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!

This printable PDF has everything you need for a cute and simple Harry Potter inspired Bulletin Board- or you can do what I plan to do and use it as decoration for the outside of your classroom door! It centers around this great quote: "Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now- students. If they can do it, why not us?" I love this quote because is uses the Harry Potter theme to motivate students and help them see how capable they are of greatness! Your downlo

Looking for a comprehensive, engaging, and easy-to-use resource to help students master U.S. History? This Fill-in-the-Blank Study Guide covers Standards 1-10 for Georgia’s U.S. History curriculum, making it the perfect tool for reinforcement, review, and test prep! Why You'll Love This Resource:✅ Covers key historical events, people, and concepts in an interactive format ✅ Encourages active engagement and reinforces understanding through fill-in-the-blank practice ✅ Perfect for classwork, homew

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

Download these posters for Black History Month, or download them for year 'round use, because Black History IS American History, and we shouldn't forget that until February of each year! Includes 12 posters, 11 with quotes from influential black figures throughout history.

Use this fun "Legends of the Hidden Temple" inspired Scavenger Hunt to teach your students about the Olmec Civilization! What You'll Get:Slides to show students that explains the activity.A copy of Scavenger Hunt Questions with an answer key - these can be found in the "INSTRUCTIONS" google doc in the file. I know sometimes I skip over instructions and someone reviewed this product saying the questions weren't there. Not her fault at all and I want to make sure anyone purchasing doesn't feel li

In this activity, students will engage in a CSI-style investigation to determine who was at fault for the Boston Massacre: the British troops or the Colonists! The resource you'll get is 17 pages and includes an introductory page, basic summary of what occurred at the start of the Boston Massacre, 6 primary source excerpts from people present at the event along with 6 pictures to go along with them as "evidence markers", Paul Revere's "The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street" engraving, a

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.

This cute shirt design is what I'm going to be wearing for this year's open house before school starts, you should too! Or maybe wear it for the first day. Either way, it'll be a magical start to the school year! This design should work whether you decide to print it onto a t-shirt transfer or use a cricut. You'll get access to my google drive folder containing: A printable .pdf file with the t-shirt design. It says, "I solemnly swear it's going to be a magical year!"A link to my Canva template

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

This can be used in several ways. You can use it to supplement your own lesson as a stations activity or simply use it as your lesson! It includes information about Bacon's Rebellion, a timeline, the consequences of the rebellion long-term, and some secondary analysis at the end. It's got everything you need to effectively teach the how and why of Bacon's Rebellion, as well as the direct connection to our world today! What exactly is included?A summary of Bacon's RebellionDescriptions of the ke

This stations activity will definitely be a hit in your classroom! Why? I've got one word for you: Zombies. You'll love it because it includes a timeline that can be used as a mini-lesson and several stations for your students to investigate some of the theories that surround what happened to the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke. They'll love it because these actual theories involve alien abductions and zombies! My intention when creating this resource was to provide a short opener to the Ame

If you're teaching AP World History and you're using PIECES to help your students understand the major themes they'll see throughout the course, this Harry Potter themed version is super cute! This printable includes each of the 6 themes, their descriptions and abbreviations, as well as illustrations and terms to help students understand what the themes entail, all in Hogwarts House colors!

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