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Black History Month life skills Common Core W.4.3 resources
Black History Month READ ALOUD STEM Activities - Mae Jemison, Hidden Figures
Integrate STEM in your classroom during Black History Month with these Read Aloud STEM Challenges! Create a space capsule to bring Apollo astronauts back to earth safely with Katherine JohnsonBuild an air powered rocket shuttle to launch Mae Jemison into spaceInvent something new with Lonnie JohnsonLearn the power of words with Dr. Martin Luther King JrCode astronauts to the moon with the Hidden Figures!Includes 5 Black History Month Read Aloud Activities and lessons as amazing companion activit
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1st - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages Biography Research Poster
Black History Month made simple with no prep reading activities! This print-and-go Black History biography close reading pack is perfect to teach your students all about important African American heroes and Martin Luther King this February.This bundle includes 2 best selling packs:Black History Pack with 4 biographies to help you teach about African Americans and includes critical thinking reflection questions. Also included are different open-ended activities to use with the biographies inclu
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3rd - 5th
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4th Grade Reading February Black History Month Plans Activities
Fourth grade ELA Reading lesson plans and activities for the entire month of February! Included are book units for Wilma Unlimited, Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport, and Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson. This product can be used as a supplemental 4th grade reading curriculum for reading, writing, grammar, and vocab. Celebrate black history month and promote kindness, without taking away from the rigorous 4th grade standards! This product includes lesson
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3rd - 5th
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Martin Luther King Day Low Prep Activities Depth & Complexity Black History
️Looking for a way to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day or Black History Month with quality, standards-based language arts and social studies activities for your students in grades 4 & up? This set of six different Martin Luther King Day Print-and-Go Activities is just what you're looking for! You'll find Martin Luther King writing prompts (short and long), an original, beautiful short story about the March on Washington to read and analyze, and two original non-fiction pieces to read an
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4th - 8th
Martin Luther King Jr Quotes Paragraph Bell Ringer for the Google Classroom
With this bell ringer, your students can respond to a quote by Martin Luther King. Perfect for MLK jr Day or Black History Month. This digital resource in Google Slides allows students to choose a prewrite template to fit their response to a Dr. Martin Luther King quote each day. Students write a paragraph in response to each quote. Then, they do a brief research activity. Great Bellringer / Do Now activity for the beginning of class.
You will download a pdf with teacher tips and instructio
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4th - 7th
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Hidden Figures Picture Book Companion w/ Google Slides Link
Ready to print, or use EDITABLE link to Google Slides, student-friendly pages to teach theme and other reading concepts using the book Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling.This would work great for distance learning (Google Slides are editable) or regular classroom use.This resource includes:•Comprehension Questions for before, during, and after reading•Theme•Graphic Organizers•Vocabulary in Context•Written and Extended Response•Character Traits•Journal Prompts•Career E
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Hidden Figures Literature Bundle
Back of the Bus Mentor Text Unit for Grades 3-5
Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds is a powerful historical fiction book. If you don't own a copy of the book, check your local library or you might even find an online read-aloud of the text with a simple Google search!Using mentor texts is one of the best ways to maximize your teaching time. You are able to teach multiple skills, subjects, and topics with just one book!With this unit, you'll be able to analyze the excellent model of strong voice from a child's perspective in a mentor text and a
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: MENTOR TEXT CLUB by Jivey 2ND EDITION for Grades 3-5
Reading Informational Text on Cereal Box Labels Home or School Activity
Reading informational text Cereal Box Labels Activity. Students can do this at home or at school. They just need an empty cereal box. Students can work individually or in groups to read the label and answer the questions on the worksheet. Students often need practice in real-world situations. This simple activity will make them read carefully for information about the product and then make judgments on whether or not it's right for them. Includes worksheet, reflection sheet, and supplemental ac
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4th - 7th
Black History Month: Respond to Quotes for the Google Classroom
With this bell ringer, your students can respond to a quote by famous African Americans for Black History Month. This digital resource in Google Slides allows students to choose a prewrite template to fit their response to a quote each day. Students write a paragraph in response to each quote. Then, they do a brief research activity. This Bellringer / Do Now activity for the beginning of class.
Contains one quote from each of the following:
•Martin Luther King, Jr.
•Ruby Bridges
•Booker T.
