Harper's History
For kids to learn anything, they need to actually DO something with that learning! After teaching middle school for 15 years, I’ve learned that the only way we can be successful is to get students engaged, excited to learn, and involved in their own learning process. Even the hardest to reach kids are successful when they are having fun and have some control over their learning. My teaching generally focuses around finding innovative ways to incorporate technology as a learning tool, project based learning, differentiation, blended learning, and simulations
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Ancient Greece Jeopardy Review Game
$2.00This is a 30-question Jeopardy-style review game for students to cover a variety of topics related to Ancient Greece. It is an engaging activity that gets students motivated to review for an assessment.Topics include:- Geography- Government- Greek...$2.00 -
History Alive: Greece Study Guide
$1.25This is a study guide that follows the History Alive textbook that my students complete before we take an assessment on Ancient Greece. The study guide consists of 33 questions. An answer key for the teacher is included.Topics include:Geography of...$1.25 -
Andrew Jackson DBQ
$2.25Should Andrew Jackson be removed from the $20 bill? In this Document-Based Question (DBQ), students analyze 8 primary sources related to different decisions made by Andrew Jackson to determine if he is worthy of remaining on the $20 bill.Topics for the...$2.25 -
Southern Colonies Choice Board: Colonial America Tic Tac Toe Menu
$2.00This product is a Tic Tac Toe board with 9 activities about the southern colonies that incorporate a variety of learning styles. Students start by completing the middle activity, which is a mind map to organize their learning about this region of the 13...$2.00 -
PBL- Gupta Empire Parade Float - Ancient Indian Inventions and Discoveries
$2.75This activity gives the students an opportunity to be creative! Students are assigned (or choose) one of the accomplishments of the Gupta Empire, research its impact on the world, and then create a parade float to celebrate the achievement!Topics for the...$2.75 -
Manifest Destiny - American Progress Analysis
$1.85For this activity, students will be doing a close reading of the painting, "American Progress", by Tom Gast. This is a great introduction to Manifest Destiny and the American desire for westward expansion.Students start by analyzing the entire picture,...$1.85 -
Causes of the Civil War PBL: Worlds of the North and South Newspaper Project
$2.25Identifying the differences between the worlds of the North and South is essential to understanding the rise of sectionalism that led to the Civil War. In this project-based learning activity, students examine life in either the North or the South by...$2.25 -
Unification of Ancient Egypt Hyperdoc: Double Crown Webquest
$3.00Analyzing primary sources from the ancient world can be difficult - this Hyperdoc makes it easy! All of the components of the learning process are included in this interactive digital lesson about the unification of Ancient Egypt with the creation of the...$3.00