50 results
High school social studies scripts for Microsoft PowerPoint
Second Great Awakening and Reformers of the 1800s - A Play
"Dr. Phil Interviews the Second Great Awakening Preachers and the Reformers." This purpose of this play is to help students understand the connection between the Second Great Awakening and the Reforms of the early 1800s and to help students identify each reformer and his or her cause. To keep students engaged, some students will read while others will jot notes onto a chart. After the play is over, students who wrote will share their notes and a discussion will help students fill in their cha
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
Ancient Africa Unit
Unit Includes:
*All Files can be accessed from a Mac or Windows computer*
Lesson 1- Development of African Civilizations
Keynote/PowerPoint- (28 Slides)
Teacher Script for Keynote- (7 Pages)
Student Outline for Keynote
Lesson 2- Kingdoms and States of Africa
Keynote/PowerPoint- (25 Slides)
Teacher Script for Keynote- (8 Pages)
Student Outline for Keynote
Lesson 3- African Society and Culture
Keynote/PowerPoint- (21 Slides)
Teacher Script for Keynote- (9 Pages)
Student Outline for Keynote
Un
Grades:
7th - 12th
Also included in: World History Bundle
AP World History Modern: Full Year PPT + Lecture Notes Bundle
Up to date for the 2023-2024 school year. These PowerPoints cover ALL illustrative examples, historical developments, learning objectives, and thematic focuses covered in the most recent College Board released AP World curriculum. With purchase comes lifetime access to updates and product changes! Full year's worth of PowerPoints for AP World History Modern over 35% discount to purchasing each PowerPoint individually!!!Includes my personally researched and detailed lecture notes for every slide
Grades:
9th - 12th
US History for AP/College(52 PPT/750 slides+Texts+Rec.Videos) by PhD in History
Dear colleagues,This is my best course, which is suitable for both AP classes and university lectures. I hope it will equip your students with everything they need to know about US History.The course includes:52 high-quality presentations with over 750 slides (concluding with the George W. Bush administration)39 .docx files containing concise information for your classes. These texts are based on my lectures, organized in a more coherent manner with the help of AIA file with links to more than 1
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
John Adams Presidency Complete Lesson with Skit!
Engage your students in this lesson about America's second president! Students will learn and do the following in this lesson: -Election of 1796 (Analyze Electoral College Maps and answer questions)-Foreign Policy Strategies: Diplomacy, trade sanctions, embargo, military aid and military action-Causes for tension with France in late 1700s: Discuss which foreign policy strategy they would use if they were president-XYZ Affair and Quasi War: Reading and Questions, + Act out a Skit, with PowerPoin
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 10th
Also included in: Early Presidents Unit: Washington to Monroe
The Triangle Trade and The Middle Atlantic Passage
Offer your students a visual introduction to the slave trading that took place for nearly 300 years between Europe, Africa and the Americas. This slide show on “The Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage” has dramatic illustrations and is accompanied by 8 pages of detailed notes with over 90 facts that you can use to narrate the 22-slide presentation. Areas covered by the slide show include:Atlantic trade routesCapturing and selling African slavesConditions and death on slave shipsSlave auctionsW
Grades:
5th - 9th
A Virtual Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg
This PowerPoint presentation takes the viewer on a virtual field trip to Colonial Williamsburg, a reconstruction of the Virginia settlement that played an important role leading up to the American Revolution. A complete script is included. No other teacher preparation is required.
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 12th
AP Art History Lecture Notes Bundle (Whole Year)
Updated for the 2023-2024 school year; meets the latest College Board AP Art History requirementsThis bundle is intended to prepare you in lecturing on the AP Art History curriculum. These are the exact materials I have used for my students, who have consistently achieved 95%+ passing rates (with several years passing at 100%!)Helpful for new AP Art History teachers who are looking for a complete set of notes as well as experienced teachers looking for something new and freshAccess to all future
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
Fall of Rome and Rise of Middle Ages A Play
The purpose of this activity is to help students identify and understand the causes and effects of the Fall of the Roman empire.
Students will participate in a play in which the Roman emperor continually taxes his people into poverty and then enslaves those unable to pay. Students will understand how the Emperor’s financial policies led to the Middle Ages and the conditions of serfdom for many poor people of the empire. Students will also understand the reasons barbarians attacked Rome, leadin
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Types:
United States History Tariff of Abominations Simulation
This simulation helps students understand why the South hated Protective Tariffs. The simulation involves allowing two sellers to sell either candy or a homework pass. One group sells for double the price since it must charge a tariff. One group of students is "set up" to have to buy the more expensive product. Included with the simulation is a short play to further the student's understanding. Thanks for your interest.
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
Bundle: American History reader's theater
Save time and 50% off of individual pricing ($24) with this American History Reader’s theater bundle. It contains 35 reader’s theater scripts, 3 research and role play activities, lesson plans, Power Points, rubrics, printables, extension activities and instructions on how to use the resources within. Reader’s theater brings a here and now feel to history while giving students an authentic reason to read and reread. Repeated readings with intonation and expression further deepens understandin
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 10th
French Revolution Causes Play
Introduction: This play includes many members of the class and helps students understand the events and causes of the French Revolution through active participation. After the play, students demonstrate their understanding with four quick questions.
