U.S. History Centers

Make rote memorization more engaging:

Students enjoy this engaging activity to practice naming the charter of the 13 colonies. Students are asked to name the charter (proprietary, company, or royal) of each colony. This information helps students understand why colonies developed in the way that they did.

Students have fun revealing the picture created using correct answers.

Self-checking as image is revealed by correct answers.

What's included:

• Google sheet of picture reveal.

How this product is useful:

• Engaging practice of naming the charters of the 13 colonies.
• Good for practice or remediation.
• Self-checking.
• Can be assigned in Google Classroom or through Google Drive.

❤️Celebrate Black History Month and save time with these informative African American leaders biography sheets!

❤️Use them to discuss important heroes in Black History and their accomplishments!

✅5 Historical Figures Included:

Bessie Coleman, Billie Holiday, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall

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✏️ This is a free SAMPLE set that includes 5 historical figures. If you would like the full set or need additional black history resources, you can find them HERE.

✏️ Biographies can be used as discussion points during whole group lessons, small group lessons, read with partners, in centers, or independently!

✏️Use for research projects, biography reports, black history writing assignments, classroom posters and more!

✏️A perfect addition to your Black History Month unit or to celebrate throughout the year!

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⭐️These bookmarks are low prep and include a full color set and printer friendly black & white set.

⭐️Check out the thumbnails for a preview of each biography!

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✅Includes (10 pages):

☑ 5 black and white biography sheets (5 pages)

☑ 5 color biography sheets (5 pages)

✅Biographies:

☑ Birth date

☑ Birth place

☑ Early life

☑ Accomplishments

✅Historical Figures (5):

☑ Bessie Coleman

☑ Billie Holiday

☑ Frederick Douglass

☑ Martin Luther King Jr.

☑ Thurgood Marshall

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This set of sort and match task cards includes 12 U.S. symbols and landmarks. It includes four cards for each United states symbol including one name card, one picture card, and two fact cards. These would be great to review facts, use in matching games such as concentration, or with many of your cooperative learning structures such as mix and group or four corners. A great way to review United States landmarks and symbols for U.S. History and Geography while adding a little fun and student engagement.

The United States symbols and landmarks included are the American Flag, the Bald Eagle, The Great Seal, The United States Capitol, The Liberty Bell, The Statue of Liberty, The Washington Monument, The Jefferson Memorial, The Lincoln Memorial, The Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Rushmore, and The Gateway Arch.

Celebrate and honor the brave men and women who served in the armed forces with this engaging Veterans Day Word Search Puzzle! Perfect for 2nd to 5th grade, this activity will spark discussions about patriotism, sacrifice, and gratitude while sharpening students' vocabulary and spelling skills.

It’s a fantastic no-prep activity for classrooms, homeschooling, or enrichment centers to complement Veterans Day lessons or celebrations.

• Morning work or bell ringer activity
• Veterans Day celebrations
• Early finisher activity
• Homework assignment
• Group work or individual activity

What's Included:

• A Veterans Day Word Search Puzzle with 20+ themed words.
• A word list featuring both short (3-4 letter) and longer words to cater to different reading levels.
• An answer key for quick and easy checking.

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35 Fourth of July fun and engaging activities for elementary students! Includes: Writings:"What Freedom Means to Me" and "My Favorite Fourth of July Memory" and more... "My Patriotic Poem" Coloring Handouts: July Fourth messages with themed images Crossword puzzle with answers Word search with answers Uncle Sam's Dialogue activity Fourth of July Find It Games Vocabulary Word Games Craft activities for July 4 messages Fun, educational activities for celebrating July 4th!

Use this Today in History packet to learn about when Alaska became a state. This activity pack includes penmanship practice (both print and cursive), reading passages with comprehension questions (2 sets with varying difficulty), writing activities, and a time line card to create your own timeline of Today in History events.

What is included:

Page 2 – Today in History Poster

Page 3 – Penmanship page in print with primary lines.

