Ancient History Key Concept GRAPES Activity & Assessment Complete Bundle

Feel great about teaching common themes throughout the Ancient History content! This is our entire teaching with the Big Ideas subfolder in a bundle. This resource bundle will both get you started and provide key activity choices that will get students analyzing major concepts during ancient times. This lesson set is great in a traditional classroom or perfect for interactive notebooks!

The Big Ideas for World History are geography, religion, achievements, government/leadership, economy, and social classes.  When students build a foundation with the key concepts, they develop analysis skills and create easy ways to compare civilizations throughout the year! 

What’s included:

1. INTRODUCTION POWERPOINT (15 SLIDES WITH DISCUSSION QUESTIONS) - The PowerPoint has great visuals and with discussion questions. It's COMPLETELY EDITABLE!

2. INTRODUCTION POWERPOINT GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AND DAY 1 LESSON - Students engage by completing a graphic organizer during instruction. Then, students complete a worksheet that has the year in preview, matching key concepts to civilizations that will be learned about. Lastly, students complete the My World doodle style notes activity that has them compare their lives to the key concepts. This activity is engaging and is FANTASTIC to hang on walls at the beginning of the year!

3. BIG IDEAS FOLDABLE- A great graphic organizer that can be used with ANY unit of instruction. Students summarize in fun ways, draw pictures, and support the main idea with supporting text.

4. THE BIGGEST IDEA WORKSHEET- Students analyze which key concepts are most important for the unit of study and answer compelling questions with supporting text. This assignment also has students share what can be learned from the civilization in order to better lives today.

5. LINKING BIG IDEAS- Students analyze how the big ideas were linked or complimented each other in the civilization. For example, geography often determines the types of natural resources traded. Students draw valuable connections!

6. BIG IDEA STORYBOARD ACTIVITY- Students draw pictures and create analysis for all of the key concepts. This assignment is creative and great to keep for reference at the end of the year!

7. BIG IDEA WRITING GUIDES- Students use a choice of two writing guides to respond to a teacher generated question or compelling question that is provided in the materials. Students use a template to craft a paragraph response complete with evidence, reasoning, and citation. A peer evaluation and teacher evaluation rubric is included

8. A 450 PAGE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK GRAPHIC ORGANIZER BUNDLE- This bundle of resources has great visuals for key concepts and is focus question based. Templates have student support claims with evidence from text, create summaries, and draw conclusions.

9. BIG IDEAS ARCHAEOLOGIST REPORT- Students summarize the big ideas for the unit in a cool format that has students use different modalities and support claims.

10. KEY CONCEPT DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK- Students research online visuals and write summaries of key events in this engaging Google Classroom ready resource.

11. Teacher notes are included!

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World History includes both Ancient and Medieval history lesson plans and complete unit packets. In the Ancient history and Medieval history curriculum, you will find lesson plans and activities that support inquiry-based learning through evidence-driven literacy and writing that aligns with Common Core. Our student-centered Social Science lessons teach students to analyze social studies content by using the key the concepts of geography, economy, achievements, religion, social classes and government. Students use academic vocabulary, in highly engaging, fun history investigations, interactive Google ready content, visually rich graphic organizer resources and thematic assignments.