Description
U.S.A. Unit Culminating Activities
Presidents Unit Culminating Activities
Contents::
- Teacher Info Pages: This includes a sample unit outline, grading rubric, and lesson plans for internet research, intro lesson, research journals, and final projects.
- Book research/ text features worksheets: Students will review other text features including: glossary, titles, headings, photos, captions, graphs/charts, and special print. They will also compare and contrast the table of contents and index.
- Internet research worksheets: These worksheets will familiarize your students with how to find credible sources on the internet for research.
- State Cards/President Cards Cards with the name and clip art of each state and president. You can use these to assign students a state and president to research.
- Research Journals: The research journals will guide the students throughout their research. There is one question on each page for the students to find the answer to. 19 pre-written pages are included, plus 2 blank ones to add your own questions. Full page and half page versions are BOTH included in this resource. Choose which version is best for your students.
- Salt Dough Map & State Report Instructions Lesson plan for the student’s final project
- Paper Plate Mask & President Report Instructions
- Salt Dough State Map Example A photo example of the final project
- President Mask Example: An example of the final project
- Parent Letter & State Fair Invitation: Keep the parents in the loop! Let them know what is going on with the states unit, and invite them to the state fair, if you decide to do one.
- Parent Letter & President Fair Invitation: Similar to the US unit!
- Final Report Pages and info: A final report page is included as well as examples and lessons to have students create a salt dough model of their state, and a paper plate mask of their president.
- **BONUS! ALL PAGES in the document are included in both vivid color AND Ink Friendly Black & White for your convenience**
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Theresa S. –
I was looking for something fun and appealing to my 5th graders. Can’t wait to try this!
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thanks, Theresa! 🙂
Melinda Pitzer –
thnaks
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thanks, Melinda!
Christine C. –
Thanks!
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
Donna P. –
Perfect Fit! Thanks!
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you for the feedback, Donna! 🙂
Jessica A. –
Can’t wait to use this during our research unit!
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you for the feedback, Jessica! 🙂
South A. –
This is going to be a great unit to work on!!! Thank you for making this awesome unit!! My kids will love the choices it gives.
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you for the feedback, Sandy! 🙂
August M. –
I thought the packet was a little easy for 4th graders. But it did help them research the states.
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Every class is different! I’m glad you found it helpful.
laramie S. –
Great lessons
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you, Laramie! 🙂
Back to Basics Bargain Central –
A perfect report project for my 5th graders.
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thank you for the feedback, Kirsten! 🙂
sharon T. –
Love it
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Corinne C. –
Great resource!
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melissa D. –
Thank you!!!!
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Emily Weisman –
I love how much comes in this unit! Love how it allows students to really research and learn about the president they will learn about
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Melissa R. –
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for! Thank you so much! I can’t wait for my students to do this!
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Jennifer Y. –
This resource was great as we were working on our informational writing unit!
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Rose Warrell –
Looks great! I can’t wait to start using it this fall with my 5th Graders!
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused unit. This unit has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. Having these in Google Slides format is perfect so my students can research and create on their computer both in school and at home without losing their work.
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused packet on researching a US State. This packet has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. I really like some of the final presentation ideas presented in this packet from the Salt Dough project to the State Fair.
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused packet on US Presidents. This packet has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. I really like the choice cards to help divide up the topics easily.
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karla G. –
My students loved this resource. It was very engaging and they learned a lot.
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anne.anastasia –
This is perfect for my ELA class on “technical writing”, which will have students doing crosscurricular research and research projects. Thank you so much for saving me a ton of time!!!
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anne.anastasia –
I love that the bundle of these units has BOTH digital and printable resources! Thank you for including both B/W and color copies!
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Prepped and Polished Teaching –
My kids are excited to get started with this!
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Rebecca L. –
Love this – especially during the election year.
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Victoria B. –
This is perfect–we are teaching virtual and traditional students so to have a unit already prepared for both is so time saving!
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Mary Vance –
After break we are working on government and I am also going to assign resource since we are working on informational research.
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Lisa B. –
Thank you for sharing this resource!! This activity provides my 5th grade students with hands-on practice, via virtually, in order to master the concepts. Thanks again!!
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Thanks Lisa! These are such fun activities and so grateful they are working well for your distance learners!
Breanna P. –
This was so fun!
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Jessica T. –
Great for independent projects for distance learners.
