Vanlightenment

While it might not be the prettiest thumbnail, this resource is a quick and comprehensive way to review U.S. History with your students! It's designed to align with the Georgia Standards of Excellence and prep students for the Georgia Milestones Assessment (GMAs), but it can be used for any U.S. History class to review by topic or for end-of-year exams. What You'll Get:Over 200 Fill-in-the-Blank questions covering the most significant eras, events, and figures of U.S. History.A Word Bank for eac

This digital download (.docx) is a timeline in the form of a chart that covers important events throughout U.S. History and can be used to prepare students for end-of-course examinations, final exams, or other testing. It includes date/year, the name of the event, and a definition/description of the event. There are over 130 events included in this product! It provides a great supplement to any review you're already doing and can be used with both high school and college classes. It would also b

It's time to bring the American Revolution to life with everyone's bestie, Hamilton! If you're ready to turn your classroom into a Broadway-meets-History mashup, Revolutionary History through Hamilton allows students to analyze key moments of the American Revolution using songs from the hit musical. Instead of another boring lecture on battles and alliances (we think it's fascinating, but they're already drooling in their sleep), your students will be rapping about Lafayette, laughing and King

Students will learn about the French & Indian War through three sources: Benjamin Franklin's Join or Die CartoonAn excerpt from a letter written by George Washington to his mother after the Battle of MonongahelaA comparison of a pre-war and post-war mapEach source includes 3 questions to help guide students as they analyze the sources and their meanings.

Worksheet activity for your students to help them understand the connections between the Enlightenment and the Declaration of Independence. Includes brief reading about Enlightenment thinkers and what they believed.Students will be given four Enlightenment ideas that Thomas Jefferson integrated into the Declaration of Independence and asked to read the Preamble and determine which passages reflect those ideas. Can be used in either a U.S. History or American Government course.

The ultimate student choice project that they might accidentally enjoy!If you can't stand the thought of reading another "5-paragraph essay about the causes of the Civil War" and your students can't stand the thought of writing one, look no further, because the Playlist Choice Board Project is here to save your sanity and give your students some creative freedom without sacrificing content. In this project, students build their own custom "Playlist" of tasks using a choice board of 36 different

My students recently completed a unit on Cultural Geography. I decided to give them control of their learning, so each day we had a mini-lesson on an element that we needed to cover, like religion or customs. Once we learned the big picture, they got to take charge and research that element relating to a culture of their choice. Once they finished researching, they constructed an exhibit for an International Festival that we held for all my classes. It was done gallery-walk style and students go