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Higher education social studies resources for Microsoft OneDrive
Sociology Digital Activities in Google Slides
Let’s Get Digital with Sociology! There are so many tricks for making print resources work digitally, but doesn’t it make your life easier when digital activities are already ready-to-go? This bundle takes the most popular activities from my sociology course curriculum and makes them Google Slides Ready. Make the most of the no-print world with these engaging digital resources that aren’t just the print resource on Google Slides–there’s color, hyper-linking, drag-and-drop, and more! I’m still ad
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Get Gerrymandered!: A Digital Map Activity
My husband (an AP Government and AP US History teacher) and I created this resource as a civic competency lesson and activity. In the United States, we, more often than not, have artificially noncompetitive elections due to gerrymandering. The intent of this resource is to teach your students about the effects of gerrymandering on elections and how to analyze their congressional district. Students will search congressional district maps to identify gerrymandered United States House Districts. T
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Sociology Activities For Culture Google and OneDrive Distance Learning
These digital culture of sociology interactive activities will introduce the concepts of culture, culture shock, the culture of beauty and food, and so much more! You will get an explanatory PDF with a link to the documents and time away from the copy machine. *You Get*Ideas for ImplementationSociology of Culture NotesCulture Shock Digital Collage and ActivityCulture of Food ActivityBeauty WebquestABCs of Culture Notes and Mini-projectAnswer Key⭐This Resource is Also In Included in These $$$ Sav
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Allende & Pinochet WebQuest (Machuca) - Distance Learning
Are you teaching about the Chilean political leaders Allende and Pinochet? Do you want to supplement the movie Machuca? This web quest begins with students looking up definitions of the following vocabulary words: Marxism, proletariat, bourgeois, & coup d'état. Then it includes 20 total questions about Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet. Highly engaging and high interest for high school students! Students Will Research:✨Definitions Related to Marxism✨Salvador Allende✨Augusto Pinochet Wha
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
W. B. Yeats in Ireland: Poetry meets Podcast
Use this fun, real-world driven lesson to enhance your unit on William Butler Yeats or as an engaging Saint Patrick's Day activity! This lesson uses a wonderful Rick Steves podcast (link included) to facilitate a creative English and geography study of Yeats' poetry. This lesson is designed to be compatible as a regular print activity, or if you are 1 to 1, it can be used as an interactive e-activity complete with multimedia, movable pieces, fillable text boxes, and highlighting functions. This
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Digital Film Study: Remember the Titans
Let's get digital, digital!Who doesn't love a class movie day?! Not only is Disney's Remember the Titans an excellent, captivating film, it also acts as the perfect discussion opener for endless themes in both English and History class, like racism, diversity, acceptance, conformity, American history and more. Use this film study to open the discussion and provide students with a visual experience to see themes that will appear more symbolically in literature/history. As videos are excellent mul
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Sociology Socialization Activities for Google and OneDrive Distance Learning
These digital socialization activities will encourage students to consider the idea of nature vs. nurture, how names impact a child’s future, and the impact of stereotypes in children’s books on socialization. You will get an explanatory PDF with a link to the documents and time away from the copy machine. This is also a part of my $$$ saving Sociology GROWING Bundle for Google and OneDrive.*You Get*Ideas for ImplementationNature vs. Nurture Activity (Link to a short film clip about Genie and qu
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Sociology Social Organization for Google and OneDrive Distance Learning
These digital sociology social organization activities will enable students to understand the sociological concepts of social organization, including types of societies, leadership types and styles, social networks, group and collective behavior, theories of collective behavior (contagion, convergence, and emergent norm), and cults and the risky shift. You will get an explanatory PDF with a link to the documents and time away from the copy machine. *You Get*Lenski’s 5 Types of Societies Activity
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Growing old - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson in Power point
This is a wonderful discussion topic. Old age is something we try to ignore and yet we obsess about it constantly. The great thing is, so much research has been done in the past few years about growing old in our times.. and most of it is really good news!This presentation contains a 37 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format with 2 work papers that accompany the lesson. Lead your students through the fears and hopes for our future old selves: - How has ‘old age’ changed over time- Id
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Sociology Research Activities for Google and OneDrive
These digital sociology research activities will enable students to understand the concepts of designing and conducting research. You will get an explanatory PDF with a link to the documents and time away from the copy machine. *You Get*Vocabulary Sorting ActivitySociological Research Reading GuideFormulating a Hypothesis and Population and Variables ActivityDesigning and Conducting a Study Digital FlipbookFamous Sociological Studies ActivitySociological Research Project and RubricAnswer Keys⭐Th
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Jealousy or Envy? – ESL adult conversation lesson in Google slides format
This is a 25 slide PowerPoint ESL adult conversation lesson in editable PPT format with an activity, worksheet, and teacher’s notes.Jealousy is a strong emotion and we mostly get it wrong. These are actually two emotions that get entangled in our speech. Even confident English speakers get ‘envious’ and’ ‘jealous’ confused. Are you jealous of your friends’ new relationship or are you envious? The best part of this lesson is the wonderful poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, which we dissect.I loved
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Millennials – quiz – part two ESL adult and kid, no-prep lesson in Google slides
This presentation is a 31 slide quiz lesson in Google slides format with a worksheet and teacher’s notes. This power-point quiz in the form of a multiple-choice question guessing game.The worksheet is a word document (containing the same questions) for the students.*This is the second part of a two-hour lesson. They can be taught consecutively, or they can be given as two separate lessons.In this two-hour lesson: - This first lesson is the conversation/ debate about the Millennial generation.- T
