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Elementary ancient history dbqs for Google Apps
Alexander the Great in Ancient Greece DBQ Inquiry Investigation Activity
In this engaging Alexander the Great DBQ Investigation, students analyze the life and times of Alexander the Great to understand the two sides to his historic legacy. Students begin by examining song lyrics of a popular song to understand Alexander the Great's role in history, then engage in a five-document activity, including a map analysis and primary sources, to learn both sides of his legacy. Students record thoughts and answers on an analysis document, complete a graphic organizer assignme
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5th - 8th
Fall of Rome: A Student Investigation! Explore 7 Documents For Why Rome Fell!
In this Fall of Rome DBQ student resource Investigation, students explore 7 short documents (5 text, 1 chart, 1 map), to ultimately answer the question: "Why exactly did the Roman Empire fall?" Students analyze 7 documents and complete a bubble-map organizer before completing a "snowball effect" organizer to link the reasons for Rome's decline!☆ ☆ Get this engaging resource (and a huge discount) when you purchase my Ancient Rome activities unit or my Middle Ages activities unit!Students will b
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5th - 8th
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Life as a Gladiator Engaging Primary Source Analysis in Ancient Rome
In this Rome Gladiator primary source activity, students analyze a primary source regarding the gladiator games, then create a script where they converse with a citizen of ancient Rome who attended the games! ☆ ☆ Get this engaging resource (and a huge discount) when you purchase my Ancient Rome activities unit located here bundle!Students read chunked and focused text (to aid in comprehension) that is geared toward specific questions on the gladiator games of Rome. This has been done to focus
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5th - 9th
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Ancient Egypt Stations
This product contains 8 "articles" that comprise the Ancient Egypt Case Study. Each article has a particular topic related to the Nile River Valley. Specifically, this document includes Geography, Economy, Seasons of the Nile, Social Order, Government, Religion, and Achievements of Ancient Egypt, with an additional article on the pyramids for fun! Each article uses images, bold text, and vocabulary to enrich the reader's engagement with the document. Each article has a corresponding Student Que
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5th - 8th
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Investigate King Tut's Death!
Your students will love investigating the death of King Tut. With 6 sources included, kids can act as archaeologists to gather evidence about possible reasons for King Tut's death, from natural causes to a chariot accident to murder! In this digital interactive document, kids can highlight the evidence they find, answer 4 clarifying multiple choice questions and then write well-organized paragraphs using the RACE strategy to describe various possible causes of death. Finally, kids will take a st
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5th - 7th
China & The Mandate of Heaven: Google Form - Digital DBQ
This Primary Source Analysis Digital DBQ gives students a chance to investigate the concept of the Mandate of Heaven.Students have a chance to read significant portions of a source that has been adapted for a general education World History class. There are 26 multiple choice comprehension questions to help students figure out key vocabulary and concepts.Students will see that the Mandate of Heaven was China's verification system to determine who should be in power and who has lost the blessing
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: China & The Mandate of Heaven: Primary Source Analysis. Mini Bundle
China & The Mandate of Heaven: Guided Inquiry Worksheet
This Primary Source Analysis Worksheet gives students a chance to investigate the concept of the Mandate of Heaven.Students have a chance to read significant portions of a source that has been adapted for a general education World History class. There are 26 multiple choice comprehension questions to help students figure out key vocabulary and concepts.Students will see that the Mandate of Heaven was China's verification system to determine who should be in power and who has lost the blessing of
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: China & The Mandate of Heaven: Primary Source Analysis. Mini Bundle
Mesopotamia: Updated to the New Standards: Lessons, Readings, DBQs, & Tests
EXPERIENCING HISTORY Now updated to the NEW Inquiry-Based STANDARDS is a complete social studies curriculum designed for middle school students of WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES. Each Google Slide/PowerPoint is a stand-alone lesson, now embedded with primary source documents that frame each lesson. Although the curriculum is inquiry-based, lessons are full of engaging, participatory, hands-on learning experiences. There are 10 LESSONS and a total of 23 FILES in the MESOPOTAMIA UNIT. One inq
