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European history Common Core WHST.6-8.2a resources
Enlightenment Bundle : Age of Reason Printable & Digital Lesson Plans Activities
This Enlightenment Unit Activity Bundle is engaging, fun, and rigorous! The lessons guide students to make great connections to ideas the U.S. has adopted from key Enlightenment thinkers. The Enlightenment lesson plans cover important key figures of the Enlightenment, including Baron de Montesquieu, Beccaria, John Locke, Voltaire, and Hobbes. This unit is perfect for both a paper-driven or Google classroom environment.This bundle is a great deal for over 15 engaging activities and assessments th
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6th - 10th
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Bubonic Plague / Black Death Project - Create a Newspaper
This project gives students the opportunity to delve deep into many aspects of life during the black death (bubonic plague) in medieval Europe. As journalists, the task of your students is to capture the major issues and events of the bubonic plague. While there is a lot of room for creativity and an opportunity for originality, students will base their information on historical evidence.Included in the Resource:✓Explanation of each newspaper section (examples: title, news stories, interviews,
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Unit Activities - Bundle
Ancient Greece Athens and Sparta Project Help Wanted Advertisement
This Ancient Greece project involves students designing a “Help Wanted Ad” with a specific focus on the soldiers of the city-states of Athens or Sparta. To set the scene, your students live in Ancient Greece and have been chosen to design a help wanted advertisement for either Athenian or Spartan soldiers. The task of your students is to create a help wanted ad describing the job so qualified people apply. Some requirements of the project include a job description (of an Athenian or Spartan sol
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Greece Unit Bundle: Activities & Projects
European Explorers Exploration Help Wanted Ad Activity
Your students are European scribes during the Age of Exploration and they have been hired to create help wanted advertisements to find qualified people to become European explorers. The task of your students is to create help wanted ads describing the skills, characteristics, motives and contributions of European explorers. Additionally, an optional extension project is included in the resource in which students apply for the job by creating career portfolios.Included in the Resource:✓ An intr
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: European Exploration Unit Activities Bundle
Holocaust Close Reading & Informational Writing Bundle | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
An informational writing unit and close reading activities about World War 2 that looks into the Holocaust, where six million Jewish people were murdered. The bundle focuses on key facts about the Holocaust, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the eventual liberation of the camps in 1945. The bundle has four separate lessons and is perfect for students in fifth grade and sixth grade.Included in the Informational Writing Unit:Four fact sheets which students need to cut out and sort into paragraphsWr
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5th - 7th
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Leonardo da Vinci Hero or Hype? Renaissance Body Biography Poster Project
We know Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists of all times, but based on his accomplishments, was Leonardo da Vinci a hero, or is it hype? Students decide! This fun, student-centered, full-body biography project is skill and content-based. Students read, write, and support claims with evidence in a creative biography project format.Here's what's included:1. Teacher Instructions2. An Instructional Slide Show that explains each requirement3. A da Vinci 2-page Google Doc Reading. The re
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5th - 9th
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Ancient Rome Unit Bundle: Projects and Activities
This unit includes a variety of activities and projects about ancient Rome that are engaging, meaningful and student-centered. ✓Ancient Rome Interactive Notebook: 44 Activities ✓Real Estate Advertisement or Commercial of Ancient Rome✓Biography Book Cover: Roman Historical Figure✓Create a Board Game✓Ancient Rome Training Guide✓Create a Currency for Ancient Rome✓Government of the Roman Republic✓Help Wanted Advertisement: Plebeians and Patricians ✓Role Play Activity: Plebeians and Patricians✓Ancie
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6th - 8th
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Renaissance Choice Projects
Students will choose to complete a project on a famous historical figure from the Renaissance. They can create a movie trailer, scrapbook, farewell speech or illustrated epic poem. Each project choice comes with an introduction and a description of requirements. Included in the Resource:✓ A list of 10 famous Renaissance people ✓ An explanation and list of requirements for each project✓ Four rubrics (one for each choice project)Related Resources:Renaissance Unit: 8 Activities & ProjectsD
