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High school social studies activboard activities $5-10
Revolutionary War Interactive Battle Map and Worksheet w key
This interactive PowerPoint lesson is centered on an interactive map that allows teachers or students to choose their own Revolutionary War Battle to explore simply by clicking. The 10 slide ppt. file contains a slide vital information for each of six major battles of the American Revolution. A graphic organizer worksheet is also provided so students can follow along and the teacher can check for understanding. (CA Standard 8.1) (10 slides total, including worksheet and answer key) What makes
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7th - 10th
Interactive Calendar Books -Autism-Circle Time Morning Meeting
I use interactive calendar books for my students to complete independently at their desks as we are doing calendar each morning. It comes with interactive pieces for students to match - I have my higher level students use a dry erase marker and write each answer in the given space. Simply laminate and cut the pages, bind and add velcro!Enjoy!
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PreK - 12th
Civil War Interactive Battle Map and Worksheet w key
This interactive PowerPoint lesson is centered on a "clickable" interactive map that allows teachers or students to choose their own battle to explore. The 11 slide ppt. contains one slide of vital information for each of seven major battles of the American Civil War set to stunning full color paintings. A graphic organizer worksheet is also with an answer key so students can follow along and the teacher can check for understanding. (CA Standard 8.10) (11 slides total, including worksheet and
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6th - 12th
Civil Rights Act of 1964 vs. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Great handout pinpointing the information and differences between the two with readings and graphic organizers. Handout can be split up between individual work and group work with a closing discussion or writing prompt question.
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9th - 12th
Maus I Guided Reading PowerPoint
This powerpoint explains how to read a graphic novel, includes visuals of steps on how to navigate through a graphic novel, definitions of new vocabulary words, and includes images of major characters in each character.
This powerpoint helped my students easily participate in a reader's theatre where my students knew with lines they were while reading aloud. It is also great for ELL students with pictures of new vocabulary words and definitions.
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8th - 12th
Also included in: Maus I & II Guided Reading PowerPoint
2000s Choice Board/Tic Tac Toe (U.S. History) - Hyperdoc Project
This U.S. History choice board offers student nine activities to choose from that center around the 2000s in the United States. The activities are titled as follows: Hurricane Katrina, The iPod, 2008 Presidential Election, George W. Bush, 9/11 Al-Qaeda Attacks, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 2000 Presidential Election, Invasion of Iraq/Iraq War, and Harry Potter. Activity choices include creating action figures, filming an advertisement, and developing sketchnotes.The 2000s Choice Board
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types of Government Poster Project or Google Slides for American Government
This project is designed to allow students to be creative with an American Government course content through creating a poster dealing with the types of government.ObjectiveStudents will create a poster for the purpose of mastering the types of government.Students will also have the option of completing the activity in the Google Slides platform.Included in Product:Teacher Instructions for Poster ProjectStudent Instructions for Poster ProjectLink for Google Classroom version of the assignmentRub
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9th - 12th
200 Trivia Questions&Answers - Class Game
200 questions are included. All of the solutions are also provided! This is an excellent game to play towards the end of the year or over the holidays. It would take OVER AN HOUR to play if you used all of the questions. (This is an excellent download if you're looking for a fun/educational game to play on a Friday, at the end of the day, or on a day when your lesson plan ends early.) This game is designed for middle and high school students, but it might also be used by most primary pupils! Cho
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Geography: Editable PowerPoint Slides forTeaching
Geography Volcano-Mountain-pond-desert-beach-glacier-island-ocean-river-hill-valley-waterfall-lake-continent-bay-cave-coral reef-oasis-forest-cliff-mangrove-city-field-iceberg PowerPoint Slides for Teachinginformation and pictures Can play activities during class, increasing interest in learning and teaching of teachers.
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7th - 12th, Staff
MEAL Paragraph Guided Writing Lesson for Social Studies
Practice paragraph writing in Social Studies with text dependent questions. This bundle that includes three MEAL paragraph resources in both print and digital formats, making it perfect for distance learning or blended classrooms! Looking to integrate writing practice into your social studies class? This bundle has two guided writing lessons. Students will begin by deconstructing a mentor text to identify each component of MEAL. Then, students will write a MEAL paragraph as a class with teacher
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7th - 10th
PowerPoint: Production Possibility Curve & Circular Flow of Economic Activity
This PowerPoint covers two concepts that seem to give some economics students difficulty. Which are:
1) Production Possibilities Curve / Production Possibility Frontier
2) Circular Flow of Economic Activity
In the 52 slide PowerPoint I use many graphs and charts with very simple, student friendly words to explain the two concepts. I believe you will be very pleased with what you see in the PowerPoint. In fact, if you are disappointed with the PowerPoint, send me a message and I will make the n
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9th - 12th
Florida Massacres!
