US History

Students will learn about, or review, a current event by making trading cards or a cube. There are two options for the trading card and two options for the cube. Both balance academic requirements with personal choice and creativity. Items students must...

Students create a one pager to learn about any current event. There are 12 requirements for students to fulfill of varying degrees of difficulty. Students can choose from one of 16 templates ranging from completely blank to having a spot for each piece...

Students will create a one pager to review what they have learned about any topic or event from history. There are 14 requirements for students to fulfill of varying degrees of difficulty. They can choose from one of 8 templates ranging from completely...

Students will review a semester or year of any history or social studies class by completing these 11 projects. Students can create a booklet, an artifact museum, a collection of newspaper front pages, write a song, design a cereal box, a yearbook page,...

These are 375+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, review questions, writing prompts, even test or essay questions that you can use for all of U.S. History (American History). They would work as part of...

Students will learn about the events at Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WW2 with these 7 resources. They will get an overview of its causes (long term and short term) and will compare and contrast 3 points of view. The effects of the bombing...

Students will learn about Jefferson's presidency by reading 9 passages covering people and events related to his time in office (foreign and domestic). They will answer 42 questions based on the passages and 10 overarching questions. They will read two...

This editable back to school bundle is for a middle or high school Social Studies or history teacher. It includes 5 versions of a syllabus, 25 engaging ways to introduce and review material, bell ringer ideas/prompts and templates, test correction and...

Students will create a superhero persona for any individual they learned about during a unit, semester, or year. There are 12 main academic and creative requirements to this project. There are also 4 optional extension tasks, including maps, a nemesis,...

These 45+ activities and projects will allow students to review any history topic, historical figure, social studies unit, or content related skills. They would also be great for end of semester projects such as create your own country, create a...

Students will read and analyze excerpts of various Supreme Court Cases (some with both majority and dissenting opinions) by answering a mix of academic, opinion, and discussion questions. Some resources include extension tasks for students to demonstrate...

Students review key people and events from the Progressive Era by matching 20 historical pictures to a caption or dialogue exchange. This includes a teacher information page which explains the activity in its entirety. This is best done as a gallery walk...