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Geography Common Core RL.3.1 resources
Historical Perspectives -Paris, France Summer Olympic Games 2024 - Print/Digital
This mini "2024 Paris, France Summer Olympic Games " pack takes a look at the Paris games. This Historical Perspectives pack explores the 2024 Summer Games, through fiction and non-fiction texts, as well as through primary source photos and documents for grades 3-6.The pack includes a print-ready pack for students, which you can print as a packet or as individual pages which you can spread out over a few days AS WELL AS a digital version for Google AS WELL AS a version for Easel.**This is a FORE
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3rd - 6th
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Sled Dog Race Across Alaska Activities
Every year, learning about the sled dog race across Alaska is a highlight in my class! Included in this product are 10 activities that I use with my students during our cross-curricular study of the race. These activities are not designed to be a day-to-day unit, but to enhance your study of the race.Lessons include:Comparing and Contrasting Dog Heroes - Togo & Akiak - GoogleWhat Makes a Good Lead Dog? - Critical Thinking ActivityWhich Way to Nome? - geography/map skillsCheckpoint Math word
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Alaska Sled Dog Racing Bundle
Adapting to the Physical Environment
Elementary Social Studies and Reading Skills together! This 3-day lesson bundle teaches about human adaptations and drawing conclusions. This set includes:
--PowerPoint on Adapting to the Physical Environment
--3-day lesson plan
--Day 1 PowerPoint slides and Printable
--Day 2 PowerPoint slides, physical activity, and Crossword
--Day 3 Drawing conclusions task cards (3 expository texts & 3 literary texts)
--{BONUS} Day 4 To Texas - half-page literary text with 4 reading response questions
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3rd - 6th
Rain School Worksheets - Map Activity - Rain School Book Companion
These are activities for the book Rain School for upper elementary students to help set the stage for the story and check for understanding. Students will:Answer questions about the continent of Africa and Chad as the story is set in the regionWatch a video about how people in Chad make their homes similar to the Rain School storyAfter reading Rain School, students answer the reading comprehension questions Complete a small research assignment on the country of Chad! This Rain School resource i
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2nd - 5th
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Around the World in 80 Days Classic Starts Unit for Grades 3-4
This literature unit adapts the original Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne for younger children. It provides an excellent platform to introduce students to their own heritage while exploring various lands and cultures in this wonderful story. Students can have opportunities to develop map skills, increase vocabulary knowledge, build writing skills, and conduct project based learning activities such as choosing a heritage country to research and present as a culmination to the unit. The
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3rd - 4th
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Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back | Native American | Printables | Opinion Writing
Teach your students about Native American culture while working on reading and writing standards. This print and go literature study is a perfect addition to your Native American unit or as a stand alone unit of instruction.Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: This beautifully illustrated text leads readers through the 13 moons in a year as a grandfather teaches his grandson about the significance of the turtle and its connection to the moons; thirteen different moons as observed and celebrated by t
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3rd - 5th
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Amazing Africa! Heritage Pack - African Countries, Culture, People Lesson Guide
The Amazing Africa! Heritage Pack is designed to introduce children to the wonderful continent of Africa through high-level overviews of many countries combined with more in-depth “visits” using engaging living picture books. An early elementary novel and richly illustrated book about African traditions round out this pack by adding perspective and fun. Though children will learn a bit about most of Africa’s 54 countries, they will go deeper with over 15 countries, sometimes remaining on a singl
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1st - 3rd
Also included in: African American History & Culture - Heritage Packs Bundle #1
Reading Comp Passages and Questions "Australia" - 4 TOPICS - Distance Learning
In this NO PREP close reading printable worksheets, students will explore four topics about Australia.Australia's FaunaAustralia's GeographyAustralia Day - January 26Australia's Origin - Aboriginals and Britain's Penal colonies Students will refer back to the text to be able to answer the open ended questions. You will receive a black & white version of each reading comprehension, question worksheet and answer key in a PDF file. I have zipped all four topics together. Be sure to check out th
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3rd - 5th
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Nonfiction Article for Reading Comprehension - Patagonia, Argentina
This article of the week is part of a collection of articles designed to help teach reading comprehension through key ideas and details. Students practice locating important details, formulating the main idea and creative thinking. This article is included in a bundle of three centered around CCSS RI. 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2 and includes differentiated activities for each grade, every day of the week!There are a myriad of ways to use these articles – small group reading, close reading, i
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3rd - 5th
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I Am Kenneth Omondi Ochieng
The English version of our 3rd to 5th-grade reader, a story told by Kenyan Native resident Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng about his life in Kenya and how he became a food forester working to reforest Kenya and other countries and how he works to revitalize the Lake Victoria ecosystems. This book is also available in Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng's native language of Omondi and told in his own voice in the audio link included in both the English and Omondi versions. 50% of all sales on this title are do
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3rd - 6th
Carson Crosses Canada Interactive Read Aloud - Canada's Physical Regions
This read aloud lesson accompanies the book Carson Crosses Canada and will be a fantastic addition to your Reader’s Workshop. This picture book study is ideal for making Social Studies cross-curricular connections as students will delve into the physical or geographic regions of Canada. This Carson Crosses Canada interactive read aloud is filled with meaningful reading comprehension questions and fun literacy activities for your upper elementary students. This picture book study includes a digit
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3rd - 5th
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Novel Study: Horrible Harry and the Holidaze by Suzy Kline
