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Persuasive Writing Christmas Theme {Holiday Sweater Contest}
Holiday Sweater Contest: Help your students develop their persuasive writing skills with this creative writing and art project! The task involves designing a holiday sweater for a vintage department store contest. After designing, students will use persuasive writing to convince the judges why their design deserves to win the grand prize.This resource includes:Detailed lesson plans for two days (or stretch it out over several days)Small group warm-up activity to engage students and review persua
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Persuasive Writing Bundle {Halloween and Christmas}
Abraham Lincoln Informative Writing Prompt with two Passages/Articles
With this resource, students must use information from two unique & engaging passages to write an evidence-based informative essay explaining three major things that Abraham Lincoln did during his lifetime. This writing prompt is perfect for Lincoln's birthday or for around President's Day. Many extras are included to help you along the way. If your students have to take a standardized writing test where the writing prompt includes passages/articles, then this product is a must-have!*Please
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3rd - 5th
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Horror Writing Workshop – ELA – Genre Creative Writing Unit w/ CCSS Rubrics PPT
Interested in teaching students how to write a spooky horror story? Looking for the perfect creative writing unit to engage all learners? This no-prep horror and suspense creative writing unit will guide you from start to finish, comprehensively facilitating the analysis, development, and creation of frightening and suspenseful narratives.An ideal fall creative writing unit, this 22-page and 14-slide unit includes the following activities and assignments (See PREVIEW):A "Horror Writing Workshop"
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7th - 10th
St. Patrick's Day Persuasive/Opinion Writing Prompt with 6 Passages/Articles
Why should the leprechaun give you his gold? Are you looking for evidence-based opinion/persuasive writing? With this resource, students use information from six different passages to prove why they should get the leprechaun's gold. It's the perfect writing prompt for March. Please note that this writing prompt is just part of my growing bundle. Click HERE to get a year's worth of writing prompts, including this one, at a discount price! Nowadays, there is a noticeable difference in how students
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3rd - 5th
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Funny Bonz Colored Pencil Drawing Project Middle School Art High School Art
Looking to add a touch of Halloween flair to your art classroom? Dive into a thrilling art adventure with our "Funny Bonz Colored Pencil Drawing Project'' designed for middle school, high school and homeschool art students. Utilize creativity this fall season with an engaging and cost-effective Halloween art project that guarantees success for every student!"Wow was this fun! EVERY • SINGLE • STUDENT (seriously everyone) was successful! I used this with a high school Art 1 class. The students lo
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6th - 12th
Waste and our World Project Based Learning - Upcycling and Recycling Project
Want to make your Waste and Our World Science unit more fun? This Project Based Learning activity will allow your students to explore the concepts of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. This Science PBL is perfect as a unit review activity, as a fun activity before winter break, or even as an Earth Day celebration. Through inquiry, students will create individualized treasures out of trash and other recycled materials. They will also create presentations to teach their peers about a consumer product tha
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4th - 6th
Gingerbread House Drawing Art Lesson - 2 Point Perspective Christmas Art Lesson
This Christmas/ holiday themed art drawing lesson will keep your middle school boys and girls ENGAGED during this very exciting time of year. Students will learn how to create a 3D house using 2 point perspective technique. In addition, students will use value and colored pencil techniques to create a 3D form. The PowerPoint and PDF slides include: vocabulary (2 point perspective, vanishing point, value scale, tint, shade and value), objectives, standards, step by step instructions, student refe
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6th - 12th
Don't Eat the Turkey Persuasive Writing Project
"Don't Eat the Turkey" is a Thanksgiving-themed persuasive writing project perfect for students in grades 3-5. While you may see many, "Don't Eat the Turkey" products in your search, this product is unique because of the turkey emojis! Students get to choose a turkey emoji from a total of 20 different options. The emoji turkeys will inspire students to come up with reasons as to why they should not be taken home and eaten for Thanksgiving! The finished products make a fantastic bulletin board di
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Emoji Writing Activities BUNDLE
Cultural Diversity One Pagers Bundle | Heritage & History One-Pager Projects
Heritage Months are periods within the year that are designated to celebrate and acknowledge various ethnic and marginalized groups! In this Cultural Diversity One Pagers Bundle, your students will have the opportunity to research and learn about influential people throughout history for the following heritage and pride months:Black History MonthWomen’s History MonthAsian American and Pacific Islander Heritage MonthHispanic Heritage MonthLGBTQ+ Pride MonthNative American Heritage MonthJewish Ame
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8th - 12th
STEM Ancient Egypt Pyramid Build, Mummification, and Pharaoh Research Project
In this STEM project students will:
Research online an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh (Technology)
Build a pyramid for the Pharaoh (Engineering)
Measure the volume and surface area of the pyramid (Math)
Mummify a doll to better understand the mummification process (Science)
Build a Sarcophagus for your Pharaoh (Engineering)
Design an Amulet for your Pharaoh (Art and Engineering)
Write an excavation report about the Pharaoh and what you would find in the pyramid.
