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I have a master's degree in history and my undergrad is in History and English education. I am the intervention director at my local middle school and in my spare time I teach college classes as an adjunct history professor. Earlier in my career, I taught 8th grade U.S. History, 7th grade Utah State History, and 8th grade Language Arts in three very different school environments. I was involved in multiple collaborative groups throughout my teaching experience helping to create high quality resources for all of the students at the school.
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Primary Source Analysis, Christopher Columbus: A Deeper Dive
Stop lecturing about history and help your students engage with it! They will use the highest levels of thinking in this challenging but engaging activity as they dive a little deeper into the truth behind Columbus's explorations. This is a primary source analysis where students will use nine documents to determine if Christopher Columbus was a pioneer or a tyrant. These engaging documents include primary and secondary sources about the explorer. Students will analyze paintings, illustrations, l
8th - 11th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.3
, CCRA.R.4
+5
Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day? You Decide!
Enjoy this engaging primary source analysis lesson! Students will compare and contrast 9 sources in order to help them decide if we should keep the holiday for Christopher Columbus or change it to Indigenous People's Day. This set is a fabulous introduction to primary source investigation, getting your students using those critical thinking skills and really engaging with history! Included with your purchase: a student version print file, a student version digital file, a teacher key, and a fol
3rd - 5th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
CCSS
RI.4.1
, RI.4.2
, RI.4.3
+9
Unamerican: A Cold War Deception Game
Bring the tension, paranoia, and strategy of Cold War McCarthyism to your classroom! Unamerican is an easy to use, historically accurate, social deduction game. It works great for high school history level classes. Inspired by the game Secret Hitler and Mafia, students receive a historically accurate character and a secret "role" (FBI agent, Loyalist, Sympathizer, Secret Communist). The secret "American" team must then determine either who the Secret Communist is or pass 5 American Policies an
9th - 12th
U.S. History, World History
CCSS
SL.11-12.1
, RH.11-12.1
, RH.11-12.6
Context Clues and Connotation with the Jabberwocky
An engaging presentation where students learn about context clues through inquiry and then identify types at the end of the lesson instead of the beginning. Students will discover they can define words such as "bellwether" and "saxicolous" through careful reading and context clues. The PowerPoint presentation includes an attention grabber, an activity, and notes. Can be completed in as short as 15 minutes or longer depending on your students' background knowledge and how in depth you decide to t
6th - 9th
English Language Arts, Poetry, Reading Strategies
Persuasive Writing: Letters to Government Representatives
Give your students an authentic, meaningful writing assignment that includes valuable choice! Have them write letters to their government representatives about issues that matter to them! This is a great project for use in an English classroom during a persuasive writing unit or in a History classroom during a unit on government and civic responsibility. This set includes everything you need to make this assignment a success: an explanation page for you with detailed instructions and tips, a let
7th - 10th
Government, U.S. History, Writing
Escape Frankenstein's Lab! A middle school science escape room adventure
"Your group woke up in a strange house. You’re not sure what happened or how you got there. There are tables, beakers, and potions everywhere. The place is a mess. The last thing you remember was talking to a nice old man outside the movie theatre after your friends had finished the midnight showing of the most recent horror film...Every visible exit is bolted shut with a massive padlock. Then someone in your group notices a lockbox on the desk. Maybe there’s a key to one of the padlocks inside?
5th - 8th
Science
NGSS, TEKS
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS4-6
, MS-PS3-1
+3
Columbian Exchange Cafe
Students will create a menu complete with appetizers, main course items, and desserts. Each menu item should reflect your students' understanding of how the Columbian Exchange changed the world, specifically the world of food. Includes a handout and a rubric. This resource will be a part of "Age of Exploration Part 3."
7th - 10th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
What's on the Menu - A Thanksgiving Primary Source Investigation
The perfect project for those two days before Thanksgiving! Keep your students learning and engaged! Your students will analyze a letter written by Pilgrim Edward Winslow, one of the few accounts that actually mentions the first Thanksgiving. The letter talks about the First Thanksgiving and goes into more detail about their harvest and what they ate that first year. (I have edited this primary source for clarity and have taken out parts that weren’t necessary for this assignment.) After analyzi
6th - 9th
Informational Text, U.S. History
Age of Exploration Part Two - Primary Source Analysis
Stop lecturing about history and help your students engage with it! They will use the highest levels of thinking in this challenging but engaging activity as they debate who Christopher Columbus really was: a pioneer or a tyrant? This is part two of a three part unit on the Age of Exploration. This section is a primary source analysis where students will use nine documents to debate Christopher Columbus's legacy, but mostly to dive a little deeper into the time and events surrounding his "disco
7th - 10th
European History, Social Studies, U.S. History
Also included in: Age of Exploration
Squanto: "Wrath of God" or "gift from God"?
