Social Studies Contributors

Students will watch and analyze a 5 minute video about the rise and fall of the Inca Empire by answering 22 questions and completing an extension task. The answers are included where appropriate.  The video is from TedEd. Sample questions...

Students will watch and analyze an almost 6 minute video on the partition of India and the people, events, causes, and effects related to the creation of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Kashmir by answering 24 questions and completing 2 extension tasks...

Students will review the events, developments, achievements, people, beliefs, and more from Sumer, Babylon, Persia, Akkad, the Hittites, Assyria, and the Phoenicians (empires of Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia's early empires) by completing a sorting chart,...

Students will review the events, acts, speeches, documents, policies, people, and more from Teddy Roosevelt's presidency by making trading cards, cubes, or both. Both options balance academic requirements with personal choice and creativity. A teacher...

These World History writing prompts cover 17 units/topics/time periods in World and European History, spanning the English Civil War to the Cold War. There are 70 writing prompts (a mix of academic, what if, and opinion questions) set up in a way so you...

Students will watch and analyze a 5 minute video about the two sides of Augustus’ legacy and historical significance by answering 26 questions. They will then complete an extension task and determine where on the visionary or tyrant scale they see...

Students will watch and analyze a 5 and a half minute video on the destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius (with a few references to Herculaneum) by answering 22 questions and completing an extension task. The answers are included where appropriate and...

Students will watch and analyze a 5 minute video about the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire and its historical significance by answering 21 questions and completing an extension task. The answers are included where appropriate. The video is from TedEd...

Students will review the people, events, beliefs, developments, and more from India's Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire by by making trading cards, cubes, or both. Both options balance academic requirements with personal choice and creativity...

Students will watch and analyze a 5 minute video on the causes, course, and effects of the Irish Potato Famine by answering 24 questions and completing an extension task. The answers are included where appropriate and the video is from TedEd...

Students will watch and analyze a 5 minute video about the two sides of Jackson's legacy by answering 20 questions. They will then complete an extension task and determine where on the hero or villain scale they see him. The answers are included where...

Students will watch and analyze an almost 6 minute video about the rise and fall of the Sumerians and their historical significance by answering 24 questions and completing an extension task. The answers are included where appropriate. The video is from...