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7-Unit Humanities & SEL Bundle for Grades 5-8 | Social Justice, Equity, SEL
By TooBookedUp
1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ | Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar
Description:
Explore the theme of equity and disabilities in schools and society with this 18-day unit designed for grades 6+. Students will engage with informational texts, videos, and case studies, leading to a STAAR-aligned extended essay and research project. This resource includes Socratic seminars, assessments, and creative projects to promote critical thinking and empathy. Perfect for SEL, humanities, and cross-curricular classrooms.
2. 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Poetry, Assessments
Description:
Dive into the global topic of migration and immigration with this 18-day thematic unit for grades 7+. Through poetry, short stories, and informational texts, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of immigrants. Includes project-based assessments, writing tasks, and creative multimedia projects to foster understanding and empathy. A great resource for ELA, social studies, and SEL instruction.
3. 18-Day Multimedia Anti-Bullying Thematic Unit for Grades 5-8 | SEL Humanities
Description:
This 18-day multimedia unit on anti-bullying for grades 5-8 engages students with a range of media—films, political cartoons, short stories, and songs—to understand the impact of bullying in schools and society. Includes two Socratic seminars, a STAAR-aligned extended essay, and a creative capstone project. Ideal for SEL-focused classrooms and humanities teachers.
4. 19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project
Description:
Help students explore their own social identity and the factors that shape it in this 19-day unit for grades 6-8. The unit includes videos, readings, and group projects focused on themes like identity, community, and belonging. A low-prep, high-impact resource that encourages self-reflection and empathy through engaging multimedia activities and a culminating project.
5. 20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Essay, Assessments
Description:
Explore the intersection of social media and mental health in this 20-day unit for grades 7+. Students will examine the effects of social media on well-being through informational texts, videos, and podcasts. Includes a STAAR-aligned essay, Socratic seminar, and multimedia project, making it an essential resource for teaching critical thinking and digital literacy.
6. 7-Day World Religions Research & Presentation Unit: Interdisciplinary Grades 6-8
Description:
This 7-day research and presentation unit allows students to explore major world religions through research-based learning. Perfect for grades 6-8, students will develop presentations on various religions, fostering understanding and global awareness. Includes guided research templates, presentation rubrics, and cross-curricular connections.
7. Human Rights 5-Day Research and Writing Unit | Middle School Social Essay Project
Description:
Introduce your middle school students to the concept of human rights in this 5-day research and writing unit. Students will engage with informational texts to explore human rights issues globally and locally, culminating in a social justice essay project. This unit is ideal for quick yet impactful lessons that combine research, writing, and advocacy.
Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units
By TooBookedUp
Transform your middle school ELA classroom with this comprehensive bundle of 12 highly engaging short story units. Each unit is meticulously designed to provide a full week of dynamic lessons, complete with detailed plans, interactive slides, a choice activity board, Socratic seminar questions, three STAAR-aligned essay prompts, a film vs. text Venn diagram, and the text PDF. These short stories will captivate your students and enhance their literary analysis skills, making learning both fun and meaningful.
Included Short Stories:
Bundle Features:
1. Comprehensive 5-Day Lesson Plans: Each story unit includes a detailed five-day lesson plan, ensuring a structured approach to teaching. Lessons are aligned with educational standards and include clear objectives and outcomes.
2. Interactive Slides: Engage your students with interactive slides that guide them through the story, provide context, and facilitate discussions. These slides are designed to keep students focused and involved.
3. Choice Activity Board: Each unit comes with a creative choice board, allowing students to demonstrate their understanding through various projects such as writing an alternate ending, creating a comic strip, designing a literary brochure, and more.
4. Socratic Seminar Questions: Encourage critical thinking and in-depth discussion with six thought-provoking Socratic seminar questions for each story. These questions help students delve deeper into the text and analyze its themes, characters, and literary elements.
5. Three STAAR-Aligned Essay Prompts: Each unit includes three essay prompts (argumentative, correspondence, and informational) that are aligned with STAAR standards, helping students practice their writing skills and prepare for standardized assessments.
6. Film vs. Text Venn Diagram: Enhance your students' analytical skills with a film vs. text Venn diagram activity. Students compare and contrast the short story with its film adaptation, focusing on key similarities and differences.
7. Text PDF: Each unit comes with a PDF of the short story, making it easy to provide students with the text for reading and annotation.
Why Choose This Bundle?
Perfect for middle school humanities teachers, this bundle offers everything you need to deliver engaging and effective ELA lessons throughout the year. Enrich your curriculum and inspire your students with these timeless short stories and comprehensive teaching resources.
Four Week Dystopian Unit: 80+ Slides, Choice Board, 4 Seminars, Film, 12 Essays!
By TooBookedUp
Equity and Resilience Thematic Bundle: Disabilities Unit & Out of My Mind Movie
By TooBookedUp
Explore themes of equity, disabilities, and resilience with this dynamic resource bundle designed for grades 5-8!
This bundle is ideal for educators looking to combine standards-aligned instruction with meaningful, real-world themes. Save time and inspire your students with these ready-to-use resources!
