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Welcome to Casey’s Class!
I design middle & high school world history resources built for real classrooms, real pacing, and real students.
In this store, you’ll find lessons that:
• Ask students to analyze, rank, debate, create, and justify with evidence
• Combine structure with creative thinking rather than worksheets alone
• Work as full lessons, extensions, or meaningful end-of-unit tasks
• Are designed to be taught without overhauling your schedule or prep time
I’ve been teaching for over 30 years across social studies, language arts, and upper elementary classrooms. The resources here are ones I’ve used, revised, and returned to year after year with my own students.
My goal is simple: clear directions, purposeful student work, and lessons that feel worth the time you spend teaching them.
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World History Simulations & Projects Bundle | Hands-On Learning Activities
If you want activities students still remember months or years later, this bundle brings together seven classroom-tested world history simulations and performance projects. Projects vary in length, allowing you to select experiences that match your unit pacing while keeping classroom structure and management firmly in your control. These lessons are highly engaging for students but intentionally organized to remain practical and realistic in everyday classrooms. Some activities work well as
6th - 9th
European History, World History
Mesoamerican Civilizations Unit Bundle | Maya Aztec Inca Lessons Map Activities
Maya, Aztec, and Inca: From Foundations to Final ProjectsStudents start this unit by seeing how eleven civilizations across Central and South America connect. They build a timeline and map to see the overlap and influence of earlier cultures before focusing on the Maya, Aztec, and Inca. By the time you reach the main lessons, your students already understand how these societies fit into the broader story of the Americas and the cultures that came before them. The Classroom ExperienceThe Big Pict
6th - 10th
Ancient History, World History
Medieval Crime and Punishment | Trials by Ordeal Classroom Simulation
Students explore medieval justice through structured classroom trials based on real historical practices. In this interactive simulation, students participate in mock trials by ordeal while learning how medieval societies determined guilt, punishment, and justice in the absence of modern legal systems. Short, age-appropriate challenges replace lecture-based instruction and help students examine how belief, law, and superstition shaped medieval crime and punishment. This activity is designed to s
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Medieval China Unit Bundle | Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming Dynasties
Students start by figuring out how one agricultural change turned China into the wealthiest civilization in the medieval world, then spend the rest of the unit studying the five dynasties that shaped, expanded, and sometimes squandered that success. Daily creative writing prompts build content vocabulary throughout. What's IncludedChina's Development Students read a short narrative about the Tang and Song economic boom, arrange seven cause-and-effect factors in order, and answer reflection que
6th - 9th
Asian Studies, Middle Ages
Crusades, Byzantine Empire, Catholic Church, and Great Schism Bundle
Teach the Crusades, Byzantine Empire, Catholic Church power, and Great Schism in a connected sequence that helps students understand how religion, politics, and conflict shaped medieval history through interactive simulations, role-play, debate, mapping, and evidence-based writing. Designed for grades 6–10 world history, this bundle functions as a complete unit or flexible lessons that fit easily into a Middle Ages timeline. The full sequence supports approximately 13–18 class periods, depen
7th - 10th
European History, World History
Medieval Castle Model Project | Build and Label Middle Ages Activity
This multi-day medieval castle model project helps students build a historically accurate castle. Students begin with a guided castle diagram and labeling activity, so they understand real castle design, defensive features, and daily life before construction starts. Working in groups of 3–4, students design, construct, and label a castle model with 15 required features, applying what they learn about medieval defense, layout, and function throughout the build. Planning tools and required feat
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
Maya Aztec Inca Activities Bundle | Mesoamerican Civilizations Lessons
From the first slide, students are active participants. They sketch life at the base of a Maya pyramid, rotate through a live calendar simulation, and invent their own glyphs. In the Aztec lesson, they step into the roles of engineers planning a city, making decisions rooted in power and faith. During the Inca study, they design and test solutions to engineering challenges and take part in a class system simulation that makes social structures come to life. I’ve built prompts directly into t
6th - 9th
World History
