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Social studies graphic organizers on sale
Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement: Gallery Walk
Begin your study of the Civil Rights Movement in a powerful way by having students participate in a gallery walk activity. Using primary sourced drawings and photographs, the gallery walk begins in Africa, and moves through slavery, the Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and carries on to present-day issues. This lesson will vicariously draw your students into the lives, circumstances, and struggle for social justice of the past and today as they engage in the analysis of primary sources. This unique
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8th - 12th
APUSH Period 4 - Complete Unit Bundle -PPTs, Activities, SAQs, Review & More!
This Complete Bundle resource includes over 50 resources (PowerPoints, Document Analysis Handouts, Guided Notes Handouts, Primary Sources & Political Cartoons, Graphic Organizers, SAQ Prompts and more!) for helping to guide your students through Period 4 (1800-1848) of AP United States History. This Period 4 Unit Bundle is great for helping your students master the content and essential skills in APUSH! This Unit Bundle is an excellent supplemental resource that aligns with the leading APUS
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8th - 12th
Types of Government Wanted Posters: A fun way to learn about political systems
This lesson is a fun way to teach your students about different political systems around the world throughout history and in modern times. Students can work independently or in small groups to research four different kinds of political leadership: dictatorship, monarchy, theocracy, and democracy.They need to complete independent research to find information about the following topics:Rise to power: How does this type of leader get chosen (are there fair elections, do they take power by force, or
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4th - 9th
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APUSH Period 8 & 9 Unit - Cold War, Civil Rights, 1960s to 2000s!- AP US History
This Complete Bundle resource includes over 50 resources (PowerPoints, Guided Notes Handouts, Document Analysis Handouts, Primary Sources & Political Cartoons, Graphic Organizers, SAQ activities and more!) for helping to guide your students through Period 8 (1945-1980) & Period 9 (1980-2000s) of AP US History. There is also a Pacing Guide & Calendar included for using each of these resources, as well!(Answer Keys Included!)This Period 8 Unit Bundle is great for helping your students
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9th - 12th
APUSH Full Year Bundle- PPTs, Primary Sources, Activities, SAQs, Review & more!
This APUSH Full Year Bundle resource includes over 260 resources & activities (PowerPoints, Document Analysis Handouts, Primary Sources, Graphic Organizers, and more) for helping to guide your students through Periods 1-9 (1491-2000s) of AP United States History. (Answer Keys Included!)This Complete Bundle resource is great for helping your students master the content and essential skills in APUSH! This APUSH Bundle is an excellent supplemental resource that aligns with the leading APUSH tex
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9th - 12th
If I Go Missing MMIWG2S Inquiry Project - Lessons for Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for Elementary and High School StudentsThrough the examination of videos, articles, and the picture book, If I Go Missing, written by Brianna Jonnie, students will investigate, construct and express their findings on inquiries stemming from the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, MMIWG2S. Experience with Inquiry projects is not necessary for this unit! Included in this inquiry unit are step-by-step lesson instruction
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5th - 10th
Major Events and Battles of the Civil War Powerpoint
Major Events and Battles of the Civil War This 11-slide PowerPoint presentation contains simple and student friendly fast facts about each battle and/or quotes (from Lincoln's major speeches) for each of the following major events and battles of the Civil War: ★Fort Sumter-1 Slide★First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)-1 Slide★The Battle of Hampton Roads-1 Slide★The Battle of Antietam-1 Slide★The Emancipation Proclamation-2 Slides★The Battle of Gettysburg-1 Slide★The Gettysburg Address-1 Slide★The
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4th - 7th
APUSH Period 5 Complete Unit - Road to Civil War, The Civil War & Reconstruction
This APUSH Period 5 Complete Bundle (1844-1877) includes 35 resources for helping to guide your students through the Key Topics & Key Concepts covering the Road to the Civil War, the Civil War, & Reconstruction. This Period 5 Unit Bundle is great for helping your students master the content & essential skills in APUSH! This Unit Bundle is an excellent resource that aligns with the leading APUSH textbooks, including AMSCO. The Period 5 Unit Bundle includes:5 PowerPoints & Guided N
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8th - 12th
Country Research Project Central America and The Caribbean
Our engaging Country Research Project Central America and the Caribbean is perfect for a country study in the classroom. This resource includes comprehensive graphic organizers to help students structure their findings effectively. Perfect for fostering critical thinking and in-depth exploration of these vibrant regions.This project greatly facilitates differentiated instruction in the classroom by offering flexibility in assignment options. Teachers can choose to have students complete all four
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3rd - 9th
Also included in:Â Countries of the World Research Projects BUNDLE
APUSH Period 3 - Complete Unit Bundle- PPTs, Activities, SAQs, Review & More!
