Laurel the Historian

Are you looking for an engaging resource for digital learning? In this activity, students will create their own primary resource of history in a letter or diary entry format which documents their personal experience. They will practice using SOAPSTone...

This unit presentation on WW1 is comprehensive, reviewing the causes of World War 1, as well as both the Western and Eastern Fronts. In addition, it examines important issues like the Armenian Genocide and the Russian Revolution in addition to the...

Do your students struggle with nationalism? My Modern World History/World History II students were not getting it, so I created this resource to help break it down for them. It goes over the different types of nationalism and looks at the...

Do you struggle to teach the Interwar years between World War 1 and World War 2? I created this editable PowerPoint with three levels of scaffolded guided notes and embedded tasks to cover this topic in detail. It focuses on: The...

What types of government are there? I have always struggled to find resources for teaching my students about political and economic ideologies. This editable presentation with scaffolded guided notes helps give students the background information that...

This editable presentation with embedded discussion questions and a research prompt examines 3 pandemics: the Bubonic Plague pandemic of the 1300s-1600s, the Influenza pandemic of 1918, and #Covid-19. It would be perfect for a Political Science,...

Are you looking for students to engage with due process? Look no further! In it, there are short readings with checks for comprehension where they examine the Bill of Rights and Due Process. At the end, they apply their new knowledge to real Supreme...

Are you searching for a secondary option for St. Patrick’s Day? This is a non-fiction reading passage with two levels for middle school or high school that includes close reading, annotation and making claims. This resource focuses on...

This is a no-prep workbook about contributions of women to the Renaissance both in terms of art & the humanist movement. It includes a nonfiction reading passage, primary source analysis, and a research project. This would be...

Do you need an interesting reading passage that's perfect for Black History Month? This is a non-fiction reading passage for middle school or high school that includes critical thinking questions about Nat Turner's Rebellion...

My students don’t understand where our ideas about government come from. They have a hard time understanding the evolution of political thought and in what ways this evolution shows change and continuity. They also struggle to understand the...

This is a no-prep workbook on American abolitionists. It can be used as a bell workbooklet, but would also be suitable for sub plans, or for early finishers. One of my focuses when creating this was to ensure that students...