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This lesson allows students to explore the concept of ENDURING and NESTED issues. It provides a step-by-step guide with entertaining and helpful visuals to help your students identify, connect, and apply enduring and nested issues.

UPDATED fonts and typo correction - This lesson engages students using a variety of methods, including cartoon and primary source document analysis, and a culminating activity that allows teachers to gage students' understanding of the topic. Students will apply their knowledge of the failures of the Articles of Confederation and definitions provided to them to identify and evaluate the values of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists at the Constitutional Convention. At the end of the handout a

NO PREP REGENTS REVIEW! Perfect for at-home studying or in-class practice, this packet will help your students master content, practice analytical CRQ skills, and review Regents-based multiple choice questions. This packet includes information from: Unit 1: The World in 1750 Unit 2: The Enlightenment, Revolutions, and Nationalism Complete with unit summaries broken down by topic with highlighted vocabulary, vocabulary sheets to record important definitions, whole CRQs and 12 multiple choice Reg

This easily broken down lesson takes students through the rise of feudalism in Middle Ages Europe. One of the biggest challenges I have seen for students trying to master this concept is the vocabulary they may not have been introduced to such as "decentralized" and "social hierarchy." This lesson includes vocabulary exercises and critical thinking exercises that help students understand what feudalism is and why it came about in Europe's Middle Ages. Do Now and Exit Slip activities are also in

Give your students the chance to investigate the reasons for power shifts in once-powerful states circa 1900 in a thrilling, fun, and unique murder mystery! This lesson had students utilize necessary AP critical thinking skills: - Contextualization - Determine Relevant Supporting Evidence - Analysis Reasoning - Comparison and Contrasting Complete with:- List of suspects - Murder map - Arrest warrant to justify reasoning Using AMSCO chapter 7.1, your textbook of choice, and/or your videos of ch

Students will have a fun learning and practicing their introductory knowledge of enduring and nested issues of the new NYS Global Studies Regents. This activity can take as little as 15 minutes and as much as a full class period, depending on how long you choose to play. File includes directions, call out nested issues, and bingo cards.

In this lesson, students analyze primary and secondary sources to determine the main causes of American involvement in WW1, after declaring neutrality in 1914. Sources include: Travel warnings from Germany to America Charts showing trade between the U.S. and European nations The Zimmerman Telegraph Political cartoons Lusitania Loading Manifest

Perfect for at-home studying or in-class practice, this packet will help your students master content, practice analytical CRQ skills, and review Regents-based multiple choice questions. This packet includes information from: Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution Unit 4: Imperialism Complete with unit summaries broken down by topic with highlighted vocabulary, vocabulary sheets to record important definitions, 2 CRQs and 10 multiple choice Regents questions per unit.

In this lesson, students work in pairs, or small groups of three or four, to learn about the geography of the Central Asian steppe. They are given a list of available resources and climate of the region, and are given guiding questions to help them create a survival plan. After a class discussion, there is a brief video showing modern Mongolian nomads leading their animals on a long and dangerous migration, and an exit slip in which students need to unscramble sentences using their knowledge of

Your students will laugh and learn while completing these activities on the Treaty of Versailles, the Fourteen Points, and Sykes Picot Agreement with interpretive emojis and political cartoon analysis! Activity #1 comes with Emoji examples for students to re-create on their papers (two sets per sheet for easy copying and cutting) Activity #2 asks students to examine and analyze WW1 era and modern political cartoons about the treaties that ended the Great War, and cut and glue them to the corres

Perfect for at-home studying or in-class practice, this packet will help your students master content, practice analytical CRQ skills, and review Regents-based multiple choice questions. This packet includes information about: - World War 1 - The Russian Revolution - Years Between the Wars (rise of dictatorships in the 1930s) - World War 2 Complete with unit summaries broken down by topic with highlighted vocabulary, vocabulary sheets to record important definitions, 2 CRQs, and a number of mult

This is a project that I am using in my 12th grade government class. The goal of the project is for students to see how democratic principles are used over time, and were shaped by certain historical events to create the government we use today. One of the pages includes an image to give students a rough idea what their final product will look like. The directions include a check list for those students who could use a little more organizational support.

This Google Form accompanies the Crash Course World History video on the Atlantic slave trade. It is multiple choice and multiple answer so there is NO HAND-GRADING NECESSARY. Simply post this form on your Google Classroom or email it to students and collect the results for your grade book.

Help your students learn to corroborate documents with this challenging homework assignment that is easy to grade and great assessment tool. Students will explore the relationship between the groundbreaking ideas of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of the French Revolution. Perfect for NY State teachers to prep for the NEW GLOBAL REGENTS!

Use this menu of options to have your students create differentiated projects that show you their knowledge of the causes of the French Revolution. The journal option includes a Google Slides template with unique paper styles for members of different pre-revolution social classes, and links to any outside sources are embedded in the Google Doc. All that's left for you to do is post and grade. Let your students creativity flow!

This lesson should be done once students have been introduced to the Declaration of Independence and are somewhat familiar with its text. Students will work together in small, heterogenous groups to conduct student-lead inquiry of the Declaration of Independence. They will score each other on their contributions to the discussion, making all students accountable and ensuring 100% participation and engagement.

This constructed response activity helps build and improve students' contextualization, sourcing and comparison skills by comparing the methods used by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Louis XIV to consolidate their power over the nobility of their respective countries. This assignment is ideal as an easy-to-grade homework, or review for exams on the Age of Absolutism.

This project allows students in a class who might be separated by distance to build a sense of class community by decorating a virtual locker. Creating your own teacher locker as an example helps teachers establish report with a class they haven't met in person yet. Step by step instructions are included in the Google Slides presentation, and to increase interaction between students add on a culminating activity in which you have students email each other, introducing themselves and sharing what

As a teacher working remotely, it's important to me that students have an opportunity to both learn and express what they learned in a differentiated and creative way. This interactive notebook uses funny videos, primary sources, and a different activity on every slide to guide students through the French Revolution, from the calling of the Estates General through the fall of Napoleon.

Attach this google assessment complete with video to your Google Classroom, or just email your students the link to the file. Most of the questions are multiple choice, No Hand-Grading Necessary! Two short-answer questions allow you to gauge your students' understanding of the content, but you can edit the document to change the format to multiple choice, or get rid of the questions entirely.