Social Studies
We feel your pain.
We know it's difficult sometimes on our schedules to come up with new engaging lessons.
We at Amped Up Learning want to remain authentic by offering products designed, written and used by real teachers. We're teaming up with excellent teachers around the country to offer awesome downloadable products in the new Lesson Marketplace of Amped Up. Easy-to-use, effective activities that are standards-aligned, engaging, cooperative, challenging and involve critical thinking. And best of all, you don't have to do anything (except make some copies!).
Yes we take Purchase Orders in our lesson marketplace. Send us the PO and we will send you the lessons.
More and more products are being added daily, so check back often.
-
Making a Book about Philadelphia during the Revolution
$8.00This activity combines process and content allowing students to use the included thirty-two well-researched pages to create their own personal book about the colonial city of Philadelphia and its citizens as they struggled through the events of the...$8.00 -
Bundled Mini-Unit: Immigration and Industrialization in 19th Century America
MSRP: $9.50$7.50For any class on United States history, this mini-unit is an excellent means of discussing life in the North during the mid-1800s and early 1900s. The resource includes the following: ● A PowerPoint that addresses pay and working conditions in early...MSRP: $9.50$7.50 -
Comparing the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution
$7.50This activity features three separate graphic organizers to allow students to understand the differences and similarities between the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. *features a graphic organizer to analyze the weaknesses...$7.50 -
Assessing Reconstruction: Was it a Success or Failure?
$7.50Great activity to allow students to dive deeper into the many events and legislation occurring in Reconstruction. Activity includes: Graphic organizer to understand and issue a judgement of success or failure regarding Reconstruction key terms,...$7.50 -
Seventh Amendment – Make Your Own Trial
$7.50$20? Is that all?Did you know that the 7th Amendment give the right to a civil jury trial if the amount in controversy is $20 (a lot of money is 1789). So here’s your chance to have fun putting on a civil jury trial, while your students learn about...$7.50 -
The Founding Fathers Are Spinning in Their Graves – Here's Your Chance To Let Them Rest in Peace
$7.50Bill of Rights? What's that? Did you know that when asked, many of our citizens don’t know or recognize what is in the Bill of Rights? Do these lessons and your students won’t be among that group. After doing this project, your students...$7.50 -
The Very First Amendment
$7.50Explore the 1st AmendmentThis project has 6 lessons that explore the First Amendment's important provisions:Free Speech, Free Press, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Religion and the Establishment Clause, and Redress of Grievances.Students will be A)...$7.50 -
Public History Project: A Grad School Level Historical Research Project
$9.00Give your students the chance to become Junior Professional Historians and turn your school into a museum with Mano Koa Enterprises' Public History Project. In this project, students will follow detailed instructions in which they will research,...$9.00 -
Mini-Unit: Jacksonian Democracy
MSRP: $8.75$7.00This mini- focuses on the emergence of Jacksonian democracy, a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that championed greater democracy for the "common man." The PowerPoint begins with a discussion of how Jackson's personality and...MSRP: $8.75$7.00 -
Mini-Unit: Andrew Jackson and the Bank
MSRP: $10.25$8.00This mini-unit leads students through Andrew Jackson's war against the Second Bank of the United States. The PowerPoint emphasizes Jackson's role in vetoing the bank charter prior to the presidential election of 1832 and the resulting collapse...MSRP: $10.25$8.00 -
Bundled Mini-Lesson: Andrew Jackson
MSRP: $9.75$7.75There has, perhaps, been no president more polarizing that Andrew Jackson. Ascending to the White House as both a challenge to Eastern interests and a champion of the "common man," Jackson went on to fundamentally change the federal government. Indeed,...MSRP: $9.75$7.75 -
Bundled Mini-Lesson: The Corps of Discovery
MSRP: $9.25$7.50There is no better way to discuss America's westward expansion than with the story of the Corps of Discovery. Charged by Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly-acquired Louisiana Territory, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led 58 men, a Shoshone woman,...MSRP: $9.25$7.50