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Need a ready-to-go activity for Valentine's Day for something all kids love? Food! This Blind Date with a Dish activity is perfect for making Valentine cards your students will love to make. This activity gives your students a chance to do some Valentine's Day coloring or craft, or could even be your emergency sub plans! Students create fun and mysterious descriptions of their favorite dishes while decorating personalized cards using 15 included templates (5 are Valentine's Day-themed!). It’s e

Don’t miss out on the perfect way to challenge your students’ minds: logic puzzles! These 20 logic puzzles are perfect for building critical thinking skills while keeping students entertained and engaged! Each logic grid puzzle is designed to spark logical reasoning, critical thinking, deduction skills, making them ideal for Fun Friday activities or as part of your emergency sub plans. Whether you're looking for brain-boosting activities for early finishers or something to energize your class,

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? Here are eight more logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, farms, and meals. Provide

Are you looking for a powerful way to teach immigration as a current event while enhancing students' critical thinking skills? This immigration lesson is the perfect resource for your classroom. Focusing on using evidence to make claims, this lesson encourages students to explore historical and current immigration trends through data analysis. They’ll learn how to craft strong arguments backed by facts, a crucial skill in both ELA and social studies courses. With structured activities, ready-mad

Looking for an interactive way to teach your students about US citizenship? This citizenship lesson is designed to help students understand both the legal and moral definitions of citizenship (i.e. What is a citizen? and What is a good citizen?) as well as the rights and responsibilities of both citizens and non-citizens. In this lesson, students will explore how citizenship is acquired through birth or naturalization and will engage in a document-based question (DBQ) activity analyzing persp

Looking for a comprehensive exploration of the connections between culture and food, with informative examples from around the world and throughout history? You'll have a expert way to get students to answer "What is a food culture?" This bundle introduces students to food cultures in an interactive lesson in which they will read the perspectives of 12 people from around the world. In the process of evaluating the perspectives, students will work together to develop a definition of food cultu

Students in FACS and history classes rarely get to see that the food they eat has a political history. This lesson puts primary sources from journalists, legislators, and advertisers in front of them and asks them to work out for themselves why food safety became a public concern in the early 20th century. It's built around a guiding question that has a real answer students can construct from evidence, not just describe. The Value in Your Classroom: Engagement: Students enjoy the peek into the p

Looking for a way to engage your students about food and culture? Check out how food cultures have changed over time! This complete lesson has everything you need to teach about food cultures through time, from when students first walk in to the end of the class. In the core of this lesson, students will work in small groups to research a dish that represents one of four eras in the history of food and culture. They will create an entry for a cookbook with their knowledge, helping to assemble

Need extension activities that will engage your students across multiple dimensions of thinking? These seven activities will engage your students' creativity, logical reasoning, computation skills, and artistic abilities! You will have access to several activities that will utilize different modes of thinking and interests, so all your students will have something to engage with. Some activities are great for individual work and some work well for groups. These are perfect for your emergency s

Need an activity fast that helps students practice their critical thinking? These eight logic grid puzzles will engage your students' brains, logical reasoning, critical thinking, and deduction skills! Students will use clues provided and logic to complete each puzzle and solve the problem presented in each puzzle. These are perfect for your emergency sub plans or when you need extension activities for early finishers.All eight puzzles are themed around food, restaurants, chefs, and the field

Looking for a way to engage your students in ethical eating conversations while connecting classroom learning to real-world debates? This lesson about vegetarianism and ethical eating is exactly what you need! They will get background information about the debate around vegetarianism, research and summarize one perspective on the debate, inform a small group about the arguments they learned about, and then discuss freely with their small group about ethical eating, using information they learne

Need an engaging way to get students up on their feet and moving? This slideshow provides students with 25 questions, each with four options for students to pick by getting up and moving to a corner of the room to vote for their favorite answer! This slideshow can be added to any classroom, because the questions apply to all students! Download and use in your classroom tomorrow, for a brain break or as a bell ringer to engage your students from the moment they walk in. Questions include:What i

In this engaging and relevant discussion that brings real-world conversations into a FACS or social studies classroom, students will learn about and discuss replacing grass lawns with edible landscapes. They will get background information about the debate, research and summarize one perspective on the debate, inform a small group about the arguments they learned about, and then discuss freely with their small group about the topic, using information they learned during their research. This is

Looking for a clear way to explain early river valley civilizations and the effects of the Neolithic Revolution? This lesson includes a slide deck about the effects of Neolithic Revolution and the importance of creating settlements in river valleys, guided notes (with an answer key!), key vocabulary defined, and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the effects of Neolithic Revolution and early river valley civilizations, including exploring the spread of ag

Looking for a clear way to introduce the Neolithic Revolution and the beginning of human agriculture? This lesson includes a slide deck about the Neolithic Revolution, guided notes (with answer key!), key vocabulary defined, and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the Neolithic Revolution, including comparing life during the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, the origins of agriculture, the differences between agriculture and hunting-gathering, and the conseq

Looking for a way to add some excitement to your lesson about the Interstate Commerce Clause? Or your lesson on the national government's regulatory powers? In this engaging lesson with simulation game, students role-play the scenarios described in the Supreme Court's decision that empowered the national government's regulatory power through the Interstate Commerce Clause. Students learn about the Interstate Commerce Clause, prep for their simulation game using an anticipatory activity about sc

Looking for a way to engage your students in abstract political philosophy? The balance between majority rule (or popular sovereignty) and minority rights is a tough concept, but your students will discuss them like political philosophers once they think through them with multiple case studies and a graffiti board activity! They will connect the tension between popular sovereignty and rights of the minority to modern-day examples and develop and share their thoughts throughout the lesson. I tr

A clear way to introduce the unification of Italy and the unification of Germany, including key vocabulary. This lesson includes a slide deck, guided notes (with answer key!), and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the Unifications of Italy and Germany: the influence of the French Revolution, their own wars of unification, the role of leaders, and the formation of unified Germany and unified Italy. In this lesson, students will learn about nationalism, the

A clear way to introduce the Haitian Revolution and its connection to the French Revolution, including key vocabulary. This lesson includes a slide deck, guided notes (with answer key!), and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the Haitian Revolution: its beginning, the war, the role of Toussaint L'Ouverture, and the formation of the Haiti. In this lesson, students will learn the three class system of St. Domingue, the influence of the French Revolution, the

A clear way to introduce the French Revolution and its connection to the Enlightenment, including key vocabulary and a creative activity. This lesson includes a slide deck, guided notes (with answer key!), and a list of 10 possible quiz questions to help reinforce the key concepts of the French Revolution: its beginning, the war, and the formation of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte. In this lesson, students will learn the three estates system, the grievances of the French commoners, t