5th - 8th Grade World History/Studies
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GooseChase Silk Road Digital Scavenger Hunt
$3.50In a classroom with many different learning styles and needs, GooseChase is one of the most exciting, engaging ways to differentiate for all students. They are able to choose from 25 missions with different difficulty levels and point values to compete...$3.50 -
Project Based Learning: Ancient Greece Athens-Sparta PBL
$4.25Welcome to the Greece City-States Recruitment Fair! In this PBL activity, students will learn about the differences between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta while preparing for and holding a recruitment fair.Students are divided into two groups...$4.25 -
Ancient Egypt Social Classes - Survival Simulation
$6.50History comes to life in this engaging, interactive simulation where students compete against other groups to develop the largest, most successful Egyptian civilization. Students complete a variety of activities to experience life in each of the Egyptian...$6.50 -
Roman Achievements + Assessment
$1.65Lesson Plan: Close Reading Article, Activities, and AssessmentThe article features the innovations that we are fairly certain belong to the ancient Romans. The article points out that the Romans make it difficult to be certain though, because they took...$1.65 -
The Western Roman Empire Collapses + Assessments
$1.65Lesson Plan: Close Reading Article, Activities, and Assessments.The article traces the causes and the course of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. Activities, as well as, Multiple Choice and DBQ Assessments included.Lesson includes: - 3-Page...$1.65 -
Rome - Consequences of the Fall + Assessment
$1.75Lesson Plan: Close Reading Article, Assessment, Classroom Forms.The illustrated article explains the consequences of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire on Europe in the centuries to follow.Lesson includes: - 3-Page Illustrated Article - Multiple Choice...$1.75 -
Medieval West Africa - An Introduction + Assessments
$1.85Lesson Plan: Close Reading Article, Multiple Choice and Document Based Question Assessments, ActivitiesThe illustrated article explains the influence that Islam and Arabic had on the medieval West African Trading Empires. Activities and Common Core...$1.85 -
Medieval West Africa - An Overview + Assessments
$2.25Lesson Plan, Mini-Course, Document Based Questions, AssessmentsThe overview examines the geography of West Africa, the history of the three Medieval West African Trading Empires: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, as well as, explains Medieval West African...$2.25 -
The Rosetta Stone Reading Worksheet
$1.99The Rosetta Stone Reading + Questions WSThis is an excellent resource to include with your unit on Ancient Egypt! In this reading, students will read about the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the significance of its discovery, and about the text written...$1.99 -
Indus River Valley Civilization - Why Their Writing Is NOT Translated
$1.99Indus River Valley Writing - Why Their Writing Has NOT Been Translated - Reading, Questions, and Answer Key This is an excellent resource to include with your unit on Ancient India! In this reading, students will read about why the writing from the...$1.99 -
Mongol Invasions of Japan + DBQ and Argument Essay Assessments
$2.00Lesson Plan, Close Reading, Document Based Questions, Assessments.Two articles explain the Mongol Invasions of Japan in the late 13th Century. Students are to read them and respond to the following prompt with an Argument Essay: "Some say that the...$2.00 -
"Europe in Medieval Times" + DBQ Assessments
$2.00Lesson Plan, Close Reading, Document Based Question - AssessmentsThe article explains the roles of the the three main groups of people in feudal Europe: nobility, clergy, commoners - the connection of the Vikings to the creation of feudalism - as well...$2.00