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As I always do when finishing a new unit, I will post the content here as a post within the main pages of my blog. Unit 5: The American Civi...

As I discussed in my plans for Social Studies Unit 3: The American Revolutionary Period , the entire unit revolves around a video that stude...

Unit 2 in our 5th grade social studies (which covers basically all of American history, as you can see in the 9 week plans HERE ) is titled...

5th grade Social Studies unit 2 is about the early American colonists and pilgrims. This unit focuses on the journey, hardships, and early s...

Recently, our students in 5th grade completed their first oral project presentation of the year, presenting their individual state posters, ...

If you teach in Las Cruces, hopefully you're aware of a fantastic historical opportunity right in our own backyard. I'm talking abou...

My most recent update to my units is Social Studies Unit 6: World Wars . This unit includes World War I, the Great Depression, and World War...

In my subject specific static pages within this blog, I have posted resources and plans for teaching a unit on Westward Expansion (the fro...

In my subject pages , I have completed a page with resources for the unit I teach on The American Revolution. This unit includes informat...

I am currently going through my subject specific pages, trying to add material for units that will be taught this upcoming year. Tonight I...

With this post, I think I pretty much let the cat out of the bag on the fact that I live in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I've lived here sinc...

Every year, we do a unit on the Westward Expansion of the United States in the mid 1800s. There are two technology based activities that go ...

I believe that by 5th grade, students are old enough to understand the gravity of the events of September 11, 2001, and discuss it with all ...

Each year, my students are asked to create a small video based on one of the major events of the American Revolution. I have included a quic...

Teaching involving the concept of time can be a tricky thing. Many kids don't understand the concept of time. We will start out by takin...