Social Studies Contributors

Students will create a pamphlet for time traveling tourists in a Medieval History unit on the Byzantine Empire by fulfilling a mix of 8 academic and creative requirements. A sample layout, topics to choose from, and a points distribution are included...

Students create a pamphlet to review 3 European Explorers of their choice from the Age of Exploration. They also review what was needed to be a successful explorer and why a country would want to join the race to make the newest and biggest discoveries...

Students will review the people, events, inventions, and more from the Roaring 1920s by creating a pamphlet covering 4 different topics/events/people (12 options provided for students to choose from).  There are 8 requirements for students to...

Students will review muckrakers from the Progressive Era and related social ills by creating a pamphlet to highlight 3 social concerns and 3 muckrakers while meeting 5 academic and 2 creative requirements. One task has the students consider multiple...

Students will make trading cards and/or a cube to review any world leader’s time in power or any president’s time in office. There are 9 requirements for the trading card and 6 requirements for the cube (both have visual and written...

Students will read and analyze President John F. Kennedy's 1963 speech on the Space Race (To the Moon) by answering 14 questions. The reading and questions are chunked to make it more manageable for students. ***UPDATED to include an image analysis task...

Students will read a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 on the need for inspections and safety/sanitary standards in the meatpacking industry. There are 15 questions and 6 images for students to analyze. There are 4 prompts to respond to on 3...

Students will read a brief background on the Pan African Congress organized by W.E.B. Du Bois to fight for nationalism, African independence, racial equality, and ending imperialism and colonialism, and an excerpt of the Manifesto from the Second...

Students will read excerpts from Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (The Sinews of Peace) and answer 16 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. They will then complete two extension tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this...

Students read a brief background on Kublai Khan of the Mongolian Empire, a short account of him in battle, and answer 10 questions of varying levels of difficulty. They then complete 2 creative tasks (one has students look at Kublai Khan as both a...

Students will read about the liberation of the concentration camp Majdanek during World War 2 from the perspective of a journalist and answer 10 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. Four websites have been included after the reading for students...

Students will review key locations from Ancient Rome with a poster board project where they create a tour and lead tourists around the city and surrounding area. There are written and visual components to this project, and if time allows, group...