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Critical thinking Common Core RH.9-10.5 resources
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Historical Thinking Bundle: A Complete Unit - Digital & Print!
This bundle contains 7 Historical Thinking lessons and a 4-5 day culminating group project where students are required to apply the skills from these lessons in a fun, critically engaging way. This means roughly 2 weeks of fully planned materials that will help your students develop their historical thinking skills!Included in this Unit Bundle:Introduction to Historical Thinking lessonHistorical Significance LessonContinuity and Change LessonCause and Consequence LessonHistorical Perspective Les
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HISTORY MYSTERY The Tollund Man Murder Mystery - Primary evidence detectives!
Get your students thinking and working like historians with this lesson!I have used this lesson for several years as part of a project on developing history skills in my pupils. Students have to infer and reach a reasoned judgement based on the evidence at hand. This includes primary sources in the form of artefacts and secondary reports.The class works in pairs to decide why and how the man found in the peat bog in Denmark died. They assess the evidence to decide whether it was:- Murder- Suicid
Grades:
4th - 9th
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U.S. History VALUE Bundle: Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction | 3 UNITS!!
The U.S. History VALUE Bundle covers three units (Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction) and is PERFECT for those teaching U.S. history to 7th to 9th grade students. ALL of the incredible resources in these units have been used with GREAT success with thousands of students in 7th to 9th grade!! You'll receive EVERYTHING you need to cover the issues of sectionalism that divided the nation prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the Civil War itself, including the major battles and figur
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7th - 9th
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Civil War and Reconstruction Era Unit VALUE Bundle for 7th-9th Grade!
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era Unit VALUE Bundle for 7th to 9th Grade is PERFECT for those teaching U.S. history to 7th to 9th grade students. These two incredible units cover the most important events of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era from the outbreak of the Civil War and the major battles of war plus the Emancipation Proclamation and the causes and effects of many Reconstruction Era policies. ***BE SURE TO CLICK THE PRODUCT PREVIEW TO GET A SNEAK PEEK OF THE INCREDIBLE RESOURCES
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Mock Trial (Criminal) - The Case of the Stolen Pocket Watch
This mock trial is based upon the old Irish folk song, The Black Velvet Band. It takes 3-5 class hours to complete. Because the mock trial involves drinking, I've included some civics/health lessons on how easily a person can become intoxicated by alcohol as part of the trial.
The basic story is a guy goes to a bar with his buddy to drink and he is caught with a stolen pocket watch and sent to prison. The song has a number of variations, depending upon who is singing it. In some cases, the guy
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9th - 12th
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Social Psychology Experiment Study Worksheets
This 3 page activity is essential for learning about social psychology! The best way to learn about how groups affect individuals is by seeing these studies & researching their results. 3 experiments to look at:Stanford Prison ExperimentAsch Paradigm ExperimentConformity Experiments (hotel fire & elevators)
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10th - 12th
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Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 137-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing social studies themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essent
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5th - 12th
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Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Host a Live Summit, Send a Letter to Putin and Zelensky!
Greetings. I'm Carl Hobert, a life-long educator and author of Raising Global IQ: Preparing Our Students for a Shrinking Planet (Beacon Press).I have an exciting new case study about the Russia-Ukraine crisis, middle school, high school and college educators are able to teach students about the history of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including important events that have taken place in this region, from the end of World War I to today’s conflict. A glossary enables students to become more familia
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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War to Constitution: Using Primary Sources to Teach U.S. History
A comprehensive unit on this period of US History! Students develop important inferencing, application, analysis, and evaluation skills. The document-based questions and activities (DBQs) help them learn that people interpret events from differing points of view. War to Constitution: Using Primary Sources to Teach U.S. History covers these American history topics: the Sons of Liberty, the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, Common Sense, Valley Forge, John Paul Jones, Paying fo
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â American Revolution Bundle for Middle-Grade Social Studies Classes
Social Studies - Graph and Chart Skills (9) Reading a Timeline worksheet
(7) questions about reading a timeline of the events of the English and Ireland issues in world history.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Social Studies - Graph and Chart Skills - Bundle
How to answer different document based questions in History. CARDS (DBQ)
In a bid to help our students think more like historians we set them various styles of question based on the sources in DBQs. These helpful little cards can be used with any document or piece of evidence in history. They work for any time period and help our students to address real issues of provenance and purpose.I devised these initially to support the GCSE History students and to help prepare them for question types that might come up in their end of year exam. However, they they have been
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Daily Mind Builders: Science eBook - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 145-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing science-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential sk
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5th - 12th
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Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography" Review/Assessment with Detailed Answer Key
He was a Founding Father who went from rags to riches and who recorded his initial journey in an interesting, inspirational autobiography. This comprehensive worksheet allows students to understand the aspirations and visions of Benjamin Franklin as they answer critical-thinking questions that investigate tone, style, a list of virtues, and more. It's a perfect printable for individual, partner, or group work. This worksheet/assessment also comes with a detailed answer key.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Graphic Organizer - Establishing W5H of Historical Events
This graphic organizer helps students establish the facts of historical events. For any given historical moment, students can explore the who, what, when, where, why, and how. The .pdf file version can be printed and given to students as a hard copy. In the GoogleDocs version, students can type directly into the organizer (with the exception of the spot for "WHY - Problem or Goal," which is an image shaped like an arrow (sorry!).
