Shawneen Morrison
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Shawneen Morrison combines multidisciplinary expertise, a love of working with adolescents, and years of international experience to build an engaging and meaningful environment for students in her social studies classroom. Shawneen received her BA from Colorado State University with a double major in Biology and Political Science as well as a teaching certification with a Secondary Social Studies endorsement. Currently, she is working to complete her master’s degree in Social and Global Issues at Regis University. Shawneen’s creative use of primary sources to inspire interest in history curriculum earned her the honor of designation as a Master Teacher by the Library of Congress. As an ardent student of global issues, Shawneen has studied or volunteered in eleven nations, drafted model international environmental law for the Center for Energy and Environmental Security, and written public education curriculum for the United Nations Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. In her free time she enjoys travel, volunteerism, playing piano, and especially spending time with her husband and two children in the Colorado Mountains.
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The Slave Trade: Photo Images of African Slavery
$3.99This presentation, designed by Shawneen Morrison, includes historic photos of captured slaves in Africa, illegally trafficked slaves following the criminalization of the slave trade (including many children), a slave breeding center, a slave holding site...$3.99 -
Stamp Act Simulation
$5.00Designed by Shawneen Morrison. This simulated activity assigns students the role of a custom’s enforcement officer evaluating compliance with the Stamp Act of 1765. Students begin with a briefing that explains the Stamp Act from a British...$5.00 -
Federal Deficit Simulation and Activity: Can You Balance the Federal Budget?
$10.00This simulation and activity powerfully demonstrate the political and numeric difficulties faced when attempting to balance the federal budget of the United States. First, students are introduced to a site with 16 real-time counters that count up the...$10.00 -
Declaration of Independence: The Deleted Passage Opposing Slavery
$2.99This lesson focuses on the scathing rebuke of slavery that Thomas Jefferson included in his original draft of the Declaration of Independence. This passage did not survive negotiations in the Continental Congress. Class discussion reveals both practical...$2.99 -
Middle East: Arab Culture in Proverbs, Poetry, and Folklore
$2.99This lesson, created by Shawneen Morrison, illustrates Arab cultural values with a focus on the Arab view of wisdom, honor, and what it means to be a good person. First, students are challenged to identify American (or other cultures’) equivalents...$2.99 -
Proclamation of 1763
$1.50This one-page set of excerpts from the Proclamation of 1763 can be used in a wide variety of ways to aide in student understanding of the growing division between the British and the Colonists in the years preceding the Revolutionary War. As my classes...$1.50 -
Colonial America: Why Immigrants Came to the Thirteen Colonies
$3.00This assignment, created by Shawneen Morrison, is designed to be a summative activity or alternative assessment following a comparative study of the 13 Colonies. Students develop an immigrant profile for a person who would like to immigrate to one of...$3.00 -
Civil Rights Movement: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Simulation
$7.99This simulation, created by Shawneen Morrison, has students begin by taking actual literacy tests. In case they do well on the tests, they are subjected to a second, highly subjective verbal test. Then, to punctuate the futility of battling unfair Jim...$7.99 -
Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 Simulation
$4.99This lesson, developed by Shawneen Morrison, is designed to increase student awareness of the historical tension over balancing civil liberties with national security and the challenge partisan politics poses to the constitutional system of checks and...$4.99 -
African Culture: Music and Dance
$5.00This engaging activity, created by Shawneen Morrison, will have your students out of their seats as they work together to produce polyrhythmic music and then use two brief video lessons to attempt basic African dance moves. At the end, students watch...$5.00 -
African Empires and Kingdoms Webquest
$6.00Many students enter World History classrooms unable to name a single African Empire other than the Egyptian Empire. They often hold stereotypes of pre-colonial African societies as having been small, violent, technologically deprived, poor, quaint people...$6.00