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Elementary government dbqs for Microsoft Word
Articles of Confederation DBQ (Strengths & Weaknesses)
Students will be analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. The assignment contains 10 documents and 30 questions. The assignment does not require the use of a textbook. I have included an answer key. Please message me if you have any questions. *Students will be analyzing primary source excerpts, pictures, and maps. *I have included an extended response at the end of the assignment. *The document can be uploaded to your website or Google Drive; however, please mak
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5th - 11th
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Articles of Confederation Gallery Walk
Students will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. The activity contains 10 documents and 30 questions. I have included an answer key. Please message me if you have any questions. *Students will be analyzing pictures, maps, and primary source excerpts.*I have included a writing piece at the end of the activity. *This is a great activity to get students out of their seats and moving!*The activity does not require the use of a textbook or teacher preparation.Docum
Grades:
5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â American History Gallery Walk Bundle (US History)
Three Branches of Government Test-- LEAP PREP!
This test includes 5 sources and many document based questions to go along with them. There is also an extended response that includes a rubric with LEAP components. This source is great to get students ready for LEAP formatted tests! Use it as an assessment or as teaching guide.
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2nd - 5th
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The Declaration of Independence is really a "Dear John" letter
In this lesson, students will read a "Dear John" in which Mary lists the reasons that she needs to break up with John. Using a graphic organizer, the students will analyze the various parts of the letter.
Students will then look at the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Usually a similar graphic organizer they will analyze the various parts of the preamble to deepen their understanding of why the colonies felt they needed to "break up" with England.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Civil War Primary Source Worksheet: The Death of President Lincoln, 1865
This Civil War worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about the assassination and death of Lincoln. This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions.http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln.htmClick here to view the website.The primary source document is labeled (The Death of President Lincoln, 1865)Students read the
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Presidents Lesson Plan Collection bundle
First Emperor Qin DBQ - Document Based Question Evidence Analysis
Is Emperor Qin a hero or villain? In this Document-Based Question (DBQ) students analyze 7 documents related to different decisions Emperor Qin made to determine if he should be considered a hero or a villain. Topics for the evidence analysis include:- Empire expansion- Standardizing money, weights, and measures- Great Wall of China- Working conditions on Great Wall- Eliminating criticism- Emperor Qin's tombAfter analysis of those documents, students complete the DBQ essay response answering th
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Also included in:Â First Emperor Qin - Hero or Villain Bundle - Research - Debate - DBQ
Separation of Church and State | Digital Learning Pack
The Separation of Church and State NO PREP distance learning pack. A Primary Source and thought provoking activity that gets your students interacting with different scenarios that ask them to determine if they fit with the Establishment and Free Exercise Clause. Digital and Paper Copy included!This "Separation of Church and State" Distance Learning Pack includes:1) A DBQ based activity that will test the knowledge of your students regarding The Establishment and Free Exercise Clause to the Co
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Foundations of America | Deluxe | Digital Learning Bundle
ACE Template for argument writing and constructed response answers
ACE Template for argument writing and constructed response answers. Can be used easily as an exit ticket for any essential questions. A great way to get middle school and early high school students to build the habits necessary for strong argument writing.
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in:Â THE BEST INQUIRY RESEARCH AND ARGUMENT WRITING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Louisiana Symbols and Landmarks Assessment-- LEAP PREP!! 3.1.4, 3.1.5
This is a great assessment to get students ready for their big test! It includes labeling state/national landmarks & symbols, and has 3 sources followed by multiple choice questions and a constructed response--similar to tasks they'll see on LEAP. Aligns with standards 3.1.4-5
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 08/20 - Progressive Era - 11th Grade
Thirty short-answer questions, worth 40 total points and spanning 27 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Progressive Era (Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Theodore Roosevelt, corporations, working conditions, Food and Drug Act, Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, child labor, the 17th amendment, consumer protection). These 27 pages of questions can be useful to any US History social studies curriculum that values primary and secondary source analysis This assignment correlates to Unit 19 (Ou
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 20/20 - Domestic/Foreign Issues - 11th Grade
Twenty-seven short-answer questions, worth 30 total points and spanning 20 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about Presidents Reagan and Bush (Sun Belt, Rust Belt, migration, drinking age, the Clean Water Act, 9/11, attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Patriot Act, American Civil Liberties Union, War on Terrorism, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Engel v. Vitale, separation of church and state, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona). These 20 pages of questions can be useful to any US
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
The Declaration of Independence | Digital Learning Pack
This "close reading" activity provides students an opportunity to comprehend one of the most important documents in history: the Declaration of Independence!This document-based activity begins with your students reading the words of Thomas Jefferson on their own, or together with the class with an instructor's guidance. Students will circle words that they do not understand and the use a dictionary to define those words. They can substitute synonyms onto their copy of the document. Then, your st
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Introduction to American Government | Digital Learning | Deluxe Bundle
