Economy & Globalization: The Great Depression Gr. 5-8
Read an informational passage on The Great Depression, define vocabulary, complete hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz.
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Read an informational passage on The Great Depression, define vocabulary, complete hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz.
Read the "How the Amount of Salt Water Could Change" nonfiction passage, answer accompanying comprehension questions, complete a graphic organizer, do a hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search on the topic's vocabulary, and take a comprehension quiz; a teacher self-checks with the included answer key.
Read the chapter's reading-comprehension handout and complete related hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; a vocabulary section and Bloom's Taxonomy-based critical thinking skills chart (knowledge through evaluation levels) support the unit.
Answer open-ended reflection questions (about sacrifice, forgiveness, selfishness), complete a character comparison chart (She-Who-Is-Alone vs. selfish characters, and self vs. character), find and define story vocabulary (sacrifice, drought, selfish), retell the story using a Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then organizer, complete…
Over 5 days, read two chapters per day (independently or aloud), watch a themed video, complete a chapter quiz and vocabulary worksheet, fill in a KWL chart (before/after reading), and do a daily hands-on activity (e.g., make a 'housewife' sewing kit, draw/make a Clara Barton paper doll and nurse's hat, build a Civil War drum…
Students complete chapter questions across all 16 chapters, an author spotlight handout, writing tasks, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; teachers use graphic organizers and teaching strategies from the guide, with an Easy Marking answer key provided.
Read the chapter's reading-comprehension handout and complete related hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; a vocabulary section and Bloom's Taxonomy-based critical thinking skills chart (knowledge through evaluation levels) support the unit.
Read the "What Is Salt Water?" nonfiction passage, answer accompanying comprehension questions, complete a graphic organizer, do a hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search on the topic's vocabulary, and take a comprehension quiz; a teacher self-checks with the included answer key.
Make predictions and activate prior knowledge before reading, read an informative text at one of two difficulty levels, identify reading strategies used, answer creative/critical questions, make text-to-self connections, identify a favorite passage and critique the text's quality, create a comic based on the text, imagine a…
Read a passage on what government is, answer reading-comprehension questions, complete a writing task, solve a crossword and word search, and take a comprehension quiz.
Read the topic sections and complete the associated comprehension/vocabulary activities; complete Reading Comprehension handouts per topic plus Hands-on Activities, Crossword, Word Search, and a Comprehension Quiz (per the table of contents).
Read the "Where Is Earth's Salt Water?" nonfiction passage, answer accompanying comprehension questions, complete a graphic organizer, do a hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search on the topic's vocabulary, and take a comprehension quiz; a teacher self-checks with the included answer key.
Read the informational passage on this topic, answer comprehension questions at multiple Bloom's-taxonomy levels, complete a crossword, a word search, hands-on activities, and a comprehension quiz.
Students answer chapter-by-chapter questions across six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy (recall, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create), complete writing tasks, a word search, a comprehension quiz, and graphic organizers.
Read the chapter's reading-comprehension handout and complete related hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; a vocabulary section and Bloom's Taxonomy-based critical thinking skills chart (knowledge through evaluation levels) support the unit.
Read seven nonfiction passages (What Is Fresh Water?; Where Is Fresh Water?; How Climate Change Can Affect Fresh Water; How The Amount Of Fresh Water Could Change; How The Purity Of Fresh Water Could Change; How The Changes In Fresh Water Could Change Our Lives; Conservation: What We Can Do) each with comprehension questions…
Students read (or have read to them) an 8-page illustrated nonfiction booklet about penguins, answer comprehension questions (open-ended and multiple-choice), practice sounding out vocabulary words, learn glossary/vocabulary definitions, and in the 'Writing Book' version write and draw their own facts about penguins on blank…
Complete reading comprehension handouts and Bloom's-Taxonomy-leveled tasks (match, label, list, recall 5Ws+H, find, describe/compare, summarize, explain, select, organize, interview, apply, conclude, analyze, design, create, evaluate, compare) for each of the five geography themes; complete a crossword, word search, and…
Read eight reading-comprehension handouts (one per chapter topic) and complete accompanying hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; a vocabulary section and Bloom's Taxonomy-based critical thinking chart support the unit.
Read the "How The Amount Of Fresh Water Could Change" nonfiction passage, answer accompanying comprehension questions, complete a graphic organizer, do a hands-on activity, solve a crossword and word search on the topic's vocabulary, and take a comprehension quiz; a teacher self-checks with the included answer key.
Read grade-appropriate passages on each government topic, answer embedded comprehension questions, complete a writing task, a crossword, and a word search, and complete a comprehension quiz; a provincial/territorial 'BONUS' student worksheet has students choose one province or territory to research.
Answer chapter-by-chapter comprehension and critical-thinking questions, complete graphic organizers, learn/apply vocabulary, complete writing tasks, do a word search, and take a comprehension quiz; teachers use an included answer key to grade responses.
Read the chapter's reading-comprehension handout and complete related hands-on activities, a crossword, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; a vocabulary section and Bloom's Taxonomy-based critical thinking skills chart (knowledge through evaluation levels) support the unit.
Read a reading-comprehension passage on the location theme of Asia, complete a crossword and word search using related vocabulary, take a comprehension quiz, label student blackline maps, review mini posters, and complete bonus activity worksheets (e.g., an Asian Literature reading/response worksheet, a 'How a Car Gets…