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Germany Unit Study
Germany sits in the middle of Europe, with the cold North Sea and Baltic Sea on top and the snowy Alps along the bottom. In between are thick forests, castles on hills, old walled towns, and busy cities like Berlin, … [continue reading]
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Arctic and Antarctica Unit Study
The Arctic and the Antarctic are the coldest places on Earth, but they are very different. The Arctic, at the top of the world, is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, where polar bears hunt seals and the Inuit and … [continue reading]
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Ancient Egypt Unit Study
Ancient Egypt grew up along the Nile River more than 5,000 years ago. Every summer the Nile flooded and left behind rich black soil, so farmers could grow wheat, barley, and flax in the middle of the desert. The Egyptians … [continue reading]
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Ancient Greece Unit Study
Ancient Greece was not one country but hundreds of small city-states, each with its own government, spread across mountains, islands, and the shores of the Aegean Sea. The Greeks gave us democracy, the Olympic Games, theater, the columns you still … [continue reading]
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Great Depression Unit Study
The Great Depression began when the stock market crashed in October 1929 and lasted until the United States entered World War II. Banks closed, factories shut down, and by 1933 about one out of every four American workers had no … [continue reading]
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Scotland Unit Study
Scotland is a land of castles, lochs, bagpipes, and legends. It gave the world golf, the telephone, penicillin, and the poetry of Robert Burns, and its history is full of heroes like Robert the Bruce and William Wallace and royals … [continue reading]
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Asia Unit Study
Asia is the largest continent on Earth, and more than half of all the people in the world live there. It stretches from the deserts of the Middle East to the islands of Japan and Indonesia, and from the frozen … [continue reading]
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Robin Hood Literature Unit Study
Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest who robbed from the rich to give to the poor, has been a hero for more than 600 years. With Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, and his band of Merry Men, he … [continue reading]
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