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4th - 7th
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All About Me Book with Easel Activity Digital and Print
This All About Me Book is a fun beginning of the year writing unit. Elementary students love writing descriptions that are "all about me.” Use as an anchor activity to fit in with your writing center activities. Great way to get to know your students, and gives them a chance to build their confidence. The writing prompts encourage critical thinking. The pages can be completed as a class project, or individuallyas an early finisher activity. Add to it all year long and make it a memory book for t
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2nd - 4th
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Black History Month Biography Research Project
Are you looking for an independent or semi-independent research project that incorporates Bloom's Taxonomy? This African American History Research Project allows students choose an African America Figure and requires students to take a deeper look into this person's accomplishments and contributions to our society. This Biography Project also addresses many Common Core State Standards. I use it as a hybrid type project. We do some in class and students do some at home. I also bind the materia
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3rd - 5th
Heart and Soul Heritage Pack - African American History Literature Lesson Guide
The Heart & Soul Heritage Pack is designed as a broad journey through the contributions and experiences of African Americans across the history of America. The lesson plans are grounded in Kadir Nelson’s stirring paintings and words that grace 100-plus pages of a gorgeous picture book whose story is told through the unique point of view and intimate voice of a one-hundred-year-old African-American female narrator. African American poets have often used words to express themselves during time
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4th - 6th
Also included in: African American History & Culture - Heritage Packs Bundle #1
Black History Living Museum Lesson Plan
Your classroom will become a Black History Living Museum! This packet guides you through a month long project where students conduct independent and/or guided research and work through the writing process to create a Narrative Biography on a Black History Hero. My students love learning about people in the past and acting as that person as they memorize their Narrative Biography and present it to students, parents, community members and district personnel. This activity is aligned to Common Co
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3rd - 6th
Harlem Renaissance Heritage Pack - African American History Lesson Guide
The Harlem Renaissance Heritage Pack covers a golden age in African American culture from about 1918 until the mid-1930s when a brave and talented group of Black musicians, artists, poets, novelists, actors, and public figures came together in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. Fueled by the Great Migration, these notable figures established roots and took center stage while creatively expressing extraordinary pride in their culture. The zenith of this “flowering of Negro literature”, as James
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: African American History & Culture - Heritage Packs Bundle #2
February Text Dependent Reading - Text Dependent Writing Prompts (Option 1)
Do your students need citing evidence practice with constructed response questions? Do they refuse to practice summarizing and synthesizing reading skills? If so, then these 5 Nonfiction Text Evidence Reading Passages and Text Evidence-based Writing Prompts are for you. NOTE: This Option 1 Hashtag Day Mini-Unit is part of our February Hashtag Bundle.This product offers fun and engaging emojis and hashtag activities, mixed with rigor and CCSS. Students cannot resist emojis and hashtags! Although
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4th - 6th
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Horace Pippin Reading Activities
Horace Pippin: An Influential African American PainterThis social studies biography unit introduces elementary students to the history of Horace Pippin. The resource contains reading comprehension passages, text-dependent questions, vocabulary work, writing prompts, fact and opinion worksheet, and analyzing a piece of art activity.Introduce your students to the inspiring story of Horace Pippin, an African American artist who overcame many obstacles in his life to realize his dreams. Mr. Pippi
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3rd - 5th
Personal Narrative Rubric Graphic Organizer Unit Plan
Are you looking for a print and go, no prep, personal narrative unit plan? This lesson practically teaches itself! With a simple 5E Lesson plan included, and easy to follow guided instructions, you can't fail. Now including Google Classroom docs. Your students will feel confident as they are supported every step of the way. Perfect for students who need extra support. My students are personal narrative writing rock stars and yours will be too! Check out the writing bundle and save money! Incl
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: 3rd-5th Grade Writing Curriculum Growing Bundle
Multicult. Lit for Social Justice & Writing: The Undefeated/Black History Month
The teacher guide to Kwame Alexander's The Undefeated will utilize the text to explore the realities of the African American experience from the 1700s to contemporary times, through its powerful poetry and illustrations. The mentor text also serves, like many others in this series, as a fluid introduction into differences that students may or may not have experienced, offering natural opportunities for “mirrors and windows” through literature, as well as opportunities to connect with social jus
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3rd - 5th
Black History Month BUNDLE - Gifted and Talented
This bundle has 151 pages for students to explore Black History Month. Students write about things that cause us to fear, learn how being different is okay, search online for information about Civil Rights leaders, investigate African American singers and politicians, fingerspell words related to Black History Month, and so much more. Seven different packets to challenge gifted and talented students in February. Take a look at the Preview to see sample pages. And if you want more, then take a l
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3rd - 7th
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February Text Dependent Reading - Text Dependent Writing Prompts (Option 2)
Do your students need citing evidence practice with constructed response questions? Do they refuse to practice summarizing and synthesizing reading skills? If so, then these 5 Nonfiction Text Evidence Reading Passages and Text Evidence-based Writing Prompts are for you. NOTE: This Option 2 Hashtag Day Mini-Unit is part of our February Hashtag Bundle.This product offers fun and engaging emojis and hashtag activities, mixed with rigor and CCSS. Students cannot resist emojis and hashtags! Although
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4th - 6th
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February Writing Prompts Task Cards and Digital Options | Quick Writes
This daily writing prompts resource includes 100 Daily Writing Prompts for February, Valentines Day, Presidents' Day, and Black History Month in three formats: PowerPoint presentation, task cards, and Google Slides. You can choose the ones that suit your class best! Each set provides a range of narrative, explanation, persuasive/argument, and photo writing prompts. This gives your students choices and agency and helps to develop their independence. This resource features US spelling. Click here
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4th - 6th
Civil Rights Heritage Pack - African American History Literature Lesson Guide
The Civil Rights Heritage Pack is a survey of the brave men and women who risked their reputations, livelihoods, and often even their very lives to press towards what they knew to be right. Their brave determination changed the course of America’s story and showed that when the ideals of our Founding Fathers are extended to all, America the Beautiful is not just a dream. The lessons guide children through a comprehensive study of the important issues of the time and how they were confronted head
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4th - 8th
Also included in: African American History & Culture - Heritage Packs Bundle #2
4th Grade ELA Technology Activities - PowerPoint Slides (Lessons 1-32)
With the ever-changing climate of teaching due to the pandemic, this resource is perfect for any educator who wants to teach technology skills through distance learning and for those who will teach in a hybrid and/or traditional setting who want to teach these life-long skills as well. This includes 30+ technology lessons for 4th Grade students which consists of typing skills associated with using the correct hand and finger combinations to increase quickness and speed, word processing activitie
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4th
Also included in: ELA Technology Activities Bundle - PowerPoint Slides (Grades K-5)
Writing a Letter
Have your students learn the components of a friendly letter. Worksheet includes the 5 parts of a letter along with an example letter. Great introduction to a writing lesson. Suitable for all elementary grades.Thank you for checking out this activity! Please don't hesitate to send me a message with any issues or questions. Please provide a comment and rating or share your constructive feedback in a private message. ~Apples for Miss All : Terms of UseYOU MAY:Use free and purchased items for your
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1st - 4th
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