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My middle schoolers may not say it out loud, but they really seemed to enjoy exploring the world through their own atlases! I created this resource to accompany the National Geographic Student Atlas of the World in preparation for our school's GeoBee. Topics: Physical MapEarth's Land and Water FeaturesClimate and Climate GraphsCritical Thinking based on a Time for Kids article on Greta ThunbergHappy investigating!

I needed something brief to check my students' understanding, so I created this short quiz. Clara Barton is often covered in our Civil War units, and I wanted my students to understand that there were many nurses serving from MANY different backgrounds. So, I also taught a brief lesson on Susie King Taylor (my info came from the Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States)! If you're not teaching about her, maybe use that section as a way for students to research and gain extra credi

This quiz covers some of the efforts to educate African American people during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. My curriculum did not mention female educators, so I took some time during a lesson to teach on Fanny Jackson Coppin and Prudence Crandall, two heroic female educators. My research for this lesson came from the Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States. This assessment also covers Booker T. Washington, his connection to religion, and Tuskegee University