notes ne
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1st - 4th
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Famous Inventors & Inventions Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions Unit
Introducing six famous Inventors and their revolutionary inventions! Your students will get to discover how Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Sarah Breedlove Walker, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington Carver developed innovations that changed the world forever.This resource will help your students understand each inventor’s unique story, their accomplishments, and the impact they had on the world. Although learning about famous inventions is important, kids love re
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2nd - 5th
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Country Research Report Worksheets and Graphic Organizers Google Slides
Are you looking for engaging activities for writing a country research project? These country research graphic organizer worksheets are perfect for your literacy and social studies lessons about countries. They are ideal for research projects and report writing. They are also great for reading lessons with informational texts.These informational essay graphic organizers are offered as no prep printables, as well as in digital formats (TPT Easel and Google Slides). Here's the thing. You want your
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1st - 3rd
Biography Research Historical Figures using QR Codes Videos & Websites Template
Are your students struggling to find information on famous historical figures for their biography reports? Do you have technology in your classroom to help in their research, but aren't sure if they will find the right websites? The QR Codes for Biography Research Reports are what you need. No longer will students struggle with finding enough information, or writing their biography report, on their chosen historical figure.Included in this Biography Research Resource:► 25 colorful pages of his
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2nd - 4th
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Research Templates Google Classroom Digital Projects Elementary Activities Comic
Need some engaging digital projects templates for your classroom? This Google Classroom Digital Projects Bundle is a perfect go to for easy to use and ready to use elementary Google Classroom activities that your students will love! Your students will be engaged with these digital project templates as they create comic strips, social media posts, biography reports and SO MUCH MORE! Since these are digital projects they are great for saving paper and can be used across multiple subject areas. ⭐SA
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3rd - 6th
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Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
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2nd - 4th
Country Research Project | Country Reports Graphic Organizer Template Digital
Choose from 60 beautifully designed (and EDITABLE) country research report slides for your country writing projects. Create the exact presentation you want for your students but customizing any of the slides to fit your needs. Students will use the slides to share all about a country they researched while working with all sorts of text features (headings, table of contents, photos, captions, fun facts, bold words, glossary, and more).Want more report templates for the year? Click here for the BU
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2nd - 8th
The 7 Continents: Social Studies MEGA GOOGLE Digital Distance Learning BUNDLE
The Continents Social Studies Distance Learning Google Classroom unit for grades 1-3 includes 7 separate Google units! Units include: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia! Easily differentiate with built in options that require NO EXTRA PREP. Utilize Google Classroom and open the entire resource in Google Slides to present information about the continents in an interactive, digital format that can be easily differentiated for all learners. This resource will
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1st - 3rd
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Monument & Symbol Research Report Writing Project Common Core
Monuments, Symbols, landmarks research report writing project.Either take notes on the posters or use them for hallway display!Students research an assigned a United State Monument.Supply students with note sheetWhen research is complete, students fill in Monument poster. You have a great hallway display!Poster Includes: •Picture •Box for Monument Title •Box for who does this honor •Box for Location!•Box for Description/Materials Used•Box for Designer•Box to write Other Interesting FactsAlso i
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Patriotic Research Report Writing Project
Biography Project | Who Was Biographies Book Report | Informational Writing
Reading and Writing just got a whole lot more fun with the biography project that pairs with the loved Who Was book series but also works for any biography. Build students' ELA skills as they connect with Social Studies to meet standards cross curricular. This is a great way to help students with note taking, researching, and writing skills while having fun. What's included in the set:How To Use guide for teachersChapter sheets for recording factsTimeline for the life of the personCover page fo
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3rd - 5th
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Project Based Learning Activity: Ancient Egypt Social Studies PBL
This interactive PBL activity puts your students in the shoes of a museum curator designing an authentic Ancient Egyptian museum experience!Ancient Egyptian Museum is a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a commercial to entice potential guests. Along the way, students will research, make real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. This PBL is self-differentiating, mea
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Native American Research Project Beginning Research Project