Civil War Primary Source Worksheet: The Death of John Wilkes Booth, 1865
This Civil War worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about the manhunt and death of John Wilkes Booth. This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions.http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/booth.htm Click here to view the website.The primary source document is labeled (The Death of John Wilkes Booth, 1865)Students read
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Civil War: Lincoln Assassination Collection
U.S. - Multiple Choice Skills - Images/Visuals - Units 21-24 - 11th Grade
Sixty-four multiple choice questions, spanning 32 pages, all based on analyzing artifacts (photographs, sculptures, drawings and political cartoons). These questions can be used in any social studies curriculum. The repetitive nature of the questions, as well as the specific ordering of them, is meant to help students develop confidence answering multiple choice questions based on one specific skill: artifacts and political cartoons.This quiz is part of my US history skills series.Skill 1 = Maps
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in:Â U.S. - Multiple Choice Skills - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 15/20 - 1950s & Civil Rights - 11th Grade
Thirty-two short-answer questions, worth 40 total points and spanning 23 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the 1950's and early Civil Rights Movement (NAACP, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, "separate but equal," President Dwight Eisenhower, the Little Rock Nine, Executive Order 10730, Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King Jr, lunch-counter sit-ins, satellites, Sputnik, National Defense Education Act (NDEA), Interstate Highway Act, the automobile, su
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 05/20 - Reconstruction/Jim Crow - 11th Grade
Nineteen short-answer questions, worth 22 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow South (Constitutional Amendments, Andrew Johnson, Ku Klux Klan, Plessy vs. Ferguson). These 14 pages of questions can be useful to any US History social studies curriculum that values primary and secondary source analysis This assignment correlates to Unit 16 of my reading and study guides for US history (out of 37 total units)Unit 16: The
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
Levels of Government Assessment-- LEAP TEST PREP
Includes LEAP-like questions with sources, an extended task with sources and a writing with a LEAP-appropriate rubric. Great for test preparation.
Covers the local, state and national/federal government
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2nd - 4th
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Legislative Bellwork with Current Event SS.7.C.3.8
The students will complete the bellwork in a 5 day model. Each day is a scaffolded release of questions targeted at 5 main language arts standards. This allows students to pick apart the important information while meeting their language arts requirements in social studies
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SS.7.C.3.3 :Illustrate the structure and function (three branches of government established in Articles I, II, and III with corresponding powers) of government in the United States as established in the Constitutio
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Civics Bundle: 181 Products and over $400 in lessons/activities
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 16/20 - 1960s & Civil Rights - 11th Grade
Twenty-six short-answer questions, worth 30 total points and spanning 19 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the 1960's Civil Rights Movement (Montgomery Bus Boycott, lunch counter sit-ins, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail, John Kennedy, voting discrimination/restrictions, March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act, Lyndon Johnson, the Voting Rights Act, voting registration of African-Americans). These 19 pages of questions can be useful to any US History soc
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 12/20 - Depression/New Deal - 11th Grade
Twenty-five short-answer questions, worth 29 total points and spanning 19 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Great Depression & the New DeaI (Franklin Roosevelt, The Hundred Days, fireside chats, the radio, the "forgotten man," National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Sleeping-Car Porters Union, NRA, CCC, AAA, FDR'S court-packing scheme, checks and balances). These 19 pages of questions can be useful to any US History social studies curriculum tha
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 14/20 - The Cold War - 11th Grade
Thirty-seven short-answer questions, worth 43 total points and spanning 28 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the early years of the Cold War (Marshall Plan, Containment, the United Nations, Greece and Turkey, Harry Truman, USSR, Soviet Union, Berlin Airlift, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Korean War, North Korea, South Korea, communism, Executive Order 9835, HUAC, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Rosenberg Trial, Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, French
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 19/20 - Presidents Reagan & Bush - 11th Grade
Seventeen short-answer questions, worth 21 total points and spanning 14 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about Presidents Reagan and Bush (Mikhail Gorbachev, Berlin visit, Soviet Union, Iraq, Kuwait, Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein, United Nations). These 14 pages of questions can be useful to any US History social studies curriculum that values primary and secondary source analysis This assignment correlates to Unit 33 (Out of 37 total units) of my reading
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
Louisiana Antebellum Era/Louisiana Purchase Test
Item set matches Louisiana (LEAP) test format and standards.
*The standards that are covered are included at the top.
*The test is editable, as it is a word document.
*There are 4 sources, all secondary.
*There are multiple select, multiple choice, constructed response, and a "technology enhanced"
*There are 10 items total.
Do not hesitate to contact me with questions and concerns.
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - 09/20 - Suffrage/Civil Rights - 11th Grade
Twenty-four short-answer questions, worth 33 total points and spanning 19 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the early Civil Rights, Temperance and Women's Suffrage movements (segregation, prohibition, the 19th amendment). These 19 pages of questions can be useful to any US History social studies curriculum that values primary and secondary source analysis This assignment correlates to Unit 20 (Out of 37 total units) of my reading and study guides for US history:Unit 20: Early C
Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Also included in:Â U.S. - Primary/Secondary Sources - Bundle - Units 01-37/37 - 11th Grade
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