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11th grade Back to School U.S. History projects
All About Me Google Slides Activity + Class Slideshow/Ebook - Back to School
Build class community and get to know your new students with this engaging back-to-school activity that's distance-learning approved! During this Google Slides activity, students will create an “About Me” slide with the provided editable templates. When finished, students will turn in their slides and you will compile them in a collaborative class slideshow/ebook that can be posted on your LMS or class website (or even emailed to parents/guardians). Building relationships is SO important, especi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reconstruction Evaluation Interactive Project Activity
This interactive Reconstruction Era activity for US History has your class assuming the roles of various people during the Age of Reconstruction and evaluating how they would feel about Reconstruction.Students are assigned one of six characters (a women freed from enslavement, former plantation owner, teacher with the Freedmen's Bureau, etc) and must read the short biography to think critically about each aspect of Reconstruction. They then decide which parts of Reconstruction would be positive
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7th - 11th
World War 2 Battles Radio Show Project: Pearl Harbor, D-Day, & More
This World War II Battles Radio Show Project is a cooperative learning project that has students read about 7 key battles of World War 2 and create engaging radio news segments just like Americans would have heard in the 1940's!Everything you need to complete this fun, creative lesson about the key battles of World War 2 is included! You will receive:A directions page that explains how the war unfolded for Americans via the radio and what students need to do to create a radio news segment.Seven
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7th - 11th
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Partner Pairing Cards and Grouping Cards Pick a Partner #SizzlingSTEM2
Pick a partner or do small group pairing with these fun cards!With a variety of fun ways to pair or group students, students each choose (or receive) one card and then seek out their pair or group. Forming groups for projects or STEM challenges can elicit groans from students, but by making it fun and engaging for students, this will become your go-to way for no-argue partnerships.Pick a Partner Cards may be printed at full size or at 2 pages per sheet to save paper.✅ What You'll Get ✅✅ Partneri
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K - 12th
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Also included in: STEM Teacher ❤️ Favorites ❤️ Bundle Best Sellers in One Place
Student Council Advisor Notebook - Application Election Meeting Forms
Build a solid Student Council Government program with this sample constitution, candidate application, election and meeting minute templates, plus a calendar of events and idea sheets.The Student Council Advisor How-To Guide handbook is 45 pages, chock full of the best tried-and-true systems, step-by-step checklists, and insider advice for starting a program from scratch or revitalizing one. All 30+ forms and templates are fully editable Google Docs and Slides files.Whether you are a wide-eyed
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
Intro to Leadership or Student Council Middle High School Unit
Start your Leadership class or Student Council off on a successful year with this introductory unit filled with enough student-centered, get-them-thinking activities to use for 2-3 years before any repeats- great if students are in student government year after year! Then, culminate student learning and growth with a campus-wide Kindness Project to kick off a positive year.This unit kit comes in both print PDF and digital for Google Slides!Greatness is maximizing all group members' strengths to
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Leadership Student Council Full Course for Middle High School Advisors
History Crime Scene Investigation: The Lost Colony of Roanoke CSI
Want a great way for students to engage in a group activity while they examine maps, artifacts, primary sources, and solve a historical mystery? Download The Lost Colony of Roanoke CSI!
This exciting activity can be used to challenge individual students or to encourage collaboration in groups of up to five. Students form CSI teams and examine real evidence from the Roanoke to determine what happened to the colonists. It's a great way to encourage students to support historical arguments with r
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7th - 11th
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Back to School (Stage 1 STEM) Bundle: 50+ Icebreaker Activities
Back to School Icebreaker STEM Bundle! Need back to school icebreakers or games that get students moving, communicating, working in teams, and building relationships? Here are 50+ of our favorite basic activities that are low-cost and low-prep for any classroom or subject!Working as a team, they will learn lessons in communication, innovation, hidden assumptions, and creativity that are central to the engineering process. Use as a warm-up, icebreaker, team building activity, or basic STEM and en
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
WWII Propaganda Posters Activities and Project Print & Digital
Examine over a dozen famous WWII home front propaganda posters for the devices used, culminating learning with students creating posters of their own to address a current school problem.Let your principal decide whose poster has the winning message to transform your school’s culture!This plug-and-play PBL activity kit comes as a printable PDF and digital in Google Slides!Greatness is spotting persuasive devices at work and knowing how to use them for good. World War II was the U.S.’s greatest f
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
All About Me Poster One Pager All About Me Worksheet Middle School High School
This "All About Me" one pager poster project is the perfect getting to know you activity for the first day of school or first week of school with your middle school and high school students. This EDITABLE, NO PREP, GOOGLE SLIDES 1 pager is a fun, creative, and engaging back to school activity that builds classroom community and encourages students to reflect on the people, experiences, and accomplishments that make them the unique person they are. This activity is editable so you can meet the un
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Stock Market Simulation Project
This fun stock market project has students research companies they want to invest in for a simulation of how investing in the market works! It's great for an economics class or when you cover the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression in US History. I use it in the middle of the year and then we periodically check each of their portfolios as the year goes on to see how each student's investments are doing. Included in the download are:A detailed directions page that includes info on
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9th - 12th
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Civil War Battles Digital Research Project & Presentation|Distance Learning
There were thousands of battles during the American Civil War and it can be difficult for students to remember the most important ones. This is a great project that can help with that! Students work in groups of 2-3 to research one significant battle and create a Google Slides presentation using a template. (This project will work for any Civil War battle.) The groups present their projects to the class while the other students take notes on the basic battle information.This product includes a z
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5th - 12th
Create Your Own Caricature - A Self Portrait Drawing Template
Students can now create their own caricatures with these templates! This is a fun self-portrait drawing activity for the beginning of the year or end of the year. I have been using these caricatures for years with my fourth and fifth-grade students, and it is one of our favorite activities from the school year! Students draw themselves as a cartoon and then I use them as an all about me self-portrait for our back-to-school bulletin board display or place them in end-of-the-year memory books. The
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3rd - 12th
History Crime Scene Investigation: Abraham Lincoln Assassination CSI
Want a great way for students to engage in a group activity while they examine eyewitness testimony, artifacts, primary sources, and solve a historical mystery? Download The Abraham Lincoln Assassination CSI!