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Semester-Long Curriculum ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES
Ancient Egypt: Updated to the New Standards: Lessons, Readings, DBQs, & Tests
EXPERIENCING HISTORY Now updated to the NEW Inquiry-Based STANDARDS is a complete social studies curriculum designed for middle school students of WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES. Each Google Slide/PowerPoint is a stand-alone lesson, now embedded with primary source documents that frame each lesson. Although the curriculum is inquiry-based, lessons are full of engaging, participatory, hands-on learning experiences. There are 13 LESSONS and a total of 29 FILES in the ANCIENT EGYPT UNIT. One i
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Semester-Long Curriculum ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES
Hammurabi's Code for Google Slides™ DBQ using SHEG
What can we learn about Babylonia from Hammurabi's Code? This is the main question that the students will attempt to answer using these Google Slides. This activity has been adapted from the SHEG Stanford History Education Group resource. You can use this as a stand-alone activity, or along with the SHEG resource documents. Students will take on the role of historians. They will analyze selected sources from Hammurabi's Code. They will respond to some questions that will help give clues ab
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5th - 8th
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Daily Life in the Roman Empire HyperDoc 6th or 7th grade history
Perfect for digital learning! Students explore life in Ancient Rome, such as what it is like to be a teenage boy and girl in Rome, as well as the social hierarchy in Rome. There are hyperlinks to different websites and videos. In addition, this covers the achievements of the Romans. Summative assessment is a FlipGrid video on whether or not you would live in Ancient Rome. Perfect for assessing a student's speaking skills!
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5th - 7th
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China & The Mandate of Heaven: Primary Source Analysis. Mini Bundle
This Primary Source Analysis Worksheet & Google Form gives students a chance to investigate the concept of the Mandate of Heaven.The Crash Course video is a free bonus with the Bundle.See the Previews for more.
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5th - 12th
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The Ramayana- Google Doc
**Fully Editable****No Prep****Answer Key**Abridged, modified version of an Ancient Indian primary source, the Ramayana- ends at the banishment. This product includes many guiding questions to help students of all levels better analyze and understand the story. Students of all reading levels (ICS, GenEd, and Honors) were able to deeply connect with this version of the text. There is also a graphic organizer for students to categorize differing aspects of Ancient Indian Society, including Hinduis
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4th - 10th
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Digital Notebook: Digital MesoAmerica Notebook- Inca, Aztec, & Maya
This is a Google Slide with interactive tabs. This would be distributed to each student via your Distance Learning or Classroom platform per student. This can easily be printed, downladed as a pdf, or downloaded as a PowerPoint to meet your learning needs in this crazy teacher world that we teach in. This unit has a huge variety of styles to make learning needs and to achieve learning goals! It has Readings, Document Based Questioning, and Video Q&A's. Check this out and click to follow to s
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5th - 12th
Mesopotamia Narrative Writing Task - GOOGLE DRIVE Digital Slides & Print Ready!
This is a no-prep, ready-to-go Google Drive assignment that allows students to research a high-interest topic and write about a day in the life of a scribe in Ancient Mesopotamia! Simply assign it to students in Google Classroom and you're ready to go!This resource was designed to be used during a middle school Ancient World History unit on River Civilizations. While teaching about Mesopotamia, I have found that students really enjoy learning about the history of writing and what real examples a
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5th - 8th
Phoenicians Reading Passage with Self Grading Comprehension Questions
A short 6th grade reading passage on the Phoenicians with 5 comprehension questions. Questions are multiple choice and self grading. Reading passage comes with a video read aloud.
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5th - 8th
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Document-Based Question: What Makes an Ordered Society?
