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Everything you need to teach a 6-week unit on the 13 American colonies, culminating in a differentiated research project where students become experts on a single colony. This resource includes a full day-by-day unit plan (editable Word doc), a tiered research project designed to encourage solo and partner work, and 10 printable handouts that cover every lesson in the unit. No textbook required. All lessons are built around freely available digital resources. WHAT'S INCLUDED: Editable Unit Plan

A complete year-long planning guide for 5th grade American history built around Document Based Questions and an Interactive Notebook. Nine units spanning Geography of North America through the Civil War, with 108 instructional days mapped across a consistent 3-day weekly rhythm. This is not a collection of worksheets. It is the architecture for your entire year: every unit organized around one essential question that students build an argument to answer, with primary sources curated from free da

A creative two-part project where students write an imaginative science fiction narrative essay, then design a digital movie poster for their story using Canva and present it to the class. Students begin by responding to a sci-fi writing prompt set in the year 2150, crafting a narrative with developed characters, dialogue, sensory details, and a clear plot arc. Then they translate their story into a visually polished movie poster with a title, tagline, synopsis, credits, and connected visual ele

This fully differentiated research project has students select one of the 13 American colonies, research it using kid-friendly sources, build a poster, and deliver a presentation answering the fundamental questions of colonial life — all while being held accountable for real historical thinking, not just facts on a poster board. What makes this project different from most colony research packs is the tiered group structure. Students working solo or in pairs have lighter requirements designed for