Page 4 – Penmanship page in print with notebook lines

Page 5 – Penmanship page in cursive with primary lines

Page 6 – Penmanship page in cursive with notebook lines.

Page 7 – Reading Page (Harder)

Page 8 – Comprehension Questions

Page 9 – Reading Page (Easier)

Page 10 – Comprehension Questions

Page 11 – What I Learned Writing Page

Page 12 – Creative Writing Page

Page 13 – Time line card (With Picture Included)

Page 14 – Time line card (Student Draws the Picture)

Page 15 – Other Interesting Events

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Celebrate Veterans Day while reinforcing essential math skills with these engaging addition and subtraction task cards!

These 20 task cards are designed to help students practice addition and subtraction within 20 while learning about the importance of Veterans Day. Perfect for your classroom math centers, holiday-themed lessons, or as an interactive activity to honor our veterans!

Task Cards Include:

• Addition: Examples like "There are 8 soldiers standing in a row. 7 more soldiers join them. How many soldiers are standing in the row now?"
• Subtraction: Examples like "A veteran has 20 medals. He gives 4 of them to a fellow soldier. How many medals does he have left?"
• Fun Veterans Day Themes: Cards feature veterans, military vehicles, flags, ribbons, parades, and more!

This coordinate system graphic art mystery picture would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity and engaging worksheets for Grade 4-12 for St. Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, or any time of the year. Prep free! Differentiated! Independent!

The picture has two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom.

- One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole numbers only only

- One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers

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Use this Close Reading for students to learn about the National Road(also called the Cumberland Road or the National Pike Road). There are several comprehension questions and fun facts. Additionally, there are lots of extension activities especially writing in the content area.

The Close reading and review would be one period. If you do some of the extension activities, the resource could take a couple of days.

Additional Resources on this topic:

1. Use this reading passage(and extension activities) to learn about the Santa Fe Trail and specifically Wind Wagon Thomas. As people were beginning to travel west by covered wagon along the plains of the Santa Fe Trail, William Thomas, had a most unusual idea. The average trip along the Santa Fe Trail took about eight weeks! He envisioned prairie schooners with sails that could move across the plains on wind-power much faster than wagons hitched to horses. https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Santa-Fe-Trail-Wind-Wagon-ThomasReading-Passage-5934650

2. If you are studying Westward Expansion and pioneers, specifically the Oregon Trail, this informative Reader's Theater Script will be a positive addition to your lessons. Based on a true person, the play is about one of first woman to go on the Oregon Trail. Narcissa Whitman kept a journal of her trip. She and her husband(and Henry and Eliza Spalding) left upstate New York for Independence, Missouri(most popular starting point) for their journey along the Oregon Trail to Oregon, where Marcus and Narcissa would become missionaries. The play, packed with lots of information, is one of my Ms. Bie Ografee playsseries, includes a Did You Know? fun fact section, comprehension questions and a teacher page with extension activities.https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/Oregon-Trail-A-Visit-with-a-PioneerNarcissa-Whitman-Readers-Theater-Script-6034419?st=c229610a8da62f93976e3ae1695006df

Find out all about changes in post war America in the 1940s from the changing roles of women to the changing roles of African Americans,, including the Tuskegee Airmen and George Washington Carver's scientific discoveries.

16 game cards, 1 game board, worksheet, instructions, background

This is a scavenger hunt using task cards that analyzes the creation of the Constitution, challenges in ratifying it between the colonies, the struggles of the Articles of Confederation and key players in this whole process which is studied in the 7th grade curriculum under the following standards:

• 7.4 The newly independent states faced political and economic struggles under the Articles of Confederation. These challenges resulted in a Constitutional Convention, a debate over ratification, and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.
• 7.4a Throughout the American Revolution, the colonies struggled to address their differing social, political, and economic interests and to establish unity. The Articles of Confederation created a form of government that loosely united the states, but allowed states to maintain a large degree of sovereignty.
• 7.4b The lack of a strong central government under the Articles of Confederation presented numerous challenges. A convention was held to revise the Articles, the result of which was the Constitution. The Constitution established a democratic republic with a stronger central government.
• 7.4c Advocates for and against a strong central government were divided on issues of States rights, role/limits of federal power, and guarantees of individual freedoms. Compromises were needed between the states in order to ratify the Constitution.

