Category: 5th grade
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Ancient Egypt Unit – Chicken Mummification
Teaching and learning should be fun and interesting, and few things have piqued my 5th grade ancient civilization classes’ interest more than mummifying a chicken. There’s something about this project that they just can’t keep their eyes or ears away from, and every year my students come away from it knowing the mummification process and…
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Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship
Besides learning a TON from fellow educators at the NCSS 2019 conference in Austin, Texas, I was also lucky enough to be able to give a presentation on Friday afternoon. The link below will direct you to a Google Drive folder with the lessons I presented in “Using Ancient Civilizations to Teach Citizenship.” A couple…
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Ancient Greek Women & Gender Norms
I am very excited about this lesson I created for my 5th grade and I wanted to share it with you. As a world history teacher in addition to teaching American history, I find it difficult in many cases to find ways to teach Ancient history from different lessons. Ancient Greece, however, is turning out…
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African & American Folktales
World history in 5th grade took an (even more) exiting turn prior to leaving for spring break. Having just finished our Egypt research papers, we decided to travel to countries in East and West Africa as well as to the Carribean and Southern United States to explore how and why histories intersect through folktales. I…
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Invisible Founders: Pride Month Lesson Plans
I realize I’m somewhat delinquent in posting- the end of the year is tough. Professional development takes up a lot of my time, plus I’m hanging out with my family and taking summer courses. However, loyal readers, I bring you my lessons for Pride Month. In keeping with our philosophy of our classes being windows…
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Teaching 5th Graders How to Write a Thesis Statement
Today I had my very first experience teaching 5th-grade students how to write a thesis statement. I am a veteran middle school teacher to 7th and 8th-grade students, so the addition of teaching 5th-grade world history this year has been a blessing and a challenge. Our 5th-grade students write a 5 paragraph research paper…