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U.S. History rubric pdfs
Abraham Lincoln Informative Writing Prompt with two Passages/Articles
With this resource, students must use information from two unique & engaging passages to write an evidence-based informative essay explaining three major things that Abraham Lincoln did during his lifetime. This writing prompt is perfect for Lincoln's birthday or for around President's Day. Many extras are included to help you along the way. If your students have to take a standardized writing test where the writing prompt includes passages/articles, then this product is a must-have!*Please
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3rd - 5th
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North Carolina Lighthouse Project
This project has students research one lighthouse in North Carolina. Their goal of the project is to write a research paper and create a poster giving details about one lighthouse in North Carolina. It can be completed in one to two weeks and can be done in partners or independently. Students can choose one of the lighthouses in North Carolina and began researching on the first day. They used http://www.lighthousefriends.com/nc.html to get a lot of their information. If every group cannot have s
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3rd - 5th
State Research Writing Project & Other Activites Common Core Aligned
Get your students writing.....the fun way! I love this project because there are so many different things you can do with it. It comes complete with project guidelines and graphic organizers. There is a sheet with approved websites for research and themed final draft paper. Your students will love taking all the information they have gathered and putting it into a trifold brochure. This makes a super cute classroom display. It can easily be turned into a large poster project. Set aside a day
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2nd - 6th
Also included in: Writing Research Projects & Activities - BUNDLE
Holiday Timeline
Here is a Social Studies worksheet on a holiday timeline. Learning targets are listed on the worksheet using a rubric.
Learning Targets:
I can explain change and continuity over time, using calendars and simple timelines.
I can describe historically significant events and observances in American history.
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PreK - 1st
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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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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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Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities - Theme: Valley Forge
Paired Passages/Paired Texts are showing up on reading and writing assessments all over the country! This resource contains everything you need to successfully guide students through the process of using paired passages to create an essay or other type of writing. I included multiple prompts and activities using the same two paired passages so that teachers and students will have a variety of writing choices. Contents of this resource: Teacher NotesTeaching Writing with Paired Texts – A Quick Re
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities BUNDLE
Timeline Project | Distance Learning
Timeline Project
This is a simple and fun take-home project for your students! If you are covering timelines, this would be the perfect project for your students. It also gets the parents involved! A rubric is involved: one with a bonus opportunity and one without
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K - 5th
Native American Museum Project Based Learning Activities
Native American Museum Project Based Learning Activities: Project based learning is an important part of any classroom. In this unit, students will follow the rubric to research a specific tribe for the Native American Society of Elders. The Native American Society of Elders is creating a Native American Museum of History. They feel it is important to be correctly represented. Each group will research and represent a different tribe (Arctic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plateau (Nez Perce), Sou
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3rd - 5th
Paired Passages with Writing Prompts - Theme: American Revolution Camp Followers
Paired Passages/Paired Texts are showing up on reading and writing assessments all over the country! This resource contains everything you need to successfully guide students through the process of using paired passages to create an essay or other type of writing. I included multiple prompts and activities using the same two paired passages so that teachers and students will have a variety of writing choices. Contents of this resource: Teacher NotesTeaching Writing with Paired Texts – A Quick Re
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities BUNDLE
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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Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities - Theme: Colonial Education
Paired Passages/Paired Texts are showing up on reading and writing assessments all over the country! This resource contains everything you need to successfully guide students through the process of using paired passages to create an essay or other type of writing. I included multiple prompts and activities using the same two paired passages so that teachers and students will have a variety of writing choices. Contents of this resource: Teacher NotesTeaching Writing with Paired Texts – A Quick Re
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5th - 6th
Also included in: Paired Passages with Writing Prompts and Activities BUNDLE
State Research Poster or Diorama Project: Perfect for Gifted Enrichment!
State Research Poster or Diorama Project: Perfect for Gifted Enrichment or for your whole class.
Can be used as a homework or in class project. The student is asked to pick a state to research. It allows for the student to choose either a poster or diorama to present facts learned.
