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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
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
Renaissance Unit Bundle | Activities, Lesson Plans, Research & Projects
This comprehensive bundle includes 234 pages of scaffolded lessons, interactive activities, and creative projects designed to connect serious historical content with meaningful student engagement. Students begin with the causes of the Renaissance, examining trade, banking, and the Medici family before comparing Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance art to identify the shift toward humanism. They participate in hands-on innovations lessons, including the 5-Minute Live Sculpture Sketch and Bru
7th - 10th
European History, Middle Ages, World History
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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.
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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