19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project
By TooBookedUp
Students are eager to engage in conversation and learning around their identities! This engaging social identity unit explores the 8 Big Social Identities—gender, race, age, religion, orientation, ability, ethnicity, and class—through a blend of activities, texts, videos, music, and projects. Perfect for middle and early high school students, this unit is low prep for teachers, offering print-and-go materials that ensure a seamless teaching experience.
What’s Included:
Daily Activities Overview:
Day 1: Understanding Social Identity
Day 2: The Big 8 Social Identities
Day 3: Power, Privilege, and Marginalization
Day 4: Cultural Heritage and Identity
Day 5: Family Traditions and Social Identity
Day 6: Seminar Preparation
Day 7: Media Representation and Identity
Day 8: Cultural Pride and Daily Life
Day 9: Traditional Music and Identity
Day 10: Film Connection - "Wonder"
Day 11: Continuation of "Wonder"
Day 12: Conclusion of "Wonder"
Day 13: Seminar on "Wonder"
Day 14: Personal Narrative Writing
Day 15: Continue Personal Narrative Writing
Day 16: Peer Feedback on Narratives
Day 17: Identity Mask Project
Day 18: Continue Identity Mask Project
Day 19: Finalize Identity Mask Project
Key Features:
Bring social identity to life in your classroom with this dynamic and interactive unit. Equip your students with the knowledge and skills to understand and appreciate the diverse identities that shape our world. Purchase now and make a meaningful impact on your students' understanding of social identity!
Blue Planet Seasons 1 and 2 COMPLETE question sets
By Quick Assignment Central
Includes a set of 10 questions with separate answer key. Written at a 9th grade level.
Includes 1 set for each of the 8 episodes of season 1 and 7 episodes of season 2 of Blue Planet. Total 15 sets.
Ken Burns - The Civil War (1990) - COMPLETE QUESTION SET
By Quick Assignment Central
Includes a question set and separate answer key for each of the 9 episodes of this series.
Written at a 9th grade level.
Ken Burns - The War (2007) COMPLETE QUESTION SET
By Quick Assignment Central
Includes a set of 10 questions with separate answer key for each of the 7 episodes of this series.
Written at a 9th grade level.
Disney plus The Crossover Series Text Companion Handouts Episodes 1-8 BUNDLE
By TooBookedUp
If your students loved reading Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, they need to see the new Disney+ series! As teachers, we want our students to be engaged, even when they are watching a film. With this resource, students will be challenged to think critically about the text and film in a variety of ways including comparing and contrasting, evaluating director decisions, and tracking character development across the series. Check out the preview for one handout from the bundle!
This resource includes:
The Crossover Summary: Kwame Alexander's text The Crossover is a coming-of-age story written in verse about 7th graders Josh and Jordan Bell as they navigate life, family, friendship, health, and most importantly basketball! The book became a graphic novel and later an 8 episode series streaming on Disney plus!
Our Planet | Video Worksheet and Answer Key PDF BUNDLE for Middle/High School
By Danielle Mortimore
Looking for a simple worksheet for students to complete while watching the Netflix Series: Our Planet? Great for sub plans or weird schedule days!
Our Planet is a British nature documentary series made for Netflix. The series is narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who also created BBC documentary series Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and The Blue Planet, in collaboration with the conservation charity World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Netflix has the free episodes of their Our Planet series on YouTube. Each episode is between 49 to 51 minutes long. I usually have students vote on which one they want to watch. You do NOT have to watch them in order.
Make sure to read the questions to the students beforehand so that they know what information they are looking for.
The product includes...
NGSS - Middle School
TN State Standards
Our Planet | Student Worksheet and Answer Key BUNDLE
By Danielle Mortimore
Looking for a simple worksheet for students to complete while watching the Netflix Series: Our Planet? Great for sub plans or weird schedule days!
Our Planet is a British nature documentary series made for Netflix. The series is narrated by David Attenborough and produced by Silverback Films, led by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, who also created BBC documentary series Planet Earth, Frozen Planet and The Blue Planet, in collaboration with the conservation charity World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Netflix has the free episodes of their Our Planet series on YouTube. Each episode is between 49 to 51 minutes long. I usually have students vote on which one they want to watch. You do NOT have to watch them in order.
Make sure to read the questions to the students beforehand so that they know what information they are looking for.
The product includes...
NGSS - Middle School
TN State Standards
Blue Planet Season 2 - Complete Question Set Episodes 1-7
By Quick Assignment Central
Includes a set of 10 questions with separate answer key. Written at a 9th grade level.
Includes 1 set for each of the 7 episodes of season 2 of Blue Planet.
Ken Burns America Series - Complete Series - Documentary Questions
By Quick Assignment Central
Includes a set of 12 comprehensive questions that guide students through the documentaries.
Includes a set for each of the documentaries in this series.
The Congress, Statue of Liberty, Thomas Hart Benton, Brooklyn Bridge, Huey Long, Empire of the Air, and The Shakers.
Written at a 9th grade level.
Includes separate answer keys.
