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In this Article I: Legislative Branch class simulation, your students will walk through the steps of How a bill becomes a law as they participate in a fun, hands-on interactive activity!  Specifically, your students will: 1) Be...

Students will review what they learned about the people, advancements, inventions, documents, events, and more from the Golden Age of Islam (Islamic Civilization during Medieval History) by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each project balances...

Students will review what they learned about the people, advancements, cities, documents, events, and more from the Byzantine Empire (Byzantine Empire and Slavs in Medieval History/the Middle Ages) by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each project...

Students will learn about the presidential tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey with this 17 question webquest. They will also complete a creative task for 6 images using what they learned from the video and websites (two task options provided)...

Students will review what they learned about the people, events, published works, reform efforts, and more from the Antebellum Era by creating a one pager. There are 13 topics to address and an overarching academic question to respond to (3 prompts...

Students will review the people and events related to the Middle East and Africa during their periods of nationalism from between World War 1 and World War 2 by answering 32 task card questions, 6 of which are about images. Items covered include...

Students can use this as a review packet as a scavenger hunt with their textbook to learn about the rise of nationalism in the Hapsburg Empire, Ottoman Empire, Balkans, and Russia from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. They will identify which statements...

Students will visit 8 websites (or parts of a website) and answer 15 questions to get an overview of Inauguration Day. The focus is on the history and traditions of a presidential inauguration and how they have changed over time. The answers are included...

Students will complete a 3 part interview activity to review President Hayes' time in office. The first part has 6 academic questions to help students review Hayes' presidency. In the second part of the activity students "interview" Hayes right after...

Students will get an overview of key aspects of Reagan's presidency by reading 3 pages of text and responding to 14 review questions and tasks. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, Reaganomics, Iran-Contra Affair, the end of the Cold War, the...

Students will read a 3 page overview of the life and times of Alexander the Great, answer 3 broad questions based on the reading, and then answer and complete up to 7 creative tasks and opinion based questions. This would be great for a...

Students will read excerpts from Hamilton's Federalist No. 84 of the Federalist Papers (his argument for why the Constitution does not need a Bill of Rights), answer 15 questions, complete 1 extension task, and define 10 terms. The answers are included...