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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: 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: 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: 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: 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!

Related Standard: This activity aligns with any American Hisotry course standard that asks students to understand American contributions to the war effort during WWI. I specifically created this activity to align with the Georgia Standand of Excellence standard SS8H8a. Description: This activity allowed students to demonstrate their understanding of Liberty/War Bonds by using critical and creative thinking skills. I saw more success with this activity when I played the video more than 3 times, s