Barbarian Invasions (Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Magyars) Interactive Notebook Activity

An important aspect for students to learn about the Middle Ages are the Barbarian Invasions that ended the Roman Empire and set the stage for future European monarchies.

This download features 11 Interactive Notebook pages all about the Middle Ages in Europe and Medieval Times, including this great visual for understanding Barbarian Invasions.

All 11 of the amazing Interactive Notebook pages include graphic organizers, creative foldables, pop-ups, timelines, and more!

These are incredible resources for getting students engaged and active in their learning and allowing them to be creative with their notes.

Additional topics covered include about the European Middle Ages include:

• The Roman Catholic Church’s role in Medieval Society
• The Manor System
• Feudalism
• Knights and Chivalry
• Charlemagne and the Franks
• The Vikings, Angles, Saxons, and Barbarian Invasions
• Education in the Middle Ages
• Trade Routes
• The Black Plague
• Vocabulary activities and more!

These resources are guaranteed to help your students enjoy learning about these ancient civilizations while gaining a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people.

Each page is designed to engage students and get them thinking critically while also forming a personal connection to the material. The download is also filled with pictures of completed pages so you and your students can easily see how each page should be cut, pasted, folded, or completed.

An online, digital version of pages like these can be found here in the Middle Ages Google Drive Digital Interactive Notebook.

You can also find more great resources for teaching about this era with this World History Middle Ages Unit Bundle.

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Imperialism Activities for World History

Teaching about Imperialism for World History can be a great unit to help students better understand our world today!

When I teach it to my sophomore students, we will spend about 2 weeks on our Imperialism unit and cover a wide range of cultures, events, and history.

I often start with some of my Interactive Notebook pages. The set I have available includes 16 pages of graphic organizers, creative foldables, timelines, and more.

These are incredible resources for getting students engaged and active in their learning and allowing them to be creative with their notes. The set includes pages on:

• Motives for European Imperialism
• Forms of Imperialism
• The White Man’s Burden
• Responses to Imperialism

I will also start the unit with a very fun Imperialism game that helps students understand the major players in the “Scramble for Africa” and how some countries were able to conquer so much land during the Age of Imperialism.

I will then use a 3D PowerPoint I created on Imperialism to cover the key forms, vocabulary, and countries involved. My students LOVE this activity and getting to wear a set of 3D glasses. The PowerPoint uses traditional, cheap red/cyan 3D glasses which can be purchased cheaply on eBay in bulk.

Finally, throughout the rest of the unit, I will have students complete some mapping activities, analyze primary sources, and work in a Google Drive digital interactive notebook on Imperialism.
In the Digital Notebook, students type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities!

This is a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

You can download all of these great resources plus a lot more in my Imperialism Complete Unit Bundle!

World War 2 PowerPoint & Printable Guided Notes

This thorough PowerPoint on World War II covers all the major battles and events that your students will need to know in one dynamic lesson!

There are over 50 slides of fantastic pictures and graphics to keep your students engaged as well as easy-to-follow notes that break down essential understandings. Each is based on state standards and focused on the most important info in what can be an overwhelmingly large topic.

Plus you also get 2 free guided notes worksheets to download that match the PowerPoint!

The PowerPoint begins with a warm up to get your students on task right away then moves from the rise of Adolf Hitler all the way through to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In between, slides cover events including: 

• The invasion of Poland
• Fall of France
• Miracle at Dunkirk
• Battle of Britain
• Stalingrad
• Pearl Harbor
• D-Day
• Midway
• Guadalcanal
• Iwo Jima
• And more!

This is an incredibly thorough overview of the battles of World War II and can be covered in one or broken out over 2 class periods if you want to spend more time discussing each battle.

This PowerPoint can also be downloaded as part of the Complete World War II Unit Plan Bundle.

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Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook

This Ancient Greece Interactive Notebook download features 11 Interactive Notebook pages all about Ancient Greece! These amazing Interactive Notebook pages include graphic organizers, creative foldables, pop-ups, timelines, and more! 

These are incredible resources for getting students engaged and active in their learning and allowing them to be creative with their notes. 

Topics covered include:

★ The geography of Greece
★ The Eras of Ancient Greece
★ Minoans, Mycenaeans, and the Archaic Era
★ Greek Mythology
★ Comparing Athens and Sparta
★ The Persian Wars
★ The Golden Age of Athens
★ Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
★ The Peloponnesian War
★ Alexander the Great
★ Comparing Hellenic & Hellenistic Greece
★ Vocabulary activities and more! 

