Social Studies Contributors

Students will learn about when members of the Israeli team were taken hostage by Palestinian members of Black September and ultimately killed during the 1972 Olympics. They will visit a selection of websites and answer 17 questions. The answers are...

Students will visit 3 websites to learn about the assassination of Julius Caesar, how the Ides of March has carried through to the modern day, and answer 12 questions. The questions cover Caesar's rise to power, interpreting quotes, Rome's reaction to...

These Veterans Day activities (6 question webquest, 4 reflection questions, 2 creative tasks, presidential proclamation analysis) will give students a basic understanding of the history of Veterans Day and has them explore their thoughts on it. The...

Students will study the events of 9/11 through 8 songs in this webquest. They will read the song lyrics and answer 11 questions about the events, experiences, perspectives, and more of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. An answer key is not...

Students watch Boatlift from 9/11 (September 11, 2001) and answer 16 questions. There are 12 other questions for students to answer and 2 tasks to complete (a commemoration and a word cloud). Many of the questions are designed for class discussion or...

Students read and analyze the speech President Bush gave after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11) by answering 12 questions and completing 2 extension tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a...

  Students learn about the events of 9/11 by answering 8 questions from one website. They then answer 5 large discussion questions including but not limited to comparing and contrasting 9/11 to other events, looking at specific items from multiple...

Students will visit 3 websites and answer 25 questions to learn about the Nuremberg Trials from the end of World War 2 (WW2). Four questions are connected to an embedded 4 minute video from an American soldier who was a guard during the Trials. There are...

Students will learn about the discovery and excavation of King Tut's tomb by completing a 27 question webquest. They will visit a second website to answer one question and complete a creative task to work with King Tut's historical context. They will...

Students visit 3 websites and complete 2 creative tasks to learn about Columbus' journey of exploration, the hero vs villain debates regarding his legacy, Columbus Day celebrations, and having statues memorializing him. There are 18 questions of varying...

Students will learn about, or review, the events of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and protests by completing this graphic organizer and webquest. Students will first visit a BBC website and respond to 22 prompts/questions. They will then visit an AP...

  Students will get an overview of different Holocaust resistance movements and rescue efforts with these 5 activities. They will first complete a webquest on Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement (17 questions) and a webquest on Jewish led...