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  • Reading Recipes Like a Historian: Recipe Archaeology and Food Historiography

    Reading Recipes Like a Historian: Recipe Archaeology and Food Historiography

    $21.00

    Teach sophisticated historical thinking through food historiography! This 106-page toolkit shows students grades K-12 how to analyze historical recipes as primary sources revealing economic pressure, daily realities, and the context behind historical decisions.

    Includes complete theoretical framework, two ready-to-teach lesson plans (Colonial & Great Depression), grade-level adaptations K-12, student worksheets, assessment rubrics, and flexible implementation for classrooms, homeschools, and co-ops. Uses the Four Lenses framework (Economic, Technological, Social/Cultural, Policy) to develop critical thinking, primary source analysis, and evidence-based argumentation.

  • The 1840s Industrial Revolution Kitchen: Lowell Mills Boarding House Cookbook

    The 1840s Industrial Revolution Kitchen: Lowell Mills Boarding House Cookbook

    $10.00

    Authentic 1840s mill girl recipes from Lyddie’s time, complete with hearth cooking methods, economic context, and student activities. Transform your historical fiction study into a hands-on exploration of daily life, labor economics, and New England community through period-accurate cooking.

  • The Sign of the Beaver | Mini Project-Based Novel Study with Character Tracker

    The Sign of the Beaver | Mini Project-Based Novel Study with Character Tracker

    $7.00

    One to Three Sessions. Real learning.

    Transform a single afternoon into meaningful exploration of frontier friendship. Students analyze gift exchanges, research traditional plants, and build model snares to understand survival physics.

    What’s Included:

    • 3 complete activities (gifts analysis, edible plants, snare physics)
    • Character Development Tracker showing how Matt and Attean’s views shift
    • Discussion questions for grades 3-5 and 6-9
    • Novel summary and teaching notes
    • 15 pages

    Perfect for: Book clubs, co-op meetings, quick units, or testing this teaching approach before committing to the comprehensive study.

    Time: 1-3 hours | Ages: Grades 3-9

    Note: The Character Development Tracker also appears in the comprehensive study.

  • Sign of the Beaver Project-Based Novel Study

    Sign of the Beaver Project-Based Novel Study

    $23.00

    Transform The Sign of the Beaver into weeks of hands-on learning. Students assess survival skills, build working traps, investigate treaties, plan Indigenous gardens, and analyze cross-cultural friendship.

    What’s Included:

    • 7 Core Activities (survival, teaching exchange, Robinson Crusoe, treaties, friendship, identity, isolation)
    • 6 Enrichment Activities (Three Sisters garden, economics, storytelling, seasonal survival, symbols, ecology)
    • 3 STEM Labs (wilderness science, forest ecology, traditional technology)
    • Complete Student Manual with 8 graphic organizers
    • 4 flexible timelines (2-10 weeks)
    • 82 pages

    Perfect for: Homeschool families, classroom enrichment, co-ops, unit studies on frontier life or Native American cultures.

    Time: 2-10 weeks (flexible) | Ages: Grades 3-9

  • The History Detective's Toolkit - Complete Primary Source Analysis System

    The History Detective’s Toolkit – Complete Primary Source Analysis System

    $0.00

    Four investigation frameworks + complete lesson plan to turn students into history detectives.

    Includes C.L.U.E.S. (artifacts), V.I.S.I.O.N. (visual sources), S.O.U.R.C.E. (documents), and T.R.A.C.E. (corroboration) methods. Features the viral “Soda Can Investigation” lesson, Case Closed template, and curated learning pathways. Print-and-go. Grades 3-12.

  • Five Pillars Framework: Free Declaration of Independence Teaching Guide | 250th Anniversary

    Five Pillars Framework: Free Declaration of Independence Teaching Guide | 250th Anniversary

    $0.00

    Free 33-Page teaching guide for the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary (2026). Learn the Five Pillars framework: The Grievances, The Philosophers, The Road to Rebellion, The Creation Process, and The Signers.

  • Whose Pen Is This? Free Historical Perspective Lesson for K-12 | Teaching Students to Question Sources

    Whose Pen Is This? Free Historical Perspective Lesson for K-12 | Teaching Students to Question Sources

    $0.00

    Free K-12 mini-lesson teaching students to question who writes history. Differentiated graphic organizers help students analyze Revolutionary War events from multiple perspectives and identify whose voices are missing from historical narratives.

  • Time Machine Rule: Teach Historical Contextualization and avoid Presentism

    Time Machine Rule: Teach Historical Contextualization and avoid Presentism

    $0.00
    • The Master Data Table: A scholarly look at figures from Antiquity to the 20th Century (Aristotle, Charlemagne, Jefferson, and more).
    • The “Vise-Grip” Audit: A student manual page to help kids analyze the pressures of any era.
    • The “Two-Sided Coin” Graphic Organizer: A visual tool to help students map out the complexity of historical figures.