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Middle school other (social studies) resources for Microsoft Word
Movie Guide: Living on One Dollar
This 56 minute documentary on Netflix is the best thing I have seen this year for either a Spanish or a Social Studies class. 4 college students spend 56 days in a remote Guatemalan village on a dollar a day budget while they explore the effects of living in extreme poverty and some clever innovative solutions people have come up with to survive. This film is excellent for any Spanish class where you have been studying immigration and the reasons people leave their home countries to risk their
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Movie Guides: Racial Justice
Media Literacy: Logical Fallacies as Propaganda in Current Events
This engaging lesson takes a comical approach to examining the common use of logical fallacies as propagandistic techniques in product advertising, popular press news coverage, and political campaigns. Rest assured, your students will become much more savvy information consumers after they have purposefully used fallacies to mislead others in this active assignment. The lesson begins with a fictional news article that uses logical fallacies to prove that a visit to the doctor is deadly and to
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7th - 12th
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Social Studies Achievement Certificate
*** EDITABLE!!! *** >>> view preview for best image>EDITING IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MAC<Acknowledge your social studies students' success with this cute achievement certificate! Great for grades 3-7.
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3rd - 7th
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Travel Agency Brochure Project worksheet - 5 Themes of Geography
Students create a travel brochure for an assigned or chosen country using the 5 themes of geography to generate content for their brochure.
Rubric included.
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5th - 8th
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Map Scale Practice Quiz
Check out my other $1 sale here: Latitude and Longitude BattleshipI use this simple quiz as an introduction to using map scale. It can be used as a pre-assessment, post-assessment, or as an instructional tool. The quiz can be used in many different grade levels depending on how much practice your students have had with using scale. We do these five simple questions together as a class, and then I give them an additional scale worksheet that students complete on their own. This particular file is
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Map Scale Bundle
Complete US History Curriculum Early America to 1970's Bundle GOOGLE DRIVE LINK
Teaching US History and don't have many resources? My US History curriculum bundle is everything I teach first and second semester. All tests are included, and all videos for the PPT’s/keynotes on Early America to the 1970s. You will have access to my GOOGLE DRIVE LINK. As a bonus, I will add student workbooks for both 8th and 11th grade.US History - Colonial Heritage - A New Nation - Civil War - Reconstruction - The Progressive Era - World War I - 1920's Harlem Renaissance - 1930's Great Depres
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8th - 11th
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Slavery: African Slave Trade and Slavery Primary Sources Worksheets Bundle
This lesson plan collection is a series of 7 internet-based primary source documents on the African slave trade and slavery in general.The following primary source worksheets are included in this collection:African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: The African Connection, ca 1788African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829Frederick Douglass Primary Source Worksheet: Escape From SlaverySlavery Primary Source Worksheet: A Slave's LifeSlavery Primary Source Worksheet:
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6th - 12th
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Conflict in Israel and Palestine: Crash Course World History #223
Looking for better supplemental videos to use in the classroom? In which John Green teaches you about conflict in Israel and Palestine. This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going back thousands of years, and rooted in a clash between religions. Well, that's not quite true. What is true is that the conflict is immensely complicated, and just about everyone in the world has an opinion about it. John is going to try to get the facts across in under 13 minutes. Here is what is included in
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7th - 10th
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Globalization Webquest IKEA, COKE, WALMART, MCDONALDS Geography Culture Webquest
Globalization Webquest IKEA, COKE, WALMART, MCDONALDS Geography Culture Webquest ActivityNeed a computer with internet access.Explore the globalization of four companies with this webquest.
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6th - 10th
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America: The Story of Us- Episode #2 "Revolution" Film Guide & Answer Key
This is a twenty-one question guide (The teacher key is also included) that is to be used in conjunction with episode #2 "Revolution" from the History Channel documentary series, "America: The Story of Us". If you like this film guide, please check out my others. All follow a similar format, and are setup to keep your student's on-task, and engaged in the film. You may also modify the film guide if you wish, however, please make sure to maintain me (Daniel McDonald) as the author.
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Lying Activity- AP Psychology
This activity is a great, fun introduction to a unit on Emotion, Stress, and Motivation for AP Psych and regular Psych. In this simulation, students pair up to try and see if each other is lying about a particular issue. Students then watch informational videos and have a discussion about how they could tell if their partners were being dishonest. A great fun activity...especially for a Monday! :)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Population Pyramid Analysis Activity (Demographic Transition Model) Version 2.0
I use this activity after teaching both the Demographic Transition Model (stages of demographic transition) and the basics of population pyramids. Taking data from the CIA world fact book site, I have located 4 very different population pyramids that students analyze, answer questions about and make predictions into the future understanding much can be told about a nation looking at population demographics. This document could be used as a formative or summative assessment. Additionally, this
Grades:
8th - 12th
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US Constitution Test and Answer Key
50 Question Test covering the US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.
Answer Key inlcuded.
