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High school U.S. History center pdfs
Scientific Revolution Stations Activity & Mini Labs: Digital Resources & Print
This completely Google-ready or paper classroom content-rich activity is student-centered and interactive! This masterminds of the Scientific Revolution reading and mini-lab stations activity has 9 stations with close readings, analyzing key scientists and innovations. The key scientists covered:Renee Descartes Isaac Newton Galileo Kepler Francis Bacon Tycho BraheCopernicusStudents also prove Isaac Newton's law of gravity with a simple classroom supply-based experiment and use the scientific met
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5th - 10th
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Enlightenment Reading Stations Centers Activity Set (Digital Resources & Print)
This content-rich and fun activity is student-centered and interactive! This key enlightenment figure stations activity has 9 stations with close readings analyzing key aspects of the Enlightenment Era. The stations also have a Google Ready Online Interactive version for distance learning. Students fill in text boxes already created! Each reading is divided into the Enlightenment thinker's ideas and their influence on the US Constitution.The key concepts and people covered are: John LockeCesar B
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6th - 10th
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July Primary Source Analysis SOAP
During the 1850s, abolitionism and sectionalism grew to unsolvable tensions.This resource looks at Fredrick Douglass's speech to the Abolition society in Rochester NY in 1852, where he poses the famed rhetorical question "What to the slave is the fourth of July? This resource includes an abridged version of his 71 paragraph long speech, and is completed with critical thinking and comprehension questions. The speech fits on two pages, with the questions covering one additional page.Answer Key i
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9th - 12th
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American Revolution Stations- Centers Activity Graphic Organizer-Digital & Print
This content-rich activity is student-centered and interactive! This Road to Revolution activity has 11 stations with close readings detailing the events that led to the American Revolution including:The Stamp ActTownsend ActsIntolerable Actthe Boston Tea PartyLexington and ConcordTea ActThe Proclamation of 1763Pontiac's RebellionThe Declaration of IndependenceThomas Paine's pamphletThe English Bill of RightsSocial classes in the colonies The Sugar ActThis activity comes with over 36 pages with
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6th - 10th
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Constitution Stations Activity with Graphic Organizer and Worksheets
This content-rich activity is student-centered and interactive! This US Constitution station activity has 11 stations with close readings analyzing key aspects of the Constitution. Each reading is divided into 3 sections which have the students analyze excerpts from the Constitution, why our founding fathers wrote it the way they did and how the article is in action today. The key concepts covered include: Veto PowerThe Commerce ClauseThe Electoral CollegeEligibility for PresidentSupreme Court J
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6th - 10th
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North and South Graph Walk Stations Investigation Gallery Walk Activity
Get your students investigating and ineterpreting data that supports that the Pre-Civil War North and South were truly different worlds. This gallery walk activity is student-centered and makes them think critically!First, students analyze 10 different graphs and charts with information compiled from the Census Bureau and Department of Commerce for 1820-1860. The charts can be hung up as a "Graph Walk" or placed on tables as "Stations". Students record their analysis on a graphic organizer. Then
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7th - 11th
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Sacco and Vanzetti: Cold Case Files
Essential Question: How did the political climate of the United States post WWI lead to the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?Nativism, Red Scare, Anarchy, they're all bleeding into the justice system as we dissect the case of Sacco & Vanzetti. Were they innocent or guilty? Did the justice system get it right? Using case files, evidence analysis, and crafting opinions, students will be able to analyze the case for themselves, identify the justice, or lack thereof, served. This analyt
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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This Very Tree Book Companion | Special Education
Pair this powerful read aloud picture book (“This Very Tree” by: Sean Rubin) with effective extension activities to keep your special education students engaged with the text while teaching this important moment of American History. Using picture books in the classroom is an incredibly effective way to target many goals for special education students. "This Very Tree" is a moving story about the pear tree that survived the attacks on September 11, 2001. What book is this for? “This Very Tree” by
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PreK - 12th
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Jamestown Colony Help-Wanted Advertisement Activity
With this activity students will use their knowledge of the Jamestown colony to create a persuasive help-wanted ad. They should consider what jobs may have been underrepresented in the young colony, and create an advertisement that persuades new settlers from England that can perform those jobs.Purchase includes a detailed project information sheet, Jamestown's first jobs list, student planning sheet, and grading rubric.Please follow me to be informed of product updates, revisions, and new prod
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4th - 9th
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September 11th Graphing Mystery Picture
September 11th (9/11) can be a hard topic to discuss in class. With that said, it is necessary to educate our kiddos on this significant day in America’s history. Patriot Day, observed on September 11th, is meant to commemorate the lives of those we lost. I think it is also important to focus on the bravery shown on that day and how the country came together on the days that followed.This resource was created to provide a way for teachers to discuss September 11th in their mathematical lessons.
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4th - 9th
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Native American Heritage Month Cultural Regions Stations Activity
This interactive exhibition stations activity makes it easy and fun to teach about the major Native American cultural regions and recognize Native American Heritage Month! This activity contains no-prep informational handouts for 8 stations in both color and black and white. Station handouts include informational background text about each cultural region and representative images. The station materials are color-coded to an included map of the cultural regions. This activity does not require pr
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5th - 10th
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Excerpt Reading Analysis Worksheet
NOW GOOGLE COMPATIBLEUncle Tom's Cabin is one of the leading causes of the Civil War. Do your students know it? Have them read a quick excerpt from the book with this resource with prior information given to help establish the context!This primary source analysis includes comprehension questions and critical thinking questions related directly to the document.Feel free to view the preview for a breakdown of the source.This primary source follows the reading strategy of SOAPstone. If you are un
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9th - 12th
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United States Geography Basics: Lessons, Worksheets, Puzzles
Designed for direct instruction or for learning centers, here is a document for U S Geography. Detailed teacher instructions start this 25 page file and include handouts and worksheets as students learn and review:- oceans, continents, adjoining country names,- facts about their own state and their choice of another state, - latitude & longitudeand more.Lots of enrichment worksheets and puzzles are here too.US States Jeopardy included.See Preview for a detailed table of contents.
