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Worksheet to help understand how to use a quipa.

I use this map to introduce the topic of pre-Columbia America. The map has the students identify the continents that the First Americans traveled across, the coordinates for famous pre-Columbian cities, and the location Beringia.

This map has students label the countries of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Dominican Republic. I use this map to begin studying the ancient civilizations of Maya and Aztecs.

This worksheet helps students become familiar with the Inca Empire. It has students practice geography skills learned earlier in the year. they will work on latitude and longitude, as well as locating countries and oceans.

This is a bundle of all the maps I have in my TpT store, covering the Inca, Aztecs, and Maya. The maps cover the geography of Central America, South America, and North America. This also includes my worksheet covering the Inca quipu.

A complete packet of work for the short novel "Diving Off the Edge," by Jake Maddox. It includes questions for each chapter, including a spot for the student to mark which QAR strategy (Question Answer Relationship) they used to answer each question. The packet includes a word search, a word jumble, a point of view situation, and a character development graphic organizer.

The shows the location of the Maya empire. The map requires students to use map reading skills and geography knowledge.

Map of the Mississippian Empire. Includes skills such as latitude and longitude, identification of states, countries, and oceans, and use of cardinal directions.

Students often read Accelerated Reader (AR) books without practicing reading skills. The purpose of this readers notebook is to make students think about what they are reading. This will help students understand the book before they take the test. Students will work on skills such as summarizing, theme, point of view, and visualizing a text, among others. There are also sections that have students practice verbs, nouns, and prepositions, among others. I give my students a new journal for each

The map has students research the landforms of Central America. Primarily used with the study of the ancient civilizations of the Maya and Aztec.

Map shows location of Aztec empire. Requires students to use map reading skills and knowledge of geography.

This map worksheet helps students identify countries of South America. I use it to help students familiarize themselves with South American countries before starting the Inca unit.

Map helps students become familiar with the geography of the Northwest Coast.

This packet is used as non-fiction resource. It was created to mimic a magazine. The text is about climate and geography, culture, food, and location of the Southwest Native Americans. Within the pages of the text, there are "quick checks," which check for student understanding.

The RACE question answer strategy helps students attack extended response questions. It helps them understand how to answer a question and requires them to know how to break a question down. RACE stands for "Recite the Question," "Answer the Question," "Cite the Evidence," and "Explain Evidence." In this particular graphic organizer, it requires students to cite two pieces of evidence.