UnitBenjamin Franklin’s Fantastic Civic Virtues
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Bring Franklin’s Fantastic Virtues to life in your K–3 classroom.
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Flexible and adaptable K-3 elementary social studies lesson plans and activities about Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth Eckford, and Neil Armstrong. Each unit contains a week-long lesson plan, mini lesson, and a reading skill mini lesson.
BRI Jr. for 3-5
Flexible 3-5 elementary social studies lesson plans and activities heavily focused on content-area literacy instruction, performance-based assessments through modular design, Lexiled readings and videos.
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