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Higher education social studies worksheets under $5
Cell Phone Characterization, PDF & Google Drive, Literature or History Activity
Add a little fun to ANY novel, play, short story, or history unit with this worksheet where students choose a character (or historic figure) and fill a fictional cell phone with email messages, playlist entries, and a wallpaper image.This PDF file and Google Drive version includes a blank form and a completed sample to show students, if you wish. The sample is from my students’ study of To Kill a Mockingbird, showing Scout Finch’s cell phone content, but you could use this worksheet with ANY wor
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6th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Social Dilemma Netflix Documentary: 30 Question Worksheet + Answer Key!
The Social Dilemma- This is a video guide + answer key! (Hard copy and digital versions.)Technology, cell phones and social media leave us with a social dilemma for sure! Whether it be Facebook, Snap Chat, Instagram, Tik Tok or Twitter, all social media gives us reason to stop, pause and reflect!-----------------------------------------------------Here you will find:* 30 questions that follow along with the documentary* Answer key to make grading a breeze* An optional "less paper" version* Link
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â High School Health Curriculum: Full Year, Skills Based Health Education
Scarcity and Opportunity Cost | Digital Learning Activity
Teaching economics can be difficult. Start your students off right by building their comprehension of scarcity and opportunity cost with this engaging and multi-faceted activity! Digital and Paper Copies Included!This activity includes:1) This "Scarcity and Opportunity Cost" Activity includes 4 parts. It begins with a colorful graphic organizer that asks your students to define basic terms and to explain concepts at the foundation of economic study. Next, students will compare and contrast trade
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Introduction to Economics | Unit Activity Bundle
Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Need more informational text-based lessons in your classroom? This print-and-go worksheet is the perfect little tool to use as a weekly, occasional, or extra credit assignment. You can either provide an article for your students to work through as a class or assign students to find their own article to use as the basis of the lesson. Whether you use this handout as an in-class assignment to use with copies of your local newspaper, take kids to the computer lab to find an online article, or assig
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Declaration of Independence: BREAK-UP LETTER Activity
The Declaration of Independence: Break-up Letter and Rewrite Activity! Good for any ELA or Social Studies classroom!
The Declaration of Independence is modernized! In this product you will get TWO different activities that will help your students better understand our nations most important document! The lesson includes an activity of a re-write- taking passages from the document and putting them in your own words. Also there is a two-worksheet activity on writing a break-up letter to King Geor
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Latitude and Longitude Worksheet & Answer Key
This worksheet is an awesome way to teach Latitude and Longitude. The way that it is structured reinforces that Latitude measures North and South of the Equator, and that Longitude measures East and West of the Prime Meridian. This worksheet features a World Map with an Answer Key.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development Activity + Distance Learning
Playing with Piaget Activity for Developmental Psychology, reviews Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development (Sensorimotor development, Pre-operational development, Concrete operational, and Formal operational). This is a great addition to any developmental psychology unit. Students are given four scenarios in which they must apply their knowledge of Piaget’s theory. A summary of each of the four stages is included as a reference. A rich discussion follows as students share their responses.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Bill of Rights Scenarios
This is a great activity for a unit on the Bill of Rights and/or the U.S. Constitution. In this activity/ assignments students are assigned to read 12 different scenarios. After reading each scenario they are to figure out if the individual in the scenario had their Constitutional rights violated or not. All scenarios deal with the first 10 amendments. This product comes complete with an answer key. This product WILL generate interesting debate and in-class discussion. Product could also
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Intro to Sociology Research Project on World Cultures | Cultural Studies
Such a fun and eye-opening assignment for your students to do to learn about a new culture! Description:What better way to teach about culture than to assign students a project that will immerse them in the student of culture? For this project, I make a list of over 80-100 countries around the world and I put them in a container. Students are to pick one, research everything there is to know about their country, and fill out this document. It asks for them to find information about everything cu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology or Sociology - "Nature vs. Nurture" - Heredity & Genetics Activity
What does "Nature vs. Nurture" really mean? Lots of students need help with this concept. This simple activity helps clarify the meaning of the terms, provides lots of concrete examples, requires students to contemplate and work with those examples, and helps them understand the true answer to the age-old debate question... that in most cases, the reality is a complex interplay between both factors. It's great for sparking interesting discussions, and works well as part of a unit on personali
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Psychology - Fun Activity - Are you Right-brained or Left-Brained?
Make learning about the brain more fun and more personal! This is a great student-centered activity for any class learning about the human brain. It consists of an easy and effective questionnaire that determines your brain-side preference plus a worksheet designed to encourage reflection and reinforce understanding.
I've been using this activity with my own classes for many years and it always gets enthusiastic engagement from the students.
