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Other (social studies) Common Core SL.9-10.2 resources
Thomas Paine Common Sense: Primary Source Activity | American History
Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a little pamphlet with big ideas! This primary source activity gives students a chance to read through and analyze the major paragraphs, or arguments, within his pamphlet while answering various questions. I created this mini-unit for my own classroom to help students understand this important document that shaped the course of Independence. You will find that this resource is challenging yet capable for all. Students are analyzing text from the 1700's which ca
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6th - 12th
Also included in:Â American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Podcast Response One-Pager and Booklet | List of Podcasts for the ELA Classroom
Printable one-pager and booklet response sheets for any podcast episode, plus 17 interesting podcasts for student listening in your ELA classroom - ideal for middle and high school!This list features recommendations from currently practising ELA teachers, and will expand as more great educational and supplementary shows are discovered.Want the BUNDLE? Check out my $15 Speaking & Listening BUNDLE of Communication, Discussion, and Presentation Activities!Note:This list of podcasts comes from t
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Not Grade Specific
Also included in:Â ENDLESS ELA BUNDLE | Middle & High School | Reading, Writing, Communication
Emergency Activities: Ideas and Lessons for Your Sub Folder or When You Need It!
Are you needing some excellent ideas for a substitute teacher or those times when you need something fast? This bundle contains a variety of engaging resources from my store in a bundle format to help you save time and money. Get a whopping 30% off all included resources by buying this bundle format. Once the bundle is yours, you will then get 100% off all future products added to the bundle! Buying the bundle format will save you time and money, and you will be getting many of my favorite less
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Autopsy: Age of Revolutions
The students will be depicting The Age of Revolution through an autopsy project where the students will be drawing a person him/herself or someone from that time period with the themes surrounding the person. For example the causes and effects of Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural issues during the revolutions. Students have autonomy on who they want to draw as long as it adds to the project. This assignment is created to be fun, creative, and most importantly… informative.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Autopsy: Age of Revolutions, Part I
The students will be looking into a specific Age of Revolution and will be researching major themes provided. The students will be depicting this through an autopsy project where the students will be drawing a person him/herself or someone from that time period with the themes surrounding the person. Students have autonomy on who they want to draw as long as it adds to the project. This assignment is created to be fun, creative, and most importantly… informative.
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in:Â Autopsy: Age of Revolutions
Autopsy: Age of Revolutions, Part II and Part III
Part II. The Gallery WalkThe students will go around to each New World Empires Autopsy Report, and complete the graphic organizer. It is important that take your time and write quality notes because this will be helpful for Part IV.Part III. RaterEmbedded is a student partner rater as well a reflection on the project itself.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in:Â Autopsy: Age of Revolutions
Debate Format (Online and Classroom Debate)
This debate unit was built and used for the past three years with my freshmen students. This packet contains the organized debate format, score sheet, example debate topics and very important, two sheets to help students plan out facts (great sources) from fiction (opinions) and mind mapping out their debate. All of these sheets have been used with my students, but we are time-limited, when going through 150 debates. The only thing not included is a Works Cited page, where students must include
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6th - 12th
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Common Core Social Justice Unit Bundle
This product is 86 pages and consists of an entire common core aligned unit, which includes the unit plan, the lesson plans, all handouts and rubrics that correspond with the lessons along with the PowerPoint that goes with the unit. It is intended to be aligned with Human Rights Month, which is December, The unit plan bundle is designed for 9-12 graders and ends with the students completing a service learning project. The unit (17 days of lessons) will take approximately three and a half weeks
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9th - 12th
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Inquiry Learning in Social Studies: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
Are you looking for history research project ideas? Reading and writing about contemporary issues is one of the best activities to engage students in learning, work together, and get the most out of class! This high school history project invites students to develop their own perspectives on contemporary issues of the world by using a working definition of terrorism to research the historical and geopolitical contexts of a group or individual. Students will then work together to create a poster
Grades:
9th - 10th
Also included in:Â Terrorism in the Modern World: Growing Bundle
PBL Project Introductory Slides
Excited to incorporate PBL (Project Based Learning) into your teaching this year? Here are some ready-made introductory slides to help you get started! These slides include some cited background from PBL Works and original project ideas with driving questions and suggested role assignment and rubric ideas. Applicable for most grade levels, specifically middle-secondary. Slide design by Slides Carnival.
