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Common Core RH.6-8.4 projects
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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Create A Life Size Samurai and Haiku Battle Activity: Feudal Japan Lesson Plan
This lesson is a class favorite by far that has been completely remastered with new resources! It is academic, collaborative, and it looks fantastic hanging in your room! This great step by step lesson covers feudal Japan's military hierarchy. Students create a life-size samurai in groups. They outline a student in the group and draw armor, a sword, and a helmet like a samurai would have worn. The lesson comes with an anatomy of a samurai reference sheet for students to get ideas. In the backgro
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6th - 10th
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U. S. Constitution: Preamble and Bill of Rights Worksheets & Activity
To help students memorize the Preamble to the U S Constitution, here is a worksheet building on reciting and fill-ins.In addition, there are two pages with phrases from the Preamble - to cut apart and mix-up. Students read them and put them together in the correct order.Teacher directions included.The Bill of Rights essential words are emphasized in this worksheet with fill-ins. Answers included.A tri-fold for students to use while analyzing an amendment, through their own created questions an
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5th - 8th
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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:Â US History Activity and Project Kits Bundle Print & Digital
Middle Ages Coat of Arms Project
This Medieval Coat of Arms project is great for a unit on the Middle Ages or for a back-to-school "get to know each other activity"! Included is a directions page that gives the historic background of Coats of Arms and heraldry, as well as simple instructions for students on how to create a Coat of Arms. Next is a fantastic printable Coat of Arms template to use in class and a rubric to help with grading.An editable Google Drive version is now also included! This version can be completed all onl
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3rd - 9th
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Early Humans Unit - Stone Age Unit - Early Humans Activities - Prehistory Unit
This 120 page Early Man unit resource package provides students with everything they need to complete an Early Humans unit or Stone Age unit on the Paleolithic - Neolithic Era. This stone age unit plan contains early human reading passages and annotation activities, comprehension questions, archaeology vocabulary, graphic organizers, and Stone Age activities for Interactive Notebooks.✅Be sure to click on the preview above to see a full detailed description of exactly what is included in this res
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Ancient Civilizations Unit Projects Prehistory Greece Egypt Mesopotamia Rome
Civil War Stations Activity: Comparing the Union and Confederacy
This Civil War Stations Activity is a fantastic lesson to get your students out of their seats and moving around the classroom while they analyze and compare the Union and Confederacy.Six stations feature characteristics of the North and South that students must review to determine which region their are describing and whether that would be an advantage or disadvantage in the war. They then must explain why it would help or hinder that side in the war.After completing each station, students answ
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5th - 9th
Viking Ship Interactive Distance Learning Geoexplorers Reading Project Vikings
Explore the world with my Geoexplorers projects! This project focuses on the Viking ships of Norway and Scandinavia. Have your students read the included story about Vikings and answer questions related to the text. A second page using the vocabulary will help the students find the meaning of new words. Once the reading lesson is complete, your students get to build their own Viking ship! This lesson can be used independently, or to enrich a unit already being taught. The page of directions can
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3rd - 8th
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
Persia War Reading for Ancient Greece: Worksheet & Comic Project
This Persian Wars download includes a reading, worksheet, and a comic project on the two wars between the Greek city-states and Persia between 500 - 479 BCE. The reading covers the entire and major battles, including Darius first invasion and the Battle of Marathon and continuing through the Battle of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea. Other vocabulary terms and people covered include hoplites, phalanx, the Ionian city-states, the Delian League, Themistocles, Leonidas, Xerxes, and more.Following
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5th - 11th
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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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Green Book Mapping Project for the Civil Rights Movement
This Green Book mapping project is a great activity to help students work on geography during the Civil Rights Movement and help understand the hardships African Americans faced during segregation.The Negro Motorist Green Book was a travel guide that helped African Americans find safe places to stop during the Jim Crow Era of segregation. The 2018 Academy Award-winning movie Green Book, of course, brought the book back into the spotlight. This lesson has students analyzing scanned copies of diff
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7th - 10th
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Maya, Inca, Aztec Notes, Activities, and Mesoamerica Projects
Students will learn critical facts about the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas as they collect facts and create 3-D pop-up displays for each civilization. The facts about the three civilizations of the Americas focus on the the geography, religion, achievements, politics, economy, and society of each civilization. Also, critical vocabulary associated with each civilization is included. This resource includes the materials for a fact hunt and 3-D display for each civilization. That means that students can
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4th - 7th
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The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Unit - Printable and Digital for Google Slides
Your students will GO APE over this unique book report project. Activities for the project-based classroom. Mix-and-Match Templates allow you to create a novel unit that is tailored to your students' needs. Both PRINT and DIGITAL versions.PRINTABLE: 69 ready-to-go templates focus on a wide range of topics related to The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate—story elements, themes, symbolism, characters, parts of a book, research topics, vocabulary, and more. Challenge students to use higher-l