Works best as part of a unit on the brain, in
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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13th Movie by Ava DuVernay Guided Documentary Questions: Profit Donated
This 13th documentary movie guide will help students understand Ava DuVernay's Netflix documentary. It contains 54 fill-in-the-blank questions that go along with the film, an answer key, and a writing prompt. Great for Black History Month and teaching about Black Lives Matter. A portion of the profit coming from the sale of this resource will be donated to Equal Justice Initiative: a group that works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality.Click on the preview to l
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Harriet Movie Guide Questions in ENGLISH | Harriet Tubman 2019
Best movie guide out there! 27 Movie Guide Questions for the 2019 movie Harriet written in ENGLISH that include pre-listening questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Includes movie images to help scaffold for diverse learners. Questions are spaced out to give students enough time to write answers down.Rated PG-13 and perfect for any classroom! Includes Answer Key.Synopsis:Based on the thrillin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Crime Scene Memory Activity
This can be used as an icebreaker activity or as part of the memory section of the Cognition unit in Psychology or AP Psychology.Students are allowed to view a picture for three minutes that depicts a crime scene and try to memorize as much as they can. After the three minutes is up, they turn the sheet over and try to answer fifteen questions about what they saw without referring back to the picture.Students are able to test their memory, and the activity then leads in to further discussions o
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Mona Lisa Extreme Difficulty Dot-to-Dot / Connect the Dots - 682 Dots!
Redraw the Mona Lisa in this dot-to-dot. There are 682 dots to connect - an extreme challenge for kids and adults alike! The Mona Lisa is perhaps the most famous painting of all time, and certainly Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous art work. Now you can retrace this magnificent work of the renowned Renaissance artist. Connect the dots to reveal the enigmatic Mona Lisa. This challenging and entertaining puzzle activity is a perfect addition to lessons about art history, social studies, Leonardo Da
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1st - 8th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Extreme Difficulty Dot-to-Dot / Connect the Dots Bundle Vol. 1
Frederick Douglass, Non-Fiction Analysis to use for ANY Novel with Slavery Theme
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a compelling autobiography and provides an honest view of the harshness of life for enslaved African-Americans in the 1800s. Use this 45-minute lesson that includes a slice of Douglass’ narrative to show your students the ugly reality of life in pre-Civil War America.This package includes a two-page excerpt from Frederick Douglass’ book (in public domain) in which he details battling Mr. Covey, an abusive slave owner. After students read the pas
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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13th: A Netflix Documentary on the History of Mass Incarceration {A Film Guide}
The film 13th changed the way I taught To Kill a Mockingbird forever. If you are teaching anything about the Civil Rights Movement, literature about racial inequality, or are simply teaching the very topic of mass incarceration in your classrooms this year, the documentary should be on your must-see list!FILM TRAILER: CLICK HEREIf you've seen the film and deemed it appropriate for your course of study and age group, then this film viewing guide is perfect for you! This 4-page guide attempts t
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â A Raisin in the Sun: Complete Unit Bundle {Digital & Print Included}
1917 Movie Questions with Answers - 1917 Movie Guide - 1917 Worksheet (2019)
1917 movie questions (released in 2019) helps keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 29 questions (plus 4 critical thinking questions after viewing) for them to answer to keep them on track. The 1917 movie guide comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end. The 1917 movie worksheet follows along during World War I as two British soldiers -- Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake -- receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must cros
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â History of Warfare Movie Guide Bundle | 1917 | Midway | Greyhound
Animal Farm (1999) - Russian Revolution Study: Complete Movie Guide
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. This movie guide helps the students stay focused on the main ideas of the movie. It also helps students understand the characters in the animal farm and their allegorical equivalents (Old Major = Karl Marx, etc.). This movie guide comes with an answer key. Ready
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Distance Learning - Ceramics (E-Day) "Who-What-When-Where" Ceramics History!
The "handouts" included in this download have been uploaded to Google Drive, (The Google folder link is included in the "Google-links.docx" file) and made into "Drag and Drops" used with Google Drive for Remote/Distance Learning Days. Just "Make a copy" to your Drive and share with your students!Additional Visual Arts E-Learning Activities can be found here.If your Ceramics students are like mine, you know that students do NOT wish to spend studio time learning about ceramics history! But as art
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Serial Podcast People Map - Graphic Organizer
Already have your unit set up for students to listen to and analyzed Season 1 of the Serial podcast? Just need something to keep all the people straight?This document includes a the main people, and their connections, from Season 1 of Serial in three formats: just names with areas to write information, just information with spaces to fill in the names, and a completed map. Use as a class, individually, or in groups. Sized for 11 x 17 paper, though it could be made larger. A colleague wanted h
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Infamous Cults PowerPoint and Activity BUNDLE
Everything you need to introduce your class to the fascinating and shocking world of cults!POWERPOINT:Engaging PowerPoint presentation focusing on CULTS. This informative presentation covers the essential information needed to introduce your class to the fascinating and shocking topic of cults! Important Psychology terms are included as they link very closely into this topic.In this PowerPoint, you will find an explanation of the following:- Warm-up- Lesson goal- What is a cult?--- The five char
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Ruby Bridges Movie Questions
15 multiple choice questions that follow the movie of Ruby Bridges. Includes an answer key.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Sociology - Fun Activity Package - Deviance Discussion plus Notes, Wksts. & Quiz
Have you ever been deviant? Of course you have. And so have your students. This huge unit package will engage your Sociology classes with a fun, student-centered approach featuring a group discussion activity that forces them to open up with one another about the bad things they've done. Teenagers always love this kind of thing.
This package includes a complete basic structure for a Sociology unit on Deviance and Social Control. It is designed to accompany and facilitate a textbook chapte
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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