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Related Standard: SS8H4e (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Take the lecture out of social studies with this task. Have student read about important events, terms, and people that played a role in the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia. This product has two files, one with the stations and the other with the student response slides. This product incluces 6 stations about the following, John Ross, Andrew Jackson, Dahlonega Gold Rush, Indian Removal Act Timeline, Worcester Vs. Georgi

Related Standard: SS8H10a (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This activity is great for student collaboration and critical thinking. Students analysis 7 graphs associated with the population shift that occurred in Georgia following WWII. The tasks asks students to push beyond just listing facts. Sure, you can modify the directions to include fact writing, but ultimately pushing 8th graders to make inferences based on charts and graphs is a primary goal!

Related Standard: SS8H5a (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is an informational text created using the online Georgia Encyclopedia. It has text dependent questions embedded throughout the text to make it a quick task about the Georgia Platform. There are 11 questions total. (Source for the text: Justice, George. "Georgia Platform." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Oct 31, 2018. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-platform/.

Related Standard: SS8E2 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: If you plan on having your students discover more about the companies of Georgia by engaging in the GPB Entrepreneurship Virtual Field Trip, then you want this assignment for your studnets! The questions keep studnets engaged in the virtual field trip which provides mulitple visuals (videos and images) that discuss the entrepreneurial successes in the state of Georgia. Click here to follow Handy Lessons on facebook to get ha

Related Standard: Aligns with SS8H10, SS8H11 and SS8H12, Georgia Standard of Excellence Description: The Modern Georgia Unit in Georgia Studies has so many different concepts and covers a vast amount of historical time. I have found that having an introduction lesson to just simply expose students to the big ideas prepares them for this unit. This introduction lesson also builds curiosity and students are eager to dive into some of the concepts and big ideas further! Overall this lesson is a gre

Related Standard: Georgia Standards of Excellence, SS8H3b. Any state standard that requires analyzing the Declaration of Indendence. I designed this lesson for an 8th grade social studies class in North Carolina, so it aligns to standard 8.H.1.2: Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context AND 8.C & G.1.2: Evaluate the degree to which democratic ideals are evident in historical documents from North Carolina and the United States Description: This lesson he

Related Standard: This task aligns with any state or district standard that requires students to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Union and Confederacy during this Civil War. Description: The Union and Confederacy had their own strengths and weaknesses to affected the outcome of the Civil War. This tasks gives students 8 comparison data points. Students are encouraged to make charts for each data point (good practice if doing it digitally!) and then there are statements that students

Related Standard: SS8H3d (Georgia Standards of Excellence) This lesson aligns to any standard in an American History class where students are required to learn about the weaknesses of the Articles. Description: This lessons has students think critically to graphically organize information about the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. There are 9 weaknesses on the chart. There are a set of details that answer the question, "why was this included in the Articles of Confederation," which s

Related Standard: SS8H4 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a great review option that allows students to use creative and critical thinking skills, both of which are so important to help students retain the information! The concept map arrangements are endless. There are 42 hexagon shapes with concepts realted to this standard (Land distribution policies, Georgia capitals, removal of the Creek and Cherokee). There is a digital format provided as well as cut outs prints to co

Related Standard: SS8CG1, SS8CG2 and SS8CG3 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Need a quick and engaging review for your students!! This is the easily bingo review to implement! Just download, print, make copies and cut the clues into strips!

Related Standard: SS8H4b (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This assignment gives students an opportunity to explore more details about the land distribution policies in Georgia. This lesson was planned with gifted learners in mind, so it does provide challenging skill work and critical thinking but reinforces the BIG IDEAS about the land policies. The lesson comes with a video I recorded to model for students how to complete this source analysis.

Related Standard: SS8H2 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Keeping Georgia history relevant keeps students engaged. This product contains three news sources that discuss concepts and big ideas that students need to master regarding GA colonial history. There are two news clips and one article that students can view. Click here to follow Handy Lessons on facebook to get handy classroom tips and strategies!

Related Standard: SS8H5 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a great review option that allows students to use creative and critical thinking skills, both of which are so important to help students retain the information! The concept map arrangements are endless. There are 50 hexagon shapes with concepts realted to this standard (Georgia and the Civil War, which includes the causes of the Civil War)!!

Related Standard: SS8H10a (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Not everything needs a lecture or a drag and drop activity! This task is great for students to dive into their own learning about the population shift that occurs in Georgia after WWII. These text dependent questions align to the GPB online textbook and are a GREAT ALTERNATIVE to delivering a guided notes lecture! For copyright reasons the links to the online textbook were not added, however once you create your teacher ac

Related Standard: SS7G12 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Students will enjoy this visual reinforcement of four major belief systems in southern and eastern Asia - Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Shintoism. The videos are linked on the document. This is a great whole group task or independent, self-directed task!

Related Standard: SS8CG4 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Most Georgia Studies teachers will show the GPB video in class about the Judicial Branch, so take advantage of these engaing activities that allow students to "read" and "reread" visual text as well as complete a cloze passage as a third reading about Georgia's courts!!!

Related Standard: SS7G10 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This task goes beyond the requirement of the standard and exposes students to real-world solutions to environmental issues that occur in China and India, which include water and air pollution and flooding. Your students will be incredibly engaged in learning about solutions to environmental issues with this product!

Related Standard: SS7H3 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Instead of presenting students with another information text, let them learn about India's history with this informational webpage!!! Students will enjoy using their detective skills to sort through this wealth of information regarding the modern history of India! When you purchase this product you will gain access to a webpage that I created (on Adobe Creative Cloud Express) that tells the story of India's modern history. Ma

Related Standard: SS8H5 and SS8H6 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: These crossword puzzles incorporate many big ideas and concepts related to Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. There are two variations of the crossword which all use the same clues! There are a total of 45 clues!

Related Standard: SS8H7c (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Students need opportunities (big and small) to stretch their criticial thinking skills. After facilitating the learning about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois’ civil rights philosophies, the teacher can give this reinforcement task to students. It is an activity that provides 3 excerpts from Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech and DuBois’ book titled, The Souls of Black Folk. Students will have to determine which