Use John Lennon's Imagine to Teach Communism, Capitalism, & Socialism Lesson

This is a fantastic resource that will certainly help your students retain a better grasp on the differences between Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism - along with John Lennon's classic "Imagine"!

Included in this great download is a chart (with a completed answer key), 1-page reading, and detailed instructions on how to implement the resource in a unit on Industrial Revolution or on political/economic philosophies.

The reading very briefly describes an introduction to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism and how they grew out of the Industrial Revolution. Students use this as a starting point to complete the chart to highlight the basics of each.

You then use John Lennon's "Imagine" to demonstrate the appeal of Communism and Socialism. Some great companion pieces to use with this resource for a complete lesson would be this  Effects of the Industrial Revolution & Communism Lesson Plan or the Industrial Revolution Complete Unit Bundle with everything for a 2-week unit on Industrialization!

You can download this awesome lesson by clicking here!

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New Absolute Monarchs and Enlightenment Interactive Notebook

This great new download features 14 Interactive Notebook pages on Absolute Monarchs and the Age of Enlightenment. These creative, engaging Interactive Notebook pages include 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.

Topics covered include:

♛ Causes and Effects of Absolutism
♛  Louis XIV and the Palace of Versailles
♛ Peter the Great & Russia
♛ Philip II of Spain
♛ England;s defeat of the Spanish Armada
♛ Oliver Cromwell and the English Civil War
♛ England's transition to a Constitutional Monarchy
♛ William & Mary and The Glorious Revolution
♛ Enlightenment Ideas
♛ Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau, and Montesquieu
♛ Mozart, Beethoven, Delacroix and Enlightenment culture
♛ Enlightenment and Revolution
♛  Vocabulary activities and more!

  

These resources are sure to help your students enjoy learning about the Absolutism and Enlightenment and have a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people. You can also find more great resources for teaching about this era in this Complete Enlightenment and Absolute Monarchs Unit Bundle!

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Age of Exploration Interactive Notebook

Age of Exploration Interactive Notebook

This download features 11 Interactive Notebook pages on the Age of Exploration. These creative, engaging Interactive Notebook pages include 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.

Topics covered include:

•  Key Explorers and their Routes
•  Improvements in Navigation (The astrolabe, compass, and lateen sail)
•  The Columbian Exchange
• The Triangle of Trade
•  The Middle Passage
• Spanish Conquistadors
•  Prince Henry the Navigator
• Effects of European Migration
• Responses to the Age of Discover in Asia
• Vocabulary resources and more!

    

These resources are sure to help your students enjoy learning about the Age of Exploration and have a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people. You can also find more great resources for teaching about this era in this Age of Exploration and Discovery Complete Unit Bundle!

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New Email List for Freebies, Sale Notifications, and other Goodies!

I hope all of you had a wonderful summer and are excited about the start of a new school year! This year, I'd like to do a better job keeping in touch with all of you and providing free resources, sales, and tips about great ideas for the social studies classroom.

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Back to School Historical Skills Activities and Worksheets

Back to School Historical Skills Activities and Worksheets

This fantastic bundle of activities covers all the essential skills your students need to understand for studying history! It makes for fantastic back to school activities to help your students grasp the skills they will be using all year long!

The worksheets cover all of the following:

• Understanding primary vs. secondary sources
• Reading & creating timelines
• Determining fact from opinion
• Identifying cause & effect
• Understanding map projections
• Human development
• Absolute & relative location
• Climates & reading climographs
• Analyzing early human art

Each resource can be done on its own, as part of station/centers activity, in collaborative groups, or in many more ways that will help students focus on each skill!

Please click here to take a look, preview, and download today!

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Year-End Teacher Evaluation Survey for Students & Reflective Teachers

This download is a 2 page end-of-course survey for students to complete about your class to help you the teacher better understand how the year when and reflect on what to change for the next year.

The first page includes 12 statements about your class that students rate from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree". Each of these statements is something that surely apply to any social studies class. Some examples are:

"The grading system was fair"
"In class assignments were useful and helped me to learn the material.
"The amount of homework was fair."

There are also 4 editable blank spaces for you or your students to add your additional class characteristics to rate.

On the 2nd page are 6 open-ended response questions in which students are asked to explain what they liked, disliked, and more about the class.

This is a great tool for effective reflective teaching practices. Each year I give my students this survey to complete anonymously for invaluable feedback about what helped them learn most throughout the year. Every year I gain a new insight about an aspect of my teaching that makes me a better teacher.

You can download it here and use it before the year is out!

Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" Worksheet, Primary Sources, and Interactive Notebook Activity

This is an excellent, interactive resource for teaching about Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech and the March on Washington! It includes a reading, primary sources, worksheet, and pop-up style Interactive Notebook page!

The 1-page reading includes an introduction describing the background leading up to the March on Washington and impact that it had. Links to the speech are includes as well for you to use with your students.

Five primary source images and documents are provided for students to analyze. The worksheet features questions designed to get your students to think critically about the event, speech, and primary sources. A key for this is included for your convenience.

Finally, the Interactive Notebook page has students creating a pop-up of Martin Luther King along with several signs and the Lincoln Memorial. Students then decorate these and add notes based on what they read, hear, and see in the primary sources. Completed sample versions are also included for you to look at with the download.

All of these are explained in a simple teacher's guide which is included as well!

This resource can also be download along with many more as part of this Civil Rights Movement Resource Bundle.

You can download this resource for your classes by clicking here!

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