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Free Common Core WHST.9-10.9 resources
World Geography Bell Ringer: FREE WEEK (Print & Digital)
This resource contains a one week sample (with answer key!) of the World Geography Bell Ringer. Your students will use the internet to research and fill in facts about a new country each day of the week. This resource is designed to be used as a daily warm-up or for early finishers. However, this could also be used as a station activity and completed in one sitting. This sample also includes a research tip sheet with website links for your students to access facts and data. Your students will us
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7th - 10th
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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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CRAAP Test Reference Poster/Handout
This poster provides a visual reference with definitions for the CRAAP test (currency, reliability, authority, accuracy, purpose). These is a great tool to use during research projects, when students must identify and gather credible sources. Great for a 22" x 28" wall poster, or alike ratio. Adapted from Meriam Library, California State University.
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7th - 12th
10.6 Cold War: Proxy Wars Student Activity
This is materials used from NYS new visions modified to be a short activity students can do online or in class on the 4 major Cold War Conflicts. This will be used for Distance Learning. Answer key is not included, but may be available in just a bit.
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10th - 11th
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Social Studies: 20 Essential Questions for Civics, Government, Political Science
These are prompts for reflective writing and discussion on essential questions in civics, government, and political science. What are essential questions? Essential questions are compelling questions with debatable answers. They call on teachers and students to acknowledge complexity and wrestle with multiple points of view. They spark fascination, interest, discovery and, very importantly, motivation. They should ignite deliberative original thought in social studies. Project one of these promp
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8th - 12th
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A Parts of an Atom STAR* Virtual Lab Google Docs™️ DINB
When studying measurement and forces, use this complete “Parts of an Atom” Physical Science Virtual Lab to investigate: “How do Protons, Neutrons and Electrons make different atoms?” This single Google Sheet™ has all the materials to perform a virtual experiment, collect, analyze and evaluate the collected data while presenting findings in a single page format – either digital or on paper. A video shows the setup and steps of the lab and also a virtual lab based on the PhET™ Interactive Simulat
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5th - 10th
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Save our Planet #1 Global warming and climate change - a FREE download
Save our Planet #1 Global warming and climate change - a FREE download.This resource is a 3-4 lesson unit on Global warming and climate change. It is suitable for middle and high school students.The downloadable PDF booklet includes a one-page, detailed lesson plan.The resource includes 2 information pages about global warming and climate change with an accompanying set of written questions/activities. There are 2 crosswords - the first of which encourages students to re-read the information mat
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7th - 12th
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Free American Enlightenment Literature Unit Planner / 4 weeks of plans!
Sometimes the most helpful thing one teacher can give to another is experience. For this reason, I wanted to share a pacing guide for my American Enlightenment literature unit. This is one of the earliest units for my juniors, so it spirals them toward independent reading and writing. While the needs of students always adjust my pacing, this is a snapshot of what this four-week unit would look like on a 45-50 minute bell schedule. All of the resources mentioned in this free unit planner are incl
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11th - 12th
Osage Indian Murders: History’s Mysteries Research and Creative Writing Project
This original research and writing history project for high-school and college students has students practicing critical thinking skills and historical thinking, as well as expository and creative writing. Students take on the role of Historical Secret Agents.Their mission?To go back in time to 1920 and investigate, hopefully prevent, the Reign of Terror-a series of over 100 murders (most unsolved to this day) of Osage people. Why? The Osage tribe had recently become the wealthiest people in the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Social Studies: 20 Essential Questions for World History
These are prompts for reflective writing and discussion on essential questions in world history. What are essential questions? Essential questions are compelling questions with debatable answers. They call on teachers and students to acknowledge complexity and wrestle with multiple points of view. They spark fascination, interest, discovery and, very importantly, motivation. They should ignite deliberative original thought in social studies. Project one of these prompts onto the board and use it
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9th - 10th
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Civil Rights Movement and Modern Protests - Comparative Research Essay
This research project is condensed into a single two-sided handout that guides students through three phases of the writing process, culminating in a formal comparative essay.Students explore a variety of primary sources from the Civil Rights Era and conduct research relevant to more recent protest movements. The handout provides a graphic organizer to help students organize their thoughts and prepare to write a coherent final essay. The final essay is a research-based comparative essay, describ
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9th - 12th
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Dystopian Topics Research Project
Here is a powerpoint with 25 different topics about real-world technology that could lead to a dystopian outcome. This is meant to help students connect the real-world to the dystopian worlds read about in class.