25 Multiple Choice
10 Fill in the blank with the right number of the amendment for THe Bill of Rights
15 True False
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5th - 11th
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Movie Guide: Which Way Home
This 83 minute academy award winning documentary chronicles the journeys of children and adolescents as they risk their lives to come to the United States. Its an excellent video and students can identify with the main characters as they are all children close to their own age. A great way to open discussion about illegal immigration or just give students something to think about the hardships these people leave behind. 24 Chronologically ordered questions and 5 topics for follow up. Movie t
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Spanish Movie Guides- Levels 3, 4, 5 AP
Mayflower Compact, FOC, and Virginia House of Burgesses Reading/ Activity
(FOC stands for Fundamental Orders of Connecticut) This is an excellent 45- minute activity for students to learn and practice the significance of the Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and the Virginia House of Burgesses. The following are included in this product:A reading about the documents significance and origins along with pictures.Comprehension questions to go along with the readingA Document Based- Question activity On the Document Based- Question activity there is a
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5th - 8th
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Also included in:Â U.S. History: Colonization Unit 1 Activities and Mastery Quizzes Bundle
Roaring 20's: Tensions After WWI - Sacco & Vanzetti, Palmer Raids, Scopes Trial
Students explore the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, The Palmer Raids, and the Scopes Monkey Trial in the context of the social changes and tension after WWI. Students then answer questions that push them to make modern connections/comparisons, and finally analyze political cartoons from the time period. Great for class discussion and linking to current events the next day, such as current debate and concerns over immigration, terrorism, and religion vs. politics or science.
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7th - 12th
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Robber Barons: Meet Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt & Their Monopolies
This is a perfect introduction to the "Gilded Age" of monopolies and "Robber Barons" such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Students are provided context concerning the time period and monopolies before analyzing short but detailed and interesting biographies of 4 of the original monopolists: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt. Students are asked to explain how each formed their monopoly and to identify something admirable and shameful about each individual before responding
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6th - 12th
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Interdependence Trading Game and Worksheet
To go along with Social Studies discussions about interdependence, exports, and imports, this game puts students in charge of their own countries. They must trade with other groups in order to obtain the supplies that they need to be a successful country. There are 8 supplies total that all countries need: fruit, meat, water, transportation, wood, books, clothing, and gasoline. This packet comes with the color cards to print, the coordinating worksheet that guides students through the game an
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3rd - 6th
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Oversimplified World War II Video Part 1: Guided Questions
Great tool to use for your students to introduce or review the rise of Fascism and beginnings of World War II. Questions range DOK levels and check for quick understanding. Guided questions follow directly along with video. Students can answer independently, in groups, or done as a whole class.For links to videos please type in "hitler oversimplified" into youtube or use these links.WWII Oversimplified part 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uk_6vfqwTALesson Length= 20-30 minutes
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â All Oversimplified American History Videos
Deviant Behavior and Disney Assignment
The following is an assignment/project in which Sociology students are instructed to re-write a Disney/Pixar movie by assigning a main character various acts of deviant behavior and then creating a "Case Study Character Analysis". I call it "Deviant Disney".This project is both creative and imaginative and allows Sociology students to apply acts of Social and Criminal Deviance as well as Theories of Deviance in a way in which students enjoy.The story requirements ask students to assign a charact
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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America: The Story of Us- Episode #11 "Superpower" Film Guide & Answer Key
This is a twenty-two question guide (The teacher key is also included) that is to be used in conjunction with episode #11 "Superpower" from the History Channel documentary series, "America: The Story of Us". If you like this film guide, please check out my others. All follow a similar format, and are setup to keep your student's on-task, and engaged in the film. You may also modify the film guide if you wish, however, please make sure to maintain me (Daniel McDonald) as the author.
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Movie Guide: The True Cost
This Netflix documentary will change how students think about their clothing purchases and consumption habits overall. Great for Social Studies or Family and Consumer Science, this 95 minute documentary examines the origins of where our clothing is produced, and its cost to the people who make it, our environment and the planet as a whole. Suitable for any level of middle or high school where you are discussing economy, global trade, environment this film will open up much to discuss. Lesson
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Movie Guides: Racial Justice
Climographs Lesson and Activity
This product teaches students how to read and analyze climographs. Then this product has students create their own climograph from the data provided. Finally, students analyze three climographs to answer questions. This is a create lesson that can be taught in one period and/or used for homework.Check out the preview to see this excellent product.Thanks for stopping by!You may also be interested in these lessons:Population Pyramids Lesson and ActivityDemographic Transition Model (DTM) Lesson
Grades:
6th - 12th
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How Far is Too Far - The Age of A.I. Worksheet - Artificial Intelligence
This is a follow along worksheet for the Robert Downey Jr. produced "The Age of AI" YouTube series. This worksheet covers the first episode - How Far is Too Far?This worksheet is intended to keep students on task with the video. It isn't a critical thinking exercise.
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8th - 12th
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