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Renaissance Unit Bundle Activities and Projects
Introduction to the Age of Exploration Interactive Google Slides Pear Deck
Students will explore the Age of Exploration with map and geography skills and various interactive activities in this engaging Pear Deck presentation. They will analyze the four "G's" - gold, glory, God, and goods - and how they initially inspired Portuguese explorers (da Gama, Dias, and Prince Henry the Navigator) to explore new sea trade routes. These slides can be used as a whole group lecture with note-taking or in self-paced mode, making it a versatile resource for any classroom. This lesso
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6th - 8th
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Travel Brochure of Classical Athens - Ancient Greece During Golden Age
The year is 430 B.C.E. and your students are applying to be a tour guide for the company Tours & Co. In lieu of a formal interview, the company has requested that job candidates submit an original travel brochure. Your students will create a travel brochure of significant sites in ancient Greece. Included in the Product✓ A detailed explanation ✓ A list of required topics✓ Step-by-step directions to complete the project✓ Rubric✓ Four brochure templatesFeel free to check out my related pro
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Greece Unit Bundle: Activities & Projects
Renaissance Unit Bundle Activities and Projects
All resources include introductions, requirements, rubrics and answer keys when needed. Students will have the opportunity to work individually, with partners and in a group to create or complete the following activities and projects: ✓Student Talk Show: Famous Renaissance People✓Create Currency for the City of Florence✓Travel Brochure of Florence✓People of the Renaissance: Four Projects ✓Create the Biography Book Jacket of a Famous Renaissance Person✓Festival of Achievements: The Renaissance ✓
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6th - 8th
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Create a Training Guide for Citizens of Sparta - An Ancient Greece Project
The year is 500 B.C.E. and the Council of Elders, the governing body of Sparta, has required that your students, adult Spartan citizens, create a training guide for kids to study before they become Spartan adults. The purpose of the booklet is to inform young kids how to become successful Spartan adults. Your students will take on the perspective of a trained and experienced adult Spartan citizen. TopicsStudents will write about the following topics: * History of Sparta * Religion
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Greece Unit Bundle: Activities & Projects
Visual of Feudalism in the Middle Ages - Group Project
Creating visuals for topics in history truly help the content come alive! Your students will work in small groups of three to create a visual that portrays the status, roles and responsibilities of the four social groups that made up feudalism during the Middle Ages in Europe. Each group member will choose a role (professor, graphic designer or scribe). While there is a lot of room for creativity, the visual that students create must be based on evidence.Included in the Resource✓ A brief intr
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Unit Activities - Bundle
Pompeii and Mt Vesuvius BUNDLE of Interactive Activities and Lessons
Engage your students in the ancient world of Pompeii through interactive activities that encourage them to think like archaeologists and historians! These resources are versatile and can be used for standardized test prep, a substitute lesson plan, practicing Document-Based Question (DBQ) skills, whole group instruction, or in student-paced mode. Your students will hone important English Language Arts (ELA) skills such as finding and citing text evidence, identifying and applying domain-specific
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6th - 8th
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World History Mini-DBQ: Medieval Peasant Life
Bring primary and secondary source documents to your students' fingertips as they analyze two sources about life for Peasants and Nobles during the Middle Ages in Europe. Included in this resource are both sources, formatted to support students with space to annotate, a glossary, analysis questions, and embedded mini-rubrics for annotation and analysis. Also included are a cover page and writing page both with specific instructions and optional PEEL paragraph sentence stems to support student wr
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Mini-DBQ Bundle
European Exploration Unit Activities Bundle
This bundle makes learning about the Age of European Exploration interesting and thought-provoking! Students will have the opportunity to work individually, with partners and in a group to create or complete the following: talk shows, advertisements, currencies, debates, posters, dialogues, cover letters, newspapers, board games, movie trailers, scrapbooks, farewell speeches, illustrated epic poems, biography book jackets, biography poem.