The Pedestrian Unit | Slides, Seminar, Essay, Lesson Plan, Choice Board
By TooBookedUp
Not sure what to do after state testing? Dive into the futuristic world of Ray Bradbury with our week-long dystopian unit plan centered around his intriguing short story, "The Pedestrian." This meticulously crafted resource is specifically designed for middle school humanities teachers looking to inspire and engage their students in deep, meaningful discussions about technology, society, and individuality.
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Perfect Pairing: "All Summer in a Day" Comprehensive Week-Long Lesson Plan, Seminar, Choice Board (TeachShare.com)
Empower your students to think critically about their own world through the lens of dystopian literature. This "The Pedestrian" unit plan is not just a lesson—it's an exploration into critical thinking, creative expression, and scholarly discussion. Equip your classroom with this all-encompassing resource today and watch your students thrive!
Included in this 12 week unit: Ultimate Middle School Short Story Bundle: 12 Week Engaging Suspense ELA Units (TeachShare.com)
Greatest Showman: 20 Activities
By Beth Hammett
20 movie correlated activities for use with The Greatest Showman with Hugh Jackman (2017) to help students understand ELA concepts and history/social studies fact based events of P.T. Barnum and The Greatest Showman. Includes: Be a Hollywood Producer and cast the movie Design a movie poster Create a Movie Marquee Visual Plot Map (4 Stages of the Movie Plot) Interview with a Star (2 pages) Write a Newspaper Article and Teen Mag Article (Audience) Character Chart Graphic Organizer CRE Character Analysis Writing Ringmaster Chant & Rhyme Transformation Pros & Cons (Compare & Contrast) I'm Unique (Traits Chart) Fact or Fiction (Real Life Facts vs. Movie Facts) P.T. Barnum: Just the Facts (History) Barnum's Legacy (Design your own...) Barnum Festival (Design a statue) Barnum Poetry Lots of creative, engaging activities to showcase students' talents and build upon strengths while reinforcing concepts. Fact based information to encourage students to think critically and problem solve while using movie and media for cooperative learning. Great for centers, differentiation, flipped classes, homeschool, G/T, pre-Ap, history, and ELA.
CHUECO SERIES GUIDE 1-5 episodes
By ARIANA PEREZ
Chueco is a student/classroom and family friend series on Disney +
It is extremely engaging and has adequate vocabulary for the classroom.
This is a growing bundle that will be increasing with the episodes of the Series.
Episodes 1-5 are updated.
Out of My Mind Sharon Draper Movie Guide and Activities Grades 5+
By TooBookedUp
Bring the heartwarming and inspiring Disney+ adaptation of Out of My Mind into your classroom with this comprehensive movie guide and activity bundle. Perfect for grades 5-8, this resource engages students in thoughtful discussion, critical analysis, and creative reflection while exploring key themes of inclusion, perseverance, and advocacy.
What’s Included:
Pre-Watching Activities:
During-Watching Questions:
Post-Watching Reflection:
Creative Reflection Choices: Students choose from a variety of activities, including:
A personal essay exploring connections to Melody’s story.
A diary entry written from the perspective of a character.
A 6-panel brochure highlighting the movie’s plot, characters, and themes.
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Why Teachers Love It:
Engaging & Flexible: Perfect for a wide range of learners with multiple activity options.
Low Prep: Ready-to-use activities designed for easy implementation.
Standards-Aligned: Meets objectives in reading comprehension, writing, and critical thinking.
Perfect For:
This complete guide offers everything you need to turn Out of My Mind into a powerful teaching moment. Inspire your students to think deeply, reflect creatively, and grow in understanding with this must-have resource. Grab it today!
Additional resources with similar themes: 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar
How to Train Your Dragon Movie Watch Along Bundle
By A Teachers Sidekick
These products include 5 activities to go along with watching How to Train Your Dragon. The activities will focus on 5 different skills: Main Idea and Theme, characters, Sequence of events, Story Elements, and Point of View and Attitude. Each watch along focuses on one of these skills and includes 3 - 5 worksheets to go with it. I hope you enjoy it. Please rate and review.
By Reece's Tech Shop by Scott Reece
You may have had students screaming and banging their heads on their desk when their Movie Maker project opened up and all they saw were yellow "!" What to do? Well, here is a PowerPoint that will alleviate those issues before you begin. I've been using this for years and when students come in from other classes (I'm the Tech teacher) saying they are having issues, I show them this and they leave with the problems corrected. This PowerPoint sums up the issues and offers a solution that will prevent them from happening!!
Episode 6 Disney's The Crossover Series Text Companion Handout
By TooBookedUp
If your students loved reading Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, they need to see the new Disney+ series! As teachers, we want our students to be engaged, even when they are watching a film. With this resource, students will be challenged to think critically about the text and film in a variety of ways including comparing and contrasting, evaluating director decisions, and tracking character development across the series.
This resource includes:
Check out every episode bundled 1-8: Disney's The Crossover Series Text Companion Handouts Episodes 1-8 BUNDLE (TeachShare.com)