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Free 8th grade U.S. History bibliographies
Early European Explorers - 5th Grade Social Studies
This is a unit plan split into several days. Each day the students will learn or concentrate on a particular part of explorer history.
Day one - students will learn about Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Juan Ponce de Leon, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Henry Hudson, Ferdinand Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci, Samuel de Champlain, Jaques Cartier.
Day two - learn in more detail about the above explorers and their routes
Day three - students will read a bibliography of assigned explorer and write about th
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5th - 8th
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Industrial Revolution: Robber Barons or captains of industry?
Students will consider how some people believe the so called “captains of industry” were also demonized “Robber Barons” who grew incredibly rich at the expense of the massively poor worker class. They will weigh the good with the bad of every individual.
Grades:
7th - 11th
(FREE!) Black History Month Biography
In this Black History Month Biography project, middle school students can choose an influential African American to research. This package comes with an easy to use Google Slides template where students can type in their information. This package also features a straight forward template and rubric so that teachers can introduce and grade with frustration-free.For middle school students, this takes around 100 minutes of class time and is geared for all exceptionalities and abilities.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Andrew Carnegie reading
A short, one-page reading on the life and work of industrialist Andrew Carnegie with an emphasis on his contributions to American society.
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6th - 8th
Rosa Parks Biography activity - Black History Civil Rights
Encourage your students to create a biography of Rosa Parks using our Rosa Parks Biography Web Activity. This template includes sections for birth and death dates, her notable achievements, famous quotes, occupation, personality traits, and beliefs. It's a helpful guide for students to organize information about Rosa Parks.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Founding Fathers Podcast
This is a fun, engaging activity that encourages students to think creatively and create a podcast. In this assignment, students will interview a figure from the American Revolution and get to know them. This activity is easy to adapt to different levels of instruction across the middle school-high school curriculum. It brings a lot of laughs and enables students to learn a wide breadth of material.
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6th - 9th
Abraham Lincoln Minibook for ELL Students
Minibooks are designed to give ELL students an introduction to content information through comprehensible books. Minibooks are also excellent resources for reading practice while engaging with content and learning new vocabulary. Minibooks can be used as pre-learning before a content class or used as stand-alone reading practice. Higher-level vocabulary words are bolded and a glossary is provided.
In addition to the minibooks, a question sheet is provided for additional work. These question she
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
George Washington Minibook for ELL Students
Minibooks are designed to give ELL students an introduction to content information through comprehensible books. Minibooks are also excellent resources for reading practice while engaging with content and learning new vocabulary. Minibooks can be used as pre-learning before a content class or used as stand-alone reading practice. Higher-level vocabulary words are bolded and a glossary is provided.
In addition to the minibooks, a question sheet is provided for additional work. These question she
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson-FREEBIE
In 2022, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first African American female being confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. There have been 115 Supreme Court justices as of 2021! Justice Jackson becomes only the 6th woman to become a Supreme Court Justice. It is also the FIRST time there will be four women, out of the nine justices, on the Supreme Court!FREEBIE..Possible Resources of Interest:Supreme Court: A Webquest: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Supreme-Court-A-Webquest-9
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5th - 9th
President's Day Powerpoint
This 19 slide powerpoint focuses on the early years, interesting facts, and contributions of James Garfield, Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy and William McKinley who were all sadly, assassinated. Includes matching activity and questions. Powerpoint is linear, meaning you can click on different links within the ppt to take you to different pages within the ppt.
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Black History Month Matching Game
REVISED-TYPO HAS BEEN FIXED! Looking for a fun activity for your kids for Black History Month? Includes important, lesser known figures in history. Included figures include some from the Virginia SOLs.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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American President Project
This project is great for an in class or independent project. Each student will be assigned a president to research and complete a Power Point or Prezi and a visual component. Instructions for each part of the project is outlined with visual examples.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Resources for Teaching About Genocide
All sources were chosen for those without any background on the topics. Films include both documentaries and fiction based on real events. When films were available online, a link was included. Genocides discussed include American Indian, African Slavery, US Philippines War, Armenian, Holocaust, Cambodian, Bangladesh, East Timor, Mayan, Rwanda, Peru, Darfur, and Syria.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
BIG list of US History Historical Fiction for Middle School
This is a list of historical fiction books that I created for my 7th grade social studies students to do book projects on. The content begins with early colonial US history and focuses heavily on the Civil War.
