Social Studies Contributors

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)...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Students will review landmarks and key locations from Ancient Rome by creating a "mini-Ancient Rome" with 20 locations/items for tourists to experience as much of Rome as possible without actually...

Students will review landmarks and key locations from Ancient Greece by creating a "mini-Ancient Greece" with 20 locations/items for tourists to experience as much of Greece as possible without...