Native American Research Project: Have your students learn more about the amazing Native American tribes that inhabited this continent before European settlement with this younger student-friendly Native American research poster project! This pack includes everything you need to complete a Native American research project in your classroom or at home. Students are guided from beginning to end with this Native American research project pack! About Beginning Research Projects: Guiding students to
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1st - 3rd
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Project Based Learning Activities: Social Studies PBL BUNDLE
Save 20% with this ancient civilizations bundle, which includes an Ancient Greece PBL, Ancient Egypt PBL, Ancient China PBL, and Ancient Rome PBL. These PBLS are a social studies project based learning activity (PBL) that results in a research and making real-life decisions, all while learning more about this ancient civilization, developing 21st-century skills, communicating, and designing. These PBLs are self-differentiating, meaning that students have the ability to work at their own pace and
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3rd - 5th
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State Report Project with a Parade Float and PowerPoint Report
This project-based activity is designed to let students research, design a PowerPoint presentation, and parade a float representing that state for an audience of your choice. Easy to use because there are teacher tools to track assigned states and a rubric to score it all! Students LOVE this project and you will too! Inside You Will Find• 1 Parade of States General Information Page• 1 How to Host the Parade Page• 1 Parent Information Page• 1 PowerPoint Hints Page• 1 Student Survey Page t
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3rd - 5th
Continents North America Geography Continent Study Canada Mexico & United States
Lead and guide your students to discover the continent of North America with these North America research and writing activities. These North America geography research flipbooks are about the continent of North America. Students will use interactive flipbooks to learn about Canada, the United States, Mexico, and all the Islands that make up North America. This continent study of North America goes with ANY social studies and geography curriculum too! Everything you need is included in this Prin
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3rd - 4th
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Finish the Drawing Halloween STEAM Challenge Pumpkin No Prep Activities Doodle
This Halloween STEAM challenge targets the Art in STEAM. Students will think outside the box to finish the drawing & disguise a pumpkin. Students will turn the pumpkin into something new! This is a great activity for October!These activities will get students to think in a unique way. Use this as a warm-up or entire lesson. Incorporate creative writing to create a full lesson. Looking for more Halloween challenges? Save 30% and receive ALL activities! CLICK HERE for the full Halloween bundle
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K - 3rd
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myView 3rd Grade Unit 3 Historical Fiction Writing SUPPLEMENT Graphic Organizers
This Historical Fiction Writing Unit is a perfect SUPPLEMENT for myView Grade 3, Unit 3 Writing. Includes a sample writing anchor piece, graphic organizers with sentence starters, writing checklist & much more. Could also be used for Black History Month and Women in History Month.I have included a brainstorming sheet to allow students to gather historically accurate information for their narrative writing piece. Scaffolded graphic organizers include sentence starters that allow for more des
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3rd
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50 States Research Report: Multi-Draft Informative Writing for Grades 3-5 (CCSS)
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50 Nifty United States with 13 Original Colonies - sing it with me!
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 easi
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3rd - 5th
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Biography Research Project | Country Report | Animal Research Project | Reports
6 beautifully designed (and EDITABLE) report projects for your students for the end of the year or anytime during the year! Create the exact presentation you want for your students but customizing any of the projects to fit your needs.This bundle includes report templates to share all about a country, animal, famous person, book, state, and any topic templates! Students will work with all sorts of text features (headings, table of contents, photos, captions, fun facts, bold words, glossary, and
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2nd - 8th
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California Missions Reading Comprehension Passages 4th Grade History
If you teach California History, you may need some extra resources for the 4th grade California Missions Projects. The 21 Spanish California Missions are all included in this reading comprehension passages packet to make it easy for you to start your California Missions research report projects. Each mission has three-pages of informative text about the indigenous people of the area, the founding of the mission, and the daily life. This pack gives you all 21 of the California Spanish Missions fo
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4th
Also included in: 4th Grade California Mission Report Research California History Bundle
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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3rd Grade MyView U2 SUPPLEMENT How-To Article Writing Graphic Organizers Sample
This resource is a terrific SUPPLEMENT to myView Literacy, Grade 3, Unit 2 HOW-TO ARTICLE WRITING. It focuses on community projects, the topic covered in the Unit 2 Assessment. The 8 writing prompts include topics that range from planting a tree to provide food and shelter for local birds, to organizing a book drive for less fortunate children. It is in Google Slides to assign in Google Classroom and includes a PDF version for printing.Included in This UnitEight How To Writing PromptsMy How-To
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