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Common Core RH.6-8.6 research
Biography Project Research Bundle: 7 Activities Famous Person or History Report
Choices, choices, choices!!! In this inquiry-based learning project, students can choose between 7 formats, but grades are based on the same rubric criteria. This research project is Common Core writing and literacy aligned, and was recently completely updated.This works as a biography or teacher-assigned topic project. Students write a focus question, gather primary source quotes, write an informational text paragraph with evidence, create timelines, create five class questions, and provide vis
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4th - 12th
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Mummification and the Afterlife - Ancient Egypt - Print and Digital
Students LOVE studying the fascinating details of Ancient Egypt including the Pyramids of Giza, the Afterlife, mummification, and sarcophaguses. This resource takes the most interesting topics and makes them even more interesting! Starting with a vocabulary unit and progressing all the way to a hands-on mummification activity, this set of lessons is bound to catch your students’ attention and make them want more! Use all of these activities, or just a few. Teach it all in one class session, or b
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6th - 8th
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Code Talker Unit Plans - Novel Study Guide with Reading Comprehension Questions
Teaching reading skills by reading a novel can be a daunting task if you've never done it before. The Code Talker novel study guide is a COMPLETE LITERATURE GUIDE for this gripping historical fiction book about the role of Navajo Code Talkers during World War II. Everything you need to turn Code Talkers into a standards-based unit of study is included: BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE (access articles and videos using QR codes), READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS (multiple times), and DEEP THINKING TEX
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Historical Fiction Novel Studies BUNDLE & Book Companions
Mummification and the Afterlife-Ancient Egypt - Digital
Students LOVE studying the fascinating details of Ancient Egypt including the Pyramids of Giza, the Afterlife, mummification, and sarcophaguses. This resource takes the most interesting topics and makes them even more interesting! Starting with a vocabulary unit and progressing all the way to a hands-on mummification activity, this set of lessons is bound to catch your students’ attention and make them want more! Use all of these activities, or just a few. Teach it all in one class session, or b
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Ancient Egypt Unit Bundle | Reading Comp, Presentations & Notes - Digital
Just Mercy Movie Guide & Death Penalty Debate - PAIR PACK - CCSS
This is a pair-pack of our popular resources: Just Mercy Movie Guide and Capital Punishment Class Debate. Both go well together for any classroom covering the complex topic of capital punishment. Students can analyze the film and contemplate the issues within the U.S. justice system. They can later have a class debate about whether capital punishment, in itself, should be abolished within government. In the movie guide, there is a set of resources for viewing Just Mercy in your classroom. The vi
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9th - 12th
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Monthly Current Event Assignment
Have your students become world class news reporters and stay current on events with this monthly project!! This is one of my students' favorite assignments and they enjoy presenting their research to the class throughout the year. I tend to get too many request to do current events and have to limit them as progress through the curriculum. This assignment also astonishes parents, because their student becomes mini-experts on the specific topic that they choose. This project is successful becau
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Salem Witch Trials True Crime Podcast Project (Google Compatible)
The Salem Witch Trials True Crime Podcast Research Project Is your class learning about American Colonies and the Salem Witch Trials?This fun project is designed to help students understand the impact that the Salem Witch Trials had on Colonial life in America. In this activity, students will create and record a 15 – 20-minute true crime podcast on the topic of the Salem Witch Trials. Students will plan their podcast using the attached materials and will record their podcast at home or in class
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Early America United States History Unit
Instagram the American Revolution Project (Middle grades version)
This is designed to be a summative project after the American Revolution unit. Students select an identity, post at least 8 posts from themselves and 2 posts from a contemporary. This reinforces succinct writing, use of modern technology and its vernacular (i.e. #hashtags), while reinforcing point of view writing. This is based on the 6-8 Common Core standards for history, with 7th grade standards as the meeting grade level, 6th as approaching grade level and 8th as exceeding grade level. C
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6th - 8th
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Immigration in the United States Family History Research Project (Google Comp)
Immigration in the United States Family History Research ProjectIs your class learning about Immigration in the United States? In this fun and interactive project students will research the history of their family as it relates to their story of coming to live where they do today. The project includes the completion of a family tree, an interview with a family member, descriptions of food and transitions related to their family, and research on their country of origin. The worksheet is no prep,
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â The United States Gilded Age Unit (Google Compatible)
Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement Unit 10 tasks + inquiry project and essay
This unit of work focuses on the Aboriginal Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century. It is a very interesting topic to do especially to compare and contrast with the US and South African Civil Rights Movements occurring at the same time.This unit is designed to be followed chronologically from slide 3-73. Teachers can pick and choose with subtopics are suitable to their curriculum. This unit includes:* Primary and secondary sources of photos, maps, film and audio* Aboriginal Australian history
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Climate Change and Global Warming Social Studies Unit Project Middle School | IB
A Climate Change and Global Warming Middle School Social Studies Unit that your students will LOVE. They will be critical thinkers as they complete this social studies project, researching the issues facing our world today and possibilities for the future. Includes print out and digital options. Click the green PREVIEW button above to view all the pages in this great resource.** GLOBAL WARMING**Students will work to research the causes of global warming / climate change and ways the impact can b
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5th - 8th
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Patriots vs. Loyalists Debate - American Revolution - CCSS
This is a set of lesson materials that culminates in a Patriots vs. Loyalists debate by the class. Great for any classroom analyzing the issues on the road to the American Revolution. Students will: Learn about the two sides and the disagreements about the War for Independence, analyze the different viewpoints, be assigned a position to take, collaborate within teams, prepare main arguments, peer review each other's reasoning, and participate in an academic debate that is guided by moderator que
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â U.S. History Debates Bundle - CCSS
The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution Newspaper Activity (Google Comp)
The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution Newspaper ActivityIs your class studying about the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution in Europe?In this interactive activity, students will create a newspaper headline page about the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution in Europe. Students will write three headlines, three summary blurbs, and illustrate three pictures on the headline page. The activity is low prep, easy to use, and google compatible.With this resource, your student will b
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CHANGE MAKERS: A Black History Biography Inquiry and Research Project Unit
Looking to build information literacy skills in your middle schoolers? This engaging 36 page/slide Black History Inquiry biography research unit will allow students to gain practice in several library and research skills:using a six step inquiry-based research processPulling information from nonfiction textGathering informationAnswering inquiry based questionsFormulating their own questionsNavigating the features of an online encyclopediaSummarizing and paraphrasing informationCiting sourcesDigi
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6th - 8th
Also included in:Â Middle School Library Research Skills Mega Bundle!
