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Crash Course US History Worksheet 32: The Roaring 20s
$1.25The enclosed video worksheet (Crash Course US History Worksheet 32: The Roaring 20s) provides a guide to keep students focused and actively learning while watching the video. The narrator does an excellent job, but does talk rapidly in order to present...$1.25 -
Presidential Inauguration Webquest
$3.00Students will visit 8 websites (or parts of a website) and answer 15 questions to get an overview of Inauguration Day. The focus is on the history and traditions of a presidential inauguration and how they have changed over time. The answers are included...$3.00 -
President Rutherford B. Hayes Interview Activity
$3.00Students will complete a 3 part interview activity to review President Hayes' time in office. The first part has 6 academic questions to help students review Hayes' presidency. In the second part of the activity students "interview" Hayes right after...$3.00 -
President Ronald Reagan Reference Sheet and Review
$3.00Students will get an overview of key aspects of Reagan's presidency by reading 3 pages of text and responding to 14 review questions and tasks. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, Reaganomics, Iran-Contra Affair, the end of the Cold War, the...$3.00 -
Alexander the Great Reading and Comprehension Tasks
$3.00Students will read a 3 page overview of the life and times of Alexander the Great, answer 3 broad questions based on the reading, and then answer and complete up to 7 creative tasks and opinion based questions. This would be great for a...$3.00 -
Election of 1800 Campaign Project
$2.00Students will create a campaign for Jefferson, Adams, or both for the election of 1800. They must address 10 items representing the candidate's personal lives as well as activity during the Revolutionary War, their roles during Washington's presidency,...$2.00 -
The Election of 1860 Campaign Project
$2.00Students will create a campaign for Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell, or a combination of them for the election of 1860. They must address 8 items representing the political history/activity of them men as well as their viability as a presidential...$2.00 -
Workhouse Children Podcast Teaching Resources
$3.00Elevate your history curriculum with this engaging lesson centred around the "History Detective" podcast episode on Workhouse Children during the Industrial Revolution. Designed for middle and high school students, this comprehensive lesson...$3.00 -
The 1960s One Pager
$3.00Students will review what they learned about the people and events of the 1960s by creating a one pager. There are 12 requirements to fulfill and 10 templates to choose from, ranging from completely blank to having a spot for each piece of information...$3.00 -
Hammurabi's Code Primary Source Analysis
$3.00Students will read 14 laws from the Code of Hammurabi from a unit on Mesopotamia, explain why they think each was written/included, and then either write the law in modern day terminology or write a modern day equivalent of that item. They will also...$3.00 -
Illuminated Manuscript Activity
$3.00Students will learn about, or review, an event/person/theme/document/etc from Medieval History (the Middle Ages) by creating their own illuminated manuscript page. There are 7 requirements balance academics, creativity, visuals, and text. A sample list...$3.00 -
Physical Geography Landforms Sorting Activity
$3.00World Geography students will sort 35 landforms in a chart to show whether they are water or land based. They will then answer 15 questions (some require the answer to be drawn). The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a...$3.00