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Social studies projects for staff
Student Lawyers: Criminal Court Mock Trials & Cases with PowerPoint
Students will get the opportunity to be lawyers and prosecute or defend an accused person in a criminal trial (11 total). Each group will consist of 2 lawyers (prosecuting and defending), and an accused person. The teacher will act as the judge and guide the jury as they vote on the verdict. The majority vote determines the verdict. This unit includes court brief handouts, directions, and PowerPoint explaining how the cases will proceed. Visit our store for much more helpful and free stuff!Crim
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Immigration and Ellis Island, Crafts included, No Prep!
This product is great when studying Immigration to America – Ellis Island. It includes a wide variety of activities easy to use and engaging for kids! My classroom loved them! This can be used in whole groups, small groups, or as independent work. It includes:Cut and paste activity on immigrants’ journeyDraw immigrants’ journeyEllis Island facts recording sheetTwo Informational/ reading textsReasons to move - recording sheetAll about Ellis Island writing paperA few options on "Who, what, where,
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2nd - 5th, Staff
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South America A Research project
26.7.2020As digital activities does not support zip file I have transferred the answer with the preview. I then can list the resource as individual PDF in order to convert it to digital activities.South America - A research project is a 15 pages study on South America. Use it as a class test or research project.Download Preview File - Please view America preview file prior to purchasing as the preview is all the resources in this pack. Please ensure that the resource is appropriate for your grad
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5th - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
AP Psych / AP Psychology Activity MEGA BUNDLE - All 9 Units - Google Drive
More than 130 individual activities, assignments, projects, and/or experiment analyses for AP Psych / AP Psychology! Enjoy ALL of my rigorous, engaging, and fun classroom activities and projects! Includes Google Drive access to this LIVING BUNDLE that will only grow over time.These activities can be used to help develop skills and engage students throughout the year, or after the AP Test. You decide! See the content list below or in the preview images above.FOR BUYERS: MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD AND
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Mental Health & Wellness: Wheel of Life Lesson | Psychology or Health Class
Are you studying stress or wellness? This life survey is fantastic for any Psychology or Health class. Students will take a self-reflective survey regarding their own mental health, physical health, personal life, and more. Answering 6 questions each in 8 areas of their lives, students will complete a total of 48 questions. With the results, students will map out their scores on the included "Wheel of Life." This wheel is a great visual to see how their life is "rolling along."This life asse
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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World War 2 Homefront Student Project | Japanese Internment, Comics, Rationing
In this engaging World War II student project, student teams investigate and create a project focusing on life at home during World War 2. Students focus on Women at Work, Rationing and "Victory Gardens," Japanese Internment, Movies, TV, and Comics, and American Sports! This resource is included in the Birth of American Culture (1950s and 1960s Culture) Unit, located here!Each group receives a project overview paper that details the requirements, a helpful links sheet to guide research, and a
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6th - 10th, Staff
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Instagram Template
This is a blank Instagram template great for students summarizing the main idea and having key points about any topic using hashtags!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Have your students teach the class!! (Class teaching assignment)
Here is a rubric and instructions for an activity I do in my classes each year. This can work in ANY CLASS for ANY SUBJECT matter!!!
I always find myself teaching a section that is review for my students or is really easy for them and we speed right through it. So I decided to create this rubric as a project to make my students be the teachers!
They can have 2-3 days to learn the content, come up with a lesson plan and make a handout for the class. I ask them to use a half sheet and I make
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AP SPANISH Presentación Oral Héroes y Villanos Identidades personales y públicas
NO PREP NEEDED!Objetivo: En español, los estudiantes deben investigar uno de los siguientes personajes controversiales latinoamericanos de la lista. Estos personajes son héroes para algunos, pero odiados y vistos como villanos por otros.Objective: Use the Spanish language to present a controversial hero from a Spanish-speaking country supported by the images that illustrate it.Packet Includes:- Objetivos- Requisitos de la presentación (en espanol)- Requisitos de la presentación (versión en inglé
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Sociology Time Capsule Project (Project-based Final Exam, EDITABLE, Remote)
This is my favorite project to use in sociology class and students LOVE it. At the end of the year, with a class full of seniors, it really comes at the perfect time.Included in this project are specific guidelines connecting their high school experiences to major concepts in sociology: culture, social institutions, self-concept, theoretical perspectives, socialization, symbolic interaction, groups, to name a few.Students are asked to create a "time capsule" in the format that works best for t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Black History Month Biographies List of 100 African Americans Research Project
This resource contains a ready-to-use printable list of 100 notable Black Americans who made contributions to American History. You get 1 list categorized by men/women, and another list categorized by profession. The same 100 names are on both lists. Use the organized and categorized lists to assign research projects, “wax museum” personalities, or Black History Month projects for the class. Create and share research to promote stories of American accomplishment, hope and inspiration through di
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
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Cultural Awareness and Empathy Activities for Teens | Printable & Digital
Teach students to embrace diversity with cultural awareness, acceptance and empathy activities for teens (Printable & Digital) - Editable lesson plan, student handouts, PowerPoint, Google Doc, Google Slides and rubric for no prep distance learning or Google Classroom activities.Pick and choose activities for one no prep lesson or enjoy a complete no prep cultural awareness unit over the course of several days or even weeks for students to complete reading, writing and research activities to
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Psychology Perception Scavenger Hunt
This is an assignment used to help students review monocular depth cues and Gestalt principles during the Sensation and Perception unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering these topics in class.Students are asked to roam the halls and rooms of the high school to take pictures of various monocular depth cues (relative size, interposition, linear perspective, relative height, relative clarity, light and shadow) and Gestalt grouping principles (proximity,
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Defense Mechanism Skits
This ZIP file includes an editable Microsoft Word document that contains skits for students to apply and practice Freudian defense mechanisms. Kids really love this topic as they can easily identify examples from their own life as we discuss them. There is a PDF version included as well.For this activity, students are put into groups of three or four and assigned one of the defense mechanisms covered (projection, repression, regression, sublimation, rationalization, denial, reaction formation,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Superhero Paper - Psychology and the Brain
This ZIP file contains an editable Microsoft Word document (as well as a PDF version) of an assignment used to help students review brain parts during the Biological unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering the brain structures and their functions in class.Students are asked to write a "superhero" paper while incorporating psychological knowledge. They invent a superhero and supervillain who have obtained superpowers due to brain abnormalities or accid
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic: Article, Worksheets, and Project Prompts
This article describes the source of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic, how it was transferred, what it meant to the soldiers in World War I, and how scientists handled the search for a vaccine. There are pictures representing specific aspects of the epidemic that help students visualize what it was like during the year long fight against the disease.
