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OBT-Beyond Boundaries: A Human Geographer's Journey
In this lesson, students will take on the role of a Human Geographer. To work through a culminating project-based adventure. Envision a 12-stop global journey where creativity and critical thinking t…
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Historic Peace Posters Displayed in iMovie or Clips - A Challenge Based Learning Big Idea
For Social Studies educators, focusing on current news is one way we connect students to learning and the standards.I’m a fan of Challenge Based Learning (CBL) because it is an impactful framework to…
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Pride in Primary
Positivity - Respect - Integrity - Determination - Equality ...that's a recipe to create a class community where everyone belongs and feels safe. Pride in Primary is a teacher guide that links days l…
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Keynote Quilting for Black History Month
This year’s Black History Month Theme is Resistance. The Library of Congress has a Free to Use and Reuse Primary Source collection titled: Images of African American Women Changemakers.Here is a blog…
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Explore Our Town
While coaching a first grade teacher, we came up with a plan to have students practice cardinal directions utilizing Create Path animation in Keynote. I created a simple map in Keynote and added phot…
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Instagram Journal Template
The following resource is a journal entry template that was revamped into a fake Instagram page using a Canva template. The first page is an Instagram Profile page and the following three pages are I…
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November Monthly Art Challenge
Welcome to the November edition of our monthly series of art challenges, an ongoing journey through diverse cultures and artistic expressions. Each monthly installment in our series introduces young …
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Code Tom the Turkey to Macy's
Students have been discussing the story “Balloons over Broadway” and learning information about the Macy’s Day Parade they are also learning the basics of coding. Thus coding Tom the Turkey to Macy’s…
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Community Maps- Pages
Teaching maps in K-2?? I created this resource in pages for students to create their own map to demonstrate their knowledge of map keys, locations, and directions. The students have the ability to ad…
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Political Cartoon KWL Activate Activity
I created a Numbers doc for students to break down objects and symbolism in a political cartoon. The K and W section can be done as an activate activity before a lesson. After the lesson, students ca…
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Native American Indian Heritage Month STEM Challenge
This resource utilizes the Numbers App to guide students through the design thinking process as they work collaboratively to design a colonial-era northeastern Native American shelter using natural r…
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If I Were President...
Why are kids’ silhouettes so cute? This adorable Keynote activity combines the cute silhouette with adorable words from our students. It’s a perfect Presidents' Day project! When our second graders c…
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U.S. Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023 - CBL & Apple Maps.
This year Monday, October 9, marks Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States. I don’t like to let commemoration, recognition or celebration holidays pass without thinking about how to make these …
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Tourism Text Art
I use this activity with my Geography classes — ranging from ages 12-16 years old. Tourism is a central theme to Geography, and a great example of economic and social interaction with our natural lan…
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Wall of Fame or Wall of Shame Persuasive Project (Early European Explorers)
Students should research the history and events involving early European exploration of the New World. Once the research or teaching unit is complete, the students can choose one of the explorers the…
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Elevate Learning with an Interactive Workbook on Animals in War and "Heroes"
Hello fellow teachers! :) I'm excited to share a powerful teaching resource that's been one of my favorite recent projects! I believe it could bring a fresh spark to your teaching approach too. It'…
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Backpacking Through Europe Activity
As a culminating activity for our unit on the continent of Europe, middle school social studies students completed a project where they virtually backpacked through Europe. They created a digital pas…
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Visual Literacy - Looking Closer with Clips
One technique history learners use when analyzing primary sources is to reveal sections of an image before viewing the whole.Clips can augment that technique by focusing the learner on specifics in a…
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Civic Literacy and Video Creation!
For a wonderful integration of student created video and government or civics class content consider the annual C-SPAN StudentCam documentary contest “C-SPAN's annual national video documentary compe…
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Educators, we have a story to tell…one for the “history books”
The Library of Congress American Folk Life Centerand StoryCorpshave a call out to participate inthe Covid 19 American History project.One aspect of that project encourages the public (13 yrs +) to sh…
