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Middle school informational text dbqs for Google Apps
Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Human Caused Climate Change ESS2.C Distance Learning Claim Evidence Reasoning
With this product students will understand the science behind humans causing climate change by reading an article and filling in a Claim Evidence Reasoning Chart/Graphic Organizer. Students will use evidence in the article that Human-caused climate change has made a substantial contribution to sea level rise, droughts, heat waves, tidal flooding and increases in global average temperatures that support the claim of the author.This resource is now Distance Learning optional! You get a link to mak
Grades:
6th - 12th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-ESS3-2
, MS-ESS3-1
, MS-ESS3-5
, MS-ESS3-3
The True Story of Emmett Till Informational Text Article with Questions
Informational text article and questions about The True Story of the Murder of Emmett Till. Includes an abridged version of the 1956 article "The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi" with comprehension questions. Use as a pre-reading activity for your study of the Jim Crow era, in your To Kill a Mockingbird unit, in centers, in Literature Groups, as a supplemental activity, or as part of your social studies/history unit. Includes Answer Key. Includes both PRINTABLE and DIGITAL VER
Grades:
8th - 10th
Plessy Versus Ferguson and the Jim Crow Laws - Informational Text and Questions
Informational Text Article with Questions on the case of Homer Adolph Plessy vs. The State of Louisiana. In June of 1892, a 30-year-old man named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "white" section of a railroad car. Plessy was only one-eighth black, but under Louisiana law was considered “colored,” and therefore was required to sit in the "colored car." In Homer Adolph Plessy vs. The State of Louisiana, Plessy argued that the separation violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
Grades:
8th - 10th
Periodic Table Webquest Mystery of the Missing Element NGSS Chemistry
Need a way to engage your middle school science students in an introduction to the periodic table? This engaging lesson set is web-based and includes chemistry resources to help students learn about the periodic table, chemical elements, non-fiction texts, and more. Students learn about the history of the periodic table through cross-curricular connections to social studies with DBQs, and language arts through the reading and writing of non-fiction texts. This resource supports NGSS Middle Schoo
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-PS1-2
, MS-PS1-1
DBQ for Middle School - The Road to World War II: Primary & Secondary Sources
This no-prep resource is your complete guide to integrating literacy and social studies through a Document Based Question analysis and written response.This resource asks students to analyze primary and secondary sources in order to answer the essential question: How did the events and aftermath of World War I lead to World War II?Included within this resource are:1. Vocabulary2. DBQ: 5 documents with editable guiding questions3. A written response planning guide (editable)4. Mastery-based rubri
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Socratic Seminar: Who Should Be on American Currency?
The images we see around us daily have a subtle yet profound effect. In this Socratic seminar, students consider American currency and consider: should the faces on the bills be changed or stay the same? The learn who is featured on currency now and think on who could be. This activity can be used during an American History course as students learn about figures like Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, or can be used as a general debate in any Social Studies or English-Language Arts classroom.
Grades:
8th - 12th
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Current Events: Protest on American Campuses Spring 2024 Part II
Students will read five document based questions on protest on American Campuses and answer a short response question: Should college students be arrested for expressing their First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech?
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6th - 8th
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Current Events: TikTok Ban Part II Spring 2024
Students will read five documents about the potential TikTok ban in the United States. Students will then answer the following using two pieces of evidence: Should the United States force ByteDance to sell TikTok to another company? Why or why not?
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: Protests on American Campuses Spring 2024
Students will read 5 document based questions on the protest on American campuses due to the Israel-Hamas War. Students will then answer a short response question: How should colleges and universities deal with student protesters?
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The "Central Park Five" Informational Text Article with Questions
Informational text article and questions about the true story of the Central Park Five. In 1989, five African-American boys confessed to the crime of rape and assault of a young female jogger before they spoke to legal counsel, and under duress and pressure of the police. After withdrawing their confessions, all five boys pled not guilty but were ultimately convicted and put into prison. While in prison, one of the boys met another inmate who confessed to the rape and assault. His DNA matched s
Grades:
8th - 10th
Current Events: Amelia Earhart's Plane Found 2024
Students will read five Document Based Questions about how a deep sea company has believed to have found Amelia Earhart's plane. Students will then write an answer to a short response question using two pieces of evidence in the text.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: School bans mirrors in school bathrooms
Students will read Document Based Questions on why a school in North Carolina has removed bathrooms mirrors. Students will then answer 5 questions and a short response question using evidence from the text.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: Mayor Eric Adams and Solitary Confinement 2024
Students will read DBQs about NYC Mayor Eric Adams and why he vetoed the Solitary Confinement Bill and "The How Many Stops" Bill. Students will answer the short response question: Do you agree or disagree with Mayor Adams on vetoing (rejecting) the solitary confinement and the How Many Stops Act?
Grades:
6th - 8th
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s - Informational Text and Questions
Informational Text Article with Questions on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. As the United States recovered from the Civil War of the 1860s, many white Americans tried to hold on to their control by enacting laws and policies designed to segregate former slaves and prevent them from gaining any political power. While African-Americans citizens endured and tolerated the unequal policy of “separate, but equal” and the Jim Crow era, repeated calls for change culminated in the Civil Rights M
Grades:
8th - 10th
Argument, Claim, & Evidence Practice - Texting and Driving, Dangerous or Not?
Students can practice reading and annotating conflicting articles on the topic Texting and Driving. There are three articles, three infographs, a video, and an audio clip, to give the students practice with multimedia presentations on the same topic. There are standards-based questions throughout the presentation that can be answered individually or in a whole group setting. This presentation aligns with Florida standards LAFS.8.RI.3.7, RI.3.8 and RI.3.9.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Teens and Machines: Young People & the Early Industrial Revolution DBQ
This multi-primary source non-fiction DBQ (document based question) activity was created with 7th graders in mind and is appropriate while studying The First Industrial Revolution/Labor History/Women's and Children's History/Lowell Mills/New England. Each document illuminates a different aspect of the Industrial Revolution unfolding in Massachusetts in the early 1800's. Students will examine a diagram of the parts of a textile factory, one boardinghouse's rules for mill workers, and a letter fro
Grades:
7th - 11th
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Current Events: Curfew for Teens in Newark, New Jersey 2024
Students will read five document based questions on the new curfew in Newark, NJ and then answer one short response.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: Israel- Hamas Conflict Part III
Students will read about the Israeli- Hamas Conflict (In the previous two current events I named it the Israeli-Palestine Conflict but since Israel and Hamas are fighting and the news outlets have changed it to Israel and Hamas War, I decided to change it) Students will read 5 document based questions and then they will answer a short response question.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
Current Events: COP28: Climate Change Summit
Students will read documents on the recent climate summer that just ended in December in Dubai
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: Dress Code Violation or Hair Discrimination?
Students will read five DBQ about Darryl George and the Crown Act and answer 5 questions. Students will then using evidence from the text to answer the short response question: Why is the CROWN Act important to Black people?
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Current Events: 2023 Israeli and Palestinian Conflict Part II
Students will read five document based questions about the current Israeli- Palestinian Conflict and answer questions. Students will then answer the short response question Explain the impact (effect) of the war on Israel, Palestine and/ or America using two pieces of evidence from the text.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
Current Events: Israel- Hamas War Part IV (Four)
Students will read 5 DBQ on the Israel- Hamas War and then answer a short response question
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Current Events: Israel- Hamas War 2023 Parts 1-4
Current Events: Word of the Year
Students will read 5 documents about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s Word of the Year and they will answer a short response
Grades:
6th - 8th
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