Laura Pennington
Laura Pennington is a former middle school Social Studies teacher turned freelance writer with a bachelor's in economics and a master's degree in political science. She is currently ABD with her PhD in public policy. Laura's lesson plans focus on engaging, thought-provoking activities for students in middle and high school Social Studies, many of which are DBQ or critical thinking-based. Most of her hour-long lessons are grab and go, making them appropriate for the teacher in a hurry or for substitute lesson plans. Laura's lesson plans are for teachers of World & U.S. history, geography, and government/civics. She started making her lesson plans available for sale after receiving numerous remarks from her school administration about the quality of her materials.
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Spread of the Renaissance
$3.00This is an approximate 75 minute lesson plan to help students learn about how the Renaissance spread and the impact it had on Europe. This lesson plan discusses the effects of the French, German, and English Renaissance and how they similar and...$3.00 -
Daily Life in the Renaissance
$3.00This is an approximate 60-80 minute lesson plan to help students learn about daily life during the Renaissance period. The purpose of this lesson is for students to have students connect their lives with the lives of people during this time period. This...$3.00 -
Landforms Activities
$3.00This 60 minute lesson plan includes a customized reading, glossary, and crossword puzzle to help middle school students learn more about land forms. This lesson will provide teachers with a warm-up activity, guided practice activity, lesson extension,...$3.00 -
Early American Identities: Colonial Women and Children
$3.00This 60 minute middle school lesson plan helps students learn about the lives of colonial women and children in America via a customized reading activity and video viewing. This lesson provides teachers with a warm-up activity, individual/guided practice...$3.00 -
Causes and Effects of Urbanization
$3.00In this lesson, you will receive a DBQ packet, an exit ticket, a powerpoint presentation, and a lesson plan designed to reach high school students of US history. At least 60 minutes of activities included here, but the DBQ section could easily be...$3.00 -
Ancient Egypt
$3.00This 45-60 minute lesson plan is appropriate for teachers or to use as emergency sub plans. Brief short readings are included in the packet for students to analyze and complete a final activity about Ancient Egypt. Everything is included for this lesson...$3.00 -
Industrialization and the Assembly Line Simulation
$3.00This 60 minute lesson plan helps students accomplish the following: • Describe the specialization of labor in assembly line production • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the assembly line for factory workers, factory owners, and...$3.00 -
Video Lesson Paleolithic Vs. Neolithic
$3.00Perfect Grab and Go Lesson! We can all agree that providing students visual content enhances instruction…Especially this generation of students. One of the easiest ways to do this is show your students a video. The only problem is there is just so...$3.00 -
Video Lesson: Mesopotamia Development of the Written Language
$3.00Perfect Grab and Go Lesson! We can all agree that providing students visual content enhances instruction…Especially this generation of students. One of the easiest ways to do this is show your students a video. The only problem is there is just so...$3.00 -
Video Lesson: The Five Themes of Geography
$3.00Perfect Grab and Go Lesson! We can all agree that providing students visual content enhances instruction…Especially this generation of students. One of the easiest ways to do this is show your students a video. The only problem is there is just so...$3.00 -
Video Lesson: Greek Gods and Goddesses
$3.00Perfect Grab and Go Lesson! We can all agree that providing students visual content enhances instruction…Especially this generation of students. One of the easiest ways to do this is show your students a video. The only problem is there is just so...$3.00 -
Video Lesson: Confucianism
$3.00Perfect Grab and Go Lesson! We can all agree that providing students visual content enhances instruction…Especially this generation of students. One of the easiest ways to do this is show your students a video. The only problem is there is just so...$3.00