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High school social studies printable interactive whiteboards
Breaking Down Stereotypes & Prejudices-Teaching Tolerance
Are you reading The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate You Give, Dear Martin, or any other piece of literature dealing with tolerance, prejudices, racism and stereotyping? Are you teaching these topics in your history class? This social experiment will open your students’ eyes to the injustices that take place on a daily basis and why people need to be educated on these topics.We currently live in a world and country where social injustices, prejudices and stereotyping take place on a da
Grades:
8th - 12th
FREE Dinosaur Posters Set | Classroom Displays | Science | Decor
☀️ Jumpstart discussions and get your young learners’ attention with our high-resolution dinosaur poster set. Kids universally love dinosaurs, making this one of the easiest topics you’ll ever teach in your classroom.***************************************************************************This collection includes 13 posters designed to enhance any learning space at home or school while helping your students better understand dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. We professionally designed
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
Islam and Byzantine Unit Story: (Lesson Bundle + Mega PPT)
Topics Included: Constantinople, Constantine, Justinian, Kiev Russia, The Rise of Islam, The Sunni/Shia Split, Ottoman Empire, Abbasid Empire, 2 DBQs, and much more!
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The following is apart of an entire World History Workbook series. Promoting critical thinking and essential information, the following unit provides an interactive way for students to enga
Grades:
6th - 11th
Westward Expansion Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “Westward Expansion” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching his
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Grades:
5th - 11th
COMMON CORE ~ How to Annotate and do a Close Reading of Text Instructions
These two pages give the steps for doing a close reading and the steps to annotating text. They are written specifically for the students, not as instructions to the teacher, so they would be beneficial to add to a notebook for regular reference.
I have also included an example of how to utilize a quote as evidence to answer a text dependent question and a full page example of how an annotated text might appear (of course they will all be different).
As a PDF file, these pages would be easily
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Blank Maps of Canada
PDF files in landscape and portrait.Versatile and useful in numerous waysIncludes maps with and without provinces labeledYou may also like:New French Regions maps of FranceBlank maps of Mexico
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3rd - 11th
United States History Map Set; A History of Greatness Created by Ordinary People
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “United States History Map Set; A History of Greatness Created by Ordinary People” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. T
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Grades:
5th - 11th
Revolutionary America Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “Revolutionary America” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching
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Grades:
5th - 11th
American Civil War Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “American Civil War” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching his
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Grades:
5th - 11th
Middle/High School World History Vocabulary SMART Notebook Bundle Marzano
Thinking of incorporating vocabulary instruction into your world history class? I've already selected 175 that are important for students to know in world history. Included in this download are: word list and 11 vocabulary notebooks, SMART Board Vocabulary Notebook Slides (for modeling), ABC Review Books, and 14 SMART Board Vocabulary Match-Up games. If you are interested in purchasing just the notebooks, visit: Middle/High School World History Vocabulary Notebooks for Entire Year MarzanoFollow
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6th - 12th
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art by BRB
Extensive classroom white board interactive PDF and handout.Links to web sites and U-tube related clips.Topic: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art This amazing resource is on extensive 16 page interactive PDF containing relevant examples about Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art.Designed by Bright Red Brush , in Australia.Since the early 1970s, Aboriginal contemporary art has grown rapidly and with amazing diversity and vigour, it is an incredible story.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
World War II Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “World War II Map Set” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching h
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5th - 11th
Pre-Civil War Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “Pre-Civil War” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching history
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5th - 11th
Industrial Revolution: Affects on Factory Workers- Powerpoint/Notes
This powerpoint presentation can be easily printed out and used as handouts or printed into notebook software and put up on your smart board. There are tons of pictures and multiple political cartoons. Topics include Big business, robber barons and captains of industry, the industrialists Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller and others. Unions are also covered including the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, poor working conditions, child labor, etc.
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7th - 12th
Continental Conflicts Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “Continental Conflicts” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching
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Grades:
5th - 11th
The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation!
A simple role-play that helps students to understand the concept of no taxation without representation by asking them to imagine situations where they might come into conflict with their parents as teenagers and as adults. This introduces the concept of resentment when decisions are made by others but affect individuals. The role-play ends with a discussion about the relative importance of taxation as a cause of the American Revolution. Prompts can be used for discussion or as a written assignme
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9th - 12th
World Conflicts Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “World Conflicts” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching histor
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5th - 11th
History of the Americas - The Castas System
A basic flow chart that can be used with students as an "add details" exercise or as a discussion prompt. The second page contains an assignment that asks students to draw or write about a typical Spanish Pueblo in the Americas. Created for 9th or 10th grade, but could be used with a variety of age groups.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Shay's Rebellion notes
This is a power point presentation that can be shown on the smart board or a computer or printed into class notes as a handout. It explains what the rebellion was and the effects of the rebellion. It includes pictures as well.
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7th - 12th
Around the Globe Map Set
Once downloaded, each of these maps from the set “Around the Globe” can be printed and copied for students, made into transparencies and projected onto screens, converted into images for Smart Boards, and so on.
These maps can act as visual cues that will help students form mental links for understanding and for remembering related historical concepts. They are excellent resources when used to supplement reading about the event. They can also be used to prompt writing. Great for teaching histo
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Grades:
5th - 11th
Calendar: Ephemeris cards and special days (ENGLISH)
This material is composed of small cards that collect the different ephemerides and special days that we work in the classroom every year.
Using them in the calendar that we have in class, we help our students to know those dates that are important to celebrate and thus also get an idea of how time goes by, helping them to anticipate special moments.
The cards collect 56 different events throughout the year (with a size of 3.24 x 3.14 cm.), Some of them with at least 6 different variants to
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PreK - 11th, Adult Education
Colonization: 13 colonies Notes- early colonization
This is a short set of notes on power point that can be printed out on overheads and projected or printed through Notebook software to put on the smart board. It can also be printed out for students as handouts. Includes information on how each colony was settled, why it was settled, and who settled there. Many pictures too.
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7th - 12th
World History SOL Map Review Sorts Rome, Greece, Ancient Civilizations
This is 6 slides, one on continents and oceans, ancient civilizations, Persian empire, India, Greece, Rome. Each one has key bodies of water and lad to label that's color coded.
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9th
IB History - Breaking Down an IB History Exam Question
A simple PowerPoint presentation that walks students through the basic steps of how to approach an IB History exam question, either Paper 2 or Paper 3. A sample questions is used as the focus. Presentation includes step-by-step instructions with a fully written out introduction paragraph. Body paragraphs and conclusion are in bullet-point form. Intended for use with an IB History class that is combined HL/SL students. It could easily be adapted to suit other curricula such as AP or A-Level. Powe
Grades:
11th - 12th
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