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This activity will introduce students to the 6 Principles of the Constitution through the use of interactive learning stations. Content for each station, a student hand-out, and an accompanying 8 slide power point are included. Once students circulate through the 6 stations, there is a short Power point presentation intended to give an additional overview of the 6 guiding principles of the U.S. Constitution. Also, a short review activity is included which assesses if students can correctly

Prepare to be awed by your students! This is a fabulous project to do with students of any age any time throughout the school year. Essentially, it is a poem each student writes about himself/herself at this moment in time in the shape of his/her actual thumbprint. Included in this purchase is a step-by-step 6 slide power point overview of what students need to do. I have also included an editable rubric for assessing the finished project. The final poem is always beautiful and many familie

Engage your students with personal budgeting with this NO PREP, 3-4 day learning stations activity! Each station includes a fictional profile of a family or individual with unique budgeting strengths and weaknesses. Students will complete a series of questions for each budget and then be hit with a financial “curveball” – a realistic and unforeseen expense that needs to be resolved. Everything you need for this activity is included: content for each station, a student hand-out and a 2 slide powe

Have you noticed a huge disparity between what you hope to see in student written work in your Social Studies classroom and what you are receiving? My Social Studies colleagues and I noticed that our students were either answering short answer questions with minimal substance, or they were writing a short novel when only a few sentences would have sufficed. Our discussions led us to a double conclusion:  MANY students struggled both with the decoding of the questions AND how to appropriately res

This is a whole group activity to use to introduce Civics topics during the first week of class. It is a high-interest, high-impact simulation that puts the students in charge of their learning experience. It engages students in a decision-making role and demonstrates the need for government. It is a very engaging activity that hooks students’ interest in Civics content without them even realizing it! This purchase includes the student activity sheet that outlines the rules of the simulation, wh

Mercantilism is a complex idea for students to grasp, but is essential to their understanding of the relationship between the American colonists and the British in the 1700’s. This package of NO PREP materials includes everything you will need to teach your students about this topic! Included in your purchase is a 7-slide Power point presentation to use with a 3-page student guided notes packet. Once students hear the brief lecture (estimated to take 20-30 minutes, depending upon your students’

Help your students learn to find and evaluate significant moments in the text Fahrenhneit 451 by using “Notice & Note” strategies for close reading introduced by Beers and Probst. Six NO PREP activity sheets guide students through a few simple steps to analyze the themes, conflicts, characterization and other elements of the story. No previous knowledge of these strategies are needed to complete these sheets. Furthermore, these activity sheets require students to provide textual evidence to s

This is a compilation of 6 high interest, low prep activities for your Civics classroom! Engage your students with all of these learning activities! Included in this purchase are: * 6 Principles of the Constitution Learning Stations * Civil Rights in the United States Timeline Activity * Current Events Forms * Fall Out Shelter Simulation for Students * Summary Sheets for the U.S. Constitution and the Judicial, Executive and Legislative Branches {and answer keys} * Personal Budget Stations S

Challenge your students to critically evaluate Lord of the Flies with this NO PREP small group project and presentation! Through the easy-to-follow 6 Signposts to Notice and Note lens by Beers and Probst, give your students the opportunity to explore one signpost in depth and then present their findings to the class following the reading of the text. This project will utilize 3-4 class periods and engages students with critical thinking, collaboration with peers, technology and presentation s

Challenge your students to critically evaluate Of Mice & Men with this NO PREP small group project and presentation! Through the easy-to-follow 6 Signposts to Notice and Note lens by Beers and Probst, give your students the opportunity to explore one signpost in depth and then present their findings to the class following the reading of the text. This project will utilize 3-4 class periods and engages students with critical thinking, collaboration with peers, technology and presentation skill

Do you feel like you're on an island battling cell phones and other devices that are constantly interfering with your classroom? I created this cell phone/device policy for my high school students last year and it has completely changed the tone of my classroom. It makes it explicitly clear when students may and may not use their devices and has graduated steps for when they make a wrong decision. Students, parents and administrators have all bought in to this system and many of my fellow coll

Challenge your students to critically evaluate Night with this NO PREP small group project and presentation! Through the easy-to-follow 6 Signposts to Notice and Note lens by Beers and Probst, give your students the opportunity to explore one signpost in depth and then present their findings to the class following the reading of the text. This project will utilize 3-4 class periods and engages students with critical thinking, collaboration with peers, technology and presentation skills. You w

This is a compilation of 13 high interest, LOW PREP activities for your Early American History classroom! Engage your students with all of these tried and true learning activities for a fraction of the cost! Included in this purchase are: * English Colonization Mini Unit {guided notes and a project/rubric} * Guided notes and viewing guide for the film, The Mission * A student project to introduce students to the Revolutionary War, "Colonial Newscasts from the Past" * A European Explorers pro

Are you looking for a basic formative or summative assessment for the events leading up to the Revolutionary War? This is a basic matching activity of events from The Proclamation Act to The First Continental Congress. An answer key is included. You could use it as a formative assessment before or during your unit. You could also use it as a quiz or as part of your summative assessment at the end of your unit. Consider checking out my accompanying “Colonial Newscast from the Past” project to

The film, The Mission, is the incredible true story of the colonization of native peoples in the Americas. Set in 1758 Brazil, it outlines events that shaped the region and the world for years to come. Included in this purchase is the two page viewing guide to accompany the film as well as a 4-slide Power point presentation that helps place the story in context as well as provide essential background knowledge.

Are you looking for a quick and easy NO PREP way to measure what your students know before or after your unit of study? Textbox Summaries are just what you're looking for. Each one is a summary of the main ideas of the unit with key words missing; a textbox contains those words and names, scrambled up. They can be used as formative assessments for students at the end of each unit and before the summative assessment. This is a complete set of Summary Sheets for the following units: Three Worl

Challenge your students to critically evaluate The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with this NO PREP small group project and presentation! Through the easy-to-follow 6 Signposts to Notice and Note lens by Beers and Probst, give your students the opportunity to explore one signpost in depth and then present their findings to the class following the reading of the text. This project will utilize 3-4 class periods and engages students with critical thinking, collaboration with peers, technology a

Are you looking for a way to easily and clearly communicate several important points to your students each day? Try using one of these seasonal editable slides to start each day in your Social Studies classroom. Simply choose a slide and copy and edit it as you need it. Students (and Administrators!) love the consistency and clarity that begins each day of learning!

Are you looking for a simple but meaningful review activity to use following your Revolutionary War unit? You have found it! This NO PREP activity features 7 short review activities for small groups of students to cycle through during one class period {approximately 45-50 minutes in length}. The best part is there is NO WORK for the teacher! The answer key to Station 1 is provided at Station 2, and so on. Students can check their own work as they go through the stations. The review stations addr

Help your students delve deeply into the characterization of key characters in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 with these user-friendly charts! Through this clearly defined lay-out, students will analyze characters’ speech, appearance, private thoughts, other characters’ feelings/reactions about him/her and their actions. There are separate pages for Montag, Clarisse, Beatty, Faber and Mildred. Included in this purchase are several suggestions for using these charts.