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The Revolutionary War Battles Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Battles of the American Revolution, Lexington and Concord, Fort Ticonderoga, Battle of Bunker Hill, Long Island, Trenton, Germantown, Saratoga, Cowpens, Guilford Courthou

The Landmark Supreme Court Cases Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Brown v. Board, Plessy v Ferguson, Miranda v Arizona, Bush v Gore, US v Nixon, Gideon v Wainwright, Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier, Tinker v Des Moines, DC v Heller, In re Gaul

The Back to School Growth Mindset Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. This activity will help instill a positive Growth Mindset while learning about people who changed the world through persistence. Topics include: Growth Mindset, Albert Einstein, S

The Revolutionary War Causes Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Causes of the American Revolution, Quartering Act, Sons of Liberty, Townshend Acts, Taxation without Representation, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolera

The Civil War Battles Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Battles of the Civil War, Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Ironclads, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Spotsylvania.The task card scavenger hun

This Industrial Revolution Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your inventors unit. Topics include: Industrial Revolution, Europe, United States, advancements in transportation,

This Alexander the Great Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Ancient Greece unit. Topics include: Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, conquered lands, King Porus, Aristotl

The Inventors and Inventions Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Johannes Gutenberg, Eli Whitney and the Wrigh

This Battle of the Alamo Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Texas History unit. Topics include: Texas, Davy Crockett, Battle of the Alamo, Sam Houston, Santa Anna, Stephe

This Mexican American War Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Texas History unit. Topics include: Mexican American War, James K. Polk, Santa Anna, Rio Grande, Treaty of G

The United States Constitution Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: US Constitution, Articles, Founding Fathers and the amendment process.The task card scavenger hunt is designed so that students must visit/read each of the ten fact ca

This Declaration of Independence Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Revolutionary War unit. Topics include: 13 Colonies, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: Revolutionary War, 1st Continental Congress, 2nd Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson, King George III, the four parts of the Declaration of Independence, John Adam

This Civil War Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Civil War unit. Topics include: Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, Emancipation Proclama

The Bill of Rights Scavenger Hunt is an engaging cross-curriculum reading comprehension activity. Allow your students to move around the room, visit reading passages and answer questions. The student recording sheet is broken down into different skills – ELA, Math, Context Clues, Drawing and Writing. Topics include: US Constitution, Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-10The task card scavenger hunt is designed so that students must visit/read each of the ten fact cards! That means they have to read th

This Roman Republic (Ancient Rome) Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Ancient Rome unit. Topics include: Ancient Rome, Roman Republic, Consul, Senate, Assemblies, g

This Valley Forge (Revolutionary War) Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Revolutionary War unit. Topics include: Valley Forge, American Revolution, George Washington, livi

This Spring Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Topics include: Spring fun facts, spring equinox, flowers, festivals around the world, animals, Earth’s tilt, hemispheres, holidays and traditionsInste

This Italian Renaissance Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Middle Ages or Art History unit. Topics include: Renaissance, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Middle

This French and Indian War Scavenger Hunt lesson is an engaging cross-curricular gallery walk activity that incorporates reading comprehension, informational text, citing text evidence, movement and critical thinking skills. It also includes an escape room aspect of a final mystery word and secret 4-digit code, leaving your students eager to finish the task. Great introduction to your Causes of the Revolutionary War unit. Topics include: 13 Colonies, French and Indian War, Seven Years’ War