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Passive aggressive – ESL adult conversation and debate in Google slides format
Passive-aggressive can easily be the symbol of our society today. Clinicians characterized the symptoms as Deliberate inefficiency, avoidance of responsibility and a refusal to state needs or concerns directly (tell me you that doesn’t define 90% of your students…). The reason this behavior (psychologists differ on whether it qualifies as a personality disorder) is so common these days has a lot to do with the head-spinning speed of advances in technological development, constant change of socia
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
American monuments and landmarks – part one, ESL adult and kid, no-prep quiz
This presentation is a 47 slide conversation lesson in Google slides format with worksheets and teacher’s notes. This power-point quiz in the form of a multiple-choice question guessing game.The worksheet is a word document (containing the same questions) for the students.*This is the first part of a two-hour lesson. They can be taught consecutively, or they can be given as two separate lessons.In this lesson: Many of my adult ESL students have never been to the United States, but they are very
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Supreme Court Case Analysis Worksheet
Get your students researching the Supreme Court! The following worksheet provides an analysis of a Supreme Court case of the teacher's or student's choosing. The file downloads as a Word Document so the teacher may edit it as they wish. It is designed to be done on paper or digitally. I generally like to post this assignment and allow my students to type into it as they complete it. Thank you very much and enjoy!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
color psychology - ESL adult and kid conversation in Google slides format
This presentation contains a 40 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format and Teacher notes and two work papers that accompany the lesson. Color psychology is an amazing subject, it took me soooo long to sift through the mountain of fascinating research so that I could present only the most interesting ones (I hope I’ve succeeded).My students loved the game of association and the color game – I hope yours will enjoy them as well.This lesson includes:- What is color and why it doesn’t exi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
creepy - is it all in your head? - ESL adult and kid conversation
This presentation contains a 44 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format with Teacher’s notes that accompany the lesson. “the creeps” is a feeling we usually associate with Halloween, or with watching a horror film. Children use it instinctively in their description of things that they’re unfamiliar with or that bother them. We recognize it immediately when it’s explained to us, yet it difficult to define.“Creepy” has been researched by a professor from oxford university and his team an
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Influencer babies - welcome to my childhood– ESL adult Google slide lesson
This presentation contains a 31 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with teacher’s notes.Children influencers have become a strong force in on-line marketing. Being the first generation of this phenomenon, we don’t yet know the consequence of this lifestyle, but we can certainly debate it using data that already exists from YouTubers, child actors etc.According to new British research, 1 of 5 of 11-16-year-old British children (17 %) wants to be a social media influencer when they gro
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Manifest Destiny Opposing Viewpoints Activity
Students will actively engage in multiple viewpoints regarding Manifest Destiny and the expansion of America! As they view multiple excerpts of primary sources, students will analyze both sides of the Manifest Destiny argument, including textual and visual evidence. The file is in Microsoft Word format to allow for editing as well as for students to complete online if chosen to! Thank you and enjoy!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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PRE-READING ACTIVITY FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE | BANALITY OF EVIL
PRE-READING ACTIVITY FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE | BANALITY OF EVILHANNAH ARENDT | CLOSE READINGLEAP INTO LITERATURETHE HOLOCAUST leapjump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force.LEAP INTO LITERATURE with thoughtful questions alongside quotations from philosophers, writers, and historians. These quotations are presented with beautiful images to help convey the message within the quotation. This product was created to use in my own classes. It may be used in a number of ways, f
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Conflict - an ESL adult conversation lesson in google slides format
Dealing well with conflict is an extremely important skill to have and it should be taught early on. This unit is divided into two PowerPoint lessons (with worksheets) - The first lesson addresses conflict resolution and the second discusses “the freedom from conflict”.This is A Distance learning lesson*This lesson also exists in a power point format The first lesson:♚ The difference between a conflict and a disagreement♚ Reasons for conflicts♚ Why are we so afraid of conflicts?♚ Types of confli
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Sociology Social Reality For Google and OneDrive Distance Learning
This resource is on sale ONLY 7/28 as part of a special promotion. Find more deals for grades K-12 and information about giveaways here!snorkelingforsavingsThese digital social reality interactive activities for sociology will help your students understand a difficult concept. Students will watch and respond to a brief film clip, perform a digital or paper card sort, and respond in writing to the concept of the social construction of reality. You will get an explanatory PDF with a link to the do
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Home - an ESL adult conversation lesson in Google slides format
This is a two-hour ESL adult conversation lesson. The unit is divided into two google slides lessons (with an activity worksheet).In these strange times, with smart working and lockdowns, we let strangers into our houses daily through the computer screen, using zoom and facetime. It’s interesting to see what parts of our homes we choose to show others, and what do other people conclude about us based on these choices.In the first part – we discuss the way our houses reflect our cultures and how
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Growing old - ESL adult and kid conversation lesson in Google slides format
This is a wonderful discussion topic. Old age is something we try to ignore and yet we obsess about it constantly. The great thing is, so much research has been done in the past few years about growing old in our times.. and most of it is really good news!This presentation contains a 37 slide PowerPoint lesson in an editable PPT format with 2 work papers that accompany the lesson. Lead your students through the fears and hopes for our future old selves: - How has ‘old age’ changed over time- Id
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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