Bay State Builders

An immersive 3rd-grade Project-Based Learning unit where students act as museum curators to design and exhibit a living history museum, answering the driving question: How did where colonist lived shape how they lived?

A dynamic geography and science lesson where students explore the four primary climate zones of the United States through an interactive slide deck and a map-coloring activity.

A dynamic slide presentation guiding students through the four primary climate zones of the United States with visual descriptions, geographic markers, and activity cues.

An adapted social studies unit combining middle school MCAS Geography and Civics frameworks with supportive, highly visual 3rd-grade level learning materials. Includes simplified reading passages, interactive slides, scaffolded worksheets, and modified assessments.

An interactive, inquiry-driven lesson centered around the 250th anniversary of the United States. Students explore direct-recall historical facts from a KidNuz broadcast, engaging in visual trivia, transcript analysis, and literal comprehension checks.

A beautifully styled student worksheet featuring a blank outline map of the United States divided and numbered into four distinct climate zones, complete with a fill-in coloring key.

A 4-day integrated unit for 3rd grade exploring the math, science, history, and language arts of guacamole. Students will learn about Mesoamerican history, investigate plant structures and life cycles, scale fractional recipes, and practice sensory and procedural writing.

Brings the PBL unit to a climax with a student-led living history museum exhibit, peer feedback, and reflective self-assessments.

A student-facing print-ready comprehension worksheet featuring direct-recall questions, name/date fields, and structured spaces for literal transcript search answers.

An integrated 4-day unit for 3rd grade that uses the engaging theme of ice cream to teach ELA informational reading, fraction concepts in math, states of matter in science, and economics in social studies. Students read historical texts, partition scoops of fractions, perform a chemistry freezing lab, and design their own parlor business.

Provides students with guided research materials on the three colonial regions (New England, Middle, Southern) and supports the design of their physical museum artifacts.

An interactive binary-choice trivia slide deck featuring direct-recall questions and correct option reveals based on the KidNuz 250th anniversary broadcast.