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Project Based Learning: Geometrocity! A Math PBL
Project Based Learning: GEOMETROCITY! Build a City Made of Math with Geometry.Imagine, Design, and Build a City with this 2D and 3D Adventure!-Project Based Learning-Real World Application-Geometry, Maps, & More -Extension Activities -Differentiated Levels***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL!***There is a link to a Google Slides Version. Details below. *This resource can be used for distance learning and e-learning.*Geometrocity is a project based learning activity where students will take their
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 64 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design,
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2nd - 8th
STEM Index Card Tower Challenge - Easy Prep Project- 2 Versions
This easy prep STEM Activity is surprisingly challenging! Students will have a fantastic engineering opportunity through problem-solving. Index Card Towers show your students how to persevere and redesign based on their initial thinking and planning (plus the towers are fun to build!) The best part is that your prep includes one basic material and the students take over from there. Just stand back and watch them brainstorm and build incredibly tall towers. They will groan when the tower falls, d
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Shark Tank Interactive Invention & Innovation Project! (DIGITAL and PRINT)
**UPDATED With New Link! (4-1-22)**Now includes DIGITAL student worksheets for remote learning. You will need to have a Google account in order to access and edit the Google Slides.**UPDATED (3-23-19)** Now includes:-Student Checklist -Updated Shark Tank Successes-Pictures of completed student products/presentations!-Speech guidelines-Optional Extension Feedback Activity (with pictures!) -Shark Tank Judges Questions Sheet -Questions/Worksheet for students to fill out during their peers' presenta
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3rd - 12th
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State Report Research Project - Templates for all 50 States
Are your students writing State Reports? This United States research project includes templates for all 50 states, making it easy to assign each student a different state (if desired.) In just one download, teachers can print a project for each state, as well as a common note-taking sheet that guides students through the research. The State Report is only 3 pages in length (giving students the confidence to complete it with excellence) but is packed with information. When done, students have
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3rd - 5th
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STEM Space Lander Math & Engineering Activity
Space Lander STEM ChallengeThis STEM activity is one of our favorite engineering design challenges! The combination of marshmallows (or ping pong balls) and aliens makes this a winning STEM challenge! In the Space Lander Challenge, student teams build a lander using the engineering design process to keep two marshmallow "aliens" or "astronauts" inside a cup as it is dropped from various heights. Using straws, index cards, and mini marshmallows or cotton balls, students apply concepts of shock ab
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5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Space STEM Starter Challenges MEGA Bundle: Middle School
Project Based Learning: Zoo Design, Area & Perimeter (PBL) Now For Google Slides
Project Based Learning: Zoo Design with Area and Perimeter, Map Skills, and More! This also includes differentiated activities, math skills, problem solving, aligned with Common Core, and extension activities.This project is based around the idea of students creating a zoo using their knowledge of area and perimeter, along with many other math (and academic) skills to create a unique learning opportunity that apply to real-life situations.***THIS RESOURCE IS NOW DIGITAL for DISTANCE LEARNING***
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Project Based Learning MEGA Bundle: 14 Full-Scale Hands-On Projects!
Three Branches of Government Tree Craft Activity + Flipbook
DaisyDoggy presents: "Three Branches of Government Tree Craft Activity + Flipbook."
This craft activity is a great way to introduce, teach, or assess student's understanding of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
Once all pieces of the tree are colored and cut out, the tree is easily assembled by gluing each set of "leaves" to its corresponding lined counterpart. This allows for students to lift up the leaves to reveal what they have learned about each branch. In a
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Colonial America | 13 Colonies | Colony Unit | Colonization | Print | Google
Colonial America - Thirteen Colonies Unit - This comprehensive Colonial America unit includes all the information needed to teach the colonization of North America in your classroom. No textbook is needed! It includes well-crafted informational text and activities in chronological order. This Colonial America unit is perfect for print or distance learning. This 13 Colonies unit is now available in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF form. DISTANCE LEARNING:COLONIAL UNIT TEACHER PDF: Plans, study
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3rd - 5th
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Black History Month Craft: African American Inventors - Set of 6
Do you need cute and easy crafts for Black History Month? You got them! This set has SIX crafts or craftivities of African American inventors and their inventions: George Carver, George Crum, Lewis Latimer, Garrett Morgan, Philip Downing, and Alfred Cralle. These crafts will make a fantastic bulletin board for Black History Month or can be used for your school hallway decoration! Next time your students crunch on a potato chip, get a scoop of ice cream, eat a peanut butter sandwich, look at a tr
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PreK - 1st
Reconstruction Evaluation Interactive Project Activity
This interactive Reconstruction Era activity for US History has your class assuming the roles of various people during the Age of Reconstruction and evaluating how they would feel about Reconstruction.Students are assigned one of six characters (a women freed from enslavement, former plantation owner, teacher with the Freedmen's Bureau, etc) and must read the short biography to think critically about each aspect of Reconstruction. They then decide which parts of Reconstruction would be positive
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7th - 11th
1st Grade Social Studies Interactive Notebook Curriculum Worksheets 2nd Grade
Your students will love learning primary social studies content with this interactive notebook. This interactive notebook provides a fun and easy way to revisit and review new social studies learning. This resource includes 50 interactive projects, book recommendations, large pictures of each project with teacher directions, and a hyperlinked table of contents. Projects Included:Historical figuresGeorge WashingtonAbraham LincolnMartin Luther King, Jr.Christopher ColumbusRosa ParksRuby Bridgesbla
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K - 2nd
Genius Hour Passion Project: Research Skills for Inquiry Project Based Learning
Your students will love this Genius Hour Passion Project! They'll develop strong inquiry research skills while engaging in project-based learning (PBL). You'll SAVE TIME with this EDITABLE NO-PREP research unit that includes a bulletin board kit, rubrics for assessment, and much more. Genius Hour is a classroom favourite because it allows students to choose a topic of interest and create a presentation. ABOUT OUR GENIUS HOUR PASSION PROJECT RESOURCE✪ PDF files for easy printing and computer com
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4th - 8th
United States Geography - US Regions & State Research Project Unit
Looking for a way to make U.S. geography come alive for students? Plan a trip through the regions of the United States with this hands-on project! Students use real-world skills as they select two states in each U.S. region to visit, then research each state to decide what sites they want to see. Students then determine how they could most easily visit all of their locations in one trip and map their route. What’s IncludedPDF and Google Slide versionsExtension research page for use to different
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4th - 6th
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State Report | A State Research Project for ANY U.S. State! | 50 States
Your students will love researching and learning about ANY state with this lap book project! Everything you need to easily set up and implement a fun, hands on state research project in your classroom is included.
This packet includes separate map pages of ALL 50 states, so that you can either assign all students to research the same state (usually the one you reside in) or assign students to each create a lap book for a different state. The finished projects make a wonderful display!
If yo
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3rd - 6th
World War 2 Battles Radio Show Project: Pearl Harbor, D-Day, & More
This World War II Battles Radio Show Project is a cooperative learning project that has students read about 7 key battles of World War 2 and create engaging radio news segments just like Americans would have heard in the 1940's!Everything you need to complete this fun, creative lesson about the key battles of World War 2 is included! You will receive:A directions page that explains how the war unfolded for Americans via the radio and what students need to do to create a radio news segment.Seven
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7th - 11th
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FAIRY TALE STEM Activity Challenges BUNDLE Family STEM Night and Homeschool STEM
These fairy tale STEM activities bring a classic story alive in a hands-on way, exploring force and motion, sound, measurement, kinetic and potential energy, and more using the engineering design process to creatively problem solve. ⭐ Students will join characters like Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk on 12 engineering adventures, with 48 STEM activities included. They will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills to help the characters solve an engineering dilemma! ⭐Stu
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
United States Geography Collaborative Collaboration Coloring Poster Art
This United States Collaborative Poster is a fun collaborative way to get your kids working together and learning during your geography, American history, regions of the U.S. or other social studies unit!Show off your learning of the United States with this beautiful U.S. map collaborative poster. Collaborative poster activities are so much fun because they combine group work, with creativity, color and so much fun! Perfect to display throughout the year, this collaborative project includes one
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3rd - 8th
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Social Studies Skills Bundle - Maps, Timelines, Graphs, Latitude & Longitude
Teach map types, data tables, graphs, timelines, and latitude/longitude the fun way! Our 5th and 6th grade students need a good handle on basic social studies skills!Contents of each resource: Map Types - Identifying & Interpreting Types of MapsQuick Reference – This single-page reference sheet briefly describes each of the five map types and provides a visual example of each map.Political Maps•All About Political Maps•Political Map PracticePhysical Maps•All About Physical Maps•Physical Map
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5th - 6th
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The US Constitution Lap Book - United States Constitution Day Activity
Are you looking for a hands-on approach to teaching the United States Constitution to 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students? This lapbook is an interactive way to study the US Constitution on Constitution Day, during Celebrate Freedom Week, or anytime during the school year. After completing this Constitution Day activity, your students will have a reference guide they can refer to throughout the year.Designed for Elementary StudentsThis lapbook activity was designed for elementary students. The purpo
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3rd - 5th
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4th of July Craft American Flag Windsock Presidents Day Memorial Day Activities
Memorial Day Craft : American Flag Lantern Craft► Very easy► 7 PagesColorful : 3 pagesBlack and White : 4 pages► Available in PDF format► Letter size 8.5 x 11 inches** Personal use only NO COMMERCIAL USE ALLOWED!**
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PreK - 2nd
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Road to the Revolution Illustrated Timeline Project
Students complete a planning sheet using notes/textbook resources with information on 12 events leading up the the American Revolution. They then create a 2-sided illustrated timeline to show all 12 events in order. This product includes: 1-Page instructions and grading rubric (original and updated versions!)1-Page Student Note-Taking Guide (original and updated versions!)1 Instructional PowerPoint showing students how to create their project and providing project examples. *This product does
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4th - 10th
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Biography Banners / Pennants - Black History Month
Celebrate the lives + accomplishments of African-American heroes + historical figures with these research pennants!This is the perfect project for February (Black History Month)-- or any time you want your students to study inspirational figures while developing their research + informational writing skills.Encourage student choice + creativity. How? invite kids to customize their pennants by letting them choose which writing prompts they will respond to. This level of student choice will set e
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Biography Banners + Pennants Bundle
California Social Studies Grade 4
NEW: All packs are now fully editable on Google Docs.I am in the process of adding digital activities for Google Slides to make it easier to use it for digital learning. It takes a while to do each pack, so I will add them as I finish! So far I have added:California RegionsMexican-American War and Gold RushMissions activityRanchos activitySocial Studies Teacher for the Day- a fun way to end the year by having your children teach their classmatesNative Americans in California Part 1Native Ame
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4th
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Also included in: California Social Studies Grades 4 and 5 Bundle
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