This resource is a document-based question activity on a Google form.One of the most important contributions to the culture of the civilizations of India and China was religion, or a belief system. Each religion imparted certain values and behavioral guidelines that shaped family structure, society, and government. Some of these values continue to influence thought and behavior to this day. In this activity, students will examine primary and secondary sources.Students will examine five sources r
Grades:
5th - 12th
Ancient Greece: Updated to the New Standards: Lessons, Readings, DBQs, & Tests
EXPERIENCING HISTORY Now updated to the NEW Inquiry-Based STANDARDS is a complete social studies curriculum designed for middle school students of ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES. Each Google Slide/PowerPoint is a stand-alone lesson, now embedded with primary source documents that frame each lesson. Although the curriculum is inquiry-based, lessons are full of engaging, participatory, hands-on learning experiences. There are 14 LESSONS and a total of 30 FILES in the ANCIENT GREECE UN
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Semester-Long Curriculum ANCIENT WORLD HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES
Fall of Rome DBQ Document Analysis
This activity in Google Docs requires students read like historians. Students are tasked with analyzing three of five DBQ documents linked at the beginning of the document. Each document is related to the fall of the Roman Empire. When analyzing each document, students choose from a menu of questions that require them to consider bias, reliability, author's purpose, and more. This items has been created in Google Docs in a format for easy manipulating and photocopying. If you like this product,
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5th - 8th
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Greek Quotes/Document Based Questions
A great activity to strengthen critical thinking skills as well as primary source skills5 slides- either quotes from important Greeks or document based questionsGreat activity for independent work, then collaboration with others to exchange answers
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5th - 8th
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Google Slide Digital Notebook: Ancient Egypt HG
Topics Included (but not limited to):EgyptAnimal WorshipEgyptian CatsPyramidsSocial ClassesPharoahs Geography--------------------------------------------Types of Activities for each unit Included (but not limited to):Question PracticeReadings & Comprehension QuestionsVideos and QuestionsInteractive Vocab ActivitiesVisual VocabLearning Goal Charts to start each unit!Bellwork to start each unit!Close ReadingsHistory Lab/ mini DBQ--------------------------------------------Product Description/
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5th - 12th
Roman Government Bundle
Roman Government Bundle includes an escape room, Forum DBQ, and Rome's Government DBQ
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3rd
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Stone Age TDA Google Doc
This cross-curricular Google Docs activity requires students to use evidence gathered about the Stone Age to make an argument about the intelligence of Stone Age humans. The Doc includes a writing prompt, scaffolded writing support, and a rubric for grading. Your purchase will provide you access to two Google Docs: one in color that is visually appealing to students, and one in black and white for easy photocopying. Because you are purchasing a Google Doc, both files will be easy to modify or ma
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5th - 7th
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Roman Forum DBQ
DBQ on the Roman Forum for Grade 3.
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3rd
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Also included in: Roman Government Bundle
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Ancient history activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about ancient history:
Map Making
With map-making activities you can not only teach students about ancient civilizations, but also incorporate geography into your lessons. As they label and color maps, students can learn about important places in ancient civilizations, chart trade routes, and learn how empires expanded (and fell) over time.
Primary Source Analysis
One of the best ways to learn about ancient civilizations is through the artifacts and writings of people from that particular period of time. Encourage students to analyze primary sources to gain a deeper understanding about bygone eras of history. For instance, you can have students read accounts of the destruction of Pompeii and discuss it as a class.
Centers & Stations
Through the use of centers, students can collaborate and discuss topics and content they examine for each era in history. For example, you can have students navigate through four or five different centers or stations to help them learn about different aspects of Ancient Chinese culture, like literature, geography, government, and major historical events or achievements.
By making ancient history come to life through a variety of interactive and immersive activities, teachers can help students develop a deeper appreciation for the subject.
Frequently asked questions for teaching about ancient history
What is ancient history?
Ancient history refers to the period of human history that takes place from the invention of writing to late antiquity (spanning from about 3000 BC to AD 650). This era includes the study of various ancient civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, India, and others. Ancient history plays a critical role in helping us understand the origins and development of human civilizations and the influence it had on contemporary cultures and societies.
What are examples of ancient history?
The Persian Wars, the rise of the Tang Dynasty, the campaigns of Alexander the Great, and the decline and fall of the Roman empire are all examples of important milestones and events that you can teach about in ancient history.
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