Massacres that had a huge impact on Florida History.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
State Report & Country Report Bundle
This bundle includes the following Research Reports in Print & Digital (Google Slide) Versions. Research reports are easy to use, engaging, and make great displays.State Research ReportCountry Research Report
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Easter Religious Studies Escape Room: Holy Week Catholic.
This Religious Education Escape Room themed on Easter covers key concepts relating to this topic such as Peter, Judas, Denial, Betrayal and more! This Escape Room is suitable for High School RE, Religious Education, Religious Studies or history students. Product contents:☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms☞
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Easter - Religious Education - RE resources for Middle and High school
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Historical content Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Black cases in American History that made a huge impact on Society
African-American Participation During World War I
African-American Participation During World War ISince the first Africans were brought as slaves to the British colony of Jamestown, Va. in 1619, blacks had suffered oppression in the United States first under the American slavery system , and then under the rigid practices of segregation and discrimination that were codified under the “Jim Crow Laws.” With the entry of the United States into the Great War in 1917, African Americans were eager to show their patriotism in hopes of being recognize
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Great Migration (1910-1970)
The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws, many Black Americans headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that arose during the First World War. During the Great Migration, Black people began to build a new place for themselves in public life, a
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: African American Timeline Stories Part# 1
To My Master
To my old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee.Sir:I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was le
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston, (born January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.—died January 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida), American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated African American culture of the rural South.Although Hurston claimed to be born in 1901 in Eatonville, Florida, she was, in fact, 10 years older and had moved with her family to Eatonville only as a small child. There, in the first incorporated all-Black town in the country, she attended school until
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Important Civil Right Leaders who made a huge impact on American History
1920: The Ocoee Massacre
Historical Content:In response to an attempt by African Americans to exercise their legal and democratic right to vote, at least 50 African Americans were murdered in a brutal massacre in Ocoee, Florida on Nov. 2, 1920 in what is now called the Ocoee Massacre.Here is a description from “Ocoee On Fire: The 1920 Election Day Massacre: A quiet Florida citrus town became the scene of a gruesome racial cleansing that purged the entire Black population for over 60 years” by Jason Byrne:
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: African American Timeline Stories Part# 1
The U.S. Constitution - Google Bundle
This engaging Google Apps Bundle includes everything you need to teach your U.S. Constitution Unit, including vocabulary support, video multi-media, primary and secondary sources with analysis questions, writing outlines with rubrics, and self-guided instructions, and so much more....All in GOOGLE APPS format!!!The U.S. Constitution - Google Bundle includes:- The Preamble - Google Slides Student Activity- The U.S. Constitution Scavenger Hunt - Google Forms Student Activity- Separation of Powers
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Plan a Family Vacation--$5,000 Budget
Students will have fun with this real life budgeting lesson as they plan their very own family vacation. Students must budget for the family members that live in their household, and must stay with a $5,000 limit. There is a Presentation to discuss all the rules and an excel sheet to help with their totals. As they plan their trip students can create a PowerPoint or a Google Slide that documents their itinerary. The presentation needs to include all expenses and their total cost of the trip
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4th - 12th
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Martin Luther King Vs. Malcolm-X DBQ
The primary source links provided (under each name) to answer the questions comparing the Civil Rights and Black Power leaders Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm-X .
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Black History Month Past/Present/Current Historical Figures Google Slide Deck
Need help teaching your students about important historical figures during Black History Month? This google slide deck includes past and current figures who helped shape our country into the one we know today. Included are 28 slides, each with an informational video about a historical black figure (ranging from 2 minutes too 11 minutes long). This is a no prep resource- just present or assign and go! Great for independent reading comprehension practice, sub work or to help lead a group discussio
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4th - 12th
Also included in: Black History Month Slide Deck and Reading Comprehension Bundle
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