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A five-project STEAM/project-based-learning packet connecting the novel 'The War That Saved My Life' to WWII history through hands-on engineering, art, math, and science activities.
Deliver a micro-learning interactive lesson teaching the history and key rooms/facts of the White House through a reading passage, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
Provide a ready-to-use substitute/emergency lesson teaching basic world geography — continents, oceans, and maps — through a reading passage, discussion questions, and hands-on mapping worksheets.
The Yukon Gold Rush Gr. 4-6 An educational resource that transports students northward to the "Land Of The Midnight Sun," guiding them through a historical journey of the famous 1896 Yukon Gold Rush.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Geography Unit Dive into the unique geography and wildlife of Theodore Roosevelt National Park with this comprehensive middle school unit.
Thinking Like a Historian: Observing and Sourcing a Personal Document or Artifact is a highly engaging and interactive mini-unit of 4 or 5 days for 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th graders.
A micro-learning reading comprehension lesson deck teaching students key facts about Thomas Jefferson's life and accomplishments through a video, reading passage, vocabulary, and writing activity.
A 15-day social studies and reading comprehension unit built around the memoir Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, teaching main idea, supporting details, author's purpose, determining importance, and the historical context of school integration.
Abandon Ship! Social Stratification Simulation Teacher Guide Intro: This is a great class period activity to introduce and/or demonstrate the pervasiveness of social stratification.
Provide a 5-day, no-prep novel study unit built around Magic Tree House #32: To the Future, Ben Franklin, combining videos, chapter reading, quizzes, vocabulary, and activities.
Follow the 2011 film Too Big to Fail with 20 chronological questions. Fill-in and short-answer items draw attention to figures, institutions, and events in the film’s account of the financial crisis. A completed answer key supports reviewing the worksheet after viewing and discussing how the film presents those events.
A social studies lesson teaching the definition and features of totalitarianism and its rise after World War 1, with application to students' own lives.
The Traditional Economic System Lesson: A Comprehensive Overview This remarkable educational resource is carefully curated for teachers to stimulate robust discussions and analytical thinking in students from the 9th up to the 12th grade.
High-school world history lesson teaching WWI trench warfare and trench living conditions through guided fill-in-the-blank notes, a companion slide presentation, a primary-source letter, and a video.
A high-school social studies/economics lesson that teaches Trickle-Down (supply-side) Economics through a reading passage, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and a reflective writing task, with an included answer key.
Mini unit teaching the history of Tutankhamun and ancient Egypt, beginning with a lesson on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
A 5-day, no-prep unit built around the Magic Tree House book #23, Twister on Tuesday, combining video suggestions, guided/independent reading, chapter quizzes, vocabulary work, and hands-on activities covering reading comprehension, pioneer-era social studies, and the science of tornadoes.
A comprehensive teaching unit tracing the history and structure of the U.S. Constitution, from its English/colonial roots through the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, the Bill of Rights, and the branches of government, ending with the full Constitution and amendment text.
Teach 11 major U.S. Constitution clauses (Commerce, General Welfare, Necessary and Proper, Advise and Consent, Full Faith and Credit, Privileges and Immunities, Supremacy, Establishment, Due Process, Selective Incorporation, Equal Protection), including where each is established, and applying them to hypothetical legal scenarios.
Provide a large, multi-part study resource on the U.S. Constitution combining background notes and primary-source documents, a play, a novel, a letters/diary compilation, and a review game, for a semester-long study of the Constitution and the Philadelphia Convention.
In this lesson on the US Government: Executive Branch (both Google and Traditional versions are provided), your students will partake in a Gallery Walk activity exploring the multiple "hats" (roles) the US president assumes in the course…
This resource is a U.S. Government: The Electoral College Student Simulation Activity . You are purchasing a short student simulation and video activity that is perfect for INTRODUCING the Electoral College system to your students!
Teach students about the U.S.-Mexico Bracero Program (1942-1964) — its origins, operation, and effects — through a warm-up video, an introductory presentation, and primary/document-based sources.
Provide a comprehensive, biography-by-biography teaching resource on the evolution of the U.S. presidency from George Washington through Barack Obama (all 44 presidents), with review questions and unit tests.