This Complete Bundle resource includes over 40 resources (PowerPoints, Guided Notes Handouts, Document Analysis Handouts, SAQs, Primary Sources & Political Cartoons, Graphic Organizers, and more) for helping to guide your students through Period 3 (1754-1800) of AP United States History. (Answer Keys Included!)This Period 3 Unit Bundle is great for helping your students master the content and essential skills in APUSH! This Unit Bundle is an excellent supplemental resource that aligns with t
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8th - 12th
Road to the American Revolution
This resource goes beyond having students simply take notes and restate the different causes leading to the American Revolutionary War. A unique lesson designed to have students participate in the learning process by continually drawing inferences and predictions of how each causal factor worked to increase the tensions between the colonies and Britain. An engaging 60 Slide Presentation will encourage students to delve deeper into their analysis. Two choices of hands-on summative activities; 1)
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8th - 12th
The Ku Klux Klan: Comparing the Past To Today
This highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentation will have students examine; the underlying roots from which the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came to exist in America, the organization's primary tactics of using intimidation & fear in fighting against social equality, and why many poor whites were recruited to join the KKK organization. Students will delve deeper by comparing the circumstances and social conditions of two former KKK leaders (one who lived during the era of Jim Crow,
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Bundle- Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan & Jim Crow
1 WHOLE YEAR of American History: Colonies to Reconstruction
Important: Please see the preview for an inventory of all products within the bundle, as well as which unit they belong to. With 100+ products within this bundle, this is the best way to keep organized!This bundle features a whole year's worth of PPT slideshows, notes packets, graphic organizers, maps, assignments, primary sources, activities, tests, etc. combined into an entire year-long package (in preparation for end-of-year testing). These include:Beginning of the Year U.S. Geography Project
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7th - 10th
The Road To Independence (Stamp Act, Sugar Act, & Townshend Act)
This handout provides students with an opportunity to review (or be assessed) on the essential events that lead to colonies independence from British rule. It specifically addresses the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and Townshend Act.
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4th - 7th
Bundle of FLIPBOOKS : Aztecs, Mayans, Inca Empires
BUNDLE OF 3 Ancient Civilizations Flipbooks1. Mayans2. Aztecs3. Incan Empire* Use for review, research, or as a supplement to your lesson * great for learning new vocabulary, the different aspects of civilization, or cultural facts * Editable file for you to adapt to your lessons What's Included in Each Flipbook Set: 1. Flipbook 1 - vocabulary 2. Flippbook 2 - Overview (technology, agriculture, food and culture, society, religion, geography) 3. Flipbook 3 - Blank with pictures 4. Flipbook 4 - B
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1st - 6th
I AM NOT A NUMBER & As Long as the Rivers Flow - Residential School BUNDLE
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning for Elementary and Middle School StudentsThis response unit supports in class learning as well as DISTANCE LEARNING forI AM NOT A NUMBER with Google Classroom and Microsoft TEAMS.It works well with EPIC! an amazing online book website carrying this title, I AM NOT A NUMBER, as well as many other contemporary Indigenous titles.This bundle is a combination of two individual novel units, As The Rivers Flow, written by Larry Loyie, with Constanc
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4th - 10th
On the Trapline Lessons - Indigenous Resource - Inclusive Learning
Supporting Indigenous Resources for Inclusive Learning in Elementary SchoolsTEN different comprehension activities support the story, On the Trapline, written by David A. Robertson and illustrated by Julie Flett.Reading Response activities include:Summary, Meaning, Connection, Question, Visualization, Sequential and Sensory Writing, and Swampy Cree Word Focus and Extension CrosswordThis unit is developed to support a single read aloud copy. There is zero prep needed (other than photocopying.)***
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1st - 7th
Also included in:Â Julie Flett Lesson BUNDLE - Inclusive Learning for Primary Students
Blank Timeline/ Time Line Template - 10 Events
This learning resource supports elementary and high school students sequence information - Integrating information and visual graphics. This blank, ten event timeline can be easily used in history, social studies, and language arts lessons and units. There are three timelines included: lined, interlined and blankAnytime sequencing is involved such as, "How To's" to important events, having the right graphic makes it easier for the designers to use and the reads to read.