Website links provided for online r
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6th - 7th
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National Hispanic American Heritage Month — One Pager Creative Research Project
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with this creative, artistic, unique one-pager project that requires students to research important people throughout history. Completed projects make colorful, beautiful classroom displays... they're also great for bulletin boards that highlight Hispanic Heritage Month!Included in this purchase is:Student directions for the one pager projectRubric for the one pager projectExample one pager (Featuring Roberto Clemente)10 BLANK TEMPLATES (printable & optional
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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St. Patrick's Day Writing: Persuasive Letter to a Leprechaun
This St. Patrick's Day Writing requires students to write a persuasive letter to a leprechaun to try and convince the leprechaun to share his gold. It is said that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold that he will never share with humans. Use this fun, holiday myth as a writing springboard for your students.
The following items are included in this download:
1. Directions for the assignment- write a letter to a leprechaun to persuade him to share his gold with you. Explain two different rea
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: St. Patrick's Day Activity Bundle: Games, Math and Writing Activities
Patriotic Art Activity • Op Art Stars & Stripes • Elementary Art Lesson
Create an eye-catching patriotic display that will sure to be a show-stopper. This is a great lesson to do before the 4th of July, Veteran’s Day, President’s Day, Flag Day or anytime you want to show some patriotic spirit. I’ve included a lesson on how to draw a star that gives some unique strategies for spacing the star tips. This will help those students (and adults) that are intimidated by trying to draw a large symmetrical star. Using circles and a ruler and the sheets I’ve included will
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Op Art MEGA Bundle!
Christmas Debates for Middle School ELA - Public Speaking Activity
If Christmas is a crazy time of the school year for your students, make that Christmas frenzy work for you with these fun holiday debate topics for middle school!Because public speaking already carries a great deal of stress for many students, these debates feature both light-hearted and thoughtful holiday debate topics to engage your students and foster a festive atmosphere. These assignment sheets and rubrics keep middle-school kids laughing, thinking, and learning the art of public debate.Th
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Public Speaking Bundle
Haunted House Expressive Halloween Writing Unit with Rubric
Looking for an October or Halloween writing project? Haunted House Expressive Writing Unit is a high-interest writing activity for students and teachers! Perfect for October and the Halloween season, it gives students a chance to express their creativity in a way they can relate to their HUGE interest in all things scary (or funny).
**Check out my BLOG POST Part 1 and BLOG POST Part 2 to see how I use it in my classroom.**
In this unit, you will receive:
5 5-Senses Writing Plan Templates
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Writing (Compare and Contrast)
Christmas Writing! Compare and contrast Santa's Reindeer and wild Caribou. The product contains a Christmas reading passage about Santa’s Reindeer and a reading passage about wild caribou. It also contains two different graphic compare and contrast organizers, two sample templates for writing a comparative essay, reindeer themed paper, student checklist to use during peer editing and a grading rubric for you to use. I have also included a list of children’s books about caribou and books that fe
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2nd - 6th
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"Please Don't Eat Me!" Turkey Persuasive Writing Unit & Craftivity
Do you need a fun Thanksgiving-themed writing activity to use with your students? Look no further!
Students can write a persuasive essay from the turkey's point-of-view to persuade families not to eat them for Thanksgiving. Then, students can use their imaginations to disguise their turkeys to make sure they are not eaten for Thanksgiving!
