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High school social studies rubric pdfs
CER Claim Evidence Reasoning Activity CER Template CER rubric CER practice
Are your students struggling with writing their claim, evidence, and reasoning scientific explanations? This template will help students write scientific explanation summaries and support their claims with evidence and reasoning (CER). Comes with language support, in the form of graphic organizers and sentence frames. Plus a generic rubric to help you grade students' CERs. This is great for integrating the Common Core into your science class. Included in this product:✅ Blank scientific explana
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4th - 12th
Persuasive Techniques Unit - Media Literacy Analysis PowerPoint & Project Bundle
Teach persuasive techniques, ad analysis, and propaganda with this bundle of media literacy activities. This comprehensive bundle includes bellringers, projects, PowerPoints, and quizzes for teaching persuasion through engaging advertising analysis, interactive practice, and creative projects. In this bundle, you’ll get 3 weeks of engaging activities to introduce or strengthen student understanding of persuasive techniques. This is a perfect foundation for media literacy with a variety of activ
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6th - 9th
Pro Sports Team Marketing Business Simulation Semester Project
This simulation was designed to evoke student interest and apply key marketing concepts. Through the topic of sports, students will develop and design marketing materials. Students will create a pro sports team and expand upon their ideas through this semester project. Key marketing concepts covered include: the marketing concept, press kit, SWOT analysis, advertising media, promotional mix, and marketing plan. Through the project students will apply, analyze, and synthesize marketing efforts. Y
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9th - 12th
Student Choice Biography Research Project — Secondary ELA — CCSS Rubric
Do you want to teach your students the format of a short biography? This no-prep biography research project guides students through the research and reporting on a significant figure of their choice! It will shepherd student learning from the selection and planning process to the creation of a polished essay using thoughtfully scaffolded and tested activities. Designed as a weeks-long research unit, this product includes (See PREVIEW):The Basics of MLA Style PowerPoint presentation to assist wit
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6th - 10th
Brochure Rubric
This rubric can be used for any subject area when a student has created a brochure to showcase their topic! This can be used at multiple grade levels and is very generic so it can fit for almost any project that requires students to create a brochure! I especially like to use these for science/social studies, but be creative! :)
Enjoy!
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1st - 12th
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Debate Graphic Organizers
Includes five different resources for classroom debates...
Two graphic organizers for students to use during the research and preparation process. These include sections for the group to write down their argument and supporting reasons/facts, organize how they want to present their argument, and write down notes during the debate for their rebuttal. (One is a little more detailed and complex, and one is simpler, for younger students or shorter debates!)
Two student scoring rubrics to help keep
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2nd - 10th
Sociology Group Project - Inequalities in Income, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Age
This group project is an investigation, both globally and in the United States, of the inequalities in Income, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Age. Students explore 5 different topics inside of each inequality, comparing the inequalities in the United States to the World, and examining the history of the inequality. Project includes a very specific rubric for grading/scoring. Rubric is divided in 3, scoring for an individual paper, the group depth and clarity of presentation and the group cr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Social Studies Project Rubric
A well-crafted universally designed social studies project rubric graded out of 32 points. Categories of the rubric are Historical Accuracy, Use of Details, Creativity, Neatness, Writing Style, and Timeliness.Created for and currently used to grade middle school level project; however, this rubric can be used for virtually any grade.
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3rd - 9th
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Life through US History: End of the Year Project
Great way to wrap up the year. Students create a fictional person who lives from 1920-2017 and document their life through historical events! The student’s love creating a digital diary and historical timeline. The directions outline the 13 topics that are generally studied in a second semester US history class. Students select two specific events from those 13 topics, for a total of 26 historical events. I am always amazed at how creative students are when they weave their fictional person’s st
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6th - 12th
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Model United Nations Simulation
This simulation has been one of my favorite activities in my freshmen Geography class. Freshmen are typically an energetic bunch, but they really stepped it up with this simulation. They wrote fantastic short essays, presented their resolution ideas, and dressed professionally. Best of all, they had to use critical thinking skills while debating one another over the summit's chosen global dilemmas. This activity and handout includes the following: 1. UN Simulation and Essay overview2. Resolution
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5th - 12th
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Writing Resources Bundle for SEQ + Civic Literacy Essay-US History Regents Prep
Writing Resources Bundle for SEQ + Civic Literacy Essay-US History Regents Prep + Bonus Grading Rubric! Elevate your students' writing proficiency with the ultimate writing resources bundle, encompassing an engaging presentation, writing guides, graphic organizers, checklists, and grading rubrics tailored to Short Essay Questions and Civic Literacy essay prompts. This comprehensive bundle is curated to foster analytical thinking and refined writing skills in secondary students. These resources w
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7th - 12th
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Age of Discovery Travel Brochure Project
This creative project has students select and research an explorer from the Age of Discovery and create a travel brochure based on his journey.
