Third Grade
The Recess Question
A recess debate becomes a lesson in how a community makes fair decisions. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →The Pilgrims Chose Plymouth
The Pilgrims' 1620 voyage and why they settled at Plymouth. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pioneer life on the American frontier and the writer who shared it. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Why We Need Laws
A rhyming look at why a community writes fair rules and laws. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Benjamin Franklin and Electricity
Benjamin Franklin, the lightning rod, and solving real problems with science. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Henry Ford: Visionary of Travel
How the Model T and the moving assembly line changed the way people traveled. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Crash
A classroom accident becomes a lesson about honesty and responsibility. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →MLK: A Dream Can Grow
A gentle poem about how one hopeful dream can grow from friend to friend. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Place to Grow
How geography shapes where and how a community is built. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Fourth Grade
Dream
A child at the 1963 march remembers Dr. King's dream of a fair America. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Promise Written Long Ago
The Magna Carta of 1215 and why rules must apply even to a king. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →The Energy We Use Everyday
Renewable and nonrenewable resources, and the choices behind our energy. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Lone Star Choice
A poem about how Texas joined the United States in 1845. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →The Wealth of Mansa Musa
The Mali kingdom, trade across the Sahara, and a famous pilgrimage. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Looking Back to Move Forward
How Renaissance thinkers looked back to Greece and Rome for new ideas. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Day That Changed
One shifting field day shows the difference between weather and climate. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →The Roads Between Us
A poem about trade routes that carry goods, stories, and friendship. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →What Shapes a Society?
How place, resources, and connection shape the societies people build. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Fifth Grade
The Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery
A missing-cookie mystery teaches a class to gather evidence before believing a story. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →From Tension to Revolution
Taxes, protest, and the road from thirteen colonies to a new nation. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Spanish Rule in Early Texas
Missions and presidios, and how Spanish rule shaped early Texas. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →Our Rights, Our Voices
A poem walking through the freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →The Garden That Wouldn't Grow
Too much water teaches Kendrix how soil, roots, and air keep plants healthy. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Difficult Compromise
The 1787 Convention and the hard debate over how to count people. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →A Voice in the Community
Voting, meetings, and other ways people take part in civic life. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →One Voice Can Start a Wave
A poem about how one brave question can grow into lasting change. Key words are tappable.
Open passage →From Protest to Participation
How ideas about freedom and rights become real changes in a nation. Key words are tappable.
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