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Textured Teaching® Resources
Here you'll find a series of FREE Textured Teaching® resources designed by Lorena Germán and other team members that integrate ideas and strategies from the book.
Poems & Videos with Lessons
Our FREE collection of recorded spoken word poems, written poems, and other videos by Roberto with ideas for lessons. You can download the resources for print as well.
Downloadable Artwork
FREE artwork for your home, classroom, or any other space where you want to feature art that speaks to issues of truth & justice.
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Textured Teaching® Unit Guides
The guides are for (either) a week or month long study of the best, most popular & award winning books. They have objectives, essential questions, vocabulary words, discussion and comprehension prompts, interdisciplinary and experiential lesson ideas, and more. Stop wondering about how to do Textured Teaching, lamenting the time lost on creating materials, or guessing how to merge criticality with content skills.
Early Florida History Workbook
This unit is designed for Florida 4th graders and is ready to be printed and used right away. It meets social studies standards for 4th grade in the state and includes independent, collaborative, written, and spoken academic activities. It treats Natives, on this unceded land, with respect and honors their perspective as part of the story of what has become the state of Florida.
Peru Early Elementary Unit
In this interdisciplinary unit about Perú, students will integrate science, math, social studies, writing, and more. The skills are all connected to the Florida B.E.S.T. standards, reproducibles are included, and this is ready for immediate use. The packet consists of more than 15 pages with original ideas and a wholistic perspective of the Incas, indigenous to what is now known as Peru.
Peru Upper Elementary & Middle School Unit
In this interdisciplinary unit about Perú, students will integrate science, math, social studies, writing, and more. The skills are all connected to the Florida B.E.S.T. standards, reproducibles are included, and this is ready for immediate use. The readings and expectations are fit for upper elementary and lower middle grades, such as 6th grade. Lastly, the unit treats the Incas, indigenous to Peru, with respect and inclusive of their perspective.
Exploring the Natural World Around Us
In this interdisciplinary unit about physical science, students will integrate science, art, vocabulary, writing, and more. The skills are all connected to the national science and national language arts standards. Reproducibles are included, and this is ready for immediate use. This unit includes the following concepts:
Layers of soil
Weathering & erosion
The water cycle
Types of rocks & the rock cycle
and more. The unit also includes a brief study of how climate change is affecting these elements of earth with an example from Indigenous people in the Amazon and Colombia.