This is a great book study to use during December. In this book, Miss Mackle's students study Three Kings' Day, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and the Korean New Year, so this is also a great book study to use if you are studying Christmas around the world. I originally created this book study for an MTSS/RTI reading group to complete. It includes an explicit teacher's guide for each chapter and an answer key. Skills practiced: main ideamap skillscompare and contrastvocabularyretellcharacter changesmaking c
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2nd - 3rd
Virtual Field Trip to Yellowstone National Park with Google Slides Included
WHAT'S INCLUDEDPowerPoint & Google SlidesHigh Quality PicturesFun Facts about Yellowstone's GeysersFacts about the famous Old Faithful GeyserFun Facts about Yellowstone LakeFun Facts about the Bison of YellowstoneFun Facts about the Bighorn Sheep of YellowstoneFun Facts about the Deer of YellowstoneLinks to videos about some of Yellowstone's most famous featuresComprehension worksheet w/ answer keyYour students will love this visually appealing virtual field trip!TIPS:Feel free to add or del
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PreK - 4th
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4-ESS1-1
, 2-ESS1-1
Cobra Kite from Thailand, Malaysia, and India - DIY Stem/Steam
The cobra kite is a great flyer, and easy to make. It moves through the air, writhing in the wind, like a real snake. Learn about the divine Naga, a spirit snake in the sky, the giant king cobras. and a Malaysian girl's story of a kite battle in the sky between cobra and moon kite. Literature Link:CommonLit Reading Lesson "Cobra Kite". This resource contains guided reading, assessment and discussion questions. Students are prompted to answer guiding comprehension questions as they read. The text
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K - 8th
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K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, 3-PS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-2
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Very Last First Time - ELA Global Literacy Lesson for Elementary Geography
Build elementary geography skills and cultural awareness without adding to your workload. Easily infuse global education into your curriculum by incorporating global literature into your classroom routines. This lesson is also perfect for Geography Clubs or Gifted and Talented geography enrichment groups. Help your students travel the world by reading great books!Cultural and Country Connections Global Literacy Lessons can help your students:appreciate cultural diversitydevelop geography skillsi
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1st - 6th
Where are You From? Lesson Plans/Inquiry/Primary Sources/Latinx/Social Studies
Students, who are different from the majority population of their schools, are often asked, “Where are you from?” When students answer, “I am from here.”, the next question often asked is, “No, where are you really from?” These questions can cause students to feel like they do not belong in the classroom or school, which can affect learning negatively because social safety and belonging certainty are key to success in the classroom. The book Where are You From? addresses these questions through
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K - 4th
Columbus: An Integrated Literature Unit Aligned with CCSS
Christopher Columbus was an explorer every child should know. Here is an integrated literature unit that is aligned with the common core state standards and highlights reading literature, math, history, geography, writing, and language skills. This unit can be used independently or along with Who Was Christopher Columbus? by Bonnie Bader.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Historical Perspectives -Beijing Winter Games / Olympics Study Print + Digital
This mini "2022 Winter Beijing Olympics /Winter Games " pack takes a look at the Beijing games. This Historical Perspectives pack explores the 2022 Winter Games, through fiction and non-fiction texts, as well as through primary source photos and documents for grades 3-6.The pack includes a print-ready pack for students, which you can print as a packet or as individual pages which you can spread out over a few days AS WELL AS a digital version for Google AS WELL AS a version for Easel.**This is a
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Around the World
Reading Around the world pairs a genre study with learning about each continent. The students will choose a continent and read the assigned genre. They will then write a book summary. The project will culminate with research about one continent.
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3rd - 6th
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Deep in the Sahara - ELA Global Literacy Lesson for Elementary Geography
Build elementary geography skills and cultural awareness without adding to your workload. Easily infuse global education into your curriculum by incorporating global literature into your classroom routines. This lesson is also perfect for Geography Clubs or Gifted and Talented geography enrichment groups.Help your students travel the world by reading great books!Cultural and Country Connections Global Literacy Lessons can help your students:appreciate cultural diversitydevelop geography skillsin
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2nd - 6th
Under the Same Sky by Robert Vescio
We are all living under the one sky and we all see the same stars we just don’t see them all at the same time. A beautiful way to introduce the idea of night and day and how this changes depending on where you are in the world. This story explains how half the world is in light and half in darkness in the same way that stars and hearts let people know that we love them. Activities for this book include decorating shapes, understanding time changes, making a day and night spinner to understand h
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2nd - 4th
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China - Tangrams PowerPoint (Common Core Aligned)
This PowerPoint presentation defines tangrams, as well as explains how they are used as well as the origin of tangrams. The PowerPoint also includes comprehension questions for the story Grandfather Tang's Story. These questions can be used as discussion questions and/or reading response questions. The questions are designed to coach students to give text evidence to support their answers.
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2nd - 4th
Nights of the Pufflings - A Fun Cross-Curricular Lesson About Puffins!
The non-fiction story, Nights of the Pufflings, by Bruce McMillan, has always been a favorite among my third grade classes during reading time, as well as a great science lesson about bird adaptations, coupled with a geography lesson about Iceland!!
The book is likely to be available through your local library, or can be purchased through many online book source sites or local bookstores. We were fortunate enough to have the story as part of our reading series.
This lesson explains how to mak
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3rd - 4th
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Let's Visit Nicaragua - Passages and Skills for Differentiated Learning
This resource was made for today's differentiated classroom. This resource features leveled passages and activities that work on reading and writing and social studies skills while letting students see the world outside of their own. This can be as part of a social studies or ELA unit, small group instruction, ELA centers or rotations, or sub plans. Perfect for teachers who...Need to have leveled reading and activities for their classroomHave a special education or Title 1 / support classWant to
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3rd - 9th
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