Civics and Geography Explorers

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?

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

An 8-day interdisciplinary project where 3rd-grade students design a sustainable historical Massachusetts settlement. Integrating math, ELA, science, and social studies, students apply area, perimeter, fractions, weather science, Wampanoag adaptations, and persuasive writing.

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

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

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.

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

A student-facing peer feedback card and self-reflection rubric to evaluate collaboration, artifact construction, and content understanding.

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.

Launches the PBL unit with an engaging entry event, introduces the driving question, and guides students in identifying what they "know" and "need to know" to become museum curators.

A presentation slide deck for the exhibition day, including museum visitor rules, curator presentation guidelines, and reflection prompts.