This DBQ addresses the Common Core State Standards. It has been updated with a page outlining the English Language Arts/History/Social Studies g...
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90 Minutes
This DBQ addresses the Common Core State Standards. It has been updated with a page outlining the English Language Arts/History/Social Studies g...
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90 Minutes
This lesson is included in the larger Causes of the American Revolution Unit, located here:
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2 hours
This DBQ addresses the Common Core State Standards. It has been updated with a page outlining the English Language Arts/History/Social Studies g...
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90 Minutes
This Power point has it all! It connects the age of exploration with the colonializing of North America. It also includes a Venn diagram to comp...
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With this worksheet, students will learn about the Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They will also learn to enga...
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This DBQ addresses the Common Core State Standards. It has been updated with a page outlining the English Language Arts/History/Social Studies g...
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This lesson is included in the larger The Civil War Unit, located here:
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2 Days
This includes 11 primary source pages (pictures, documents, quotations) for introducing Manifest Destiny. I use it like graffiti - on big paper....
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This activity features an amusing story of a Confederate soldier in the Civil War attempting to get a haircut before battle. Students read the st...
This activity is included in the larger Ancient Rome unit, located here:
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3 Days
Students will examine a variety of primary sources, including witness accounts from the Boston Massacre, in order to determine whether the event ...
This is a 6 document DBQ comparing the contributions from the Ancient Civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. It includes an organizer for studen...
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With this worksheet, students will learn about the history and purpose of the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America. They ...
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In this COMPLETE lesson from InspirEd Educators, students will examine the Treaty of Paris and complete DBQ's. Lesson warm up, teacher instruct...
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This political cartoon introduces students to the idea of African Imperialism and asks them to connect it to the events of the Industrial Revolut...
Introduce totalitarian states (Germany, Russia, Italy, Cuba, etc.) using this excerpt from 1984 and discussion questions. The kids really enjoy ...
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This is a classroom tested reading comprised of the first half of King's great Letter from Birmingham Jail. I have included the first half for s...
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There are two CRQ's (Construction Response Question Documents)related to Ancient Egypt to use as practice for DBQ document writing, homework, a m...
This document explores the working conditions in English coal pits during the Industrial Revolution. It includes pre and post-activity discussio...
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In this 8 page packet students will explore three of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment. John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jeffer...
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2 hours
At the heart of Common Core rigor and understanding is the ability to analyze primary sources. This publication will guide you in understanding ...
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Lifelong Tool
This is a worksheet used to get students to analyze a political cartoon. This cartoon address the crisis in the Middle East. These cartoons are...
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30 Minutes
This lesson is included in the larger Causes of the American Revolution Unit, located here:
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1 hour
A mini-unit with printables about the United States right after the Civil War. This file contains 8 pages of vocabulary activities, fluency and c...
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15 DBQ Writing Minilessons in Teacher's College Format. (Teaching Point, Connect, Teach, Active Engagement, Link, Share)
Each lesson contains 2 ...
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The SOAPS strategy is often used in English/Language Arts and Social Studies. It helps students to break down a primary source or analyze a piec...
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This is a two-part assignment where students read to gather content on the Stone Age and Neolithic Revolution before applying their new knowledge...
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This includes a Review Sheet, Test (Definitions, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blanks, DBQs and Open Responses). It includes an answer key for th...
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Primary source documents are an important part of historical studies but are often negelected in favor of dull secondary source textbooks. This i...
Critical Thinking is required in this activity where students examine 7 war posters (from all sides) and have to analyze their meaning and purpos...
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1 hour
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This is a worksheet that I use during my Unit on the Reconstruction. It is a popular political cartoon from this time period. It is an awesome ...
Comprehensive Unit Plan with PowerPoint that explores the development and maturation of Ancient Greece.
Includes a comprehensive section on Athe...
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This document is a collection of graphic organizers which can be made into a packet to help students break down different elements of the Constit...
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3 hours
Help your students organize their ideas for the NY State Social Studies Test. This is an effective graphic organizer, which will help your stude...
Use this simple graphic organizer to help your students learn about economic, social, and political reasons for going to war with England during ...
This is a collection of documents and a prompt centered around the 1920's and 1930's
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A short poem by Benjamin Franklin that was published in colonial newspapers. The poem demonstrates Franklin's thoughts about England in the years...
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This DBQ/Open Response is based on a quote from the French Revolution. It includes multiple questions and a sample essay format to assist studen...
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This is a highly engaging activity.
This package is titled Civil War: Setting the Stage. This package is not intended to be a exhaustive unit on...
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This includes a review sheet with terms and essay topics and a complete test on the Industrial Revolution. The test includes fill in the blank, ...
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This product was developed to put thousands of primary source documents that engage students in the study of US history at your fingertips. It is...
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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Lesson with DBQ, Level 2 and 3 DOK questions that align great with Common Core instruction.
Students will b...
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Use this to integrate some literature into your Social Studies class. This excerpt would fit well into any absolute monarch section.
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This document packet can be used alone or accompanied by an essay, in studying Native Americans/Cherokees/The Trail of Tears/President Andrew Jac...
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40 Minutes
Easy to use DBQ Essay Rubric based on New York State Global History & US History Regents Examination evaluation categories (Organization, Facts/E...
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This lesson is included in the larger The Civil War Unit, located here:
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1 Week
AUTHENTIC PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT!
This is one page of a multipage Will and Testament of a slave owner that resided in Forsyth, Georgia. During ...
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30 Minutes
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This lesson can be used with a brand new recording (available for FREE on TPT) of an anti-French song entitled "New Verses to an Old Tuneâ" that...
At the conclusion of our unit on immigration and after reading Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty my students wrote this persuasive essay pertainin...
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