Objectives: Students will understand and identify the causes of the French Revolution and some of the early events and effects.
Procedures/Supplies: Print out signs and the tri-colored flag. Color the flag before the play. Designate places in
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Types:
Freedom of the Press and John Peter Zenger, A Play in Southern Dialect
Help you students get a better understanding of the importance of the Zenger trial with this play written in Southern dialect. The play includes not only an easier to understand version of the trial, it also allows students to participate by reading several parts. To keep students engaged, the play includes background information about the reasons Zenger was sued and a timeline of events leading up to his arrest. As students view the timeline, they are asked to make a warrant for Governor Cos
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
Types:
Constantine Jigsaw FBI investigation
One of my all time favorite activities, this Constantine Investigation activity has it all:-Five Primary and Secondary Sources with comprehension questions-A Fun Skit Assignment where students pretend to be FBI agents-A Debate at the end to debrief and discuss who the real Constantine was-Answer keys includedAfter dressing up as an FBI agent yourself to give a preview of the activity (script included), break students into 5 different groups and have each group read/"investigate" a source/"witnes
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education
Jefferson Gets a Little Help from His Friends: A Play about the Declaration
This is a read-aloud play to help students understand how Enlightenment thinkers influenced the Founding Fathers. The play is written in the style of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." As Thomas Jefferson wearily tries to pen the Declaration of Independence, he is visited by ghosts in the forms of John Locke, King John of England, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Each of the men tell Jefferson about their ideas and ask him to include them in the Declaration and the new governmen
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
World War I - 4 Slideshows
Give your students a first-hand look at the “War to End All Wars.” This unit on World War I commemorates the recent 100th anniversary of the Great War in four separate slide shows. A total of 69 slides have been grouped into the presentation topics of “The War Begins,” “New Warfare of World War I,” “How Women Joined the War Effort,” and “The War Ends.” Whether you’re a high school teacher who wants to give students detailed facts and pictures to make the war come alive, or a junior high teacher
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
Package: Spanish American War scripts & PowerPoint
Three for the price of one!
Contains a 17 slide PowerPoint of primary and secondary sources, a graphic organizer, links to more than 6 interactive review games on the web and internet resources for exploring Yellow Journalism and the start of the Spanish American War.
Plus a five page, 10 scene reader's theater script. Divide the class up, assigning each group a scene as an introduction, review or enrichment activity. Reading level of scripts is indicated in ( ) on teacher resources but NOT
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
Dr. Phil Interviews the Law Givers of the Middle Ages
This play creates a talk show between Justinian, Henry II, and King John. The purpose of the play is to help students understand the reforms of Common Law and the Magna Carta. Also, students will understand the Twelve Tables were the basis of Europe's laws. Additionally, students will identify some of the laws in the Magna Carta and the Twelve Tables. An additional learning objective is to help students understand how these laws affected women. Other guests like William the Conqueror and Ch
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types:
The Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
The Gettysburg Address PowerPoint presents Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address that was given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Great for single classroom use or for whole school assemblies.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Civics bundle for secondary students
Save time and 30% of individual pricing ($10) with this Civics bundle for secondary students. It contains 19 reader’s theater scripts, lesson plans, 3 Power Points, rubrics, 31 piece bulletin board/writing prompt packet with instructions on how to use the resources within. Reader’s theater brings a here and now feel to history while giving students an authentic reason to read and reread. Repeated readings with intonation and expression further deepens understanding of characterization and for
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th
NeoClassicism and Romanticism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists
Whether you’re an art teacher who’s focusing on art history, or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “NeoClassicism and Romanticism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists” — will give you the visual and narrative tools you’ll need for many years to come. The narrator’s script, which accompanies each slide show, focuses on the artist’s style, childhood, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, and each of the subjects
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
World Peace Day Assembly - Grades 9 to 12
International Day of Peace / World Peace DayActions for Peace: Our ambition for the #GlobalGoals Presentation / AssemblyGrades 9 to 12Save hours of preparation time, simply download and go!Many of us only ever see war and conflict at the movies, or on the news. But war is real and has devastating consequences. People lose their belongings, their families, their lives and everything they know of. This drama that seems so far away, is the daily reality for people in conflict zones.Conflicts contin
Grades:
9th - 12th
The High Renaissance: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists
Whether you’re an art teacher focusing on art history, or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “The High Renaissance: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists” is a unit you can use for many years to come. The narrator’s script, which accompanies each slide show, focuses on the artist’s style, childhood, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, and each of the subjects or genres in which he created art. The slide shows
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Assembly - Grades 9 to 12
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2nd December Presentation / AssemblyGrades 9 to 12 Save hours of preparation time, simply download and go!Slavery is not a part of the past. Slavery is around us in the present, but most people don’t even realize it. According to the International Labor Organization, more than 40 million people around the world are victims of contemporary slavery, more than at any other time in history. (1)This age-appropriate assembly aims to;Clarify what modern-
Grades:
9th - 12th
Showing 1-24 of 50 results
Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
Teaching with social studies resources
On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies
What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands