US History

Students will read and analyze two points of view on the League of Nations (one for America joining by James Phelan and one against America joining by Lawrence Sherman) by answering 36 questions, completing a creative task, and analyzing 7 images...

Students will read and analyze two points of view on the Space Race (President Kennedy in 1961 and Carl Dreher in 1962) by answering 32 questions and completing a creative task. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a...

Students will read excerpts from the Justice Brewer's majority opinion of Muller v. Oregon and answer 18 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub! Sample questions...

Students will play true, false, fix to review the people and events of the Roaring 1920s. They will read 14 statements and determine which are true and which are false. They will then complete 3 other tasks with the material. This is best done in pairs...

Students will read and analyze excerpts from speeches on the Korean War by President Truman (1950) and General MacArthur (1951) by answering 25 questions. They will then respond to 5 overarching and comparison questions and a creative task. The answers...

Students can use these 6 templates to record their bell ringers, warm ups, do nows, or exit tickets in most Social Studies classes. The teacher information pages include 8 websites where topical information can be located (text based and short videos),...

Students will read excerpts from Nixon's "Silent Majority" speech and respond to a mix of 26 academic questions and creative tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub!  Sample questions include:--Why did...

Students will place 15 events/laws/people/etc that are causes of the Civil War on a timeline and complete 4 other tasks for those items using provided templates. They will then complete a news headlines activity for 4 other items that can be considered...

Students will complete 5 activities to review President Nixon's presidency: a primary source analysis with creative tasks for his Farewell Address, an analysis of US v. Nixon and the Silent Majority, an interview activity, and a social media style review...

Students will analyze 17 documents (6 are images), answer 17 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay about the Vietnam War. There are 12 prompts for students to choose from (one allows for the class or teacher to...

Students will read a brief overview of nativism in the Roaring 20s, the Immigration Act of 1917, the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, and the Immigration Act of 1924 and answer 6 questions (2 have subquestions). They will then analyze 14 political cartoons...

These 7 activities are a great review for any historical figure from any historical topic, event, or time period. Students will fill in quote bubbles and an image of a person, create a yearbook page, design a cereal box, a superhero, create trading cards...