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Free Common Core WHST.11-12.2 resources
How to Analyze Political Cartoons - Civics Bell Ringer Activity
Easily weave political cartoons into your U.S. History or Civics/Government class with the effective POPES method. The best part is this kit works for both historical and current-day cartoons.Perfect for unit assignments or daily bell ringers! Comes in both printable PDF and digital for Google Slides.Greatness is being an active and critical constituent. Included in this FREEBIE Activity: Teacher overview with links to online historical and current-day cartoon databasesPOPES Political Cartoon A
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Civics and Government Inquiry Full Course Curriculum for High School
Log Question: Daily Questions or Bell Ringer Worksheet Template
We always need to determine whether or not the students understand the material that we cover in class. You can put a question on the board either as a pre-assessment (about the lesson you are about to teach) or as an informal assessment about a previous lesson. For example, "List and describe the three major rock types."The students can fill out this worksheet every day as the bells rings or as they walk into your classroom. This allows them to have something to work on when they arrive and it'
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-ESS2-2
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Also included in: Earth Science Large Bundle of 33 Activities, Labs and Worksheets
FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES LIST 4 ALL GRADES K-12 AND SUBJECTS + TEACHER RESOURCE
Sometimes, you just need a list of websites for everyone. Here it is. FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES Put together by Teach Me, Maria!It takes time to gather this information, figure out the appropriate grade levels, and format, maintain, and update this page. All I ask is for an honest review if this list helps you.
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PreK - 12th, Staff
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Emma Lazarus The New Colossus Statue of Liberty Poetry Analysis
Deeply analyze Emma Lazarus’s famous poem and connect to its larger historical context of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the “New” immigrants, and America’s melting pot with this everything's-included, no-prep lesson.************************************Greatness is appreciating the layers of poetic word in expressing a complex idea.A poem written as a favor to raise money for a pedestal on which to display an unbelievable gift from France. The iconic poem that almost wasn’t written.Take yo
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8th - 11th
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Feedback Mechanisms Activity with Key Homeostasis NGSS HS-LS1-2&3
This scaffolded review activity can support students in being able to demonstrate knowledge about how body systems interact together to maintain homeostasis and keep us alive. It is a creative activity that culminates with students creating their own diagram and receiving peer or teacher feedback with the included rubric.
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7th - 12th
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Rubric for One Paragraph Explanatory Writing Assignment
This is a simple rubric that I use for simple explanatory writing assignments that are one paragraph in length. We have to do a lot of these in my school in order to prepare our students for the PARCC test, and they roughly follow the premise of a system like RACE (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain) or CER (Claim, Evidence, Reason). I've also shrunk and duplicated the rubric on the page, because our administrators want us to attach rubrics to each assignment before filing them in student folders or
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6th - 12th
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Supply and Demand Business Project
"Business Economics Research Project: Analyzing Supply, Demand, and Prices"Engage your high school economics students in a hands-on learning experience with this comprehensive research project on supply, demand, and prices within the context of business economics. This ready-to-use product from Teachers Pay Teachers provides detailed directions, student handouts, and real-life examples to guide your students through an engaging exploration of economic principles and their application to real-wor
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9th - 12th
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Landmark Supreme Court Case Research Packet
This research packet is used to guide student research on a Supreme Court Case. Students will research the constitutional question at the center of the case, the arguments on both sides of the case, as well as the Supreme Court's opinion including information on majority, dissenting, and concurring opinions. I have also included a Supreme Court Case essay assignment sheet (which I give the students following the completion of the research packet) as well as a peer edit rubric to use prior to s
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9th - 12th
11th Grade Writing Rubric
This is a writing rubric aimed at providing feedback to help students improve their writing over multiple drafts. It was developed with the goal of improving student growth towards Common Core State Standards for ELA in History/Social Studies writing in grades 11-12, and it was created to suit the needs of a proficiency-based curriculum and grading system (though it can be adapted as needed).
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11th - 12th, Staff
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NY US History Regents SEQ Structure
Included are sentence starters, model paragraphs and outlines for both short essay questions on the New York State US History Regents (Framework).