This resource begins by challenging students with a mission, complete the tasks to solve the mystery word and four digit code to help the founding fathers ratify the Constitution; failure will result in the colonies remaining under the weak Articles of Confederation. Check out the preview to see what each task card entails. Students will need to walk around the room reading the task cards. Each task card has a code word on the bottom which is the answer to the question/fill in the blank. The answer will NOT be found on that same task card. For example, the answer to task card #1 is found by reading the passage on task card #8. Students MUST record which task card they found the answer on in their answer sheet under the “FOUND CARDS #” column. That column will be used at the end for the 4 digit lock code. They will follow the clues to find the correct 4 digit code. Once they have completed the scavenger hunt they will receive a half sheet of paper stating that they have helped the founding fathers ratify the Constitution!

This activity would be a great review before assessments, as a center activity, a group activity, etc. Students will be engaged with the learning while having a fun time trying to solve all of the clues!

A word search puzzle worksheet that can be used to supplement your unit on First Americans. This can be used for morning work or when introducing your unit to students. 

There are 28 vocabulary words to find in this activity. This will keep your students buy for a quite awhile.

Fourth of July Craft: Celebrate Independence Day with these fun 4th of July Crown and Headband Templates. This engaging craft pack includes 8 fun designs and 20 different templates, perfect for students of all ages. Perfect for classroom parties, parades, and family gatherings, these templates offer a fun and educational way to celebrate the 4th of July. Young learners in kindergarten can enjoy the easy to cut circle templates, while older students can express their creativity with writing prompt templates such as On the 4th of July, I like to... and My favorite thing about the 4th of July is.... Your students will love coloring in the templates, cutting them out, and assembling them into festive crowns they can wear with pride. These crowns and headbands make a fantastic classroom or home activity to get everyone in the patriotic spirit, while also enhancing fine motor skills and encouraging creative expression. Get ready to bring some red, white, and blue joy to your classroom with these exciting and easy to use crown and headband templates.

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Thanksgiving then and now. Learn about Thanksgiving traditions with this word search puzzle that features 50 key vocabulary words.

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America carrots celebrate contests corn cornucopia cranberry sauce decoration dessert dessert dinner England family feast food football freedom friends fruit grapes gravy green beans hiking ice cream march mashed potatoes Massachusetts Mayflower ninety November nuts parade Patuxet pie Pilgrims Plymouth Pokanoket pumpkin shopping Squanto stuffing table thankful Thanksgiving travel tribe turkey visit walks winter

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12 Native American Indigenous People theme coloring pages, with Native American dream catchers, teepees, and other items to color for learning and appreciation of Native American culture.

These coloring pages could be used as a coloring activity in the classroom, book club, as a homeschool activity for social studies, or as a family activity, colored and given out as gifts for Indigenous People Day or some other occasion.

Files include: 12 PDF pages US-letter size 8.5" by 11"

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This Thanksgiving word search puzzle is a festive, engaging activity to celebrate the holiday season in the classroom. As students search and find the words, it encourages them to reflect on themes of gratitude, history, and togetherness while reinforcing vocabulary skills. Perfect for an individual or group activity, this word search includes Thanksgiving-related words that inspire conversations about tradition and family.

Word List:

• Blessed
• Bread
• Celebration
• Corn
• Dinner
• Family
• Feast
• Friends
• Home
• Journey
• Mayflower
• Pie
• Pilgrim
• Plentiful
• Plymouth
• Rock
• Pumpkin
• Sharing
• Turkey
• Thanksgiving

Please let me know if you like this activity, and if there are other themes you'd like to see me create in the future!

