John Meeks

This workbook is a look at what material is covered in Florida's sevenths grade civics classes. The workbook includes practice tests that are designed to cover the benchmarks that are included in the class and on the End of Course (EOC) exam.

If you are using McGraw-Hill's United States History: Voices and Perspectives, this is an entire year's worth of Cornell Notes to help your students make the grade in middle school history. The standard-based notes include the standard, objective, and essential question. Student voice is also included as they summarize what they learned in each lesson. Check it out today for a year of academic achievement!

This book is designed to help Florida seventh grade students understand the basic benchmarks of Civics. Beginning with the 2014-15 school year, passing the Civics End of Course (EOC) exam will be a requirement for promotion to high school. This study guide is designed to help students, teachers and parents understand the benchmarks and questions to make the grade in Civics.

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This sheet of four (4) hall passes is a template that teachers can use to make duplicates. This hall pass template includes student name, destination, date, time and teacher signature.

Make the grade in Florida seventh grade civics with targeted and differentiated help that connects remediation with specific benchmarks. Editor's note: The answer key is included, please take note of the multiple choice format in the key.

To help sixth grade social studies teachers prepare for the Common Core standards implementation, John Meeks has created a simple guide that applies the standards to tasks and activities that include higher level thinking skills and complexity that are aligned with Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK). "My book helps educators to increase rigor in their social studies classes," said Meeks.

Are you looking for standard-based formative review activities for your middle school U.S. history students in Florida? Look no further than my challenge board activities (modeled after the game show featuring answers in the form of a question) that I created on the Quia platform. This is a handy list of links to access my challenge boards that you can use with a whole group, create small teacher-led groups, plan for rotations, or even provide to individuals for focused instruction. Here is

Encourage your world history students to engage their critical thinking and writing skills with this activity that asks them to determine if various historical figures were heroes or villains in history. This activity asks students to list their reasons why and to write a response that explains their answer. A rubric is included for easy grading.

Standard-based history meets writing and critical thinking skills for a deeper dive into the past. Challenge your students to incorporate plot elements into the telling of our history! You can make the grade in world history when you encourage creativity and independent thought in your students! If you teach middle school world history in Florida, this is exactly what you need!

Recognize how Enlightenment ideas including Montesquieu's view of separation of powers and John Locke's theories natural law and how Locke's social contract influenced the Founding Fathers.

Trace the impact that the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense had on colonists' views of government.