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- Internet Field Trips
- Essential Children's Literature Sites
Explore children's literature on the Web.
- Fiction Illuminating the Past
3-5, 6-8
Find great suggestions for teaching with historical fiction.
- Internet Discussion Groups
Find out how and where to join online discussions devoted to children's literature.
- Looking for Thanksgiving Sites?
3-5, 6-8
Learn why Thanksgiving is much more than just Pilgrims and pumpkin pie.
- Lesson Plans
- Grandfather's Journey
K-2
Explore various methods of transportation with these activities based on Allen Say's book.
- The Glorious Flight
K-2
Explore the history of flight with activities related to this Caldecott-winning book.
- Columbus's Mistake
3-5, 6-8
In this short, four-act play, students learn about the discovery of the New World.
- Great New Picture Books to Teach Social Studies, 4-6
3-5, 6-8
Discover great books that will delight students and introduce skills, concepts, and historical eras.
- Great New Picture Books to Teach Social Studies, Grades K-3
K-2, 3-5
Discover great books that will delight students and introduce skills, concepts, and historical eras.
- Presidential Best Friends
3-5
Check your comprehension of a story by answering key questions from the book, First Pets: Presidential Best Friends.
- Steps to Freedom
K-2
Show you know the sequence of events by numbering sentences in the right order. Based on Almost Freedom.
- That's Cheeky
3-5
Students can check their understanding of special English words from history by matching each word with its meaning. based on The Ravenmaster's Secret by Elvira Wooddruff.
- Unit Plan: Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
6-8
Make connections between a text read independently and prior knowledge, other texts, and the world.
- Unit Plan: Point of View
3-5
Find out what it's like to "step into someone else's shoes" and see how people's perception of the world affects how they act and feel.
- Unit Plan: The Prince and the Pauper
6-8
Show how fiction and nonfiction fit together by introducing the genre of historical fiction.
- Why and How I Teach With Historical Fiction
K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Read how one teacher uses historical fiction in the classroom to illuminate time periods and enrich social studies.
- Writers' Workshop: Fiction
3-5, 6-8
Fiction-writing lessons from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.
- Online Activities Teacher Guides
- Our America Teacher's Guide
Make these seven periods in American History come alive for your students!
- Reproducibles
- Mary Chestnut and Her Diary
3-5, 6-8
In this short play, children learn about the causes of the Civil War. (PDF)
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