Social Studies
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Bitmoji Virtual Classroom - Decades (1950-1990s)
$2.50Want to make distance learning more engaging? Try out Bitmoji Virtual Classrooms! Customize these Google Slides classrooms with your own bitmoji, links to materials, and items from your own classroom. Included are five different templates all themed to...$2.50 -
Bitmoji Virtual Classroom - Decades (1900-1940s)
$2.50Want to make distance learning more engaging? Try out Bitmoji Virtual Classrooms! Customize these Google Slides classrooms with your own bitmoji, links to materials, and items from your own classroom. Included are five different templates all themed to...$2.50 -
Cardinal and Intermediate Directions Activity Pack - Distance Learning
$4.50This BUNDLE includes 5 total Google products to teach and review cardinal and intermediate directions. This standard is typically introduced in either 3rd or 4th grade and reviewed in both 5th and 6th grades. Product One: Google Slides Mini -...$4.50 -
Digital Assembly Line Simulation (Google Slides Based)
$7.99Rationale: Simulations provide an excellent way to engage students while teaching valuable lessons. The goal of this simulation is to highlight the tensions that came about due to the shift from artisanal cottage industries...$7.99 -
1930's Radio Show (U.S. History Edition)
$9.99How do you design a culminating project that simultaneously holds students accountable for reading, writing, and critical thinking skills while maintaining a high level of engagement? Why do a Radio Show? It covers all of the skills of...$9.99 -
The Mexican War Distance Learning
$4.00Bellwork: Anwer the following questions using your vocabulary sheet and the map below. What is Manifest Destiny? How could Manifest Destiny lead to war with Mexico? Instruction: Read the passage below and answer the scaffolding...$4.00 -
Statehood for Florida and Texas Distance Learning
$4.00Bellwork: In the chart below, write what you think about when you hear the names “Florida” and “Texas.” Instruction: There are four reading passages followed by scaffolding questions Exit Ticket: Watch this video...$4.00 -
Manifest Destiny Distance Learning
$4.00Bellwork: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1) What is “destiny?” 2) What does it mean when something is “destined to happen?” 3) Is there anything that you believe you are “destined” to do?...$4.00 -
Westward Expansion Vocabulary Distance Learning
$4.00Bellwork: This is a painting depicting settlers traveling by wagon train along the Oregon Trail. Use the picture and the passage to answer the questions below Instruction: Students will first answer scaffolding question based on a map of westward...$4.00 -
Structured Academic Controversy: Christopher Columbus Distance Learning
$4.00I use this assignment as the summative assessment for the Age of Exploration Unit. The students will have to annotate a secondary source, then use that source, plus the outside information from their unit, to write a structured claim to the essential...$4.00 -
The Growth of Slavery in the Americas Distance Learning
$6.00In this lesson, we look at how the genocide of the Native Americans at the hands of the Spanish, and the Spanish desire for free labor led to the rise of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade Bellwork: Answer the questions below base on the corresponding...$6.00 -
Competing for Colonies Distance Learning
$4.00In this lesson, we move beyond Spanish and Portuguese colonization and examine the French and the Dutch colonization and compare their treatment of Native people to the other Europeans that came to the New World Bellwork: Why did the Europeans explore...$4.00