Samurai Character Project | Feudal Japan Readings, Writing & Dice Game
Students create a samurai character poster and first-person narrative during a 5-6 day project focused on life in feudal Japan. Using short readings and response pages, students learn how samurai trained, fought, and lived, then apply that knowledge by writing as if they are the samurai, explaining their skills, values, and choices. The project is organized around four areas of samurai training: armor and weapons, physical skills, mental and spiritual discipline, and honor. As students work t
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
Protestant Reformation Bundle | Lessons, Skits & Primary Sources
Your students can name Luther. Can they argue his case against the Pope? This bundle takes students from content to conflict. They build the knowledge first, then use it. Seven lessons cover Church corruption, early reformers, Luther, the three branches of Protestantism, Henry VIII, and the Counter-Reformation. Students read, annotate, and organize ideas through slides, guided notes, a graffiti wall, a belief sort, and a ritual relay. Then the room gets loud. Students take on four dual-persp
7th - 10th
European History, Government, World History
West Africa Mask Project | Editable Slides, Hands-On Art & Culture Activity
This classroom-tested West Africa mask project uses editable instructional slides, guided artifact analysis, and a hands-on art build to help teachers run a meaningful visual arts and culture project with confidence. Designed for 6-7 class periods (45 minutes each), the project is structured, flexible, and easy to manage, with clear pacing, student examples, and ready-to-use materials that support creativity without sacrificing control. Video components are intended as optional background
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
The Enlightenment | Monarchy vs Philosophers Simulations & Primary Sources
Students reenact the Enlightenment from both perspectives, then analyze primary sources to decide what really happened. Each of the four scenes has two acts: one from the Monarchy's perspective, one from the Philosophes' perspective. Students watch absolute rulers defend divine right and censorship while Enlightenment thinkers challenge them with ideas about natural rights, free speech, and the separation of powers. Each act covers the same conflict from a completely different angle. Sa
7th - 10th
Drama, Middle Ages, Social Studies
Medieval Medical School: Black Death Simulation | Bubonic Plague 3-Day Lesson
Medieval Medical School is a fully structured, three-day Black Death simulation that places students in the role of medieval “doctors” while keeping instruction, pacing, and expectations firmly in your control. Through guided role-play, a plague-spread simulation, and hands-on examinations of medieval beliefs and treatments, students analyze how the Bubonic Plague spread, what people believed caused it, and how it reshaped European society, religion, and the economy. Every activity is supported
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Islam & Middle East Unit Bundle | Slides, Readings, Map Project & Activities
This ready-to-teach multi-lesson Islam and Middle East unit combines interactive instruction, evidence-based analysis, geographic skill building, and built-in assessments in one organized, classroom-ready progression that saves planning time while keeping instruction cohesive across multiple lessons. Students begin with interactive Rise and Spread of Islam slides featuring scripted teacher notes, partner discussions, quick games, ranking tasks, movement prompts, and map analysis that help st
7th - 10th
Geography, World History
World History Middle Ages Writing Prompts Bundle | Editable Slides
Mansa Musa brought 100 camels of gold to Mecca. Roman gladiators fought for their freedom in front of 50,000 strangers. China’s emperors burned books and buried armies. Your students write about all of it using real history and academic vocabulary. History Sparks is a series of eight content-based writing resources that turn core content into short, focused writing tasks. Students write in past tense, use domain-specific vocabulary in context, describe historical figures with accuracy, build
6th - 8th
Creative Writing, World History, Writing
Renaissance Cereal Box Project | Renaissance Figures Project | Google Slides
This project gives students a creative, content-rich way to wrap up a Renaissance unit. They take what they know about a Renaissance figure and build a cereal box where every panel shows part of what they learned. The Nutrition Facts panel covers upbringing and influences. The Ingredients List captures personality and talent. The back panel puzzles focus on major achievements. What students do:Design a cereal box about a specific Renaissance figureWrite short explanations tied to influences,
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
Enlightenment Philosophers | School Scenarios, Debates, Readings & Exit Tickets