List includes title, author and short description and is ready to hand out to students and parents.
Grades:
6th - 8th
American Landmark Foldable
Teaching about American Landmarks is much easier with this foldable. This is a double sided handout that students fill in while doing their research. Use one foldable for each resource. Foldables can then be graded as is or used to help the student form a research report.
"American Landmark Foldable" by Heather Kaiser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.teacherspayteachers.com.
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4th - 8th
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Immigrant Stories
Narrative of 4 immigrants; Italian, Irish, Jewish and Chinese. These stories are modified from the text in the Social Studies Passport Unit 2 Grade 8. Stories are 1 page long. All other resources to teach with these stories are under the bundle Learning Segment titled Immigrant Experiences in my store. The bundle also includes Spanish translations of all resources for the Dual Language and Bilingual classroom as well as a resource to support ELL learners in your classroom.
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8th
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QR Code Scan, Listen, and Write Black History Month
Happy Black History Month!Use this resource to celebrate and learn about the lives of Oprah Winfrey, Jackie Robinson, Maya Angelou, and George Washington Carver.Directions: Print pages 2 & 3. Cut out the boxes and hang them around the classroom.Print and copy page 4.Students use iPads to scan the QR Codes around the room.Students watch the video clips and complete the comprehension questions on page 4. The answer key is on page 5.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Interesting Landmark Foldable
Teaching about Interesting Landmarks is much easier with this foldable. This is a double sided handout that students fill in while doing their research. Use one foldable for each resource. Foldables can then be graded as is or used to help the student form a research report.
"Interesting Landmark Foldable" by Heather Kaiser is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.teacherspayteachers.com.
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4th - 8th
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Maria Martinez Fun Facts
Maria Martinez is one of the most well Native American artists. She is known for reviving black on black pottery. Every student must learn about the traditional pottery of Maria Martinez and her husband Julian. This is not just for Antiques Road Show junkies!
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3rd - 12th
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The Underground Railroad: Bibliography
I created The Underground Railroad: Bibliography. It is a free bibliography for The Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was free on this webpage. On this free webpage, it accrued over 420 downloads, and a four-star rating. Based on my bibliography, it is clear that I put in a lot of research and work. Therefore, per Teachers Pay Teachers' suggestion, I decided to honor my efforts, and sell it. Nothing has changed. This bibliography provides your students the opportunity to cond
Grades:
6th - 9th
Frederick Douglass PowerPoint
I used this PowerPoint to teach high schoolers with Emotional and Learning Disorders about Frederick Douglass. I used guided notes by typing out the bullet points in a Word document and leaving out some words with ___________ instead.
After the PowerPoint, I had the students write a letter to Frederick Douglass about a problem they were, or have, faced. We went to the computer lab and they typed up their letters. I then gave each student someone else's letter and had them respond as if they w
Grades:
6th - 12th
HISTORICAL Figures Assignment
I created this short ELA wring assignment so that my students could get just a glimpse into an interdisciplinary assignment to make them better understand how their classes work together for their education. It can be used in any history classroom – world, US history, state history, European history, etc., It can also be used as a full sheet, back to back full sheet, two page worksheet, a small half sheet assignment, what even works best for the teacher.
There is a one-sided sheet, a back sided
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6th - 12th
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Hand Drawn Historical Portrait Ty Cobb
Here is a hand drawn piece of artwork of baseball hall of famer Ty Cobb. This can be used for a project or for a worksheet. The artwork is 4" x 5" and should not be made larger otherwise it will distort. Please add the artist Don Pedicini Jr. as the artist for this piece if used publicly. Thank you.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Ben Franklin PowerPoint and Guided Notes
this is a PowerPoint Presentation about Benjamin Franklin, his life accomplishments and events, as well as the many jobs "hats" he wore. Multiple Hat assignment is also included with PowerPoint.
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8th
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