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4th - 12th
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Also included in:Â PBL Unit: Slides, Project ideas, and Rubric
Create a group history podcast PBL
This product will introduce your students to podcasts and then help them create their own group podcast in any platform (I recommend Anchor). Many students are not familiar with podcasts, so they will first explore what a podcast is and what types of podcasts exist. Next they will listen to any history podcast that the teacher assigns, so this can fit in with any unit you are studying. Students will record their observations on the aspects that make up the podcasts, both technical and exposito
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9th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar Graphic Organizer and Reflection
This graphic organizer takes your students from the beginning to the end of the socratic seminar process. Just read your content, prep and discuss!
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Student-Centered Current Event Discussion Leader Packet
Don’t be nervous about introducing healthy debate into your middle or high school classroom! This packet will do the work for you!✨ Evidence-based argumentative skills! ✨                     ✨ Respectful debate! ✨Former students have told me that this activity prepared them for their college courses!!It's more than just your typical classroom debate, it’s the first step in preparing your students for life after school! Training them to voice their opinions using evidence and kindness will help t
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Student Centered Current Event Discussion- Respectful Debate- NO PREP- SEL
PBL Unit: Project Ideas
Ready to incorporate PBL into your classroom? Here is a list of project ideas and guidelines to help you and your students get started. Additionally, you'll find some suggested interdisciplinary pairings if you plan on using PBL across subject areas in collaboration with your colleagues from different departments! Enjoy!
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â PBL Unit: Slides, Project ideas, and Rubric
Current Event Discussion Rules & Student Response Sentence Starters
My former students tell me this is the activity from high school that MOST prepared them for college.Incorporate student-lead current event discussions easily with these printable rules and student response sentence starters!My students start out reliant on the sentences starters. After a few weeks, they are using the professional language naturally!
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Student Centered Current Event Discussion- Respectful Debate- NO PREP- SEL
Class Survival Guides: Helping Next Year's Students Navigate a New Course
The end of the school year can be a really crazy time. Students and teachers are all ready for summer break and it's often difficult to get anyone engaged in the learning process, let alone have students reflect on their school year! As a project based learning teacher, I love challenging my students to reflect on their achievements and the hurdles that they've overcome as learners, that's why I created this project: a survival guide for incoming students to my class. In this project students re
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3rd - 12th
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Discussion-Based Lesson: Should We Raise the Federal Minimum Wage?
This lesson is part of the Seminar curriculum launched in 2022 at the Khan World School founded by Sal Khan of Khan Academy, in partnership with ASU Prep. Through Seminar, students gather daily to engage in Socratic-style discussions about the challenges of today's world, from current events to social and political issues to philosophical and scientific debates.Our team at the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) at UChicago, a social innovation lab founded by Freakonomics econ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Discussion-Based Lesson: What Are the Pros and Cons of the Gig Economy?
This lesson is part of the Seminar curriculum launched in 2022 at the Khan World School founded by Sal Khan of Khan Academy, in partnership with ASU Prep. Through Seminar, students gather daily to engage in Socratic-style discussions about the challenges of today's world, from current events to social and political issues to philosophical and scientific debates.Our team at the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) at UChicago, a social innovation lab founded by Freakonomics econ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Discussion-Based Lesson: How Should We Measure Economic Growth and Wellbeing?
This lesson is part of the Seminar curriculum launched in 2022 at the Khan World School founded by Sal Khan of Khan Academy, in partnership with ASU Prep. Through Seminar, students gather daily to engage in Socratic-style discussions about the challenges of today's world, from current events to social and political issues to philosophical and scientific debates.Our team at the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) at UChicago, a social innovation lab founded by Freakonomics econ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Should historic buildings be preserved? - Civil Discourse for Classes
Thinkalong.org is a free, evidence-based interactive tool for students to develop media literacy skills by applying the 5 Key Questions of Media Literacy to public media content. Importantly, the tool does not require registration for teachers or students, abides by student privacy laws, and is advised by a board of both youth and educators.Each module consists of:a compelling and timely question;related current and age-appropriate public media content including audio, video, and text;extension
Grades:
6th - 12th
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