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.

Make the grade on the Florida Middle School Civics End of Course exam. These benchmark-based activities (with answer keys) are designed to teach or reinforce basic concepts in Middle School Civics and/or Law Studies. Perfect for school or home practice

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.

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!

Local government curriculum for civics and law studies is here! It's easy to find material for teaching about the federal government and it gets challenging finding state government lessons. Local government? That is where we scratch our heads the most. Here is new material that can help you teach local government in Duval County middle school civics and law studies classes. It is a work in progress, though, so please feel free to share your constructive input with the author. These lesson

Take learning about the lawmaking process higher on the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) chart. With this activity, students will apply what they know about the lawmaking process to various scenarios. A word bank is available to help students.

Art is not a luxury, it is an integral part of teaching social studies from a humanities angle. I have created these simple activities to promote art in the classroom and to afford students the chance to be creative as well as incorporating higher level thinking skills in the classroom.

This activity is designed to help students differentiate between delegated, concurrent, and reserved powers. It is helpful for reviewing the lesson as taught earlier. It is also helpful as remediation.

What are the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship? Middle school law studies and civics teachers in Duval County, Florida will benefit from this material that directly complements their current lessons and curriculum.

Three simple rotation activities to help teach SS.7.C.1.6 (Interpret the intentions of the Preamble of the Constitution) in Florida Seventh Grade Civics.

Students learn about the types of propaganda through the context of political advertising in this activity.

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.

This activity is useful for seventh grade civics in Florida. This activity is directly related to SS.7.C.2.12 (Develop a plan to resolve a state or local problem by researching public policy alternatives, identifying appropriate government agencies to address the issue, and determining a course of action.

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.

Art is not a luxury, it is an integral part of teaching social studies from a humanities angle. I have created these simple activities to promote art in the classroom and to afford students the chance to be creative as well as incorporating higher level thinking skills in the classroom.