Underground Railroad Task Cards

This activity helps students understand the Underground Railroad and its importance in our history. Students will read and learn while moving throughout the classroom.

How to Use

1. Copy the Underground Railroad cards on card stock them cut them apart.

2. Make copies of the Underground Railroad student questions worksheet. Each student needs a copy.

3. Place the Underground Railroad cards around your classroom where students will be able to find them. You can put them on chairs, on the computer keyboard, on the back of your classroom door, on the sides of student desks, on the chalkboard, or wherever you like.

4. Students have to search the room and find all of the sentence cards to answer the questions. You can differentiate by having students work alone or with a classmate.

Table of Contents

• cover card for organizing and storing scavenger hunt

• 20 information cards in color

• 20 information cards in b/w

• student answer sheets

• Know the Vocabulary sheet

• crossword puzzle in 2 formats for differentiation

• answer keys

More about the Product

Students can complete this activity as part of a rotation during reading groups or social studies centers. I only have 4 or 5 students walking around with clipboards to locate the sentence cards and write their answers. Students needing extra support can be paired with a partner for this activity. I have also done similar activities with the whole class or as a filler for early finishers, especially if you made the cards a little bit tricky to find. My students enjoy this activity.

I print the color cards on cardstock and laminate them. I store them with the cover clipped with a 1 inch binder clip. I also write the name of the scavenger hunt on the top of the binder clip.

I use the black and white pages for students who were absent during the activity. I usually do not store these pages, but they could be filed for later use.

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