This product includes:
*Persuasive writing anchor chart
*Student instruction sheet
*”Help Me!” poem
*Persuasive writing graphic organizer
*Persuasive writi
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3rd - 5th
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Sweet Candy Opinion and Persuasive Writing Unit
This is a complete writing unit aligned with Common Core writing standards for 3rd through 6th grades (3.W.1, 4.W.1, 5.W.1, and 6.W.1)
This unit includes:
My Favorite Candy graphic organizer
Sensory Details graphic organizer
Figurative Language graphic organizer
Candy Persuasive Advertising graphic organizer
My Favorite Candy advertisement poster instructions & rubric
My Favorite Candy opinion graphic organizer, editing checklist, & weighted grading rubric
My Favorite Candy persuasive
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3rd - 6th
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl Horror Story Study | Printable & Digital
Analyze foreshadowing and the horror genre with "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl! This creepy and fun story is an excellent deep dive into foreshadowing and other essential horror genre techniques. Roald Dahl's short stories are delightful and students will be immediately intrigued by "The Landlady" because it comes from the creator of many of their favorite book-to-movie adaptations. Unlike much of the horror genre, "The Landlady" by Roald Dahlis creepy without resorting to gore or PG-13+ language
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Horror Genre Study Unit: 3 Stories, Elements of Horror, and More
Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Activities for October and November
Welcome to Writing Right Through October and November! This series will help you and your students practice various writing skills and genres in a fun and engaging way. Each month, you will find a new set of writing activities that are aligned with the seasons and holidays.➤Do you struggle each week, trying to plan for writing instruction? ➤Do you need some easy and effective writing activities for young learners?➤Do you want writing activities that don't require hours of preparation or grading,
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K - 1st
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Also included in: Kindergarten and First Grade Writing Activities for the Year Bundle
A Christmas Carol One Pager Project
Have your students share their understanding of the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens by imaginatively blending their written ideas with colorful images based on information from the text. With this one-pager reading comprehension project, students will analyze the literature by determining theme, symbolism, characterization, and more. Students' artwork make for unique and creative analyses of the literature and also make great bulletin boards!Included in this purchase is:Student direct
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: A Christmas Carol Novel Study | Complete Unit Plan
Christmas Poetry Unit
Let the Poet Tree be your guide as your students become poets right before your eyes! This unit is our go-to for the month of December and one of the highlights of our year. Return to this one year after year. Includes:* 12 different poetry forms (one for each of the 12 days of Christmas)* Letters from the Poet Tree* Poetry templates with sample poems* Two poetry rubrics and more!Learn for the Long HaulCheck out more time-saving resources by Learn for the Long Haul:Music of DolphinsNameplates By
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3rd - 6th
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Spanish Food truck project
Your students will love this amazing and fun project. Food trucks and street foods are part of the Latin culture and this project will help them learn as well as inspire the entrepreneur in them!The documents include:A grading rubric, full instructions and tips on how to use Canva.com and the recorded options. NOTE: although the food truck sides are included, you must copy paste each side into another word document and change the paper size depending on what paper sizes your school provides for
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Thankful Project--A Thanksgiving Middle School Writing Project
I developed the Thankful project as a way to utilize the step up writing process. I used a printable turkey found off of Google for a portion. The students pick three aspects of their lives that they are thankful for. This project culminates with a 5 paragraph essay consisting of introduction, three paragraph body, and conclusion. I have done this project with students in grades 6, 7, & 8. This project is not just about teaching writing skills, it is also to help students develop grat
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5th - 8th
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Find Ancient History resources | TPT
If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about ancient history, TPT has got you covered. We’ve got a comprehensive collection of ancient history resources available, including activities and lessons on ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient China, and ancient Mesopotamia, to name just a few. With plenty of TPT high-quality resources at your fingertips, you’ll be able to teach ancient history to your students with ease.
Ancient history activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about ancient history:
Map Making
With map-making activities you can not only teach students about ancient civilizations, but also incorporate geography into your lessons. As they label and color maps, students can learn about important places in ancient civilizations, chart trade routes, and learn how empires expanded (and fell) over time.
Primary Source Analysis
One of the best ways to learn about ancient civilizations is through the artifacts and writings of people from that particular period of time. Encourage students to analyze primary sources to gain a deeper understanding about bygone eras of history. For instance, you can have students read accounts of the destruction of Pompeii and discuss it as a class.
Centers & Stations
Through the use of centers, students can collaborate and discuss topics and content they examine for each era in history. For example, you can have students navigate through four or five different centers or stations to help them learn about different aspects of Ancient Chinese culture, like literature, geography, government, and major historical events or achievements.
By making ancient history come to life through a variety of interactive and immersive activities, teachers can help students develop a deeper appreciation for the subject.
Frequently asked questions for teaching about ancient history
What is ancient history?
Ancient history refers to the period of human history that takes place from the invention of writing to late antiquity (spanning from about 3000 BC to AD 650). This era includes the study of various ancient civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, and others. Ancient history plays a critical role in helping us understand the origins and development of human civilizations and the influence it had on contemporary cultures and societies.
What are examples of ancient history?
The Persian Wars, the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the decline and fall of the Roman empire are all examples of important milestones and events that you can teach about in ancient history.
What types of ancient history resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of ancient history resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units.
How do I find ancient history resources on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing ancient history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ancient history resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
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