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8th - 11th
TED Talk Lesson: A Parkland Teacher’s Homework for Us All
If you are looking for a way to open the door to thoughtful conversation about the gun violence epidemic in this country, this powerful TED Talk by Diane-Wolk Rogers is an appropriate entry point. Diane Wolk-Rogers teaches history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of a horrific school shooting on Valentine's Day 2018. How can we end this senseless violence? In a stirring talk, Wolk-Rogers offers three ways Americans can move forward to create more safety and resp
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9th - 12th
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Using the Gale Library Database System
In this engaging handout, students are introduced to the Gale Library Database system. Students complete each activity on the handout as they research an artist and a writer or a topic that aligns with your class. Students learn how to navigate the Gale System as they save citations and explore different resources within the library database. My students love the feeling of accomplishment as they research like pros using this handout!This handout would make a great substitute activity too.
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8th - 10th
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APUSH LEQ/DBQ Essay - Peer Edit/Review Lesson (Periods 1 - 9)
APUSH Peer Review/Revision lesson that can be used for any topic/unit (Period 1 - 9). You can use AP released essay samples, or your own student's essays for this activity. If using your own student's work you should remove any and all student names for anonymity purposes.
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9th - 12th
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Black Scientists In History Essay
I created this research-based reading/writing activity in 2012 for my middle school students (grade 8) to support Black History Month with a focus on science and history through literacy. Overall, they enjoyed it, and I greatly enjoyed reading their essays! Several of my students requested to read their essay to the class, too!
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6th - 12th
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STEM Connections, Energy and Agriculture: Careers in Sustainable Energy
This five lesson unit with a laboratory for grades nine through twelve promotes the development of STEM abilities and critical thinking skills, while fostering an appreciation for energy and its importance to food production. The new curriculum includes inquiry-based labs and real life challenges for students to understand energy sources and their implications.Supplemental Content: PowerPointsLesson 1: Energy FlowLesson 2: Commodity Trace-BackLesson 3: Renewable EnergyLesson 4: Bio Diesel LabLes
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9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-PS3-4
, HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-PS3-1
, HS-ESS3-4
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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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Gingerbread House How To Bake And Decorate Slides For The Cooking Classroom
Do you want a culinary activity using gingerbread to teach reading a recipe, dough work, baking and decorating? The seasonal celebration of the holidays and the food surrounding them is an important tradition in many schools. This is often a great activity for students to express their creativity and create a 'story' using food. These slides introduce your students to the recipe and technique of making and decorating a gingerbread house. Three Sections of the Google Slides (editable):RecipeRoll
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7th - 10th
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Writing Inquiry Provoking Questions - Inspiration Handout (Free)
This is a handout to support social studies students writing questions to explore class topics on a more complex level and to articulate parts/connections of a topic that students can analyze.This handout helps students break past basic surface-level historical narratives in their explorations to develop a more rounded understanding of history with elements complexity and critical thinking.Introduces students to new terms, ideas, approaches, and perspectives, like interdisciplinary.
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Not Grade Specific
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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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Terrorism - An introduction lesson
A detailed and well differentiated 90 min - 2 hour, editable history lesson all about the different types of terrorism. This lesson serves as the introduction lesson to our Terrorism unit (this lesson is the first a teacher would use from the bundle).Students will investigate the different types of terrorism and explore what makes someone a terrorist as well as different ideas and opinions about terrorism from a historical perspective.This hour long lesson (with PowerPoint, clips and workshe
Grades:
8th - 12th
Also included in: Terrorism History Bundle
Historical Thinking Graphic Organizer for Analyzing Primary Sources
Here is a free template to help students analyze primary sources. It uses the Stanford "Thinking Like a Historian" framework. This will help students practice skills like sourcing, context, close reading, and corroboration.
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6th - 12th
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APUSH - American Pageant (17thed.) Ch.1 (Reading Support/Scavenger Hunt)
Encourage and support your APUSH students as they explore the fascinating history of America's early days with 'The American Pageant' Chapter 1 Scavenger Hunt! Uncover the secrets of the Ice Age's impact on North AmericaLearn about the Bering Sea land bridgeDiscover the rich cultures and agriculture of the Native Americans. Dive into the world-changing Columbian Exchange and the encomienda system. Find out how 90% of Native Americans perished post-Columbus. Unravel the unique differences between
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education
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