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Not Grade Specific
History of Christianity: The Great Schism of 1054 Common Core/Close Read
Here is a great interactive common core lesson plan complete with all materials. The Lesson starts with a mini-dbq/scaffolding question worksheet. This worksheet is about how Christianity got to Rome through St. Peter. It leads into the Powerpoint presentation with intro notes to St. Peters basilica with many pictures and also goes into detail about the reasons for the SCHISM. The activity is great for corporative learning and/or a close read.There is a great graphic organizer that goes with the
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8th - 10th
Global/World History Resources Guides and Activities Starter Bundle
The Global/World History Resources Guides and Activities Starter Bundle is designed to incorporate all of the resources and activities necessary for students to acquire the skills and content for the New York State Global History & Geography II Regents Exam. This resource contains; Strategies & Skills Student Packet / Student Study Guide with Scavenger Hunt / Geography Workbook / Individual Turning Point Guides with Must Know Events, Concepts, People, and Vocabulary / Constructive Respo
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9th - 12th
Country Research Project North America
Our engaging Country Research Project North America is perfect for a country study in the classroom. This resource includes comprehensive graphic organizers to help students structure their findings effectively. Perfect for fostering critical thinking and in-depth exploration of this vibrant region.This project greatly facilitates differentiated instruction in the classroom by offering flexibility in assignment options. Teachers can choose to have students complete all four graphic organizers or
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3rd - 9th
Also included in:Â Countries of the World Research Projects BUNDLE
Colonial America: The 13 Colonies Interactive Notebook Mapping Activity Bundle
This bundle contains mapping activities for the Mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southern Colonies that students can:Glue into their interactive notebooks (the map themselves are a 1/2 page--printed two to a page to conserve paper), use as an independent activity, or as homework. It contains a separate page that has map instructions for the Mid-Atlantic Colonies that asks students to: Label the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Use the map legend to draw the economic
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4th - 7th
APUSH Period 6 Complete Unit BUNDLE- The West, The Gilded Age & Imperialism
This Complete Unit Bundle includes over 40 resources (PowerPoints, Document Analysis Handouts, Primary Sources & Political Cartoons, Graphic Organizers, SAQs, Trivia Review Game & more!) for helping to guide your students through Period 6 of AP US History (1865-1898). There is also a Pacing Guide & Calendar included for using each of these resources, as well!(Answer Keys Included!)This Period 6 Unit Bundle is great for helping your students master the content and essential skills in
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8th - 12th
Blank Timeline / Time Line Template - 6 Events
This learning resource supports elementary and high school students sequence information - Integrating information and visual graphics. This blank, four event timeline can be easily used in history, social studies, and language arts lessons and units. There are three timelines included: lined, interlined and blankAnytime sequencing is involved such as, "How To's" to important events, having the right graphic makes it easier for the designers to use and the reads to read.
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Not Grade Specific
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- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
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