A list of 15 possible choices for an explorer is provided along with detailed instructions on what is required and what to include. My students gain a lot from this assignment because they must think creatively about each explorer's route and make connections to the world today. A rubric with both self-evaluation and teacher evaluations are included as
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5th - 10th
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Intro to Sociology Unit Project: Comparative Study of Adolescence and Adulthood
Super fun and interesting PowerPoint project that the kids love to do! Description: In Sociology, there is a strong emphasis on studying the differences between adolescents and adults. Over the years, I have done it in one of two ways depending on how much time I had to spend on it:Some years I would just have students do the notes about the topics and then lecture using th PowerPoint Adolescent vs. Adult Powerpoint and Adolescent vs. Adult Powerpoint NotesIn other years I would have the studen
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Document Based Question (DBQ): Essay Outline & Rubric
Document Based Questions can be tricky for students, especially at the beginning. This "disposable crutch" strategy will help your students organize their thinking and help them prepare for writing an essay. The rubric will help your students understand what is expected of an essay (1-5). Tested and proven strategy! Easy to use and ready to print!Thumbnail clipart and product clipart by G is for Graphics
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: The Men Who Built America: DBQ & Episode Guides (Discounted Bundle)
Claim Evidence Reasoning Activity Interpreting Data Chemical Reactions CER
Are your students struggling with writing their CER (claim evidence reasoning) for chemical reaction lessons? Do they have difficulty interpreting data of chemical reaction topics? This chemical reactions claim evidence reasoning practice problem has four different chemical reaction experiments.These will help students interpret data tables and support their claims with evidence and reasoning (CER). Click the PREVIEW to learn moreWhat students are doing with these CER claim evidence reasoning pr
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6th - 12th
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MS-PS1-2
Project Based Learning - Plan a Dream Vacation - ELA/Social Studies - Geography
This Dream Vacation Project Based Learning Unit focuses on providing students with having a realistic and authentic experience of planning a Dream Vacation for another person. This could be another classroom teacher, administrator, parent, or fiend.
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Dream Vacation PBL – Plan a Trip - 8th Grade Social Studies
This Dream Vacation Project Based Learning Unit exemplifies the critical components of a true PBL and has the following elements built into the PBL Design:
-Key Knowledge and Underst
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5th - 9th
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Ancient Civilizations Project with Rubric
This package includes a detailed outline of what is expected in a complete Ancient Civilizations report and presentation - whether it is meant to be the "big" project during the final term of Social Studies class or merely a month-long individual project.
Given the choice of China, Rome, Greece, Egypt or India, students will write a report on the government system, social structure, inventions, communication, climate, landscape and conclude with a comparison of modern day Canada or the United
Grades:
5th - 10th
AP World History SAQ Rubric and Feedback
This series of 4 rubrics help provide quick and targeted feedback to AP World History students on their Short Answer Questions (SAQs). The rubric follows the ACE (answer - cite - explain) model for ensuring success on the SAQs, and help students to see any problem areas quickly.
Side note: I do most of my writing grading on my iPad after scanning in essays/SAQs, etc. I find that inserting a picture of this rubric right onto their documents is a great way to grade quickly and to keep a digital
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9th - 12th
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Travel Around Asia Project
This complete project allows students to plan (pretend) a trip to travel around Asia with 3 family members. Students are able to learn about different locations, cultures, foods, and current events through this hands on engaging project. Include with this download: Step by Step Project Guide, Grading Rubric, Project Resources, Project Completion Timeline, and Editable Spreadsheet Links. This project is alway talked about as a favorite project.
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6th - 9th
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Create a Social Media Campaign Proposal
Update your marketing lessons with this social media marketing campaign proposal. In this project, students may work individually or with a partner to create their own social media campaign proposal. Each student or group will be assigned a scenario card for inspiration to complete the “Brainstorm a Social Media Campaign” worksheet. After students complete the worksheet, they should use a word processing program to create a marketing proposal. Detailed project instructions are provided.After th
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Social Media Marketing Project Bundle
Student Presentation Rubric | Group Presentation Rubric | EDITABLE
This is a Common-Core aligned rubric for any individual or group in-class presentation on any topic. The rubric includes four columns of assessment criteria: Multimedia, Supporting Evidence, Organization, and Presentation Skills.This download includes a printable PDF file of the rubric as well as a link to an editable Google Doc file. I use this rubric in my own ELA classroom, but it would work for a presentation in any content area. Depending on the task, sometimes I assess a presentation using
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: ELA Rubric BUNDLE | Six EDITABLE Rubrics for Middle School ELA
American Revolution ABC Book Project
If your class is studying the American Revolution, this is a fabulous project to culminate what they have learned in the unit. In this project, students create a book that explains vocabulary terms, people, places and events for most letters of the alphabet. (I made the suggestion of combining some letters on a page, XYZ for example, and allowing them to choose one letter to use.)
This project allows students to have some choice in their creation, but still has guidelines and rubrics for se
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3rd - 9th
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English Colonies (Jamestown & Plymouth) Brochure Project, Assessment, Print & Go
This product is an excellent resource to assess and wrap up the end of your English Colonization unit (geared for upper elementary and middle school students).Students are expected to choose either the Jamestown Colony or Plymouth Colony and then illustrate/write about what life was like in that colony. Sections included are: The CoverRelationship with the Native AmericansShip FleetOur LeaderDifficulties & SetbacksFoodHousingMap of the colonyThis product includes-Blank Templates (of both Jam
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4th - 10th
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Engaging "Homegoing" Unit Plan (30 Days)
Product Description:Discover a comprehensive and captivating unit plan for Yaa Gyasi's compelling novel, "Homegoing," designed for 12th-grade students. This thoughtfully crafted unit provides a deep dive into the novel's rich themes, complex characters, and historical context, fostering critical thinking, discussion, and reflective writing.Key Features:Detailed Pacing Guide: A 30 day step-by-step pacing guide ensures seamless instruction, including pre-reading activities, engaging discussions, r
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
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