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6th - 8th
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Holocaust Informational Writing Unit | 5th Grade & 6th Grade
An informational writing unit about World War 2 that looks into the Holocaust, where six million Jewish people were murdered. The unit focuses on key facts about the Holocaust, the rise of Nazi Germany, the murders within the camps, and the eventual liberation of the camps in 1945. The unit has been split into three separate lessons and is perfect for students in fifth grade and sixth grade.Included in this PDF printable resource:Four fact sheets which students need to cut out and sort into para
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5th - 7th
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Reformation Bundle: Nine Engaging Activities and Projects
This bundle makes learning about the Reformation interesting and thought-provoking! All resources include introductions, detailed and specific requirements and rubrics. Students will have the opportunity to work individually, with partners and in a group to create or complete the following activities and projects: ✓Biography Poem of a Reformation Leader✓Create a Board Game✓Student Debates✓Help Wanted Ad: Member of the Clergy (Minister) Needed✓Training Guide Booklet for the Reformation✓Talk S
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6th - 8th
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Ancient Israelites Hebrews Abraham Moses Choice Board Projects
This choice board resource provides students with fun and engaging projects to demonstrate their learning about the ancient Israelites (Hebrews). Providing students with choices in the classroom is a sure way to excite them and capture their attention about the topics at hand. This comprehensive resource includes six low-prep and interactive projects for students to choose from, with all activities centered on ancient Israelites (Hebrews). Each project is explained on printables that are broke
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6th - 8th
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Ancient Greece Activities and Projects Historical Figures
Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Cleisthenes, Pericles and Alexander the Great. If there are other Greeks that students are studying, they can complete the activities and project on them as well. This bundle includes the following engaging and hands-on activities and projects (which all include directions, requirements and rubrics):✓ Biography Poem✓ Movie Trailer✓ Scrapbook✓ Farewel
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ancient Greece Unit Bundle: Activities & Projects
Protestant Reformation Five Activities and Projects Mini Bundle
This resource includes five projects for students to demonstrate their learning of the Protestant Reformation. These creative, print and go resources are a sure way to increase student engagement, keep them motivated, and practice critical thinking and writing skills. Each resource contains step-by-step directions that are broken into manageable chunks that make the requirements accessible to all students. Plus, planning guides, templates, and detailed rubrics are included. These projects are al
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6th - 8th
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Enlightenment Thinkers Group Activity: Student Talk Show
Your students will work in groups of four to plan and present a talk show about Enlightenment thinkers. The talk show that your students will create will include the host who will ask the deep and engaging questions and three guests who will answer in an interesting and detailed way. One student will represent the host and the three remaining students should each choose to represent an Enlightenment philosopher. Your students will improve upon skills such as public speaking, collaboration, writi
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Enlightenment Bundle: 12 Activities & Projects
NAZI GERMANY HISTORY BUNDLE
Grab a bargain - all of my Nazi Germany resources for 20% less! This bundle covers the period before World War Two.This bundle contains lessons on the Nazi rise to power and why people voted for Hitler. It also contains a full lesson on the ways the Nazi party indoctrinated young people into the party using the Hitler Youth and propaganda. I also have included a lesson on the beginnings of the Holocaust and how the Nazis made people outcasts in occupied countries. In addition there are detailed
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8th - 12th
The Silk Road Choice Board Projects
This choice board resource provides students with fun and engaging projects to demonstrate their learning about the Silk Road. Providing students with choices in the classroom is a sure way to excite them and capture their attention about the topics at hand. This comprehensive resource includes six low-prep and interactive projects for students to choose from, with all activities centered on the Silk Road. Each project is explained on printables that are broken down into manageable chunks and
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6th - 8th
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Take your students on a journey through European history with TPT! If you’re an educator or parent looking for printable or digital resources to help your student learn about European history, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re teaching about the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, or the World Wars, there are plenty of high-quality TPT resources at your fingertips to teach European history to your students.
European history activities to try
Here are a few examples of the different types of activities and lessons you can find on TPT to help teach students about European history:
Centers & Stations
Through the use of centers, students can collaborate and discuss topics and content they examine for various eras in European history. For example, you could have students navigate through a handful of centers or stations to help them learn about different elements of the Renaissance period, including influential cities, leaders, and artists. Or, to help them learn about the key figures and milestones of the French Revolution.
Map Making
With map-making activities you can not only teach students about European history, but also incorporate geography into your lessons. As they label and color maps, students can learn about important places in Europe and how European countries have expanded (and fallen) over time. For example, you could have students make maps of Europe before and after World War I to identify how the conflict impacted Europe.
Primary Source Analysis
One of the best ways to learn about European history is through historical documents, letters, diaries, art, and literature. Encourage students to use these firsthand accounts to gain a deeper understanding about European people and events. For instance, you can have students read excerpts from the works of Enlightenment philosophers — like Mary Wollstonecraft — and how they contributed to the political thinking of the time.
Research Projects
Have students research and present on a specific topic of European history, like the Age of Exploration. For example, ask students to choose a famous European Explorer to research, and have them write a short biography of that person or create a short video or presentation about their achievements and legacy.
Frequently asked questions for teaching European history
What is taught in European history?
In European history courses, students are taught about the cultural, economic, political, and social milestones that shaped Europe from the Middle Ages until the present.
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There are many different types of European history resources sold by Sellers on TPT — from interactive notebooks to gallery walks.
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