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Mega-Bundle (4 Posters and Complete Novel Unit)
American Revolution Spy Readings, Spy Activities, Techniques
The Revolutionary War spy unit provides everything you need to not only explain but also help your students experience America’s first espionage operations! The resources supply foundational knowledge about spying and Revolutionary War spies. Then, they provide a structure to guide students through fun, engaging activities that develop their critical thinking skills by putting them in the shoes of a Revolutionary War era spy. Please note: This resource also comes with a black and white version!D
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson Novel Study
Potsdam Conference, Berlin Airlift, Nuremberg Trials Stations Activity Resource
This detailed stations activity on the Potsdam Conference, the Nuremberg Trials, the Berlin Airlift (and more), students focus on the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences and, after investigation, students decide if the Potsdam Conference was a failure or a success. Students begin with an introductory background reading assignment with four overarching questions on the Yalta Conference, the changing political landscape before the Potsdam Conference that ended WWII, and the agreements between Truman, A
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6th - 10th
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Medieval Feudal Japan Bundle Unit Activities
Students will have the opportunity to create the following activities and projects:✓43 Interactive Notebook Activities✓Webquest: Introduction to Japan✓Geography of Japan: Create a Real Estate Advertisement or Commercial✓Create a Timeline: Medieval Japan✓Create Tanka Poems✓Create Currency for Japan’s Golden Age✓Feudalism in Japan Notes: Pros & Cons✓Samurai Training Booklet✓Help Wanted Ad: Samurai Needed✓Writing Project: Samurai Cover Letter✓Primary Source Analysis: Creed of a Samurai✓Samurai
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6th - 8th
Black Out Poetry Civil Rights Reading, Writing & Art Project
Resource for Black History Month and Martin Luther King, Jr. DayThe purpose of these activities is to help students read deeply while reading excerpts from historical civil rights speeches. So often, civil rights leaders like Dr. King are discussed as if they were super heroes. They are, in a sense, super heroes. But it’s important for students to realize that they were also regular people, often with very humble beginnings who found themselves in situations, environments and racist conflicts th
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5th - 7th
Emmett Till Primary Source Document Analysis and QR Code Activity
This fantastic project integrates technology with analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources related to the Emmett Till murder case. Students are provided a worksheet with 6 QR codes that link to websites, documents, and interviews related to the case. They then must observe, reflect, and question the sources. Links are provided as well so this can be completed by those students or classes without QR readers. If you lack access to computers, the websites could even be printed out and analyzed in cl
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5th - 11th
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Design Your Coat of Arms All About Me Middle Ages Medieval Europe Activity
Your students will design their own coat of arms in this project perfect for units on the Middle Ages/Medieval History! This project is also terrific as an all about me activity as students use their creativity to design a coat of arms that has symbolic representations of them! This resource includes a:Directions page Background reading on coats of arms and their purpose and the study of heraldryGuide sheet with information on the meaning behind animals, colors, and symbols in heraldic coats of
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5th - 9th
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Neanderthal v Cro-Magnon Early Man Student Activity | What's the difference?
In this Early Man resource, students understand the major differences and origins of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons. Students analyze the major characteristics of both hominids, then complete a Venn Diagram to record the most crucial information regarding both Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons (including their similarities). Then, students analyze four different scenarios where they choose (and explain with evidence) which hominid would be the best fit given the circumstances! Very fun and engaging!T
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5th - 8th
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Chinese Dynasty Magazine Project Activity Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming
In research project activity students create a magazine about one of the five dynasties (Sui, Tang, Song, Yaun, Ming) by using guiding questions handout. Upon completion, other students do a gallery walk and read his/her magazine and fill out the questions on the handout for the remaining dynasties. This fun and easy. It can be used with Sui, Tand, Song, Yaun, Ming graphic organizer and the Chinese dynasty PowerPoint posted too.The magazine now has a Google Slides collaboration version. This pro
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6th - 10th
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Galileo On Trial! Common Core Primary Source Literacy & Writing Activity
This engagaing literacy and writing activity includes a paragraph introduction historical background about the famous Catholic Church trial of Galileo and his sentence issued by the Church. Then, students read the 2-page primary source document issued by the papacy. Difficult vocabulary is defined right in the text! A new annotation guide was just added to help students make deeper meaning with the text!After reading, students support claims about the trial and heresy with evidence from the text
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6th - 10th
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Types of Maps Worksheets with BOOM Cards | Distance Learning
This resource covers six kind of maps:Political mapsPhysical mapsTopographic mapsClimatic mapsEconomic / Resource mapsRoad mapsNot only does it explain to students what each map means but also explains what scales and map symbols are used for.There is a quiz, cut and paste activities, fill in the blanks, map symbols activity, make your own map and key project, draw that map activity, and more!There is plenty of projects to create if you let your creativity come afloat!For example poster projects
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3rd - 6th
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