US History

Students will learn about, or review, the people and events that led to the start of WW2 (World War 2, WWII) by organizing 15 items on a timeline. They will complete 4 tasks for those items and extension tasks for 7 of the timeline items using provided...

Students will place 15 items on a timeline from the Age of Discovery/Era of Exploration (it stops at the establishment of Jamestown) and complete 4 other tasks for those items using provided templates. They will then complete a news headlines review for...

Students will place 15 items that were causes of World War 1 (WW1, WWI) on a timeline and complete 4 other tasks for those items using provided templates. Some items are specific to America's entry into the war and students must explain that in the...

Students will place 15 events/acts/people/etc that are causes of the Revolutionary War (American Revolution) on a timeline and complete 4 other tasks using provided templates. They will then complete a news headlines activity for 4 of the causes and will...

Students will review key people and events from American Imperialism by writing an identification for 12 images and answering 11 historical context questions (one question includes two images). They will then put the events in chronological order in the...

Students will create a 20 item timeline representing the changes in American voting rights from 1607-2000. There are 7 time frames that must be represented and the 20 items on the timeline must be expanded on in 6 different ways. Each extension task is...

Students read and analyze excerpts from 13 inauguration speeches by completing one of 2 styles of graphic organizers, answering 6 questions, and making a word cloud. In each speech students look for items related to foreign affairs/military, social...

Students will create a campaign for any historic or current election, or for an individual running for a political position (historic or current) using one of three project options. This includes teacher information, 4 extension tasks, 5 websites for...

Students will review the events, divisions, political geography, physical geography, and more of Cold War by working with 4 maps and answering 6 questions. There are 60 labels and tasks across the maps. This would be great for a sub! The answers are...

Students will review the places and events of World War 2 (WW2, WWII) in Europe by completing these three maps. The first map has 10 tasks for students to complete related to the events and alliances of the war. The second map covers WW2 political...

Students will review the events, strategies, political geography, and physical geography of World War 1 (WW1, WWI) with this map activity. There are 39 map labels and tasks followed by 11 questions. This would be great for a sub! The answers are included...

Students will review key political and physical geography locations related to the Civil Rights Movement by completing 3 maps (there are 45 labels across the first two maps and the third map has students label all 50 states and complete two tasks). They...