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Oregon Trail Activity | Beginning Trail Notes & History | Simulation Game Intro
Oregon Trail activities are so fun for teachers and students. This travel guide is a visual and informational resource to help your students better understand the beginnings of the Oregon Trail. This particular sampler starts at Independence, Missouri and ends at Chimney Rock. It includes stunning visuals, real emigrant quotes, trail maps, and more! I hope you and your students enjoy learning about these first few stops and experiences along the Oregon Trail with this Google Slides instructional
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Also included in:Â American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Manifest Destiny & American Progress Painting Analysis
This is a great way to introduce your Westward Expansion Unit! Explore the painting American Progress by John Gast to compare to the meaning of Manifest Destiny. The kids have lots of fun trying to interpret the picture and what it could mean. This is a great lesson that can help introduce the new movement of expansion not just physically but mentally too.
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6th - 12th
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FREEBIE Unit or Lesson Plan Template for Middle School Social Studies
Get ready to supercharge your Social Studies lesson planning with our innovative lesson planning outline! I've harnessed the power of the latest Google Docs features to create an intuitive and easy-to-use tool that will help you plan your lessons with ease. With blank spaces to fill in your learning standards for both Social Studies and ELA, as well as built-in EdTech planning and sample Depths of Knowledge (DOK) questions, this lesson planning outline has everything you need to create engaging
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Staff
Killing Julius Caesar Historical Fiction Reading and Argumentative Essay
This is a historical fiction reading with a follow up argumentative essay of the murder of Gauis Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. The story takes the perspective of Caesar's great friend and ultimate betrayer, Brutus. Liberties are taken with historical fact to create an engaging read. The reading is about seven pages long which most middle school students can read in about 30 minutes. It is probably a 7th or 8th grade reading level. The story highlights Brutus' torment as he realizes th
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7th - 10th
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8th Grade United States History Pacing Guide FREEBIE with Suggested Activities
Attention 8th Grade Early United States History teachers! Are you struggling to plan your year's curriculum? Look no further than this FREE flexible pacing guide. This guide includes a month-by-month list of topics and suggested activities, fully editable and adaptable to your specific needs and requirements. Based on the New Jersey Social Studies standards but suitable for use in other states as well, this guide is the perfect tool to streamline your lesson planning and ensure that you're meeti
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8th, Staff
Also included in:Â Social Studies Resources for Getting Started Back to School or New Teacher
6th Grade World History 1 Pacing Guide FREEBIE with Suggested Activities
Attention 6th Grade Ancient Civilizations and World History 1 teachers! Take your lesson planning to the next level with this FREE flexible pacing guide. This comprehensive guide includes a month-by-month list of topics and suggested activities to help you plan your year with ease. Fully editable and adaptable to your specific needs and requirements, this guide is the perfect tool to streamline your lesson planning and ensure that you're meeting all of your state and Common Core standards. Based
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6th, Staff
Also included in:Â Social Studies Resources for Getting Started Back to School or New Teacher
Kingdoms of Mesopotamia, Egypt, & Kush Unit
Lecture slides covering important early river valley civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, follow-along student study guide snapshot, and a quiz. Students can follow along in-class or view the slides on their own or in groups to answer the questions on the study guide. Rundown:Material provided originally created and used in a fast-paced, gifted 6th grade classroom setting but could be adopted as needed to fit a variety of settings.1) Slides provide broad overview of some of the major river va
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6th - 10th
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Thesis Exit Ticket
Exit Ticket for Thesis WritingWhether you are preparing students for a literary analysis, a DBQ, or a research paper, this high interest exit ticket quickly allows you to assess if your students are ready with a thesis and their 3 main points. Offered as a PowerPoint Slide so you can add it to your slide deck or print it to use as a paper assignment.
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6th - 11th
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19th Century Social Reforms in Education CRQs Set & 2-Day Lesson Plan
Introducing our comprehensive set of Constructed Response Questions (CRQs) focusing on 19th-century social reforms in education. This product is designed to engage students in critical thinking, historical analysis, and writing skills while exploring the significant reforms that shaped American education during the 1800s.Thank you for visiting and downloading. For the latest new resources, Follow. Please Provide Feedback after use to help build this resource library! Thank you!Key Features:Alig
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6th - 12th
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Historical Speech Outline
Need an outline for students to use when writing a speech?? Grab this simple outline for any style learning to be successful. Outline was used for historical speeches but can be motified to be used for any subject manner.
