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Common Core RH.6-8.4 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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A Long Walk to Water WebQuest - Research Activity for Setting, Culture, & More!⭐
♠️ A Long Walk to Water WebQuestDo you want a way to create planning time for A Long Walk to Water that also creates a meaningful experience for your students?This WebQuest does both!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♠️ What You GetThis A Long Walk to Water WebQuest takes students on a brief but in-depth sojourn through the geography, history, culture, and language of the novel by Sue Park. For about two days of independent or group work, student
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6th - 9th
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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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Stamp Act Introduction Web Quest
I created this Web Quest to introduce my students to the Stamp Act. The Web Quest includes 1 video link with questions, 2 websites with questions, a link to an online quiz that follows one of the websites, and an optional essay that can be completed using the information found in the Web Quest. This could be a great stand alone lesson or as an introduction to the Revolutionary War. My students really enjoyed the web quest and better understood the feelings of the colonists and reasons for their
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5th - 8th
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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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Bill of Rights & Amendments Activity 1 Day Mini-Research Google Slides™ Project
This DIGITAL, EDITABLE product is great for an American literature, U.S. history, or government class. Teach research skills with a smaller, manageable topic. Jigsaw the Bill of Rights or the 27 amendments with your students and have them present to each other.This product includes 7 slides:1 example slide1 directions slide (editable)1 rubric slide (editable)4 Google Slides templates (to give students color choice)The Google Slides templates can be edited in View > Theme Builder (formerly "Ma
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6th - 12th
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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: 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)
Histories Mysteries The Lost Colony of Roanoke
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case! This investigation requires your history detectives to return to the year 1590 along the coast of what is now North Carolina. They will explore the history of one of the original colonies of the new world. Their miss
Solve History's Mysteries- Stonehenge
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to travel back in time to 5000 B.C. where they will enter the world of the Celts and Druids in Britain. Their mission: unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. How was it buil
Explorers Internet Reliability Research Activity
Do your students need to learn about Internet Reliability? Do you have problems with students using unreliable Internet sources? Or, are you looking for a fun and engaging lesson on the Explorers that will reinforce the importance of checking your sources on the Internet?This activity asks students to view two websites on 4 explorers from the Age of Exploration. One of the websites provides incorrect information, helping students to realize that not all information on the internet is correct!
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4th - 12th
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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: 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
Central & South America Countries Project and Student Presentations
Use this student-centered project rubric to guide students through the research and reporting on the countries of Central & South America. Students will investigate the political, economic, and social characteristics of the countries, as well as comparison statistics.Includes student handouts for gathering of information on all countries presented by students and overall wrap-up questions for the activity.Topics Addressed:Geography/Land FeaturesPeople & CultureEconomyHistoryGovernmentCu
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5th - 10th
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Ancient Civilizations Informational Reading & Inquiry Based Activity BUNDLE
Need a no-prep way to introduce Ancient Civilizations that practices the Inquiry Based Learning Format? This Informational reading BUNDLE on the eras starting at 3500 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent to the Byzantine Empire (Ending 1453 C.E.) is a great way to introduce this significant eras in history while addressing Inquiry standards in your classroom. And it wraps up the lessons with an incredible project rubric that is sure to help guide your students in showing all they have learned in each
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7th - 10th
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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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Middle Ages Around World Informational Reading & Inquiry Based Activity BUNDLE
Need a no-prep way to introduce Civilizations, Empires and Kingdoms from Arounds the World in the Middle Ages that practices the Inquiry Based Learning Format? This Informational reading BUNDLE on the eras starting at 500 C.E. on the Arabian Peninsula to the American Empires (Ending 1500 C.E.) is a great way to introduce this significant era in history while addressing Inquiry standards in your classroom. And it wraps up the lessons with an incredible project rubric that is sure to help guide yo
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7th - 10th
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Ancient World to Middle Ages Informational Reading & Inquiry Activity BUNDLE
Need a no-prep way to introduce Civilizations, Empires and Kingdoms from Around the World from Ancient Times to the Middle Ages that practices the Inquiry Based Learning Format? This Informational reading BUNDLE on the eras starting at 3500 B.C.E. in the Fertile Crescent to the European, Asian, African, and American Empires (Ending 1500 C.E.) is a great way to introduce the significant eras in history while addressing Inquiry standards in your classroom. And each wraps up the lesson with an incr
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7th - 10th
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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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13 Colonies Regional Bundle
This bundle covers the following regions of the thirteen original American colonies:New England ColoniesMid-Atlantic ColoniesSouthern ColoniesTobacco ColoniesEach of the above has its own activity that includes a map, a short reading with comprehension questions (answer key included), and a short research activity.There are also two large project-based activities: a 13 Colonies Flip Book and also a project where students are required to create a sales presentation for English investors for each
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8th - 10th
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Mesopotamia Timeline Research & Report Activity Ancient River Civilizations
Allow students to work in pairs or small groups to investigate 15 events in the growth and development of the Ancient Civilizations in Mesopotamia.Includes topics such as:Invention of the wheelFirst written languageConquering of EmpiresFirst Written Law Code& More!Includes teacher directions and all student materials. Includes student handouts for gathering of information at end of activity as well as wrap-up questions.See the preview for complete activity details.This activity is also incl
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6th - 11th
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