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A 2-hour lesson plan and companion student worksheet built around viewing the HBO film 'Boycott' (2001) to teach the history, leadership, and nonviolent-resistance strategies of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
A 50-page unit study booklet using George Washington's Farewell Address to teach the full text alongside a modern paraphrase, plus related lessons on his biography, the Constitution's executive branch, political parties, foreign alliances, and Hamilton's financial plan.
A project-based, role-play group activity teaching students what it is like to be an archaeologist by simulating an archaeological dig, with accompanying lesson plans, vocabulary, rubrics, and a written assignment.
A comprehensive topical/unit-study eBook on Leonardo da Vinci combining a lapbook, a timeline game, and detailed biographical/thematic chapters covering his life as an artist, scientist, inventor, engineer, and more, for use as a full history/biography unit.
A 5-day literature unit built around Magic Tree House #13: Vacation Under the Volcano, combining reading, videos, comprehension quizzes, vocabulary, and creative activities about ancient Rome/Pompeii and volcanoes.
A ready-made 'emergency' substitute lesson packet (from a published Emergency Lesson Plans book) built around a narrative story about the history of chocolate, followed by cross-curricular follow-up worksheets (reading comprehension, writing, math word problems, geography, word puzzles).
A comprehensive multi-lesson social studies/ELA unit study on New Zealand, combining reading passages, vocabulary, note-taking, discussion, writing, and hands-on activities to teach students about the country's geography, history, culture, and language.
A complete 120-minute Groundhog Day lesson plan for high school (cultural studies/science/folklore) examining the historical/cultural origins of Groundhog Day, the scientific accuracy (or lack thereof) of its predictions, and broader critical-thinking distinctions between tradition, superstition, and pseudoscience.
An emergency/substitute lesson plan built around a nonfiction reading passage on the history of peanuts, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, math, and word-search activities.
A full-day emergency substitute teacher lesson plan packet for 4th grade combining social studies, reading, writing, and math around the theme of great explorers (Neil Armstrong, Lewis and Clark, Robert Ballard).
Teaches the Five Themes of Geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) through text passages, guided questions, a crossword, personal-connection homework, a study guide, and a summative test, aligned to California grade 5-6 history-social science standards and CCSS ELA/reading standards.
A writing and history activity pairing viewing of the film 'Selma' with structured writing about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, aimed at building empathy and historical understanding.
Teach students to analyze and interpret challenging primary source documents by creating Found Poetry, connecting close reading of historical/literary texts to creative poetic composition.
A project-based learning unit teaching the origins and characteristics of ancient Greek theater, culminating in students writing, rehearsing, and performing an original Greek-style play in cooperative groups.
A project-based debate activity teaching Hammurabi's Code of Law and ancient history, using argumentative writing and public speaking to connect ancient law to modern-day legal/ethical debates.
A 45-page reading and critical-thinking resource teaching middle/high school students the history of voting rights in the United States, including annotation practice, terms, and questions.
Provide a history lesson plan and worksheet on the fall of the Roman Republic, covering Rome's expansion, social/economic strain, and rise of military generals.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op novel study unit for the book 'Magic Tree House #31: Warriors in Winter,' pairing chapter reading with videos, discussion/worksheets, and daily hands-on Ancient Rome activities.
Grants passcode access to a set of online, auto-graded US History tasks covering post-Civil War Reconstruction-era topics on a third-party platform (InnovationAssessments.com), rather than delivering standalone downloadable content.
Deliver a full online US History unit on America's rise as a global superpower (imperialism, World War I, propaganda), with auto-graded assessments.
Comprehensive novel/picture-book study unit built around the picture book 'Voices from the Oregon Trail' by Kay Winters, teaching comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, historical context, and grammar through 17 sequenced lessons.
Comprehensive novel/picture-book study unit built around the picture book 'Voices from the Underground Railroad' by Kay Winters, teaching comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, historical context, and grammar through a pre-assessment plus 16 sequenced lessons about two siblings escaping slavery in 1861.
A film study for the movie Hidden Figures (2016) building comprehension, critical thinking, historical understanding, STEM awareness, and literacy skills around Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
2-hour cross-curricular (ELA, social studies, art) movie-study lesson plan and worksheet built around the animated film 'The Secret of Kells' (2009), exploring medieval Irish history, the Book of Kells, and themes of courage and creativity.