One of the best ways to get students to engage with history content and think critically about a topic is to use Interactive Notebook pages. These allow students to demonstrate creativity and their own understanding of whatever topic you're covering in your World or US History lesson.
I have been using them for years and now have hundreds of pages available for both World and US History! These pages are tailored perfectly for the content with cutting, pasting, and foldable pages that allow students to interact with each page.
The best way to these interactive notebooks them into your class is through a membership at StudentsofHistory.org! This way you get immediate access to all of them PLUS you'll get all my upcoming new interactive notebook sets immediately!
There are also over 500 other amazing lesson plan activities on World and American History just waiting for you with a simple subscription to Students of History! Each lesson is hands-on and engaging for today's students. This includes PowerPoints, project-based learning, Google Drive digital notebooks, review games, quizzes, tests, and more! I promise you will not be disappointed!
The Civil War is one of my favorite topics in US History. As a result, I try to make my lessons for this unit super engaging for my students and ensure that my enthusiasm for the topic comes across for my students.
For the battles of the Civil War, I use this fantastic PowerPoint presentation that covers the resources of both the North and South, essential knowledge about each Civil War battle, and the results. It's visually-engaging, breaks down key concepts, and includes both a warm up and exit ticket for students.
After starting with a warm up, each slide uses fantastic images, and easy-to-follow notes to cover everything students need to know about the Civil War based on state and Common Core Standards.
All of the following are covered in the presentation:
You can now download this amazing PowerPoint along with 100+ similar ones for other units in American History by signing up for a membership at StudentsofHistory.org!
This website features over 500 other amazing lesson plan activities on World and American History just waiting for you with a simple subscription! Each lesson is hands-on and engaging for today's students. Your subscription gives you immediate access to all of them! Never worry about a lesson plan again!
There's now an awesome new World War 2 and the Cold War Interactive Notebook
available for both my World History and US History Curriculum packages!
This set features 21 engaging Interactive Notebook pages on World War 2 and the Cold War. Each page includes creative graphic organizers, creative foldables, timelines, and more.
Here's just some of the completed pages:
Topics covered include:
• FDR's Fireside Chats
• Rise of Fascism and Dictatorships
• Appeasement
• Battles and Events of World War 2
• Island Hopping
• Japanese-American Internment
• The Geneva Convention
• The Iron Curtain
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Marshall Plan
• Post World War 2 Organization
• Containment and the Truman Policy
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Korean and Vietnam Wars
• Vocabulary resources and more!
These resources are sure to help your students enjoy learning all about World War 2 and the Cold War while also gaining a better understanding of important concepts, events, and people! Lots of completed sample pages are included so you can see examples of how the pages should turn out.
You can download this amazing notebook set along with similar ones for other units in World and American History by signing up for a membership at StudentsofHistory.org!
There are over 500 other amazing lesson plan activities on World and American History just waiting for you with a simple subscription to Students of History! Each lesson is hands-on and engaging for today's students.
Looking for an engaging lesson plan to teach about the Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention? This awesome new resource is part of my American History curriculum!
It features an awesome, visually-engaging PowerPoint presentation along with printable pop-up figures for 6 Founding Fathers and graphic organizer note page. This allows your students to study each Founding Father in depth and gives them a memorable connection that they will remember. The notes are easy to follow and highlight each figure's (James Madison, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Roger Sherman, and George Mason) key contributions to the Constitutional Convention.
This is 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!
Hi all - Back to School season is in full swing and if you teach World or American History I have an awesome new website for you! My new StudentsofHistory.org site features subscriptions so you no longer have to search for individual resources for each lesson and unit.
The new site features memberships for World or American History - both with EVERY resource you need all year long! Yep, every resource for every lesson for every day. This includes:
Interactive notebook pages for the whole year
Magic-motion PowerPoints with moving portraits
A full year of Warm Ups
Google Drive digital notebook activities
Hundreds of high quality World History worksheets
Richly curated Youtube video links for each unit
Tests, quizzes, and review materials
An editable syllabus and tons of bonus resources
Plus so much more!
You will no longer have to worry about how you're going to cover so much history in a year or how to set your pacing for your history class. It's all done for you! Every day even features multiple activities to keep your students engaged and enjoying your class.
You can read more about the units in American History here and learn about our World History units here. I promise you will not be disappointed. Join for however long you like and download as much as you want! It's all so simple to use and will save you so much time.
These interactive notebook pages are an awesome way to help students organize their thinking, work independently, and demonstrate creative understanding for a wide-range of historical topics! Each page includes a set of student instructions at the top and then they cut, fold, and write on the page or their notebook.
The best part is that students have to think about their own responses because they are not simply copying notes onto an elaborate paper. Each page requires critical thinking and understanding of the topic covered.
After teaching both World and US History for 12 years, I realized I had developed more than enough engaging resources for every day of the school year. I then worked for months to organize them into a Complete Curriculum for both subjects and made both my World and US History curricula available on USB drives on Teachers Pay Teachers to rave reviews.
The only downsides to these were 1) there was no way to push out updates of new resources I created, and 2) the upfront cost was prohibitive for many teachers.
For the past several weeks, I've been setting up the site to include everything for both subjects and also adding Youtube videos and clips, website resources, and more. They're all perfectly organized by unit and then by day with introductions and directions for each unit.
Here's a quick video preview of how the site looks and how you can access resources on it:
Each curriculum includes a ton of Common Core aligned resources, including daily Warm Ups, interactive digital Google Drive Notebooks, traditional and engaging Interactive Notebook pages, amazing lessons in 3D, sets of fantastic, moving Magic Portraits, and so much more! Plus, I'll be adding new resources all the time and subscribers will get immediate access to them all!
PLUS I also set up interactive forums on the site to discuss the resources, share ideas, ask questions, and get to know your fellow history teachers! I'm determined to make this the best online resource for secondary history teachers anywhere!
Please take a look and let me know if you have any questions!