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4th - 11th
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The Jungle Upton Sinclair Reading Worksheet
"The Jungle" was written by Upton Sinclair and is one of the most provocative and influential pieces of literature during the Progressive Era. Upton Sinclair worked in a Chicago Meat Plant for 7 weeks, and during his time, he recorded his observations. They were then shared in his publication of his book "The Jungle". This supplemental resource includes the reading of an excerpt from the book that focuses on the working conditions and unsanitary environment of the plant. It includes compreh
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8th - 12th
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Dialects and Speech (United States)
Four-wheelin' or muddin? Cruisin' or going for a drive? Get students thinking about dialects and regional differences with this 22 page engaging, visual presentation.
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Dialect and examples
Idiolect and examples
Jargon and examples
Pidgins and examples
Creole and examples
Review of Terminologies and activity
Regional dialects and activity
Literature dialects and examples
Literature Project activity for Assessment
Extra Resources
Great for blended, flipped, homeschool, group collaborat
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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13 Colonies Artifact Museum Tour Cards
History is FUN when you add a little FLAIR to your classroom. That includes the use of historical “artifacts”. Students can use their imagination (even our older ones) to ”SEE” and “FEEL” history through museum tours. These 31 description cards are a starting point in allowing students to examine, analyze, and compare the Political, Economic, Religious, and Social Factors of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. **Combine this activity with the colonial primary source bundle for your m
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7th - 10th
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Constitution Amendments | Stations | Amendments 1-27 | USA Test Prep
Teach about the amendments in the Constitution using student-centered learning with these station activities. Explore topics such as the Civil Rights Movement, the Bill of Rights, and many others. Students will interpret graphs, analyze quotes, and make predictions about Amendments #1-27.Help students get active with amendment stations! Place the stations around the room to review a single amendment group or use it as a cumulative review before a state standardized test or classroom-based assess
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8th - 11th
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Chinese Exclusion Act- Primary Source Reading
During the 1880s, nativism was on the rise in urban America. During a dark time in American history, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, barring immigration and citizenship for the Chinese.This primary source document includes an abridged version of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Section 1-4 & 14-15), as well as 5 comprehension questions and 2 critical thinking questions, as well as a breakdown of subject, occasion, audience, and purpose.Feel free to view the preview for a breakdown of the so
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9th - 12th
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Boston Tea Party Point of View Comic Strip Project
In this project, students will use their knowledge of the Boston Tea Party to create a comic strip that illustrates the events of that night from a specific point of view. Students must have thorough understanding of the different viewpoints surrounding the Boston Tea Party, and the events that led up to it. This activity will have them objectively analyze how one event could seem so different depending on the viewpoint of the person.Purchase includes detailed project information sheet, studen
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5th - 12th
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Ellis Island and Immigration: Multiple Accounts of the Same Event Webquest
*FULLY UPDATED NOVEMBER 2023*CCSS.RI.5.6With this webquest, students will navigate six different online accounts related to Ellis Island and immigration to the United States in the early 1900's, and then analyze the similarities and differences between each account of the event.The accounts of this event are in a variety of formats, from multiple sources (articles, videos, primary source documents, etc.).Students will determine whether each document is a firsthand or secondhand account, the auth
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5th - 10th
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Phillis Wheatley "To His Excellency, General Washington" Annotation Exercise
This annotation exercise allows students to "chunk" the text of a complex American Literature poem. Students focus on close reading of the poem according to punctuation, not line endings.
The annotation exercise covers allusion, inversion, symbolism. hyperbole, tone, and a variety of vocabulary.
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9th - 12th
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George Washington Stations
This is ready to use station lesson on George Washington’s Presidency. Just print the stations in color and go! Each station is designed to get your kids critically analyzing the past, interpreting history, and gets them out there seats. This lesson will take a full 55 minutes and is a print-and-go lesson with 6 stations. You may also like: • Social Studies US Government Boom Task Card Bundle• Electoral College Boom Cards• Executive Branch Boom Cards• Impeachment Boom Cards• Federalism Boom Card
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5th - 10th
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Samuel's Memory- Trail of Tears Primary Source Reading Analysis
The Trail of Tears was one of many dark chapters in American History. This memoir of the account depicts a first-hand experience of a nine-year-old Cherokee Indian who was forced from his home, marched in the cold, and lost his family along the way. Covering the death of his father, mother, and learned hatred of "the white man", this memoir puts into perspective the ideas and notions of the Native Americans as they were forced on their long and deadly march from their homes.This primary source
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7th - 12th
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Andy Warhol Inspired Art Lesson Plan
Andy Warhol Inspired Art Lesson Plan
Get your students' creativity flowing with this art lesson plan! Andy Warhol is one of the most influential, iconic artists of our time and this project is the perfect way to introduce children to his Pop Art style. Use commonly found art materials to create this masterpiece.
Digital Download Includes Three PDFs:
PDF #1: Lesson Plan
• Supplies Needed
• Detailed Directions
• Learning Objectives (Skills Learned)
• Vocabulary
PDF #2: Letter to Families
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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