3rd grade thematic units

Free Social Studies Lesson Plans for third grade. These unit plans are reading standard based. Topics include: Civics, Geography, Economics, History and more!

Do your students need a lot of repetition and practice to master skills? Do you have students who need direct instruction in order to generalize their skills? Want to make lesson planning easier? If you answered yes, then thematic units are for you!! My job got so much easier when I began using thematic units […]

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Choose one of the fifty states from the United States of America and jump into to a wonderful research project with our State Lapbook.

Here are special ways to enjoy a pirate mini-unit study with your kids. Get fantastic ideas & easy-to-use resources for awesome learning fun!

Bring the engaging lessons of space exploration and understanding into your second grade classroom. These space activities and ideas are sure to keep your second graders engaged and learning

Make planning and assigning reading centers easy with these simple organization tips. Literacy centers are essential for students and should be easy for teachers!

Use these tips for planning an integrated multidisciplinary thematic unit to create meaningful and engaging classroom learning experiences.

Before I go any further, teaching theme is HARD…like really hard. Why didn’t anyone teach me a sequence or developmental process for learning and teaching theme. When I first started teaching, I would just dive in. I’d find cool activities that practiced theme. Then, a few weeks later, it would come again in our textbook […]