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4th - 8th
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7th Grade World History 2 Pacing Guide FREEBIE with Suggested Activities
Are you a 7th Grade World History 2 teacher in search of a comprehensive pacing guide? Look no further than this FREE flexible guide, designed to help you plan your year with ease! This guide includes a month-by-month list of topics and suggested activities, fully editable and adaptable to your specific needs and requirements. Based on the New Jersey Social Studies standards but suitable for use in other states as well, this guide is the perfect tool to streamline your lesson planning and ensure
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7th, Staff
Also included in:Â Social Studies Resources for Getting Started Back to School or New Teacher
Facts & Opinions | ELA Activities for Middle School | Free
This lesson encourages students to think critically about facts and opinions and how they relate to climate change. Step 1 - Inquire: Students determine whether statements are facts or opinions and then define the terms fact and opinion. Step 2 - Investigate: Students watch three climate change videos, identify climate facts and climate opinions, and express their own opinions about climate solutions. Step 3 - Inspire: Students create a poster about climate change and separate out facts and opin
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6th - 8th
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Africa, The Belgian Congo and Leopold II
A brief overview reading that middle school students information over Leopold II's occupation of the Republic of the Congo. This is a great resource for supplement or adding to your instruction for an Africa unit, particularly one based around the "Scramble For Africa".Included is a word bank, and a guided note template. The instructions mention questions but those have been redacted as they were borrowed from another teacher. My suggestion would be to create a critical thinking or reading compr
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6th - 8th
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Introductions and Conclusions
How to formulate a basic Intro/Conclusion outline.
This doc was created to guide students having trouble with introductions and conclusions for Non-fiction writing. Many struggle because they don't understand what to put without just beginning their first paragraph.
This guide walks students through how to properly outline an expository introduction and conclusion of sufficient substance.
I use this for middle school students who are new to writing essays as well as those who have been doin
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6th - 9th
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Historical Argument Essay Outline
Teach your students to write a historical argument essay with this powerful 1-page outline!
I've used variations on this outline with my 7th graders for years, and they find it incredibly useful for supporting their writing early in the year. With consistent use, they will internalize the outline and in turn learn to "breaking the rules" to increase the creativity of their writing while maintaining a solid backbone of structure.
This outline includes basic structure for a 5-paragraph historic
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6th - 12th
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Argumentative Writing Graphic Organizer
This handout features a graphic organizer on which students can plan for argumentative writing with six paragraphs. Fields within the organizer prompt students to develop an introduction with an argument and claims, three body paragraphs with details to support their claims, a rebuttal, and a conclusion. All you need is a prompt!
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6th - 9th
Science Literacy: SSS1 Happily Ever - Short Science Stories - Rocks & Minerals
ATTENTION MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS:
Are you frustrated trying to get your students to learn basic science concepts? Pay attention in class? Write coherent essays or answer open-ended science questions?
MAYBE IT’S TIME TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT:
SHORT SCIENCE STORIES
Personalized Science Stories to Engage Middle School Students and Teach Common Core Standards & Science Content Simultaneously
WHAT ARE SSS?
• Engaging short stories that teach or reinforce major science concepts and c
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6th - 8th
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MYP Middle School TEEL paragraph Graphic Organizer
TEEL (topic, evidence, explanation, link) is a good way to organize expository writing. This is widely used in MYP/IB but can also be used in other curriculum formats. This graphic organizer helps students identify the parts of TEEL writing. I have included a sample task specific rubric I use for one of my units.
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6th - 8th
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Conceptual Framework Poster
Use this Study Scaffold - to help educate and guide your students about how to utilise the Conceptual Framework designed for Stage 4 Visual Arts Education. This scaffold has been differentiated for a variety of diverse learners to support a range of learning abilities.
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Feedback Abbreviation Codes
Do you ever feel conflicted between giving your kids meaningful feedback on their writing, and getting the work graded quickly enough to be relevant? Creating and using these feedback codes to abbreviate my comments have saved me SO much time! It may seem small like a small adjustment to write "RE" instead of "repetitive", for example, but I guarantee this will save you HOURS of grading!I provide this handout to each student as a resource that could be put in a interactive/writing notebook or a
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5th - 12th
DIGITAL (EDITABLE) Academic Essay Graphic Organizer
This organizer is the best way to structure an academic and/or historical essay for Middle School...hands down! It works for an academic paragraph or a full five-paragraph essay. This graphic organizer can act as a template, pre-writing activity or students can write their paragraph/essay directly on the organizer itself! This structure keeps students focused on the topic/prompt, has them present evidence and then connect it back to the thesis. If you are teaching students how to write academic
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6th - 8th
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Ancient Israelite leaders
This a great writing assignment that requires higher level thinking. Creating a RAFT (Role, Audience, Format and Topic) are great ways to engage students while incorporating rigor into their writing. Students can use any source of information (books, internet and etc..) to learn about the leaders (Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon and others) of the ancient Israelite world. They evaluate who contributed the most to the creation/rise of Judaism. The RAFT encourages students to be creative and sh
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6th - 9th
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Slaves vs. Factory Workers- A Primary Source
This worksheet contains an excerpt from a book written in 1857 by George Fitzhugh, a Southern writer. In this document, Fitzhugh argues why African-American slaves are better off than free factory workers in the North. There are background questions for the students to answer before they read the quote, followed by questions about the quote itself. On the second page is a quick assessment in which your students must write a 50-100 response to Fitzhugh explaining why he's wrong.Before presenting
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7th - 8th
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Document Based Question DBQ Constitution Ratification T-Chart
Begin the brainstorming process to write an organized DBQ Argumentative Essay on the ratification of the United States Constitution with this t-chart.
See also DBQ Constitution Ratification Writing Organizers for more resources to guide your students through the DBQ Essay writing process including a DBQ Constitution Ratification Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer, DBQ Peer Revision Checklist, and DBQ Essay Reflection.
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6th - 9th
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