Included in your download is a 1-page reading on Magellan that is easy for students to understand, while also covering his background and voyage. Accompanying this is a set of Common Core-aligned reading comprehension questions for students to answer. A key for this is included for your convenience.
Next is an Interactive Notebook-style graphic organizer which students cut out to create both a sail for his ship and a map of his voyage! This is definitely a fun activity that allows for student creativity while also hitting Common Core reading strategies!
Attention English teachers! I just finished up an very cool to set of "Magic Portrait" videos of great American Authors! This download includes amazing, moving images of 10 classic American writers set into a PowerPoint for your author study or lesson!
Each author portrait comes alive by blinking, smiling, looking around your classroom, laughing, and more! This is always a great surprise for students and will definitely capture their attention immediately. Once I started using these, my students were more engaged in every presentation as they studied every slide to see if it was moving!
A short preview can be seen here in this Instagram post:
A video posted by Students of History (@studentsofhistory) on
Note that this is likely not a complete resource to use on its own. This PowerPoint includes 10 videos and PowerPoint slides that can be used as an overview of American authors or for Back-to-School night to really impress parents as you review some of the authors their children will learn about.
However, I imagine most ELA teachers would take these slides and insert them into your own author studies as you cover an individual author far more in depth. Authors included in this download are:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Frederick Douglass
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
This free eBook includes 14 amazing, free social studies resources for grades K-12!
Fourteen of the best sellers on TpT have gotten together and contributed resources to help you Spring into Social Studies!
Inside you'll find games, Interactive Notebooks, Lap Books, primary source materials, reading passages, and more! There's resources for every grade from Kindergarten through 12th, which makes this an especially great resource for you homeschool teachers & parents!
Teachers in elementary, middle, and high school as well are sure to find several excellent resources to use for social studies.