These resources are guaranteed to help your students enjoy learning about Ancient Greece while gaining a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people. 

Each page is designed to engage students and get them thinking critically while also forming a personal connection to the material. The download is also filled with pictures of completed pages so you and your students can easily see how each page should be cut, pasted, folded, or completed. 

An online, digital version of pages like these can be found here in the Ancient Greece Google Drive Interactive Notebook using Google Drive.

You can also find more great resources for teaching about Ancient Greece in this Complete Ancient Greece Unit Bundle. 

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Islam: Growth & Spread of Islamic Civilizations PowerPoint

This PowerPoint covers Islam's growth across the Middle East after the death of the prophet Muhammad. Each visually-engaging slide includes simple notes for students to better understand the essential information. 

An editable guided notes worksheet is also included in this download! 

Each of these topics are discussed in the PowerPoint: 

• Abu Bakr and The 4 Rightly Guided Caliphs
• The Sunni-Shi'a split
• The geography of the Arabian Peninsula and Islam's growth
• Reasons for the growth of Islam
• Effects of Islam's spread
• Important vocabulary
• Plus more! 

This is an excellent and even-handed overview of Islam's growth for the 100+ years after Muhammad's death in 632. I have fine tuned it over years with my World History classes and students are consistently engaged during the presentation. The guided notes page is also an excellent tool to keep students focused on your key points and not be overwhelmed with writing notes. 

A similar PowerPoint on the founding and early years of Islam can be found here.

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World History Complete Google Drive Interactive Notebook Bundle

This digital bundle features 18 sets of fully-editable digital interactive pages for ALL of World History for Google Drive!

This is currently a discounted growing bundle, with 1 unit still to be added. All 18 of these complete unit bundles will be included in this download:

1. Prehistory & Early Man
2. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
3. Ancient China and the Indus River Valley
4. Ancient Greece
5. The Roman Republic
6. The Roman Empire
7. Islamic Civilizations
8. The Middle Ages
9. The Renaissance & Reformation
10. The Age of Exploration
11. Absolute Monarchs
12. The Enlightenment
13. Revolutions in France and Latin America
14. The Industrial Revolution
15. Imperialism
16. World War 1
17. World War 2
18. The Cold War

Click on each link above for a detailed preview of each unit you get in this one download!

Students type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! These digital notebooks are a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

Answer keys for all the pages are included along with teacher directions pages. All you only need is a Google account and you’re ready to go!

This bundle is also broken up into bundles of just the World History 2 Google Drive Pages or the World History 1 Google Drive Pages.

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World History 1: Complete Google Drive Interactive Notebook Bundle

This digital bundle features 9 sets of fully-editable digital interactive pages for World History 1 for Google Drive. There's over 80 amazing, interactive digital pages in this one download.

Like its companion, the Complete World History 2 Google Drive Interactive Notebook Bundle, these feature many brand new pages that can be completed all online with laptops, tablets, or any other device that supports Google Drive!

This is currently a discounted growing bundle, with 1 unit still to be added. All 9 of these complete resources will be included in this download:

1. Prehistory & Early Man (To be added Spring 2017)
2. Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
3. Ancient China and the Indus River Valley
4. Ancient Greece
5. The Roman Republic
6. The Roman Empire
7. Islamic Civilizations
8. The Middle Ages
9. The Renaissance & Reformation

Click on each link above for a detailed preview of each unit you get in this one download!

Students type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! These digital notebooks are a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

Answer keys for all the pages are included along with teacher directions pages. All you only need is a Google account and you're ready to go! You can download this World 1 Digital Notebook bundle here!

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Islamic Civilizations Google Drive Interactive Notebook

This digital download for teaching about Islam's history and Islamic Civilizations features a link to a set of 10 fully-editable Interactive pages using Google Drive!

These super-engaging pages can be completed all online with laptops, tablets, or any other device that supports Google Drive!

Topics covered on Islamic Civilizations include:

•  Muhammad and the origins of Islam
•  The 5 Pillars and beliefs of Islam
•  Islam's growth and spread
•  The "Rightly Guided Caliphs" of Islam and later dynasties
•  The Sunni- Shi'a split
•  The rise of the Seljuk Turks
•  The Crusades
•  Vocabulary activities and more!