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Declaration of Independence & Patrick Henry's Liberty Speech
This interdisciplinary chart and question sheet provide students in both U.S. history and language arts a chance to explore the rhetorical devices used by America's Founding Fathers to gain support for the Revolution. From rhetorical questions to parallelism to refutation and more, this handout allows students to use critical-thinking skills to evaluate the techniques that helped to make these documents so memorable. A detailed answer key is included for both.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Holocaust Mini-Research Project and Detailed Rubric
It's a sensitive subject that needs to be explored on many different levels. Here is the fitting mini-research project that can be used to reinforce the study of the Holocaust as well as help students to investigate various people and events. This two-page printable provides specific directions, 16 prompts, and a detailed rubric that allows readers to continue to advance their knowledge about the occurrences that claimed the lives of six million Jews throughout Europe in WWII.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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History Source Interpretation - Primary and Secondary Sources
This handout is designed to assist students when learning how to critically analyse a historical source.It allows them to understand the differences between primary and secondary sources and guides them as they unpack the validity, reliability and the usefulness of individual sources. The questions are designed to provoke higher level thinking and provide scaffolding for students to understand why one source is better or more helpful than another. This source is a great accompaniment to inquiry
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Paper 1: Move to Global War bundle - International Baccalaureate - IB
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Journalism: Google Archives Assignment [Distance Learning]
At the beginning of my Intro to Journalism course, we talk about the history of the field. One cool resource to do that with is the Google News Archives, which has archived thousands of publications dating back hundreds of years. You can see articles as they were they day they were published. It's a much more modern take on what we would have used microfilm for. I have students research three of those publications and find articles of interest to them. We then use that to fuel discussion of what
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6th - 12th
Romanticism and the Romantic Period: Test with Detailed Answer Key
Check student understanding of Romanticism with this comprehensive assessment. Included is relevant vocabulary, true-false statements, questions about Emerson and Thoreau philosophies, and famous quotes. A written component, one which allows student feedback about a relevant topic that pertains to this literary time period, completes the test. A detailed answer sheet is part of the package.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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World War I: Preparation Assignment with Important Questions and Answer Key
Don't "fight a battle" to find the perfect way to begin the study of the World War I. Here is a worksheet that lists 25 relevant questions which allow students to begin to "advance" their "arsenal" of knowledge about this American conflict. It's the type of "engagement" that is a "win-win" for students and a "victory" for teachers and may be used as an individual, pair, or group assignment. A detailed answer key is included.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Canadian History World War II Project
History Buy The Book's summative task is designed for Applied (General) level students but it could be used for Academic (Advanced) level students as well, with changes to the use of classroom versus home study and the approach to the conference portion. It is a comprehensive way to answer one guiding question that examines the most significant events in World War Two and what kind of impact it had on Canadians then and now. This assignment requires knowledge of the events but also requires crit
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10th
Key Events Worksheet for Founding Fathers Project
This worksheet allows the teacher to assess if their students understand the point of view of a particular "founding father" of the United States. The mastery of this activity will prepare them to represent their chosen person in a reenactment of the Constitutional Convention Debates. The first version in the worksheet is a simple circle the answer worksheet. The second are a dozen prompts for students to go into detail about their "founding father's" role in different events was.
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8th - 12th
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Political Cartoon/Article Analysis Checklist
These two handouts can be used to evaluate and analyze relevant or historical current event artifacts such as political cartoons or articles. I have used this with both current news events as well as events from history such as Colonial U.S. political cartoons.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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