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Free Common Core RI.5.1 projects
Parts of a Map Geography Map Skills Freebie Sample
Try out two free sample pages from my Geography Map Skills Unit & Lapbook with informational text, test, & more!}! This freebie has one page of informational text about the parts of a map. It also includes a one page foldable piece for students to use in their interactive social studies notebook.
These two samples are part of my Geography Map Skills Unit & Lapbook with informational text, test, & more!} for teaching about basic map skills. Over 70 pages in the whole unit!
The
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3rd - 5th
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Biography Research Essay Template (How Can One Person Change The World?)
Need a template to help your students research about a person that has changed the world? This template provides your students with the guidelines for researching the chosen persons life, achievements, and impact. This packet will also provide the groundwork for an essay summarizing all of their work as well as an essay for describing how they can change the world! This research template can be used to create a Brochure through google slides! Check out my Biography Research Brochure Template (Ho
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3rd - 6th
Quick & Easy Biography Research Project: Hispanic Heritage Month FREEBIE
This FREEBIE is a sample of my Hispanic Heritage Month Activity: Quick & Easy Biography Research. This research printable can be used as an independent study activity or even as a learning center. You will have two formats to choose from, one is full size (8.5 x 11). The smaller version can be glued into an interactive notebook OR all student projects can be placed on a ring and placed in a classroom library for display throughout the year. The FULL VERSION of this sample has the follow
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Character: Fun Activity for ANY Work of Literature
This writing activity is fun and easy to use, while also requiring students to use critical thinking skills and text evidence writing. It’s also versatile! Students can create a desktop and blog for a literary character, an author, a person from history, or even a pop culture character.
Students will choose a character, author, or historic figure, and design him/her a desktop and blog. It will include tabs and bookmarks for a site the character has recently visited, an organization they belong
Grades:
5th - 10th
Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas Stockings
The colorful, beautiful, and symbolic motifs used in the artwork of the Pennsylvania Dutch make lovely cards and Christmas stockings. Two sets of materials include "Read and Follow Directions" worksheets that walk students through making a cut-and-paste Christmas stocking in the Pennsylvania Dutch genre. Materials include
• Planning a Stocking worksheet
• Read and Follow Directions worksheet (8.5 X 11--2 worksheets allow you to take the project as far as you wish)
• Read and Follow Directions
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3rd - 6th
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Current Event: summary and opinion with rubric
This is a weekly assignment I give to 4-5 fifth graders a week. This assignment asks the student to find a news story that interests them. They will read it, take notes about it, form an opinion about it, write a 1 paragraph summary, and 1 paragraph opinion about it. The student then presents their work by reading their summary and opinion, and then leading a class discussion about the article.
This is an incredibly fun and enriching assignment that my kids LOVE to do!
This includes the instru
Grades:
5th - 8th
Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon
Watch video about the presidential turkey pardon- students can take notes during this time Younger grades : Have students come up with creative ways to be pardoned Upper grades: Use articles from NEWSELA about THANKSGIVING, Wild Turkeys, etc. Students can use information from the articles to help plead their case Have students complete google slideshow and present their reasoning, Students can create a WEvideo or present in front of the class. Classmates can use the provided google form to vote
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3rd - 6th
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Benjamin Franklin Kite Response Activity
Are you looking for a fun, creative, quick and rigorous project to assess your students' understanding of Ben Franklin's contribution to the Revolutionary War or the contributions of his inventions to society? This is it!
After having learned about Ben Franklin through articles, textbooks, videos or presentations, see what your students have learned by having them answer questions on their own kite (you can edit the questions to fit your classroom needs) and then showing their understanding thr
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2nd - 6th
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*FREE* Net Neutrality Public Policy Debate
We believe two things:
1. Student Voices Matter
2. Student engagement and critical thinking increase when students are excited about what they're learning
A hot topic of debate is the December 14th vote by the FCC regarding Net Neutrality. This is an issue that affects everyone- including the students in our classroom.
Net Neutrality: A Public Policy Debate is a FREE resource provided by thinkLaw.
The lesson begins by introducing the concept of net neutrality to students in an approacha
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5th - 12th
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Endangered Animal Pamphlet Project
This project gives students the opportunity to research the biotic and abiotic factors of an endangered animal's ecosystem. Students use the information learned while researching to create an informational pamphlet, and 3-D model of the ecosystem!
Nonfiction Fact Project
Reading nonfiction is so wonderful because it is full of learning new and interesting facts! Foster that love of new learning with this Snapple Cap Facts project. Sample lessons to use with this project:Introducing nonfiction as a genre for learning factsTeaching important facts vs. interesting factsTeaching details as we readAssigning this project virtually? Assign slide 4 to your students over Google Classroom. You could also delete the “Type your text here” and assign it over Seesaw.Compl
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1st - 5th
Ferdinand Magellan Webquest
This webquest is a great resource for a project on explorers. You could use it in Social Studies, or as part of an interdisciplinary unit of study. Check our my other explorer webquests.
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4th - 6th
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Causes and Connectivity (Day 1 of MNK Curriculum)
Objective: (1) SWBAT recognize that, as people of the same country and members of a local community, they have similarities between them – matters of justice that include inequality for residents, lack of resources for peers, lack of fairness shown to certain Americans by our legal systems, and the shared passions to do something about these matters – that bind them (2) SWBAT articulate between each other their similarities in an effort to see they are all more connected that they previously kne
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5th - 8th
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Make your Own Newspaper
I created this to go along with my informational text unit. My students used this to create their own class newspaper. Activity can be done whole group or in partners/small groups. Great way to incorporate researching, writing, and informational text in one unit project.
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4th - 6th
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Geography Country Research Project--5th-8th
Easy Country project for student just getting into the 5 themes of geography. Internet access required. Grades 5th-8th recommended or modified for special education.
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5th - 8th
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Elephant Biome Project
Use the website:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sumatran-elephant
This website is broken down into the different
sections. Your students can read a section
and then write the important points of that section.
I have also created a modified version.
This report would work well with a paper
created diorama. There are plenty of
websites that show you how to made
different dioramas out of construction paper.
Here is a good one to use:
https://education.scholastic.co.uk/
resources/171480
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Main Idea in Music
Students will understand the main idea by using music. Use common songs to find the main idea and create cognitive residue.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Biography Powerpoint/Prezi Project
Students will read a chosen biography and create a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation to demonstrate comprehension of their readings and research.
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4th - 8th
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