Alexander Hamilton Musical Lesson Plan for Teachers

This amazing, fun, and highly-engaging lesson is designed to teach your students all about Alexander Hamilton through a PowerPoint, graphic organizer and interactive notebook pages, a fun cooperative learning activity, and AMAZING songs from the hit Broadway show Hamilton.

Hamilton the Musical is absolutely captivating and this is an awesome resource to bring the smash hit into your classroom! This download download includes a detailed lesson plan/teacher instruction page with strategies to integrate each resource.

The interactive notebook pages feature to pages of graphic organizers that match up exactly with the PowerPoint plus 1 page of interactive responses based on songs from the musical.

The PowerPoint is 24 slides complete with engaging pictures, easy-to-follow notes, teacher-notes and suggestions, questions based on the songs, and more! The whole things is incredibly easy to create a dynamic, hyper-engaging lesson for your students!

Finally, the download includes a primary source letter from Hamilton that students use for a cooperative learning activity or with a companion analysis worksheet!

This is also just one of over 500 amazing lesson plan activities on American History that you get with a simple subscription to Students of History! Each lesson is hands-on and engaging for today's students. When you subscribe you get immediate access to every lesson for every day of the year - PowerPoints, project-based-learning, interactive notebooks - all there for you at StudentsofHistory.org! Thanks so much for looking!

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!

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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!

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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!

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