Did you know that Tisquantum literally means “Wrath of God?” Doesn’t quite sound like the do-gooder Native American we have come to love and revere throughout history, does it? What if there’s another side to Squanto? One we gloss over in history books and Thanksgiving day pageants? This primary source analysis will not only help your students analyze, evaluate, compare, and think critically about ten different sources regarding our beloved Squanto; it will also help them realize that every “cha
8th - 11th, Higher Education
Social Studies, U.S. History
CCSS
CCRA.R.8
, CCRA.R.9
, CCRA.R.10
Escape Frankenstein's Lab! Middle School Math
"Your group woke up in a strange house. You’re not sure what happened or how you got there. There are tables, beakers, and potions everywhere. The place is a mess and it's dark, you can hardly see. The last thing you remember was talking to a nice old man outside the movie theatre after your friends had finished the midnight showing of the most recent horror film." This escape room activity is perfect for Halloween or any time of year! Students will work through a series of clues to escape Frank
5th - 8th
Math
CCSS
6.G.A.1
, 6.NS.A.1
, 6.NS.B.3
+7
Escape the Haunted Mansion! Middle School ELA Escape Room Activity
"After finding yourselves trapped, your group begins to try every door. Frustrated, one of you leans against a large portrait. It creaks and pushes open, revealing a secret passageway. Do you dare take it? Complete the challenge to find out where it leads...." This is a fun escape room challenge your students can complete in groups, as a whole class, or individually! It causes students to practice a variety of ELA clues including context clues, inference making, grammar, problem solving, charact
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.3
, CCRA.R.10
+14
Age of Exploration
Enjoy this bundled resource on the Age of Exploration. This bundle includes helpful PowerPoint presentations, student and teacher packets, helpful tips, optional expansion activities, and all around engaging material. Students are given a solid foundation of background information, a deep dive into primary sources surrounding Christopher Columbus, and the opportunity to debate, expand, and create via several projects and activities.
7th - 10th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
Native American Unit
This teaching set includes an 18 page packet, three presentations (two PowerPoints and a link to a Prezi), and a teacher instruction packet with answer keys, tips, a proposed schedule for teaching, and lesson ideas.
The packet includes introduction pages to help students build on prior knowledge and get them interested in the unit. It has a geography assignment where students will identify physical features and areas that were important to the groups being studied. There is a guided notes page
7th - 10th
Native Americans, Social Studies, U.S. History
Captain Preston: Guilty or Innocent? (Primary Source Analysis)
It was cold, snowy night: March 5, 1770. The colonists in Boston were riled up over what they felt were unjust laws and taxes. Soldiers stationed in the city were on edge, anxious about the behavior of the colonists. A fight broke out between Captain Preston’s regiment and the locals. Shots were fired. Five people lay dead. The events of that fateful evening quickly came to be known as The Boston Massacre. This “Massacre” further deepened the divide between England and the American Colonies, lea
8th - 10th
Other (Social Studies), U.S. History
The Gilded Age
Your students will grapple with big questions, historical analysis, primary source investigation, and contemporary comparison surrounding the Gilded Age. They will develop critical, historical thinking skills as they discover, analyze, discuss, and evaluate not only the events from the Gilded Age in the United States (1870-1910), but will also connect the past to recent history as many are beginning to classify our time as a "Modern Gilded Age." This resource includes slides with presenter notes
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Social Studies, U.S. History
Who was "Squanto?" You Investigate!
You've probably heard of the friendly Native American named "Squanto" who saved the Pilgrims and paved the way for our first Thanksgiving, but did you know his real name was Tisquantum which translates to "Wrath of God?" Kind of puts an interesting twist on our traditional Thanksgiving Pageants! Enjoy this engaging primary source analysis lesson. Students will compare and contrast 10 sources in order to help them investigate who Tisquantum was and why he decided to help the Pilgrims. They will d
3rd - 6th
Social Studies, U.S. History
Age of Exploration Unit Part 1
This is Part One of a unit on European Exploration. This section covers an introduction to the unit with an attention grabber activity, intro to the Big Questions of the Unit, a lesson on how maps can be biased, a geography assignment built into a guided notes presentation, and an engaging presentation. The presentation, guided notes, and geography portion explain the why behind European exploration and connects the past to the present without weighing the students or the teacher down with meti
8th - 11th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
Also included in: Age of Exploration
Age of Exploration Part 3 - Projects and Activities
This is Part Three (final part) of a unit on European Exploration. This section includes projects and activities that will further students' own journey into this topic and deepen their knowledge and understanding. Part One focuses largely on establishing base knowledge and connecting the past to current events. Part Two focuses on diving deeper into one explorer - Christopher Columbus - and the impacts of his journey and decisions, especially on the native Taino population. Part Three takes the
7th - 10th
Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
Also included in: Age of Exploration
The West: 1850-1900 Slides, guided notes, primary source analysis, discussions
Your students will grapple with big questions, historical analysis, primary source investigation, and contemporary comparison surrounding Western History. They will develop critical, historical thinking skills as they discover, analyze, discuss, and evaluate not only the events from U.S. Western History (1850-1900), but also with changes in how we have told the story of the West over the last 150 years. This resource includes slides with presenter notes and a teacher packet filled with all the
10th - 12th, Higher Education
Social Studies, U.S. History
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Experience
I have a master's degree in history and my undergrad is in History and English education. I am the intervention director at my local middle school and in my spare time I teach college classes as an adjunct history professor. Earlier in my career, I taught 8th grade U.S. History, 7th grade Utah State History, and 8th grade Language Arts in three very different school environments. I was involved in multiple collaborative groups throughout my teaching experience helping to create high quality resources for all of the students at the school.
Teaching style
From my experiences I learned that while individual student's needs vary, the key to a successful classroom is engaging and meaningful lesson plans. While teaching, I tried as much as possible to make my activities authentic and my lessons applicable to their lives. I'm very excited about what I'm creating and I think you will be, too.
My own education history
Master of Arts in History from University of Nebraska.
History Teaching and English Education undergraduate degrees from Brigham Young University
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