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Send your student into a real conversation with history. This 10-page printable guide teaches students to ask specific questions, listen for the story beneath the story, and treat a family member’s memory as the primary source it actually is. Grab the free companion lesson plan for full differentiated assignments in grades K–12.
Your students are Jefferson’s assistants, and the documents are completely mixed up.
This print-and-play escape room takes grades 3-12 through five sequential puzzles covering the Committee of Five, Jefferson’s drafting process, Franklin’s famous edit, the real signing date, and the anti-slavery passage Congress removed. Five codes. One Declaration.
K-2 can join with a teacher or older student leading the way.
How did a series of tax laws become a revolution? This multi-format scavenger hunt, digital webquest, and self-paced packet traces 15 pivotal events from 1765 to 1776 using real primary source documents. Students collect a clue word at every station and assemble a famous Revolutionary-era quote at the end. Part of the Five Pillars of the Declaration of Independence framework. Grades 3-12.
Students take on the role of a colonial aide with one mission: document six acts of tyranny and deliver the evidence to Congress before dawn. This no-prep, print-and-play paper escape room challenges grades 3-12 to work through six grievance-focused challenges and crack the final code. Part of the Five Pillars of the Declaration of Independence framework.
Did the signers of the Declaration really lose everything? Was Hancock’s famous signature actually an act of defiance? Did the signing even happen on July 4?
The answer to all three is more complicated than you think and more interesting.
The Signers’ Sacrifice gives students 12 myth investigations, 3 investigative roles, and the most important question in historical thinking: why did we need this story to be bigger than the truth?
Grades 3–12. Print and go. Works for classrooms and homeschools.
Did the signers of the Declaration really lose everything? Was Hancock’s famous signature actually an act of defiance? Did the signing even happen on July 4?
The answer to all three is more complicated than you think and more interesting.
The Signers’ Sacrifice gives students 12 myth investigations, 3 investigative roles, and the most important question in historical thinking: why did we need this story to be bigger than the truth?
Grades 3–12. Print and go. Works for classrooms and homeschools.
Charlotte didn’t just love Wilbur. She ran a strategic persuasion campaign to save him and now your students will too. A comprehensive 56 page K-5 project-based novel study covering spider science, rhetoric, E.B. White’s craft, and the real cost of friendship. Includes a county fair showcase finale.
A hands-on, differentiated novel study for Louis Sachar’s Holes that connects the story to real desert science, American history, and literary craft. Built for grades 3 through 9, with separate question sets and activities for every grade band. Works in a single afternoon or across a full week.