Category: Blog Based Lessons

  • Distance Learning Week Seven: Native Nations

    Distance Learning Week Seven: Native Nations

    Hello fifth graders, and welcome back to another week (your last full week!) of distance learning. Can you believe it?! You are almost all the way finished with your year of fifth grade United States history. So far this year, you have learned a ton of American history. This week is your last unit of…

  • Distance Learning Week Six: The American Revolution

    Distance Learning Week Six: The American Revolution

    For the past few weeks, we have been talking about early America, the years when what we today call the United States was first establishing itself. This week, we’re going to jump back in time again and take a look at the United States during the years while it was still governed by England and…

  • Distance Learning Week Five: Early America

    Distance Learning Week Five: Early America

    Hello fifth graders, and welcome to week five of distance learning! Week five! Can you believe it? What a crazy time. This week, we will be looking at the early history of our country, and specifically, at our first presidents. These men are included in our country’s list of “Founding Fathers,” the people who put…

  • Distance Learning Week Four: More About the Abolitionists!

    Distance Learning Week Four: More About the Abolitionists!

    Hey fifth graders! Welcome to week four of at home learning! As always, I am suuuuuper proud of all the amazing work you’re doing, and I so badly wish we could be learning in person together. Remember how last week I said that I wished we had more time to learn about the abolitionists? Well……

  • Distance Learning Week Three: Slavery, Abolition, and the Civil War

    Distance Learning Week Three: Slavery, Abolition, and the Civil War

    Hello fifth graders, and welcome to week three of at home learning! I am super proud of all the great work you’ve been doing the last couple weeks, and I am excited to get started on this week’s learning. This week’s topic is difficult to talk about, and it’s something that I wish we could…

  • Distance Learning Week Two: Westward Expansion

    Distance Learning Week Two: Westward Expansion

    Hello fifth graders, and welcome to week two! This week we are learning about Westward Expansion. Follow along with this week’s lesson plans to learn with us!   Monday: What was “Westward Expansion”? So far this year, everything we have learned in US history has been working with a map that looks pretty much the…

  • Distance Learning: An Exploration of Child Labor in the United States

    Distance Learning: An Exploration of Child Labor in the United States

    Hello from afar to all of my Green Beans! I miss you dearly and wish we could be doing this learning face to face. For as long as we’re in our shelter in place orders, you can expect to find all of your social studies and ELA lessons here. Each week, I will post a…

  • Poverty, Homelessness, and Financial Literacy

    Poverty, Homelessness, and Financial Literacy

    Hey fifth graders!  I am out sick today, but am wishing so badly that I could be at school with you.  Please be incredibly respectful to Ms. Noble today, and follow this blog post for all of your classwork today.  Station one will require you to use your reflection packet (either you already have it,…

  • Who Run The World?

    Who Run The World?

    Women, and specifically women of color, have faced their fair share of challenges in America.  Women have made incredible contributions to our country, and yet, the contributions of many of these women still go unnoticed.  Recently, one of these stories has been unearthed.  Let’s watch this trailer together:   In the trailer for Hidden Figures, the…

  • WWII, America, and the Dominant Narrative

    WWII, America, and the Dominant Narrative

    What do you know about WWII?  You probably know that the United States fought other countries.  (Remember that a civil war is a war within one country, and a world war involves multiple countries?)  This week we’re going to focus on many groups of American people during World War II, many of whom have been…