Instagram World War I (WWI) Project (High school version)
This is designed to be a summative project after the World War I unit. Students select an identity, Instagram at least 8 posts from themselves and 2 posts from a contemporary. This reinforces succinct writing, use of modern technology and its vernacular (i.e. #hashtags), while reinforcing point of view writing. There is a paper based project if internet or social media isn't available. This is based on the 9-12 Common Core standards for history, with 9/10th grade standards as the meeting gra
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9th - 12th
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CHANGE MAKERS: Asian American Pacific Islander Biography Inquiry Research Unit
Looking to build information literacy skills in your middle schoolers? This engaging 36 page/slide Asian American & Pacific Islander Inquiry biography research unit will allow students to gain practice in several library and research skills:using a six step inquiry-based research processPulling information from nonfiction textGathering informationAnswering inquiry based questionsFormulating their own questionsNavigating the features of an online encyclopediaSummarizing and paraphrasing infor
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6th - 8th
Death Penalty Debate - Capital Punishment - CCSS
This is a set of lesson materials that culminates in a class debate about capital punishment. Students will: Research how capital punishment has been used in U.S. justice system, analyze different viewpoints, be assigned a position to take, collaborate within teams, prepare main arguments, peer review each other's reasoning, and will participate in an academic debate that is guided by moderator questions (included). The objective is to help students think critically, learn to articulate a view,
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Just Mercy Movie Guide & Death Penalty Debate - PAIR PACK - CCSS
THE BATTLE OF MARATHON Eyewitness Accounts & Reading Comprehension
Allow your students to discover more about the THE BATTLE OF MARATHON and ANCIENT GREECE / EGYPT using these Primary Source and Reading Comprehension activities.Examining primary sources gives students a powerful sense of history and the complexity of the past. Helping students analyze primary sources can also guide them toward higher-order thinking and better critical thinking and analysis skills.These differentiated activities are NO PREP and READY TO GO! Great for sub (substitute lesson pla
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Lost Colony of Roanoke US American History Podcast Project 13 Colonies
The Lost Colony of Roanoke & The 13 Colonies True Crime Podcast Research Project Is your class learning about American Colonies and the Lost Colony of Roanoke and the 13 colonies?This fun project is designed to help students understand the impact that the lost colony of Roanoke had on Colonial life in America. In this activity, students will create and record a 15 – 20-minute true crime podcast on the topic of the The Lost Colony of Roanoke. Students will plan their podcast using the attache
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Social Studies Debates - MEGA BUNDLE - History and Civics Debates - CCSS
This is a massive bundle of lesson materials for 16 engaging debate topics relevant to World History, U.S. History, Government, and Economics. It's all here for the social studies teacher who teaches various courses in their department or who wishes to incorporate cross-curricular topics. Several overlap with each subject. Students will: Learn about the content related to each debate, analyze different viewpoints, be assigned a position to take, collaborate within teams, prepare main arguments,
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8th - 12th
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Napoleon Debate: Hero or Villain? Noble Leader or Corrupt Tyrant? - CCSS
This is a set of lesson materials that culminates in a class debate about the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte. Students will: Learn about the reign and accomplishments of Napoleon, analyze different viewpoints, be assigned a position to take, collaborate within teams, prepare main arguments, peer review each other's reasoning, and will participate in an academic debate that is guided by moderator questions (included). The objective is to help students think critically, learn to articulate a view, a
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â World History Debates Bundle - CCSS
Government Purpose, Structure and Limitations COMPLETE UNIT
To view a video preview of this unit, please click here.If you need a unit to provide a perfect foundation for your government students, then you have come to the right place!This unit includes ALL lesson plans, student slides, rubrics, and even exemplar summative projects related to the purpose, structure, and limitations of government. This will help give your students the background they need for success on all future government units and tasks. We believe in a UBD backwards-planning approa
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8th - 12th
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Julius Caesar Murder Mystery
In this class who-dun-it, assign your students the role of Cassius, Brutus, Antony, Caesar's bodyguard, or Augustus to research and play out the death of Julius Caesar. Set up in the method of a hosted dinner party, make this activity fun by allowing the students to dress up or bring food as they work through 3 rounds. Each round reveals new information about the death of Julius Caesar and the suspects behind. There are also clues to reveal the expansion of the Roman empire, the route of Caesar'
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Not Grade Specific
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? - Industrialists Debate - CCSS
This is a set of lesson materials that culminates in a class debate about the legacy of the major industrialists such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc. Students will: Learn about their careers during the Industrial Revolution, analyze different viewpoints, be assigned a position to take, collaborate within teams, prepare main arguments, peer review each other's reasoning, and will participate in an academic debate that is guided by moderator questions (included). The objective is to hel
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â U.S. History Debates Bundle - CCSS
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