Students use the included links to research, then type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! This is a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

An answer key for all 10 pages is included along with 2 pages of teacher directions. All you only need is a Google account and you're ready to go! You can download it by clicking here!

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Ancient China and the Indus River Valley Interactive Notebook

This download features 13 Interactive Notebook pages all about Ancient China and the Indus River Valley civilizations! These amazing Interactive Notebook pages include graphic organizers, creative foldables, pop-ups, timelines, and more!

These are incredible resources for getting students engaged and active in their learning and allowing them to be creative with their notes.

Topics covered include:

★ The geography of Ancient China and India
★ Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro, and planned cities in India
★ Harappan culture
★ The Aryan caste system
★ The Mauryan Empire
★ Oracle bones, Filial Piety, and Chinese culture
★ The Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
★ Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism
★ The Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties
★ The Great Wall of China
★ Vocabulary activities and more!

These resources are guaranteed to help your students enjoy learning about these ancient civilizations while gaining a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people.

Each page is designed to engage students and get them thinking critically while also forming a personal connection to the material. The download is also filled with pictures of completed pages so you and your students can easily see how each page should be cut, pasted, folded, or completed.

An online, digital version of pages like these can be found here in the Ancient China and the Indus River Valley Google Drive Interactive Notebook.

You can also find more great resources for teaching about this era with this River Valley Civilizations Complete Unit Bundle.

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Ancient China and the Indus River Valley Google Drive Interactive Notebook

This digital resource for teaching about Ancient China and the Indus River Valley features a link to a set of 11 fully-editable Interactive pages using Google Drive!

These super-engaging pages can be completed all online with laptops, tablets, or any other device that supports Google Drive!

Topics covered on these Eastern River Valley Civilizations include:

•  The geography of China and India
•  Archaeology and early Indus Valley Civilizations
•  Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
•  The Aryan Caste System
•  Hinduism's beliefs, texts, and deities
•  The Dynastic Cycle and Mandate of Heaven in China
•  Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism
•  The Great Wall of China
•  A timeline of China's early Dynasties
•  Vocabulary activities and more!

Students use the included links to research, then type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! This is a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

  

An answer key for all 11 pages is included along with 2 pages of teacher directions. All you only need is a Google account and you're ready to go!

This will also be available in the River Valley Civilizations Complete Unit Bundle along with primary source materials, PowerPoints, projects, and more for a complete unit!

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World War 2 Service Plaque Project on the Navajo Code Talkers, Tuskegee Airmen, Women, & Nisei Troops

This creative, fun activity for World and American History classes has students reading short, one page stories of minority groups that helped during World War II. These include one page each on:

1. The Navajo Code Talkers
2. The Tuskegee Airmen
3. Rosie the Riveter
4. The American Nisei Soldiers

Each page is simple and engaging for middle and high school age students, and is based on state and Common Core Standards for history. Students then use the information they read to create commemorative plaques that honor that group for their service. 

To differentiate in your classes, higher level students can read and complete all four. Lower-level readers can be placed in groups of 4, with each student reading a different story, completing a plaque, and then sharing his/her plaque with the others. English language learners or special education students can be placed in groups with all the same story to create a plaque together, and then present theirs to the rest of the class. 

As a final activity or for homework, there are 10 review questions in which students identify characteristics of each of the four minority groups. 

This is a fun activity for students to learn about some of the groups whose amazing bravery and contributions helped American through World War II. 

You can download this great World War 2 activity for your classes here. Thanks so much for stopping by! 

History of St. Patrick's Day Lesson Plan Resource

This fun St. Patrick's Day History Reading, Worksheet, and Celtic Cross Activity is an excellent resource to use in your classroom to celebrate the holiday! 

This special holiday activity briefly tells the story of St. Patrick in Ireland and how the holiday came to be celebrated today. It is written in an engaging way for younger students to understand the history behind the real Saint Patrick and how his myth has grown today.

After the reading, students answer 5 short reading comprehension questions, then either color or create their own Celtic Crosses using included templates.

☘ This is a fantastic holiday activity for your students! ☘ 

For more great holiday teaching resources, see this complete bundled set of Holiday History Common Core Readings, which includes this resource!

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