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Vulnerable and Fearful: Could you survive in 14th Century France?
$4.00The 14th century provides us with two opposing images: on the one hand a dazzling time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry and exquisitely illuminated books and tapestries; on the other hand, an age of ferocity, suffering and spiritual...$4.00 -
Babe Ruth - 5th & 6th Grade Biography Writing Activity
$3.00This is a biography writing unit about the life of baseball superstar, Babe Ruth. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each. The first lesson is interactive and involves them...$3.00 -
American Revolutionary War 1775-1783: A Lesson in Military History
$4.00It took eight years of bitter fighting for Americans to win their independence from England. Most U.S. history courses concentrate on the causes that led Americans to seek independence, and then move to the end of the conflict and the struggles of the...$4.00 -
RIGHT AND WRONG IN PURITAN BOSTON
$4.00In this activity students play the part of the Puritan General Court deciding on several cases of people in their tight-knit religious community who had allegedly broken the law and deserved to be punished. They must identify the specific crime they...$4.00 -
Paul Revere, William Dawes or Samuel Prescott
$4.00Who actually warned the countryside on April 18, 1775 that “the Regulars were coming?” Generations of school children heard, and in many cases memorized, Wadsworth’s Poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere elevating this Boston...$4.00 -
Could you survive in Puritan Boston? Board Game
$4.00A group of wealthy Puritans, including John Winthrop, set up the Massachusetts Bay Company and asked the English King for permission to found a colony in New England. The King agreed and granted the Company a Charter. He wanted to get rid of the...$4.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Paris 1898
$5.00This is the fourth lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
Summit: The Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
$5.00This is the third lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo 1848
$5.00This is the second lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting...$5.00 -
Summit: The Treaty of Ghent 1814: Recreating a Pivotal Treaty
$5.00This is the first lesson of four about American wars and the treaties that settled those conflicts. We tend to think of peace negotiations as taking place after the end of a war, but in most cases peace discussions begin soon after the fighting starts...$5.00 -
The Roaring 20s: Making a Book about Chicago
$8.00Making a book about Chicago is an activity that engages students in both process and content. Of all the large cities in the country in the 1920s, Chicago was the most open to doing something new. It was the first northern city that really...$8.00 -
Making a Book about St. Louis and Westward Expansion
$8.00“Millions of men are marching at once towards the same horizon: their language; their religion; their manners differ; their object is the same. Fortune has been promised to them somewhere in the West, and to the West they go to find it.”...$8.00