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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, ...

My class just finished their state projects, called State Strips. You can find the information on this great research project on two posts I...

I recently posted about our current project in social studies (as of September 10th) in a post titled 5th Grade State Research Project: Stat...

Like most teachers, I must adapt from year to year to the needs of my students. Although my 9 week plan for the year in Social Studies  stat...

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 ...

It's shocking how little kids these days know about geography. From hearing a 5th grader say that China is a state, to having another st...