American Symbols | Social Studies | Research Project for Google Classroom™

Your students will love researching information about American Symbols with this fun research project. Scaffolded notes support students through the research process from start to finish. Simply share the link to the kid-friendly Reference Website created for this project with your students and give them a copy of the scaffolded notes to complete their research. Print and digital options make this resource PERFECT for any teaching situation!

⭐Tired of looking for kid-friendly, ad-free websites your students can use for their research? Then don’t! This resource includes a link to a Reference Website created exclusively for this research project!

Students will:

•conduct a short research project about ten American symbols

•navigate a website to find information

Included in this resource:

•Reference Website (custom-designed for this product in Google Sites™)

•Troubleshooting and Differentiation Tips for Teachers

•Paper Handouts of the Content on the Reference Website

•Reference Website Vocabulary Words

•Links to Digital Versions of the Scaffolded Research Notes (Google Slides™)

•Daily Lesson Plan

•Scaffolded Research Notes - one notes page for each of the ten symbols featured

•Answer Keys

The 10 American Symbols in This Project:

•Liberty Bell

•Jefferson Memorial

•Lincoln Memorial

•Mount Rushmore

•Statue of Liberty

•U.S. Flag

•Washington Monument

•Bald Eagle

•White House

•World War 1 Memorial

Easily differentiate between TWO levels of support:

1. Display the Reference Website on your whiteboard and complete the research project together as a class - a GREAT idea of the beginning of the year or students new to the research process.

2. Have students who can work on their own? Share the link to the Reference Website through your Google Classroom™ instead. Students can complete their research notes independently.

Why waste time and money buying separate print and digital resources for the SAME lesson? This ONE resource gives you ALL the options!

1. Digital versions let you save time at the copy machine and display them on the whiteboard, or use it for distance learning and share through your Google Classroom™. 

2. Don’t need digital resources? Just print-and-go with the paper versions in the PDF. Easy!

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Happy Teaching! ~ The Reflective Educator

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