About the store
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
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
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
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 Projects Bundle | Hands-On History Activities PDF & Google Slides
These Medieval projects are ones I’ve used and refined over many years in my own classroom. They’re flexible, reliable, and designed to work with real students, real time limits, and real classroom constraints. At the end of a Medieval unit, I like to offer my students a choice of projects (and partners), which they love because not every kid is crafty. Plus, many of my students want to know more about medieval weapons (who wouldn’t?), and some prefer creative writing. With this bundle, you ca
6th - 8th
Middle Ages, Visual Arts
Byzantine Empire Lessons | Reading, Worksheets, Exit Tickets | PDFs & Slides
This four-day lesson sequence guides students through the key ideas that defined the Byzantine Empire, with a focus on Constantinople, Emperor Justinian I, and the growing divide between Eastern and Western Christianity. Students work through short readings, guided notes, maps, and exit tickets that emphasize explanation, comparison, and evidence-based thinking rather than memorization. The resource includes both print and digital formats, making it easy to use for whole-class instruction, sm
7th - 10th
Middle Ages, Social Studies
Also included in: Crusades, Byzantine Empire, Catholic Church, and Great Schism Bundle
Invention Advertising Project | Persuasive Writing & Sales Pitch | History
Students invent a product people wish existed, design a persuasive advertisement, and deliver a one-minute sales pitch that makes their classmates want to buy it. The ideas can be ridiculous. The thinking has to be real. This fits naturally into units on Chinese inventions, the Renaissance, or the Islamic Golden Age, and runs just as well as a stand-alone persuasive writing activity. In 2–3 class periods, small groups turn a simple everyday annoyance into a full product pitch. Planning pag
6th - 10th
Other (ELA), Social Studies, Speaking & Listening
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
3D Diorama Group Project | Hands-On | Editable Rubric | Any Subject
A quadrama is a four-sided 3D display where each section tells part of a larger story. Groups have to agree on what to illustrate in each panel, which means they are negotiating ideas, making decisions, and building something that only works if all four pieces connect. History, science, literature, vocabulary, biographies: the four-part structure fits almost any topic you are already teaching. Three pages of subject-specific ideas are included so you are never starting from scratch. Students
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English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Catholic Church CER Analysis & Assessment Worksheets | PDF & Google Slides™
These ready-to-grade Roman Catholic Church analysis worksheets help students demonstrate understanding through claim, evidence, and reasoning. Each activity assesses historical thinking through written evaluation, comparison, and content analysis while remaining simple to assign and grade. Each worksheet functions as a formative or summative assessment and fills approximately one full class period (about 45 minutes). Activities can be used as stand-alone assessments, review lessons, independ
6th - 10th
Social Studies, World History
Also included in: Medieval History Analysis & CER Assessment Worksheets Bundle
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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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