This pack includes complete directions to give to students(one page with points added and one page without), a page with some helpful guidelines for student research, teacher score sheet, a complete rub
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1st - 3rd
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APUSH Period 7 SAQ- World War I, Fourteen Points, & The League of Nations
This is a great resource for guiding your students in AP U.S. History (APUSH) through this SAQ (Short Answer Question) stimulus based prompt on "World War I and the Debates over the League of Nations."This resource includes the following:SAQ stimulus based promptsStudent response handoutSAQ Rubric and Answer Key--This is a great activity to use with introducing the process of how to write a SAQ early in the school year and will help prepare your students for writing future SAQ's throughout the s
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8th - 12th
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Famous Hoosier Research Presentation and Report
This packet will help make assigning a project a breeze! Students choose from a large list of famous Hoosiers, and have guided expectations for a written report and/or a digital presentation.
This is a great culminating activity for 4th grade Indiana History!
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4th - 6th
Texas Revolution Cereal Box Project Directions and Grading Rubric Texas History
Get creative while teaching the history of the Texas Revolution in Texas History! Students will choose an important figure from the Texas Revolution (Houston, Bowie, Travis, Seguin, Fannin, Santa Anna, etc.) and create a cereal box inspired by their figure and the era in which they lived. This product includes detailed instructions of what students should put on each side of the box, and a grading rubric to guide them towards acing this project, and to make grading easier for you!HistoTeam- Trus
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4th - 8th
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"Teach the Great Depression" Project Based Learning
WHAT YOU GETThis project has EVERYTHING you need to to teach an unforgettable Great Depression unit. In this project students will learn to create a presentation, a worksheet, and teach a part of the Great Depression to their classmates. I have been doing this project for the past 12 years and it is the most memorial unit I teach. I still have students who come back and say that they will NEVER forget the day that they taught a part of the Great Depression. Check out my website below and wat
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
U.S. History End of the Year Project - Design Your Own Amusement Park
☀️Summer is almost here Finish out the year with a U.S. history creative project! This is a perfect project to end teaching a year of U.S. history. Task: Design a Social Studies-themed amusement park! This year our content focused on U.S. history. Design a park based on the topics covered. Students will create different themed rides starting with the first settlers and ending with the Civil War. The project also requires a few "map skills". Product Includes: 1. Project Requirments2. Rubric with
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5th - 8th
Michigan Lighthouse Project
This lighthouse research project takes about two weeks to complete and can be done individually or in groups of two or three. Students choose one of the lighthouses in Michigan and began researching on the first day. They can use http://www.lighthousefriends.com/mi.htm to get a lot of their information. If every group cannot have some type of technology, you could print out the information from this page. To be sure that all pieces get completed, the project is broken down in detail. There is
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3rd - 5th
The Colonial Times Newspaper Project (Early European Colonization), Print and 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 write from the perspective of a colonist (Spanish, French or English) and create a newspaper that reflects the life and time of the people. Instructions and rubrics are included that will describe two different ways for students to publish their newspaper- The ole fashioned way with a pencil and crayons or a staine
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3rd - 8th
Headlines Newspaper Assignment--Teaching Historical Perspective
Headlines Newspaper
A project rubric for several newspaper projects. This project teaches students to view historical events from more than one side. It teaches bias, historical perspective, understanding and creating political cartoons. This assignment reinforces teamwork, project management, writing and creative skills.
This 39 page project/worksheet/rubric encourages students to create two newspapers from opposite sides of a historical issue (ex. King George III and American Colonists
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6th - 12th
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APUSH Period 4 SAQ Activity- Second Great Awakening & Antebellum Era Reforms
This is a great resource for guiding your students in AP U.S. History (APUSH) through this SAQ (Short Answer Question) stimulus based prompt on "The Second Great Awakening & The Antebellum Era Reform Movements".This resource includes the following:SAQ stimulus based promptsStudent response handoutSAQ Rubric and Answer Key--This is a great activity to use with introducing the process of how to write a SAQ early in the school year and will help prepare your students for writing future SAQ's th
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8th - 12th
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13 Original Colonies Advertisement Poster
This assignment asks students to select one of the original 13 British colonies to create a poster for. This poster should be made in the form of an advertisement, persuading people from Europe to come to the colony that they have chosen. In the past I have used a website (www.edu.glogster.com) to create interactive online posters. The assignment works just as well with the old fashioned paper and pencil poster method as well.
The assignment asks students to identify how the colony got started,
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5th - 8th
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