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The Renaissance
$3.00This 45-60 minute lesson plan is appropriate for teachers or to use as emergency sub plans. Brief short readings are included in the packet for students to analyze and complete a final activity about life during the Renaissance period. Everything is...$3.00 -
Global interdependence
$3.00This lesson is designed to last for an hour of class time or longer. Students will be provided with background information about global interdependence . They will show what they know by completing engaging classroom activities and answering various...$3.00 -
TODALS Mapping Handout
$2.25This handout teaches students the TODALS, the parts of a map. It is a good introduction to mapping skills. Created by Melissa Neely - Visit My Store$2.25 -
Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Guided Graphic Doodle Notes
$5.00Are you tired of having your kids copy every word off of every slide of the entire PowerPoint? I thought I was going to have an aneurysm if one more student asked me one more time to "go back" because they hadn't copied the last line.That's why I started...$5.00 -
Reconstruction mini-unit, including text
$10.00As the Civil War came to its bloody conclusion, the country was faced with a monumental task: bring the Confederate states back into the body politic, rebuild the war-ravaged Southern economy, and integrate over three million former slaves into free...$10.00 -
Women in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$4.00In this mini-unit, students will learn about the unique experience of women in the Civil War. Frustrated with societal norms that prevented them from participating as men could, many women disguised themselves as men and fought, spied for their...$4.00 -
African-Americans in the Civil War mini-unit, including text
$6.00Unlike the American Revolutionary War, there was no conflict or disagreement amongst African-Americans over which side to support. Although Northern policy at the beginning of the war was to preclude black participation in the war effort, both the need...$6.00 -
Civil War and Reconstruction Quiz Show
$4.00Let’s face it – review and study prep for a Civil War and Reconstruction unit test is not exactly a student’s idea of fun. As a teacher, however, you can take away most of the boredom and drudgery by making a game out of it. This 106...$4.00 -
Other Battlefronts game - African Americans & women in the Civil War, with text
$5.00The Civil War presented African-Americans and women with unique opportunities and challenges. For slaves, the North provided an opportunity to escape their bondage, enlist in the army, and return to fight their former oppressors. It gave free blacks a...$5.00 -
Plessy v. Ferguson/ Brown v. Board of Education primary source analysis activity
$3.00In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of races in public life was perfectly legal under the doctrine of “separate but equal.” This ruling legitimized Jim Crow laws and second-class citizenship for...$3.00 -
Gettysburg Address primary source translation activity
$2.00President Lincoln wasn’t even on the original guest list for the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Both he and the war were highly unpopular at the time, given the appalling numbers of casualties and no end in sight. He was eventually...$2.00 -
The Civil War and Reconstruction unit bundle, including text
$30.00This 15 day complete unit covers the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction, 1861-1876. The unit examines: the political, military, economic and social strategies, triumphs and failures of the War itself; the Emancipation Proclamation; the...$30.00