Vanlightenment

If you have a Harry Potter themed classroom- or even just really like Harry Potter- display your classroom expectations with these Educational Decrees! There are several pre-made decrees, along with a template you can use to make your own. If you download and enjoy, please make sure to leave a review!

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

This activity is great for getting your students ready to cover material, engaging them in the subject, and encouraging them to empathize with history! It is designed to do two things at the start of your US History class: Help students practice classroom and group expectations and allow for them to use inductive learning as you introduce them to the colonization of the Americas. It's excellent for classes whose standards begin with Colonial America but do not explicitly cover exploration and i

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.

This product includes 17 content-driven slides in a .PDF format with an 18th slide that includes a link to an editable Canva template of the slideshow. The template can also be downloaded to .PPT or Google Slides format but sometimes may not retain fonts or formatting used in the Canva version. It covers the information required for the Georgia Milestones Assessment relating to: SSUSH11 Describe the economic, social, and geographic impact of big business and technological innovations after Recon

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.

You can use this Pocahontas themed activity in a few different ways - stations, a collaborative effort as you move through slides, etc. but the long and short of what you'll get is something that will help students forge a connection between history and today using a popular film. It's designed to engage students and make them question not only what they think they know about the Pocahontas story, but also the way they obtain the information that they believe. Most if not all of your students

Intended as an activity for Halloween - or just to introduce your students to the Age of Exploration and subsequent colonization - your product includes the link to a Canva slideshow that allows you or your students to click through 6 rooms in a Haunted House, each of which including a short synopsis of how a European country colonized as well as three clickable links hidden within the slide that lead to pages giving a brief account of how the image relates to one of the horrors of colonization!

Intended as an activity for Halloween (or just any time you're in the market for a ghost story!), this is a short story written to give students insight into the Oregon Trail. Your download will include a file with the story as well as a link to a Canva slideshow with slides for each section of the story (broken down for students that may need the story scaffolded) + speaker notes to tell the story if you are projecting the slides for your students. The story is intended for middle/high school a

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

This Historical Account Icebreaker is a great resource that will do two things at once: Introduce your history students to important terminology they'll need to know in class including the thesis statement, key terms, historical figures, primary sources, secondary sources, and timelines.Give your students a way that isn't a "fun fact" to introduce themselves to you and the rest of the class.The activity is low-pressure because they'll work on it by themselves and prepare before they share their

This product includes 13 content-driven slides in a .PDF format with an additional slide that includes a link to an editable Canva template of the slideshow. The template can also be downloaded to .PPT or Google Slides format but sometimes may not retain fonts or formatting used in the Canva version. It covers the information required for the Georgia Milestones Assessment relating to: SSUSH15 Analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I. These slides can be used when initial

This template can help keep your students organized while taking effective notes! Each Cornell Notes Organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about using up all your color ink. :) If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with upda

This template can help keep your students organized while giving them the responsibility and ownership of keeping a record of their own learning! Bellringers and Exit Tickets are side-by-side so that students (and teachers) can see where they started and where they ended in the lesson. Each organizer has text boxes that can be edited by the student when they save the file to their devices, or you can choose to print them! They look good printed in color or in greyscale, so don't worry about usin

Use this template all week to display your Standards-Based Agenda! The PowerPoint includes the following: Cover A Slide for your Unit StandardsA Slide for Weekly RemindersSlide with Clickable Links for Each Day5 Days with Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Lesson, Assignment, and ClosingChecklist SlideMy district requires that we post our Standard, Learning Target, Success Criteria, Bellringer, Mini-Lesson, Work Session, and Closing on Canvas each day. This template allows you not on

This is a great template for your opening slide! You can get your students ready for each day and all you need to do is click the text box for each element. If you don't like the colors I used (huge Harry Potter fan, here), feel free to send me a message with your preferred colors and I'll make a new listing with updated colors for you! I would love to create something for you that others might love!

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

This product includes 11 content-driven slides in a .PDF format with a 6th slide that includes a link to an editable Canva template of the slideshow. The template can also be downloaded to .PPT or Google Slides format but sometimes may not retain fonts or formatting used in the Canva version. It covers the information required for the Georgia Milestones Assessment relating to: SSUSH12 Evaluate how westward expansion impacted the Plains Indians and fulfilled Manifest Destiny. These slides can be