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Common Core RH.6-8.9 research
National History Day Projects From Start to Finish 2023-2024
NOTE: Enjoy the NEWLY UPDATED 2023-2024 version (Turning Points in History Theme)! It has brand new materials related to this year's theme, and I also updated lessons to include a more comprehensive and integrated approach to using both primary and secondary sources.This is your one stop shop for all National History Day lessons and resources!National History Day is a contest in which student choose a topic, conduct in depth research, and create a project (5-6 project categories to choose from!)
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6th - 12th
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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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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Middle School Social Studies Project Refugees | Action Research
This Middle School Social Studies Project on Refugees engages critical thinking. The task is suitable for IB schools, and any class conducting inquiry based learning. Now suitable for digital learning with printable and Google Slides options. Click the green PREVIEW button above to view all the pages in this great resource. ** REASONS FOR REFUGEES**Students will work to research and understand reasons for people becoming refugees. Through action research they will come up with possible solution
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5th - 9th
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Comparing Country Statistics Geography Europe Research Activity
Want to study the countries of Europe? Looking at current events in your classes? Looking at European statistics? Hoping to find the perfect no-prep resource to practice investigation, comparison and analysis?This activity requires students to gather and compare the important basic statistics of the countries of Europe by creating country signs for classroom centers to travel. Statistics Covered:PopulationLife ExpectanceLiteracy RateGDPMoney/CurrencyLanguagesAt the end, students must use the i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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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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Montgomery Bus Boycott Activity and Project Kit Print & Digital
Tap into your students’ personal passions, the deciding factors of successful social movements, and an array of critical thinking skills in these 7 activities and project the cover the complete story of Civil Rights Movement's kick-off event, the Montgomery Bus Boycott by learning the contributions of everyone from Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr.This resource comes in both PDF and Google Slides for your flexibility!What made December 1995 Montgomery
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8th - 11th
Also included in: US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
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: Early America United States History Unit
History Fair Project for Middle School (Ancient to Early Modern History)
Do you wish to spice-up your History classes for Middle School students and make them think like historians? Do you intend to enhance students' understanding of history topics while developing their key soft skills? Then this History Fair Project for Middle School students is for you!The project includes all of the following:Introductory PowerPoint presentation to get students familiar with the project. Sample student works are included, too.Detailed instructions and purpose for all written comp
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient History for Middle School: Full Course (Complete Bundle)
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: The United States Gilded Age Unit (Google Compatible)
Printable Wax Museum Research Project - Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates 6-8
Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Biography Research project! Students will create a living history wax museum and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills.This engaging and ready-to-go research project provides excellent support to the history, writing, and literacy curriculum to engage students and motivate students for learning. Tie in black history / women's history month, President's Day, or created your theme for t
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6th - 8th
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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Exploring Victorian London & the Context of "A Christmas Carol"
Immerse your students in the world of Charles Dickens' timeless classic, "A Christmas Carol," with this interactive digital Canva HyperDoc lesson! Designed to engage students and pave the way for a deep dive into the novel, this pre-reading lesson offers multiple activities to delve into the context and background of the story, Victorian London, and the author.Students will explore the historical and social backdrop of Victorian England, gaining valuable insights into Dickens' life and the circu
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6th - 12th
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Ancient History Wax Museum Biography Research Project - Rubrics & Organizers 6-8
Get your students excited to learn about Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, or Ancient India with this fun and engaging Biography Research project! Students will create a living ancient history wax museum and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills.This engaging and ready-to-go printable project provides excellent support to the history, writing, and literacy curriculum to engage students and motivate students for learning. Students can
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6th - 8th
Gods of Egypt Movie - Interactive Worksheet
***Note there is one brief bedroom scene in Gods of Egypt that I skip when I show this scene to middle schoolers.Do you want your students to enjoy watching videos for History class but still really get something educational from it? What better way to reinforce your history lessons then by wrapping up a unit with a video that covers some of the lessons and standards that you are teaching. If you study Ancient Egypt at all in your class, you will want to purchase this. The students also have
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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: Middle School Library Research Skills Mega Bundle!
Early African Kingdoms Informational Reading & Inquiry Based Learning Activities
Need a no-prep way to introduce Early African Kingdoms of Axum, Nubia, and the Bantu Migrations that practices the Inquiry Based Learning Format? This Informational reading on the era starting at 700 B.C.E. on the early civilizations in the Sub-Saharan Africa region is a great way to introduce this significant era in history while addressing Inquiry standards in your classroom. And it wraps up the lesson with an incredible project rubric that is sure to help guide your students in showing all th
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7th - 10th
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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
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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Not Grade Specific
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EDITABLE Wax Museum Research Project with Rubric & Graphic Organizer Templates
Get your students excited about research reports with this fun and engaging Biography Research project! Students will create a living history wax museum and write a research paper while building their research & writing skills.This engaging and ready-to-go Editable research project provides excellent support to the history, writing, and literacy curriculum to engage students and motivate students for learning. Tie in black history / women's history month, President's Day, or created your th
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6th - 8th
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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A New "New Deal" for Georgia! -SS8H8
Have you ever wanted to engage your students in a problem-based learning activity that actually connects history and our modern world? This resource includes a lesson plan and resources that guide your students through research, problem solving, and writing. Students will research some social or economic issues impacting the state or their local communities and create a New Deal plan to address those problems. Watch students make connections and learn from the past to create modern solutions to
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8th
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