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9th - 12th
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Feminism in History: Research Project Guidelines for How to Teach Feminism
This feminism activity is designed to show teachers how to teach feminism in a way that dispels the dangerous portrayal of feminism as a monolith. These research project guidelines lead students to discover for themselves that feminism in history has never been a simple, unified movement. Having your students research specific ideologies of feminism in history and then using the information they find to teach and learn from one another is one of the most meaningful feminist theory activities you
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Feminist Classroom - Growing Bundle
Historical Thinking Skills: Questions and Sentence Starters
This resource will help your students with their historical thinking skills—especially sourcing, corroborating, and contextualizing historical documents. The skills are from the Stanford History Education Group's work, and many of the specific questions and sentence starters come from their Historical Thinking Chart. I simply formatted these questions and sentence starters in a way that I thought would be more useful for my students.I use this by printing it double-sided and laminating the paper
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7th - 12th
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A History of World Slavery
Introducing the A History of World Slavery - containing informational text, guided notes, essay outlines, and rubric which your students will use to write an expository essay comparing two different societies where slavery was practiced. Students will learn about how slavery has been practiced all over the world, from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Africa, Colonial America, South America as well as being practiced by indigenous people of the western hemisphere. Students will understand how such as
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Industrial Revolution Inventor's Research Project
Students use Google Slides to research and complete a presentation on one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution. Students are required to give the background information of the Inventor, discuss when the product was made and what it does, and provide a YouTube video link to share with their classmates that discusses how the invention works. Then students will write a one paragraph response to discuss how their invention shaped the economic, social, or cultural aspects of the Industr
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11th
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Fascism Vs Communism!
This is a great tool for students to use in order to understand the differences and similarities between communism and fascism. I typically use this assignment before starting a WW2 unit.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Art Museum Trip + Paper Project for High School Art
Embark on an Artistic Adventure: Art Museum Field Trip and PaperTake your students on an inspiring journey to your choice of art museum with our comprehensive lesson plan. This product is designed to deepen students' engagement and understanding of art through thoughtful exploration and reflection, both before and after their museum visit.What’s Included:Paper Outlines: Structured outlines to guide students in crafting insightful and well-organized papers that connect them with the museum artwor
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
This lesson contains 3D models. Some of them are available after a free registration to the Lifeliqe app.NGSS and CCSS aligned. Integrated in crosscutting concepts. Aligned with principal science textbooks.The lesson is dedicated to the explanation of evolution of species based on the theory of Charles Darwin.Methodology:• Discussion• Reading• Lecture• Experiment• AssessmentThe principal learning objectives are:• State Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. • Describe observations Da
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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HS-LS4-2
, HS-LS4-1
, HS-LS4-3
, HS-LS4-4
, HS-LS4-5
Abiotic and biotic factors causing adaptation
This lesson contains 3D models. Some of them are available after a free registration to the Lifeliqe app.NGSS and CCSS aligned.The lesson is dedicated to the description of abiotic and biotic factors which influence in the process of species adaptation.Methodology:• Discussion• Reading• Lecture• Experiment• Work with audiovisual materials• Information searchThe principal learning objectives are:• Understand the differences between biotic and abiotic factors. • Understand the principle of adaptat
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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HS-LS4-4
Race & Racism in America - How did We Get Here? (True/False Worksheet)
"How did We Get Here" is a mini-curriculum devoted to investigating the roots of institutionalized racism in the modern United States. This five-item True/False exercise is based upon the series' 1800-word first installment, which begins with the Civil War's end in 1865. What were the "Civil War Amendments" and "Radical Reconstruction?" When did the last Union Army troops withdraw from the South? Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? What was the Compromise of 1877? This free activity seeks
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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It's Constitutional – 17 Lessons to Celebrate Signing the Constitution
Seventeen lessons to make the Constitution come alive for your students, while also satisfying the legal mandate to study it on September 17. For example, students create poems, flow charts and drawings; have debates and discussions and create plays. Lessons include acting out the amendments, and dressing up as a Founder, They address such issues as Federalism, Constitutional violations, governmental structures. fair income tax, immigration, patents, interstate commerce, political parties, free
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8th - 12th
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Graphic Organizer: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
This is a graphic organizer focuses on Andrew Jackson, starting with the Election of 1824 and through events in his presidency. Students are asked to summarize each event. This is a great way to review!
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8th - 12th
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Lab Report- Short Student Analysis- Includes Rubric and Student Score Cards
Help your students to really evaluate their lab work while promoting learning using the Science and Engineering Practices in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) as well as the Writing Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects (WHST) AND LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES YOU TO GRADE IT!
This is designed for 9-12th grade, but could easily be adapted to 6-8th grade levels.
I am all about improving student literacy and writing, but often feel as
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6th - 12th
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Reconstruction Jigsaw Project: Create a African American Magazine about Freedom
JIGSAW PROJECT: CREATE AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAGAZINE ABOUT FREEDOMInquiry Question: How did African Americans combat segregation after Reconstruction?PERFECT FOR A COOPERATIVE DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSROOM!Keep learning at home fun with cooperative projects, not boring lectures and powerpoint presentations!Students will create a magazine aimed toward newly freed slaves going over many of the accomplishments Black people have achieved since the end of slavery. Students will focus on African
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: U.S. Constitution, Reconstruction Readings & Activities
Writing About History - Research/Position Paper Assignment
This is a writing assignment you can download onto your computer for absolutely free. The assignment includes:Directions on how to completeRequirements (including possible writing topics)Letter to students describing what will be expected of themGrading rubricEverything in this word document can be adjusted, and is ready to print for you to hand out to your students. Enjoy!-Mr. Towle
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6th - 12th
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