If you are teaching infectious diseases and are looking for ways to incorporate the Common Core standards in Science or Health class, this will
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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Intelligence and Testing Webquest
This is a zip file that contains a webquest (both in an editable Microsoft Word document as well as a PDF Version) designed for a Psychology or AP Psychology course during the Testing and Individual Differences unit.The webquest has two parts. The first page asks students to read and report on a variety of research regarding topics in the Intelligence realm - bell curve and standardization, birth order and IQ scores, Flynn effect, Mozart effect, etc. The second page has students take a variety
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Developmental Application Project for Psychology
This project is meant to accompany a Development unit in a Psychology or AP Psychology class. It contains:-- an environmental/evolutionary development page, where students take a genetic profile and examine how they've been exposed to social learning theory in their lives-- a social development page, where students explain how they've passed through each of Erikson's psychosocial stages, ask their parents for information on their attachment style as babies, and determine their parent's parentin
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Zombie Menu Brain Project
This is a ZIP file that contains an editable Microsoft Word document (as well as a PDF version) of an assignment used to help students review brain parts during the Biological Bases of Behavior unit in Psychology or AP Psychology. It would work best being given after covering the brain structures and their functions in class.Students are asked to create a menu at a zombie restaurant by creating twenty dishes that incorporate titles and descriptions that refer to various brain structures and the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Operant Conditioning Demonstration Partner Activity
This is a ZIP file that contains both an editable Microsoft Word document as well as a PDF version.Students engage in a partner activity to demonstrate the effects of operant conditioning, specifically positive reinforcement and positive punishment.Student A's job is to teach Student B to begin sentences with a certain word (they pick the word; most commonly "The" or "I" are chosen). Student A informs Student B they are to speak 50 sentences, but they give no other instructions.When Student B g
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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My Money Story | A mixed media reflection about our relationship with money
Before you can really start digging into teaching a student about financial literacy, you need to have some understanding of their previous experiences, lessons, beliefs, and knowledge. My Financial Story allows students a safe, judgment-free way to express their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings about money, using whatever medium most appeals to them. Students can choose to write a response, create a visual representation by drawing or create a collage of other media. They can select songs, movie
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Proyecto de investigación | Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad Hispanoamérica
Instrucciones: Vas a investigar un destino turístico que es un patrimonio cultural de la humanidad en un país hispanohablante. Sigue las instrucciones e incluye por lo menos una imagen en cada diapositiva. No se necesita preparación! No prep needed!Los estudiantes pueden presentar su investigación a un compañero, a toda la clase o grabar su voz y publicarla en cada diapositiva.Los estudiantes tienen más de 60 opciones de la mayoría de los patrimonios culturales de Hispanoamérica. Los estudiantes
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AP Psychology - Memory Book project with completed Examples included
Looking for an engaging and comprehensive project for your psychology class? Look no further than this "Memory Book" project! In this project, students will create a memoir of their fictional future life experiences and connect them with psychological concepts of encoding, storage, and retrieval.With three days of activities that cover topics such as automatic vs. effortful processing, explicit and implicit memories, the frontal lobes, hippocampus, cerebellum, basal ganglia, amygdala, and more,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: AP PSYCHOLOGY - COMPLETE COURSE (CAN BE DONE IN 1 SEMESTER)
Roaring 20's Research Project: Pre-Reading to "The Great Gatsby" or 1920's Era
In this product is everything you will need for a successful 1920's era project for your students! I used this project to teach my students about the 1920's era from a research format, though I plan to use it in the future for a pre-reading activity before reading The Great Gatsby. Each student will get to select a topic that is most interesting to them. Some options are: Economic Boom and Stock Market CrashThe Great DepressionFlappers and Women's RightsWW1 impactFilm Industry and Celebrity Wors
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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