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Teach students how to analyze political cartoons with interesting, relevant cartoons!

Great way to start the school year!! Have students create a scrapbook from their past years of school. Have them include text and pictures, scraps and awards. Students will start to realize the importance of documents and siting sources.

Great review activities are included in this lesson!! An electronic 4 Square is featured where students create graphics, maps and write paragraphs. Ways to do a history marker electronically and on paper are discussed.

There are lots of activities and resources for students and teachers in this resource, including many books. People will learn about a great website on resistance, create an assessment box on books about resistance and research and create a mural on resistance.

Interactive ways to increase reading skills are featured in this lesson. 8 different strategies are featured including 1 original game. This lesson focuses on social studies and reading but can be used for almost any subject area to help increase reading skills.

We assess the students all the time. Here are some quick, easy and engaging ways to informally assess the students. From throwing a ball to drawing concepts, see how easy it is to use informal assessments.

Great start of the year activity or end of the year activity! Have students think critically about historical people and what they might value. Ways to differentiate are included.

Interactive and fun reading strategies are featured in this lesson. Some of the ideas include acting out parts of the book, bringing in a prop and creating their own children's book. Works for any age group!

Great review activities for Australia are featured in this lesson! Students create original quilts using 4 parts of Australia's geography, history, economy and government system. An original, fun game based on the white elephant gift exchange is shown.

Three different centers are explained in this lesson, including analyzing different maps, reading traditional stories, creating their own stories and a "when finished" center. Students will be actively engaged in all of these centers!

Students learn the personal finance terms, create a jeopardy game board and prepare for a talk show. All the activities are interactive and fun for the students. Learn how to incorporate these important concepts in students' lives!

Use the program "Mural" to brainstorm different poems. Eight different poems are featured in this lesson. Great view activities!

Here's a great way to differentiate and see how students' knowledge of the material will guide the different activities they do throughout the lesson. This lesson includes writing, creating an electronic brochure and a National Geographic Cover and more!

This lesson features different centers for government including creating bumper stickers, Venn Diagrams, original graphics, maps and a placemat. This lesson is a great way to summarize information and can be used as a summative assessment.

Great start of the year activity!! Students will examine different types of thematic maps and synthesize the information to create an original map.

Teach the Holocaust using primary and secondary sources. Step by step instructions on how to do an interesting and interactive group activity. There are lots of primary and secondary sources provided. For the final activity, students create a work of art based on a quote from a primary source

Explore ways to incorporate historical thinking (geography, history, government and economics) in a lesson on art. The use of Jamboard is discussed, and improve games to reinforce the material is shown. This lesson is technology based but also incorporates traditional teaching styles. Great start of the year activity

Easy ways to incorporate debates in your classroom, including great questions, research techniques and ways to make the debates fun for your students!

All 4 ways to differentiate, including by content, process, product and environment are discussed. Specific examples are given for Latin America.

Seven different, original, and interactive games and activities are featured in this lesson. Great way to make teaching geography fun!! Students love these activities. Some games include interactive BINGO and games with a judge. Teachers can use one or all seven strategies.