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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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Selma March for Civil Rights Reading, Worksheet, and Interactive Notebook

This excellent Civil Rights Movement resource features an information text style reading on the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. Also included is a reading comprehension worksheet and Interactive Notebook page for your students to use based on the reading!

The 1-page reading describes the purpose and leaders of the Selma March as well as the infamous events on Edmund Pettus Bridge. It concludes with the effect the March had on getting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed.

The worksheet features questions designed to get your students to think critically about the March and gauge their reading comprehension skills. A key for this is included for your convenience.

Finally, the Interactive Notebook page has students create their own vision of what happened on Pettus Bridge and describe the groups involved. This is a great activity for students to work on based on what they read! Completed sample versions are also included for you to look at with the download.

You can download this great resource on the Selma March by clicking here!

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Newly Updated Industrial Revolution Unit of Lessons

This fantastic Industrial Revolution lesson bundle includes 22 amazing resources to teach an engaging, student-centered unit on the Industrial Revolution! It includes 4 PowerPoints along with multiple worksheets, Common Core-aligned readings, games and projects that work well for almost any group of students.

The resources cover urbanization, inventors and inventions, working conditions, Robber Barons, Communism, and more!

All of the following individual resources are included:

1. The best-selling Industrial Revolution Child Labor Story with Questions.

2. A creative Industrial Revolution Building Block PowerPoint

3. The Effects of the Industrial Revolution & Communism Lesson Plan - which includes a very engaging PowerPoint, graphic organizer for notes, and worksheet.

4. A fantastic worksheet on the major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

5. A brief Andrew Carnegie Biography Worksheet that includes a reading and questions.

6. A creative Gilded Age Dinner Party of Robber Barons & Progressives

7. A great Common Core aligned article and worksheet on Workers During the Industrial Revolution

8. A fun, active Determining Your Horsepower Lesson for the Industrial Revolution lesson to get students up and moving while they learn.

9. The engaging Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Reading, Worksheet, and Interactive Notebook Page to have students interact with an excellent primary source.

 

Plus so much more!

Think of all the time you'll save with 2 whole weeks planned out in full! An easy to follow directions page explains how to implement each resource!

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

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Ferdinand Magellan Reading, Worksheet, and Interactive Notebook Activity

This engaging, fun activity features everything you need for a great lesson on Ferdinand Magellan, his accomplishments, and his voyage around the world!

Included in your download is a 1-page reading on Magellan that is easy for students to understand, while also covering his background and voyage. Accompanying this is a set of Common Core-aligned reading comprehension questions for students to answer. A key for this is included for your convenience.

      

Next is an Interactive Notebook-style graphic organizer which students cut out to create both a sail for his ship and a map of his voyage! This is definitely a fun activity that allows for student creativity while also hitting Common Core reading strategies! 

     

You can download this resource for your classes today by clicking here. 

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