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Social studies Common Core CCRA.W.1 thematic unit plans
Election Day: Mock Election Voting Simulation (In-Class Election Kit)
Our future decision-makers are in our classroom today. It is critical that our students understand the voting process and recognize the importance of casting their vote. This civics lesson walks your students through the voting process with a mock election. Your students will learn key vocabulary, will participate in the campaign process, and will have a chance to cast their vote. This mock election can be used with ANY topic of your choice (favorite candy, book, best season, favorite sport, etc
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1st - 4th
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Activities, Texts & Projects
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with four weeks of activities, informational texts, and projects! Your students will love learning about the history, geography, and cultures of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.With this ready-to-go bundle about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, you have everything you need: lessons, 17 activities, 14 texts, and 2 projects.What You'll Learn:✅ In Week 1, you will explore the history and purpose of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.✅ I
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5th - 7th
Dracula Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions Print & Digital
Use this Informational Text Nonfiction reading comprehension unit comparing Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula and Vlad Dracula III (Vlad the Impaler) with even your most reluctant readers. Use the Reading Activities and Critical Thinking Questions to prepare your students for high stakes tests. Why should the young ones have all the fun?Choose to print out the reading and activities using the .pdf file or go paperless with the Google Slides version. Instructions for using Google Slides in your cla
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6th - 9th
Ancient & World History Curriculum - Greece Rome Egypt China India Course
Tired of using boring social studies curriculum? Then use a Middle School Ancient & World History Curriculum that is engaging for students and provides flexibility for teachers that covers the Roman Empire, European Middle Ages, Islamic Empires, Chinese Dynasties, Mesoamerica, West Africa, India, the Reformation, Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Exploration! This curriculum is perfect for veteran and new teachers! It includes 184 activities to engage, excite and support mid
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6th - 7th
True Crime Writing in the United States Unit (AP Language)
This unit looks at American history and culture through the lens of true crime narratives. The assignments and activities trace the roots of this genre of non-fiction from Puritan accounts of executions to 19th Century murder ballads to modern day serial killer stories while analyzing the changing intellectual landscape of the last 300 years. This unit asks student to explore questions of class, gender, race, and morality in relation to criminal behavior. As an AP Language unit, students practic
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Ancient History Curriculum - Greece Rome Egypt China India World Course
Tired of using boring social studies curriculum? Then use Middle School Ancient History Curriculum that is engaging for students and provides flexibility for teachers that covers Early Humans, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Israel, Ancient India, Ancient China, Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic! This curriculum is perfect for veteran and new teachers! It includes 96 activities to engage, excite and support middle school students. Let World History Rawks plan, so you can Rawk!Updates com
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6th - 7th
Medieval World History Curriculum - Middle Ages Rome China India Africa Europe
Tired of using boring social studies curriculum? Then use a Middle School World History Curriculum that is engaging for students and provides flexibility for teachers that covers the Roman Empire, European Middle Ages, Islamic Empires, Chinese Dynasties, Mesoamerica, West Africa, India, the Reformation, Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Exploration! This curriculum is perfect for veteran and new teachers! It includes 110 activities to engage, excite and support middle school stu
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6th - 7th
Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Native American Read Aloud Book Study Companion
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush Read Aloud Book Study Companion Reading Comprehension Literacy Unit A Literacy Book Companion Unit with Comprehension & Fun Activities, based on the book by Tomie dePaola (book not included).This 52-page packet provides a variety of levels to reach each individual student. Please see preview pages and descriptions below : 52 Pages Total Include:1. Table of Contents2. 10 Comprehension short-answer questions 3. continued4. 10 Multiple Choice Questions 5. con
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2nd - 4th
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief Unit - Digital Print Bundle
Percy Jackson and the OlympiansThe Lightning Thief Unit - Digital Print Bundle: This unit includes everything you need to teach The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. With more than 440 pages, slides, and digital and print resources, there will be absolutely no prep required. This digital and print novel unit includes eye-catching Google Slides, PowerPoint presentation slides, print and digital assignments, historical context, questions, vocabulary, quizzes, video journals, and interactive and dig
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6th - 9th
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Activities, Digital Slides, & Texts Bundle
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with four weeks of activities, informational texts, projects, and digital slides! Your students will love learning about the history, geography, and cultures of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.With this ready-to-go bundle about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, you have everything you need: lessons, 17 activities, 14 texts, 42 digital slides, 2 projects.What You'll Learn:✅ In Week 1, you will explore the history and purpose of Asian Paci
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3rd - 6th
Debating Topics for Middle/High School: Mental Health
Get your middle/high school students debating topics that are both relevant and important to them while building their critical thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to develop their communication and debating skills, while opening their minds to different viewpoints. Each debate package covers and reinforces the five basic steps of the debating process: gathering information, exploring all sides of an issue, forming an initial opinion, defending the position in a debate and finally, refi
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Debating Topics- Middle/High School: Growing Bundle- Grades 8-12
Signs of Survival a memoir and oral history by Hartman for ELA and history
This product includes over 100 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the memoir, Signs of Survival, by Renee Hartman with Joshua M. Greene. This book is an inspiring narrative account of Renee and Herta Hartman's experiences as children in Czechoslovakia during WWII. This novel opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Courage,