This exciting activity can be used to challenge individual students or to encourage collaboration in groups of up to five. Students form CSI teams and examine real evidence from Ford's Theater to determine what happened to President Lincoln and who was responsible. While it is easy to det
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5th - 12th
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Linking In Back to School Community Building Activity - Connections & Creativity
Build class community, facilitate creative thinking & connections, and get to know your students with this engaging back-to-school activity!This unique “Linking In” activity is designed to build relationships by helping students make connections with their classmates. During this activity, students will write/draw things they love and parts of their identity on strips of paper. Then, students will work together to find connections between what they’ve recorded on the strips of paper. When th
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Project Based Learning Packet for ALL of US History
This awesome packet for bringing Project Based Learning (PBL) in your US History classes will be life-changing! PBL brings real world experiences into the classroom to make lessons more meaningful and engaging for students. It gives them choice in their learning while also delving deeper into a topic of US History that matters to them. This packet gives you everything you need to use project based learning for any unit in American History and includes 99 (yes, 99!) suggested topics for projects
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7th - 11th
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US History & APUSH End of Year Project: History Yearbook - Digital or Print
This fully digital or printable Yearbook Project can be posted and completed on Google Classroom or completed by hand if you want students to "unplug." Great for the end of the year, end of the Semester, or even end of a Unit (with minor modifications)STUDENTS WILL CREATE A YEARBOOK TO REMINISCE ABOUT ALL THE GOOD TIMES (& BAD TIMES) OF US HISTORY: Be creative & have fun, but also show what you have learned by including important factual information.There are 4 sections [Letter from the
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8th - 12th
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Cold War - Research Project with Rubric (15 Cold War Events)
Cold War - Research Project with Rubric (15 Cold War Events) - This Cold War 7 page resource includes a research project for the major events and topics related to the Cold War. The resource requires students to complete research on a chosen event or topic from the Cold War in relation to the history and significance and then to create a display to show their research.
The resource includes a student handout that details the expectations of the project and how it can best be completed. As well,
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5th - 11th
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U.S. Constitution Project! - Preamble, Articles, Separation of Powers...
Students will enjoy learning about the U.S. Constitution when completing this creative and illustrative project (check out Preview). This 14-page packet includes a direction sheet, evaluation sheet, and worksheets for the pieces of the project. Pieces include: a cover page, preamble interpretation collage, constitution book (of articles), "Separation of Powers" Triangle (includes checks and balances), "How a Bill Becomes a Law" Book, and Amendment illustrations. Students will feel proud of t
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5th - 11th
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Boston Massacre Primary & Secondary Source Analysis Lesson
This Boston Massacre primary and secondary source analysis activity has students analyzing 4 visual depictions of the event and 2 primary source newspaper accounts for an awesome Common Core-aligned lesson! Your download includes all 4 pictures of the event, an account from a London paper showing the British perspective and an account from a Boston paper that favors the colonists. Students use a 2-page worksheet to answer questions as they analyze each document then complete a Venn Diagram compa
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8th - 11th
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Project: The Bill of Rights (distance learning option included)
This project has everything your students need to know about the freedoms contained in the Bill of Rights!The resource includes a PowerPoint that presents each amendment in the Bill of Rights in student-friendly terms. After explaining both the structure and the purposes of the Bill of Rights, the presentation leads students through all ten amendments, allowing multiple opportunities for teachers to provide real-life examples. Each slides includes teacher notes.The PowerPoint is paired with a
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Bundled Unit: Everything You Need to Know About the Constitution!
APUSH Period 4 Full Unit Scrapbook Project Based Learning - Digital + Print
Whether you are a new APUSH teacher or a veteran looking to shake things up, this unit project will get your students thinking critically and creatively about history. Mix up your AP United States History class with this 10 part Unit-Long Project covering all Key Concepts from the College Board Course Description. This unit is designed to supplement all the major APUSH Textbooks. Includes links to online sources for researching each topic. This Unit Project gives students a creative and personal
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9th - 12th
Also included in: APUSH Semester 1 Bundle: 4 Complete Digital Units for AP US History
Political Parties | Campaign Simulation Running for President
This presidential election simulation is an excellent way for students to comprehend all aspects of political parties and the campaigns needed to elect a presidential candidate - "Let's Get The Party Started!" The teacher will divide class into groups of 4 to 5 students per group. Each group will develop their own political party and choose a presidential candidate to represent their party. Using the included criteria, allow students a few class periods, or portions of class periods, to create
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5th - 12th
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Back to School Bulletin Board - Cactus Classroom Decor - Llama Classroom Decor
Are you looking for watercolor cactus classroom decor or llama classroom decor? These back to school bulletin boards are perfect for decorating your cactus theme classroom (or your llama theme classroom) and welcoming your students at the beginning of the year. Everything you need to make these 5 bulletin boards is included. Just print the pieces on paper, cut them out, and then attach them to your bulletin board or to your door. Click the preview to get a closer look at each design. Please note
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1st - 12th
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