Laurel the Historian

This WW2 Webquest is an interactive and skill-building activity that would be perfect for distance learning! It includes both Google Docs and Google Forms versions. Students will develop their ability to find and use information from a variety of...

Historical thinking skills are so essential for students and this resource uses primary sources from the American Revolution to develop your students’ abilities to understand different perspectives/points of view. At the same time, they hone...

Are you looking for an engaging and interactive resource to teach perspective, bias, prejudice, and discrimination? This Google slides presentation will introduce your students to these concepts and includes discussion prompts and tasks for students...

This Google Slides presentation provides background information about the 3 branches including separation of power and checks and balances. In addition, there is a check for understanding included. This product includes: Google Slides +...

Looking for engaging practice for working with primary and secondary sources? This is for you! These task cards review important concepts including credible sources, bias, perspective, and differentiating between primary and secondary sources. The...

This set of Geography task cards is perfect for engaging learners. They review the 5 themes of geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) and mapping skills. Students will learn how to apply these skills and...

Are you searching for interesting, skill-based activities for digital citizenship that can easily be differentiated? There are 26 activities included in these digital citizenship task cards focusing on digital citizenship, finding balance, my digital...

Teaching historical thinking? This resource will help, especially for those teachers who are going to be distance learning or hybrid/blended. These historical thinking skills choice boards are 4 different choice boards that review historical...

Are you a secondary school teacher who struggles to ”set the tone” for the school year? Are you stressed out about the new school year and short on time? I created a student-centered back to school presentation that focuses on empowering...

If you are looking for an engaging distance learning end of year project, look no further! This Oral History Project is tested and beloved by my students, focusing on historical thinking skills. Students will conduct an in-person or video conferencing...

This is an engaging current events assignment that focuses on historical thinking skills including understanding different perspectives of an event, creating compelling and supporting questions, and understanding the local, regional, and global impact of...

This is an evidence-based non-fiction reading passage for middle school or high school students that focuses on summarizing, comprehension, and making claims about Easter Traditions. This resource is perfect for distance learning and part of...