5th - 8th Grade US History Prior to 1877
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Giant Jenga - Stock Market Crash of 1929 simulation game
$5.00This product was designed to help you engage students in a simulation of the 1929 Stock Market Crash - covering vocabulary, causes, effects, and culture of the time period! This simulation is highly engaging and interactive. Be prepared for FUN! This...$5.00 -
Understanding the Intolerable Acts
$1.00Handout includes graphic organizer organizing the aspects of the Intolerable Acts and how they affected the American colonies. The following aspects of the Intolerable Acts are to be examined by students: Boston Harbor was closed until Boston...$1.00 -
Students Act out Skits With Famous American Leaders of the 19th Century
$1.25Updated in 2020 with more historic names, more than 40 leaders available, with forms to pre-fill, research, and guide group skits to re-enact moments and perspectives of American History. Students will Get into groups of 3-4. Write a script for a...$1.25 -
Constitutional Convention Choice Board Learning Menus (set of 3)
$3.75Differentiate your Constitutional Convention lesson with this set of three engaging choice board menus. Students research to learn about the purpose and location of the convention, roles of the delegates, and debates and compromises. They then use that...$3.75 -
Articles of Confederation Constitution Bingo Review STAAR Review
$4.00Are you in a review game rut? I had played Quizlet Live, Kahoot and others so much, my students were tired of them. One day a student asked, “Can we play BINGO?” – and this product is the result. Articles of Confederation &...$4.00 -
Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Quote Throw Down plus exit ticket
$3.25You've taught the differences between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. You look out and your students have blank faces! Does this sound familiar? It's time to see if they can identify key quotes from both sides. It's time for a...$3.25 -
Delegates at the Constitutional Convention: Superlatives Awards Fair
$4.25Which delegate at the Constitutional Convention is worthy of winning the "most likely to win an argument" award? How about the "most theatrical," "most likely to rule the world," "biggest troublemaker," or "best northern pride" awards? In this PBL...$4.25 -
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 -
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 -
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