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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: 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an 8th grade social studies class in North Carolina, so it aligns to standard 8.H.1.2: Summarize the literal meaning of historical documents in order to establish context AND 8.C & G.1.2: Evaluate the degree to which democratic ideals are evident in historical documents from North Carolina and the United States Description: This lesson he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: 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: 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: 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

Related Standard: SS8H4c (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This assignment was designed with gifted learners in mind, BUT with the right scaffolding strategies (or providing the color coded support text) general education students CAN and SHOULD be provided with the opportunity to tackle this challenging task! This is a reading for meaning assignment. Students have 9 statements about technology during the 1800s. These statements are either true or false. Students will use text evide

Related Standard: SS8CG4c (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Most likely as an 8th grade Georgia Studies teacher you are planning to have your students associate examples for civil and criminal cases! So grab this activity that promotes collaboration by having students sort and organize 24 examples of civil and criminal cases! How did I use this product in my class? Since it is a PPT format I printed 6 slides to a page. Since there are 24 examples this gave me 4 pages. I made 15 set

Related Standard: SS8H2a and SS8H2b (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a engaging activity that can be implemented in different ways. Students can work through it as a way to predict the story before actually hearing it. This activity could be used as a way to summarize the story indepdently or collaboratively. You can have students complete the story and then write their own text dependent questions in order to predict the big ideas that might appear on the test. You could a

Related Standard: SS8H10, SS8H11, and SS8H12 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Need a unit review activity before the unit assessment? Or do you need a fun way to review these standards with your students before district interims or the Milestone? Your students will have fun with this Headbands inspired review activity!

Related Standard: SS8H3 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a great review that is SO SIMPLE to implement in your classroom. The statements/questions are listed out, there is a word bank students can refer to and there is an ANSWER KEY provided! How did I use this product in my class? I had students work through this activity of statements/questions with their partners (collaboration is a MUST when it comes to reviewing for assessments!) To keep it fun and engaging I had the f

Related Standard: SS8CG4c (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a great activity that fosters critical and creative thinking and academic collaboration. Have your students construct a graphic organizer about the courts in Georgia! Very easy to make copies, cut into pieces and place sets into bags or envelopes! How did I use this product in my class? As a final activity to summarize and reinforce the different courts in Georgia I had students graphically organize this informatio

Related Standard: SS8CG2c (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Students will appreciate how simple the lawmaking process is with this product! Students will also enjoy learning about legislation from the 2022 and 2021 Georgia legislative sessions! Learning about the lawmaking process really isn’t all that fun, and this product will certainly keep it simple and keep students interested! PLUS, there's a lot in this product that you can modify to fit your exact needs!

Related Standard: SS8CG1 SS8CG2 SS8CG3 (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: This is a great reveiw to prepare for the unit test, a district interim, final exam or for GMAS! Its easy to implement, just click print, cut out the bingo clues, have students generate their own bingo cards using the word bank. The learning reflection (study guide) is a great independent task that can be assigned before or after the whole group bingo review! There are 29 questions on the learning reflection.

Related Standard: SS8H7a (Georgia Standards of Excellence) Description: Clozed passage that provides a summary of the standard. It includes Henry Grady, the Bourbon Triumvirate, Tom Watson, Cotton Expositions and the Rural Free Delivery Act. This activity can be used as an opener, closure, review, ect. A wordbank and answer key is provided!