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Common Core RI.5.3 dbqs
Road to the American Revolution DBQ Document-Based Questions
American RevolutionDocument-Based Questions (DBQs) are a great way to expose students to primary sources as well as to make them think about an event in history and respond to it. This unit can be used in a few ways. You can project the full-page images on my board so that we can discuss them, and then the students answer the DBQ in their notebooks. I have also included the DBQs in printable format so that your students can answer on paper and digital Google Forms that you can send electronicall
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4th - 6th
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The White House is On Fire - War of 1812 (Teaching Literacy Through History)
In 1814, the British set fire to the White House. The tale of Dolley Madison rescuing the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington is well-known because she wrote an account of it herself. Paul Jennings, a slave at Madison’s Montpelier plantation, also wrote a firsthand account. This lesson provides an opportunity for students to compare/contrast the two accounts and answer the essential questions of "What happens when there are two contradictory eye-witness accounts of the same historica
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4th - 7th
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DBQ: What Does the Longhouse Teach Us About the Iroquois? (Mirco-Q MV)
This is from the DBQ (document based questioning) online library. With a focus on the question, "What Does the Longhouse Teach Us About the Iroquois?" This powerpoint is designed for a teacher to be able to use knowledge of the DBQ and immediately teach the content, with little preparation of lessons.This is a powerpoint to accompany the DBQ Micro-Q 3-day lesson. The Micro-Q focuses on a single document and ends with a one-paragraph student "essay."Included within this PowerPoint are: Teacher Le
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1st - 5th
Culturally Responsive, Game Based U.S. History! K4-5 Pre-Game Warm-Up: Alliance
Put colonial North America into full context with over 25 lessons using activities, maps, an animated video, DBQs, expository writing, class discussions & group challenges. Next? Play the ALLIANCE board game (separate purchase). WARNING: History class will never be the same.BOARD GAME DESCRIPTION: "A clever take on statecraft whereby six teams across colonial North America meet the triple challenge of nation building, international diplomacy, and economic sustainability. Iroquois Confederacy
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4th - 7th
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Emmett Till and The 16th Street Bombing - FREEBIE
This is an activity that can either be used as a homework activity, in class independent activity, or used with a small group of students. The passages are taken from npr.org and biography.com and are both easily accessible. Links to the article are included in the packet. Enjoy!
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4th - 6th
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5th Grade Weather Interdisciplinary Final Project
This is a final weather project that will give students the opportunity to demonstrate a deep understanding of weather concepts, analyzing multiple perspectives and excellence in persuasive writing. The project is interdisciplinary in that it meets fifth grade reading, writing, and science common core standards. The project spans a week and includes opportunities for students to collaborate and deepen their understanding of weather and persuasive techniques.
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5th - 6th
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Christopher Columbus PBL Activity
The story of Christopher Columbus is full of controversy! In this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking social studies and ELA PBL activity, the students will become investigative reporters to discover Columbus's voyages' positive (+) and negative (-) effects on those involved. Students will put on their thinking caps as they close read historical fiction accounts in the first person (Columbus) and an interview with a Taino Chief, seeing both perspectives. They will also use math to test
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Christopher Columbus Interactive BUNDLE
The Declaration of Independence is really a "Dear John" letter
In this lesson, students will read a "Dear John" in which Mary lists the reasons that she needs to break up with John. Using a graphic organizer, the students will analyze the various parts of the letter.
Students will then look at the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Usually a similar graphic organizer they will analyze the various parts of the preamble to deepen their understanding of why the colonies felt they needed to "break up" with England.
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4th - 7th
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A Comparison of Two of History's Greatest Mysteries
This is a student-led investigative project comparing the events of Roanoke and The Mary Celeste. The texts used for this unit is Roanoke: The Lost Colony and The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History, both by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple.The unit is focused on RL.5.9. The research is mirrored so students can use the same investigative narrative.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Primary sources- The Trail of Tears
Primary source 1: A letter from President Andrew Jackson. March 16th, 1835Primary source 2: The address to congress by Andrew Jackson on the Indian Removal Act.Primary Source 3: Here a soldier recalls what it was like working on the Trail of Tears.Primary Source 4: A white man helping the Cherokee, describes one of the days traveling. I used these in my end of Unit writing piece for Indigenous Americans aka "Native Americas". Students used the primary sources along with secondary readings to re
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5th - 8th
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