Laurel the Historian

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,...

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 packet on the age of exploration. It can be used to deliver course content, as a bell work booklet, or for sub plans, or early finishers. One of my focuses when creating this resource was to reinforce reading and writing skills in...