Help your students Investigate the Past with these interactive reading and guided notes activities. Your students will be introduced to and guided through learning about how historians study the past, the different fields of study, the tools that are used, and some of the artifacts that are most commonly studied. Along the way, they will be prompted to read timelines, analyze maps, and find facts from their reading. They will document their answers in the provided notes allowing them to stay organized in the process.  Students will also tackle related vocabulary and respond to some higher level thinking questions.

This digital presentation includes the reading and guided notes. It includes lots of visuals, formative assessment questions to test for student comprehension, vocabulary activities, and skills activities. Students can type right into the slides so that all the information is on one file and easy to find!

This listing is for the DIGITAL version of the Investigating the Past Reading and Guided Notes.  If you would like the PRINTABLE version please see this listing.

This NO PREP Investigating the Past Activity will save you time. This digital lesson can be uploaded and shared with students through your online learning platform like Google Classroom, Schoology, etc. You can also use a share link to share it with your students.

This interactive reading and guided notes activity is perfect for your whole class lesson, as a review of your lecture or textbook, as an independent or group assignment, for homework or test review.

The Investigating the Past DIGITAL Reading & Guided Notes Activities includes:

• 1 Digital File for Google Slides that includes the reading and guided notes
• Readings include an introduction and section for each of the important topics 
• Guided Notes related to each of the reading sections

 The notes include:

• Reviewing key vocabulary 
• Emphasis on finding relationships between events
• Determining causes and effects
• Summarizing for main points
• Skills practice: answering questions based on maps, charts, graphs, visuals, etc. 

Benefits:

• Helps students keep their notes organized and in one place
• The interactive nature and use of visuals is highly engaging for students
• Helps students to identify the main points of reading
• Helps students to differentiate between important details and minor details.
• Helps students to better summarize large texts.
• Helps enhance students’ skills in reading maps, charts, visuals, etc. 
• Helps students to not be intimidated by large texts. 

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MORE DIGITAL ANCIENT HISTORY RESOURCES FOR UNIT 1:

• Investigating the Past
• Early Hominids
• From Hunter Gatherers to Farmers
• Rise of Sumerian City States
• Ancient Sumer
• The 4 Empires of Mesopotamia
• Characteristics of a Civilization Evidence Sheet
• Civilization Summarizing Research Assignment 
• Unit 1 Timeline Activity

PRINTABLE ANCIENT HISTORY RESOURCES FOR UNIT 1:

• Investigating the Past
• Early Hominids
• From Hunter Gatherers to Farmers
• Rise of Sumerian City States
• Ancient Sumer
• The 4 Empires of Ancient Mesopotamia
• Characteristics of a Civilization Evidence Sheet Printable
• Unit 1 Vocabulary Review 

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