Description: This activity requires students to read a short passage about the Yellow River. Then, the student must evaluate eight fact or fiction statements. The program gives immediate feedback.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This page tells all about the life and times of Marco Polo

Description: The articles II Milione, the transcribed observations of Marco Polo while in China.

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Marco Polo that has seven factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Marco Polo. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Marco Polo biography for reference.

Description: This bundle includes all of the printable activities related to Marco Polo on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This is a printable fact sheet that describes the giant panda. It comes with a crossword puzzle!

Description: This article includes detailed descriptions and life histories of the giant panda and red panda.