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6th - 8th
Race, Class and Gender Units: Slides, Activities, Handouts - High School Lessons
Race, Class, and Gender — together at last! Comprehensive thematic units on Race and Anti-Racism, Gender and Sexual Orientation, and Social Class and Social Stratification with super-engaging activities. These resources will help you integrate complex social justice issues with your content. The interactive lessons are LOW PREP (print and go). Each unit includes plans, slides with activities, PDF worksheets, and assessments. This is a High School resource that can be used for digital learning.Th
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9th - 12th
Voting: The DIGITAL Learning Cookie Election {distance learning}
Make the voting process fun and engaging with this non-political 5 day mini-unit!Have a class election to determine the best cookie: Chocolate chip or Oreo!This product includes Google Slides with:Voter registration cards4 commercials for each cookie that play directly in the Google Slides2 opinion writing options to state an opinion and provide reasons both before and after voting3 different options to create campaign posters: OREO, chocolate chip or both cookiesa graph to show class voting res
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Voting: The Cookie Election Digital and Paper Bundle
Ground Zero Unit Plan
Weekly Lesson Plans (Perfect for co-ops, hybrid schools, homeschool, or traditional classrooms) Attention Grabbers Discussion Questions Hands-on ActivitiesCross-Curricular Lessons Journal PromptsFinal Project You will notice that our curriculum is not organized in daily plans. That is because no one’s day looks the same. This curriculum is set up into parts. Each part can be completed at your own speed. Some of it can be done in “class” and some can be done independently. As the teacher, you can
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5th - 12th
Mystery of Roanoke Digital ELA PBL Unit
This NO-Prep/digital 5E Project-based learning activity will incorporate essential reading and writing skills such as close reading, inference, character traits, main idea, graphics, opinion writing, and much more! Through inquiry, this interactive and engaging PBL will allow students to explore the causes and possible explanations of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Students will be able to read 1st hand historical fiction witness statements, navigate a “crime scene” Webquest, explo
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3rd - 6th
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Social Justice Thematic Units - High School Lessons - Integrate in History & ELA
Relevant and versatile—provides interactive social justice lessons that help students understand complex topics. Comprehensive thematic units include Race and Anti-Racism, Social Class and Stratification, Gender and Sexual Orientation, Privilege and Oppression, Bias and the Single Story, and Intolerance vs. Allyship. The super-engaging lessons are LOW PREP (print and go). Each unit includes plans, slides with activities, PDF worksheets, and assessments. This is a High School resource that can be
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9th - 12th
Mara, Daughter of the Nile Marapalooza Mayhem! Novel Study Bundle!
The Mara, Daughter of the Nile Marapalooza Mayhem! Novel Study Bundle! Save $12 by buying all four of my Mara resources at once!
Marapalooza Mayhem! Novel Study Bundle includes the following:
Teacher Presentation file: Topics to be discussed with students daily as the class progress through the reading of Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Topics are as follows:
• Hatshepsut
• Cast of Characters
• Egyptian Vocabulary
• Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
• Literary Devices: Foreshadowing, Show, Not Tell, Se
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6th - 9th
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 15 DAY UNIT BUNDLE Including Review & Assessment, Editable
This resource is a comprehensive and engaging unit covering the Industrial Revolution. There are 15 days of lessons, homework, review, and an essay assessment. There are 2 versions of the essay, a document-based and Enduring Issues essay for New York teachers. Each lesson is complete and no-prep, saving you valuable time and energy. The lessons are designed to be engaging and varied, ensuring that students stay interested and focused throughout the unit. Plus, all the content and skills students
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8th - 11th
Identity, Race, Gender Units: Slides, Activities, Handouts - High School Lessons
Compelling and versatile—explore Cultural Identity Terms and Concepts and Why Identity Matters as a foundation, then move on to in-depth Race and Anti-Racism and Gender and Sexual Orientation units. These interactive resources will help you integrate complex social justice issues with your content. The engaging lessons are LOW PREP (print and go). Each unit includes plans, slides with activities, PDF worksheets, and assessments. This is a High School resource that can be used for digital learnin
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9th - 12th
American Literature - 11th ELA - Year-Long Curriculum - GROWING Bundle
This growing bundle [will be] everything you need to teach eleventh-grade ELA. This bundle will include introduction stations, printables, activities, graphic organizers, teacher presentations, lesson plans, and much more. Throughout this unit, students will engage in reading literature, reading historical documents, reading informational texts, and synthesis writing and research.Included as of July 27, 2023: BUY THE BUNDLE AND SAVE 20%!Unit 1: American Identity (complete)Unit 2: Birth of a Nati
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11th
Terrorism in the Modern World: Growing Bundle
GROWING BUNDLE: I will be adding resources and materials as I create them.This bundle provides high school social studies teachers with a comprehensive set of resources to teach about terrorism in the modern world. From virtual classrooms to inquiry-based learning activities, students will explore the complex and controversial issues surrounding political violence and its impact on global and national politics. The bundle includes lesson plans, activities, and resources that support student inqu
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9th - 11th
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Thematic Unit: Cultures Around the World
Digital Learning...No more textbooks! This resource comes with lists of books, websites, STEM, and Art activity ideas and many writing prompts. The differentiated work is meant to be used to teach standards for writing and reading (buy Reading Standards for Every Grade and use the reading worksheets with the books in this Thematic Unit and ALL my other thematic Units).This Unit Includes:Lists of Focus Topics within Cultures Around the WorldBook Lists (for ages 1st through 8th)Website ListsVideo
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Not Grade Specific
Shark Tank Project
Project based learning is on the rise, and students are eating it up! In this Shark Tank project, students will create their own product and pitch it to their teachers (or Sharks). This bundle includes: Unit PlansIntroduction of Project (Google Slides)Task Requirements HandoutProposal Letter TemplateBusiness Plan TemplateShark Tank CatalogSWOT Analysis Lesson (Google Slides)SWOT Anaylsis Template
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6th - 8th
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- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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