As time passes, many great Americans who have shaped the arts, sciences, sports, and history of our nation and culture get lost in time. The Great Americans Series of Biographies and Worksheets is an easy-to-read 200-word Biography of just the highlights of each subject's life designed to keep young readers engaged. The Questions page ensures student reading comprehension and grasp of key points. The Vocabulary page introduces and explains new words, phrases, and/or institutions students may not have been familiar with. The Quotes page challenges students to write what a famous quote by the subject means to them. The Great Americans Series is available individually or in bundles, making great bell work. An Answer Key is provided with each worksheet.

Make rote memorization more engaging:

Students enjoy this engaging activity to practice telling the region of the colony when given the colonies' name. Colonies are listed alphabetically, students enter either New England, Middle, or Southern as the region to which the colony belongs.

Students have fun revealing the picture created using correct answers. The extra challenge is that correct spelling is necessary for the image to be revealed.

Self-checking as image is revealed by correct answers.

Activity aligns with Indiana Social Studies Standard 5.H.7.

What's included:

• Google sheet of picture reveal.

How this product is useful:

• Engaging practice of naming the 13 colonies.
• Good for practice or remediation.
• Self-checking.
• Can be assigned in Google Classroom or through Google Drive.

❤️Looking for an engaging movement-based way to celebrate Harriet Tubman or Black History Month? These differentiated writing activities are perfect way to help your students celebrate the life of Harriet Tubman, while practicing literacy, and fine motor skills!

✏️Use the differentiated recording sheets to practice vocabulary, spelling, tracing, writing, and drawing!

✏️Great for literacy centers, whole group, small group, partner work, enrichment activities, word walls or extra practice at home!

⭐️Check out the preview and preview video for a sneak peek!

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⭐️Ways to Use:

• Students will have fun walking around the room to find the Harriet Tubman themed cards. Then, they match it by picture or number (depending on which game style you have chosen for your students) to the corresponding word on the response sheet. They will then trace, write, or draw that word on their recording sheet.

• Cards can also be placed in a container for individualized instruction, or added to your literacy center! Simply print and laminate for lasting durability.

• The vocabulary flashcards can also be used to create a word wall, play matching, “go fish”, or memory games, as writing prompts etc.

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✅ 2 sets included: (22 pages)

✅Match by picture (11 pages)

☑ Teacher answer key (1 page)

☑ Trace the words (1 page)

☑ Write the words - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ Write the words - solid lines (1 page)

☑ Draw pictures (1 page)

☑ Draw and write the words (1 page)

☑ Draw and write sentences (1 page)

☑ Draw and write a story (1 page)

☑ Picture only flashcards (3 pages / 12 cards)

✅Match by number (11 pages)

☑ Teacher answer key (1 page)

☑ Trace the words (1 page)

☑ Write the words - dotted lines (1 page)

☑ Write the words - solid lines (1 page)

☑ Draw pictures (1 page)

☑ Draw and write the words (1 page)

☑ Draw and write sentences (1 page)

☑ Draw and write a story (1 page)

☑ Picture with number flashcards (3 pages / 12 cards)

✅ Bonus: (26 pages)

☑ "How to Use" (3 pages)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

☑ Black and white set (22 pages)

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✅ Vocabulary included (12):

☑ abolition

☑ Civil Rights

☑ equality

☑ faith

☑ Maryland

☑ New York

☑ North Star

☑ nurse

☑ slavery

☑ speech

☑ suffrage

☑ unity

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Celebrate Veterans Day with this versatile writing and coloring activity! This product includes 10 thoughtful writing prompts (2 per page) that encourage students to express their gratitude for veterans. Perfect for classroom use as thank you cards or bulletin board decorations, this set is a meaningful way to foster appreciation for those who served.

What's Included:

• 18 Full-Color Designs: Featuring soldiers, hats, flags, and other America-themed illustrations, each with “Thank You For Your Service” written in bubble letters for students to color or leave as-is.
• 18 Black-and-White Designs: for students to color, making each card or bulletin board piece personal and unique.
• Writing Prompts: 10 unique prompts (2 per page) designed to inspire meaningful messages.
• Multipurpose Use: Cards can be used as individual thank you cards or arranged into a Veterans Day bulletin board display.

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