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Jessica, So wonderful to hear that this is a good resource for your distance learners!
Rachel Renner –
Easy to use for Distance learning! Love it!
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Sharon S. –
This was a nice resource to have during distance learning. Thank you!
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Jody M. –
Will be great resource when we start talking about the presidents.
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Elizabeth E. –
This is a great resource! Thanks!
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Michele Rogers –
Nice!
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Julie B. –
My kids loved using this resource!
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Marina S. –
I bought this to help my students to understand the election process. I didn’t get the chance to use it, since we are distance learning, I didn’t have enough time. But, I do plan on using it in the future. Goes perfect with our government unit.
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Sharon L. –
Used product for research purposes!
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Aubrey H. –
We are completing our president research projects and are utilizing these resources for our project. The students love it and it’s a great way for them to organize their thoughts and information. I only released a few slides to the class instead of the entire project.
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Educate & Rejuvenate –
Aubrey, So grateful this has worked so well for your class! We love the flexibility with google slides that you can pick and choose what works best for your class.
Elizabeth A. –
A very engaging history unit, thank you!
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Alexandra C. –
Such a great resource to use this time of year!
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Real World Tech Connections –
Perfect for getting my students engaged with the 2020 election! Thank you!
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Julie C. –
This is such a good resource for our unit on Christmas Around the World. Thank you.
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The Pencil Boxx –
Great resource.
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Teaching with Mel D –
Love using your resources with my 3rd grade elearners!
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parveen K. –
Excellent Resource! My students enjoyed working on it.
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Tracey Lake –
I used this a little for small groups, but I will use it even more in the spring for my nonfiction unit.
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Natalie Z. –
Awesome resource to use for virtual learning!
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Lilies and Laughter –
This worked well for my students in Distance Learning. Thanks!
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Samantha Simpson –
Super engaging and fun to use in distance learning.
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amber S. –
My students loved using this resource
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Suzanne A. –
The students had fun completing this project.
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Erin Strinni –
Thank you!
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Mary Ellen F. –
Good for distance learning.
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ELwithShadel –
This is awesome! I can’t wait to use this in the upcoming weeks again!
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Keyla Unger –
I was able to use this digitally during independent project, and my students were very successful.
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Jill L. –
This really simplified the research process for my students. It has been their favorite writing unit so far this year.
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Amy B. –
We do a President Report every year. This year it looked different but thanks to this resource, we were able to make the distance learning President speeches work.
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Steffi Tobar –
Good resource.
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Brittany Contreras –
I love this resource! It well organized and has a simple layout (not “busy”). Thank you!
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Emily G. –
Great digital research project
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Coree D. –
Very helpful resource, thank you!
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Bridget Morrow –
My students loved this resource! It was user friendly and met a lot of our standards that we have been working on…thank you
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Eric L. –
Fun project for students to research a president and share with the class. Easy to use and follow! Thank you!
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Tiffany H. –
My students loved researching and learning about some of the lesser known presidents.
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Kalli Sexton –
My fifth graders loved this!!
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Gisella S. –
Good Learning for the Kids, fun and easy
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Cynthia A. –
Great resource!
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Bahrt’s Bunch –
Great resource.
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Amber C. –
Great Resource!
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Christan W. –
This was a fabulous resource to use during distance learning.
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Marking & Mastery –
This is such a helpful and great resource. Thank you for the time and effort put into it.
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Stephanie B. –
Easy to follow.
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Mary C. –
Used to support SpEd students in the gen ed setting
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Anastasia V. –
Great product!
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Danna Hope –
I loved using this with my class, it was easy to use with them.
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Margaret S. –
I haven’t used it yet but am looking forward to it in the new year.
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Fancy in the Fourth Grade –
Great resource!
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tina B. –
Well done and useful
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iSTEAMin4th –
I am usually just a Math teacher, so when my school was no longer departmentalized due to COVID, I was freaking out. However this file really helped me engage my students. Thank you.
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Jennifer K. –
Very well organized resource. Thanks!
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Micca B. –
My students wanted to learn about presidents and this was the perfect resource to help them with their research and reports!
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Latavia B. –
Thank you so much for creating such an amazing resource!
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Andrea N. –
Great research project! My students really enjoyed this! Thanks 🙂
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Jess Marquardt – Joy Maintained –
My students found this to be an engaging way to practice!
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Sloane S. –
My students loved using this product and so did I!
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