Social Studies
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Gallery Walk Images Stations Questions from the Great Depression US History
$1.89Have students walk through history like a museum in your classroom! 8 Stations with photographs, information, data, and an answer sheet. Students will encounter images regarding the unemployment rate, violence, challenges, poverty, and desperate...$1.89 -
Halloween Team Quest for Middle School
$3.50A Halloween activity which promotes the concepts of working as a team and individually contributing to the success of a team. It is a 51 question, animated, interactive team quiz with built – in scoreboard for up to seven teams. All...$3.50 -
Civil War Bundle - Save 50%
$15.00Bundle of 6 lessons, individually $30. Save 50% with the Bundle. 1. Making a Book about Washington D.C. during the Civil War 2. Civil War Game - military...$15.00 -
FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT DURING THE RENAISSANCE
$3.00FLORENTINE GOVERNMENT DURING THE RENAISSANCE Was it a true democratic Republic? In the summer of 1378, the lowest class of woolen workers, known as the “ciompi” because of the wooden clogs they wore, rioted. Why? They were...$3.00 -
Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement: An Activity
$3.00Maps of North America Exploration and Settlement Early maps of European exploration and settlement reveal much about what explorers and colonists knew about what eventually became the English thirteen colonies. Map-making work...$3.00 -
A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston
$8.00A City on a Hill Making a Book about Puritan Boston An activity combining process and content “Salem, where we landed, pleased us not,” wrote Thomas Dudley, describing the arrival of John Winthrop’s fleet of seventeen ships in June,...$8.00 -
What Caused the Civil War
$3.00What Caused the Civil War The time was 4:30 in the morning; the day was April 12, 1861. Cannons from the mainland began to spew fire and lob shells into Fort Sumter--at this early hour just faintly visible on the horizon. America’s terrible Civil...$3.00 -
Halloween Around the World Escape Room! Halloween-like traditions
$6.75The Halloween Around the World Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Halloween traditions and celebrations around the world. The Halloween...$6.75 -
Industrial Revolution Gallery Walk, Questions, Response Chart, Industrialization
$1.99Students will partner up, move around your classroom, and break down the positive and negative aspects that simultaneously occurred as a result of Industrialization. This is an engaging introduction to United States History or World History, as you study...$1.99 -
Revolutions: Then and Now Gunpowder, Rights, Russia, United Kingdom, or China
$0.99Revolutions: Then and Now Gunpowder, Rights, Russia, United Kingdom, or China allows students to choose a particular focus of World History and compare it to historical events and modern happenings. There are a variety of Social Science Standards that...$0.99 -
Primary and Secondary Sources: Introduction, Sort, and Game
$2.75Students today need to be able to analyze both primary and secondary sources as they investigate and learn new information. This presentation is designed to introduce your students to the concepts of primary and secondary sources, and analyze the...$2.75 -
American Revolutionary War (for 5th-7th Graders)
$6.97The American Revolutionary War Lesson Plan explores the major battles and events of the Revolutionary War and further engages students into the subject matter by examining the significance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Paul Revere's...$6.97