"Colonial Foundations" Online Unit Access, US History

US History "Colonial Foundations" Online Unit Access

Unit 1, US History and Government

This product consists of passcodes to a unit in most of my online US History classroom at InnovationAssessments.com. Give your students the passcodes to access the task at InnovationAssessments.com/TestDrive. All tasks, including short answer, are auto-corrected. The site's AI grading assistant has a high level of proficiency in scoring short answer tasks.

The course is United States History and Government for the New York State Frameworks curriculum. This was taught to eleventh graders, but if your state teaches US history at other levels, the lessons would surely work for grades 7-12.

Elements not included but posted separately: PowerPoint slide shows, stimulus-based multiple-choice, Regents exam-style short essay -- Look for these in my Teach Simple contributor site.

When students have completed one of these tasks, the app yields a score and any other information you would need to assess their work (such as a copy of their short-answer responses). It's easy to have students take a screenshot of the results screen or to print out and submit to you. Some teachers just watch over students in class and record their results as they finish. Subscribers to Innovation Assessments can use the passcodes to import the task into their own course playlist and test question bank. This has some advantages over just the passcode access.

Unit Opening

• 11.1 Pretest -- Pre- and post-tests are made from questions from old New York State US History Regents exams.

• 11.1 Vocabulary -- The vocabulary app has three functions: a "tutor", flashcards, and a quiz.

• Video Etudes

An "Etude" is an app that displays media to the right and questions on the left. Questions can be multiple-choice or short answer. Students answer as they progress through the media and the answers are auto-corrected. An AI grading assistant offers assessments of any short answer responses which you can verify later. these are "video" etudes made from my own video lesson collection. Read this blog post at Innovation about video lessons and their effective use.

• Contact with Native Americans pt. 1,

• Contact with Native Americans pt. 2,

• Contact with Native Americans pt. 3,

• Contact with Native Americans pt. 4,

• English Colonies, part 1,

• English Colonies part 2,

• English Colonies, part 3,

• English Colonies part 4,

• English Colonies, part 5,

• New Amsterdam,

• French and Indian War part 1,

• French and Indian War part 2,

• French and Indian War part 3,

Assessment Included:

• 11.1 COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS quiz

• 11.1 COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS Capstone Test

Passcodes to InnovationAssessments.com/TestDrive for content delivery and assessment.