Students debate Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, and five more Enlightenment philosophers through school-based scenarios they immediately recognize. Should one person hold all the power to keep order? Should the majority always get what they want? Should students be allowed to publicly criticize school rules? Students take a position, defend it, and then read about the philosopher arguing the same question during the Enlightenment. This discussion-driven resource follows a repeatable structure students
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Medieval Castle Bundle | Model Project and Lessons Middle Ages Unit Activities
Your students will understand what a medieval castle did and why it was built the way it was before they ever pick up a piece of cardboard. Three focused lessons build real content knowledge around how castles developed, who lived in them, and how they were attacked and defended. The model project brings it all together. Answer keys, pacing guides, grading sheets, and Google Slides versions are all included so the unit runs smoothly from day one. Everything is classroom-tested and ready t
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
Annotated Map: Maya, Aztec & Inca Empires | Geography, Achievements & Decline
Students analyze the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations through an interactive annotated map that combines geography, close reading, and evidence-based writing. This compact 4-5 day mini-unit helps students examine where these empires developed, what influenced their growth, what they accomplished, and why each ultimately declined. Students label and annotate a regional map while exploring key geographic features across Mesoamerica and the Andes. Guided readings and structured writing prompts
6th - 8th
Geography, Social Studies
Also included in: Annotated Maps Geography Bundle | Critical Thinking Activities
The Crusades | Christian vs Muslim Simulations & Primary Sources
Students reenact the Crusades from both perspectives, then analyze primary sources to decide what really happened. Each of the four scenes covers a different moment across two centuries of conflict: one act from the Christian perspective, one from the Muslim perspective. Students watch Pope Urban II call for holy war while life in Jerusalem continues as normal. They see the fall of Jerusalem in 1099 through the eyes of the people celebrating and the people burning. They watch Richard the Lionh
7th - 10th
Drama, Middle Ages, Social Studies
Chinese Dynasties Activity Bundle: Interactive Slides and Worksheets
This bundle pairs interactive, activity-driven slides with student-ready worksheets that move students from guided instruction into independent comparison, ranking, and evidence-based analysis of Chinese dynasties. The slides include built-in prompts, visuals, and quick simulations and tasks that keep students actively involved during instruction, while the companion worksheets shift students into independent reading, dynasty comparison, ranking impact, and evidence-supported writing. Tog
6th - 9th
World History
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About the store
Experience
Welcome to Casey’s Class!
I design middle & high school world history resources built for real classrooms, real pacing, and real students.
In this store, you’ll find lessons that:
• Ask students to analyze, rank, debate, create, and justify with evidence
• Combine structure with creative thinking rather than worksheets alone
• Work as full lessons, extensions, or meaningful end-of-unit tasks
• Are designed to be taught without overhauling your schedule or prep time
I’ve been teaching for over 30 years across social studies, language arts, and upper elementary classrooms. The resources here are ones I’ve used, revised, and returned to year after year with my own students.
My goal is simple: clear directions, purposeful student work, and lessons that feel worth the time you spend teaching them.
Teaching style
I believe history makes the most sense when students can see it, hear it, taste it, move through it, and argue about it. I intentionally enrich lessons with primary voices, role-play, food samples, music, movement, games, and reenactments, not as extras, but as tools for understanding. These experiences help students of all abilities access complex ideas and remember them long after the unit ends.
Yes, that’s me in the plague doctor costume. Costumes aren’t required, but curiosity is. My classroom is built around engagement, participation, and the belief that learning should feel active and human.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My students are my most honest reviewers, and their feedback shapes everything I create. I was honored to receive my site’s Teacher of the Year award some years ago, but what matters most to me are the handwritten notes, the hallway visits, and the “do you remember when…” conversations that follow students long after they leave my room.
My own education history
BS in Psychology, CSULB
MS in Education/Reading, CSUF
Multiple-Subject Credential
Single-Subject Credential, Social Sciences
Additional biographical information
Outside the classroom, I’m a mom of two grown kids, married to my high school sweetheart, and happiest when I’m traveling or reading. I hope these resources support your teaching and give your students something worth remembering.
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