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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
Historical Holiday Warm-ups Part One
An engaging PowerPoint to use for warmups around the different holidays during fall semester. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas each have two warmup options. Veterans Day includes an activity that is easy to expand into two warmups if desired. The warmups include a variety of activities and are filled with interesting facts such as: the worlds largest giant pumpkin (over 2,600 lbs), inscriptions on famous tombstones, how many presidents were veterans, what really happened that first Thanksg
7th - 10th
Social Studies, U.S. History
External Text Features Scavenger Hunt
A simple activity to make learning external text features more fun! My students loved this activity. Have them work in teams to find examples of external text features in your classroom: on the walls, in books, in magazines, in newspapers, etc.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Informational Text
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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.
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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