North Korean Museum Guide Lesson on the Korean War

This amazing lesson utilizes incredibly RARE, hard-to-find documents from a North Korean museum guidebook to analyze the Korean War from North Korea's viewpoint!

These documents give a fascinating insight into the hyper-propagandistic perspective of North Korea and why the current regime is so antagonistic toward the United States. With the current tension over Kim Jong-un's threats and missile tests, this is a wonderful resource for you to use in your classes!

Have your students analyze the wonderfully communist writing style of North Korea, such as:

"Long live peerless Patriot General Kim II Sung!"

"In Defence of Azure Sky of Fatherland"

"What awaits US imperialist aggressors is only defeat and death!"

Included in this download is a 2 page worksheet, 1 page of directions and suggested lesson extensions, and 20 pages of documents from the "Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum" in Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK)!

You can download this entire resource here. It is truly a fascinating lesson that can be adapted for AP or IB classes down through traditional middle school students based on the suggested extensions and included resources!

     

Flash Freebie on Modern Ethnic & Religious Conflicts

I've had a great week and wanted to celebrate and thank everyone out there who has supported me, the blog, and my store! I just posted a new worksheet reading on modern ethnic and religious conflicts around the world that will be free to download for the next 24 hours!

  

I use it for my 10th grade World History II students to cover recently added standards on conflicts around the modern world. Please head here and download yours! After 24 hours, this will go up to its regular price $1.49

Thanks so much for all your support!

Great Video Resource - The Cloud Biography

As my classes are finishing up our content before state assessments begin and moving toward more reviews. A great resource for short video biographies is the Youtube channel of The Cloud Biography.

Each of their videos are between 2-4 minutes and highlight the essential things students need to know. They seemingly have hundreds of videos on almost every major person from World and US History - including some that are hard to find good information for.

For example, here's one on Robespierre for my World History II students:

Or Susan B. Anthony for US History:

I posted a bunch of them to my class' Blackboard site for students to view at home and will show a couple on the most important people in class. Fantastic because they take up very little class time, but are focused on good content!

EVERY Resource to Review US History!

This amazing set of review materials is everything you need to get your American or US History students ready for a final exam or state assessment!

Included in this bundle is:

1. The Ultimate American History Review Packet and Notes - a 17 page packet and 34 slide Powerpoint that covers ALL essential information students need to know about ALL of American History!
2. The Complete US History Outline Review Guide - 15 pages of fill-in outline notes from all of US History
3. The Snoop Dogg Review Guide Bundle - all 4 Snoop Dogg American History cloze review guides.
4. The Early American History Vocabulary Word Search Review - to cover early vocabulary. 

Plus 2 bonus review guides on important quotes from US History AND 2 bonus 50 Question practice exams! Both exams could serve as amazing final exams for your class!

 All of these have helped me to have among the highest pass rates in the county on our state assessment! Each is fantastic for visual learners, ELL, and special education students because it breaks down complex topics in US History in simple ways students can understand.

I promise you these are fantastic review materials that will DEFINITELY help your students prepare for an exam!

Space Race Newspaper and Timeline Lesson Plan

This is a fantastic, visual lesson on America and the Soviet Union's Space Race during the Cold War! It includes 11 one-page readings on key events in the space race that students use to create newspaper pages.

Students then present their newspapers and create timelines to see how the Soviets and Americans progressed. Everything you need for this lesson is included: easy to follow directions, a great newspaper template, all the readings, samples, and an answer key.

The events include: Sputnik, Laika the Dog, John Glenn, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, the Voyager, Hubble, and more. This can be differentiated in your classes by having students work in pairs, groups, or individually.

I love it because it captures the artists, writers, visual and kinesthetic learners all in one lesson!

You can find more pictures of this lesson here on Facebook. While there, you can "Like" my page on for updates, free giveaways, links, and more! Thanks!

How Technology & BYOD can Transform Education

Here is a great clip about the Katy school system and how they moved to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in order to increase student engagement. It's from Cisco so obviously there's a bias there, but it doesn't take away from the points made by the educators. Lots of good points here:

America's Founding Fathers Magic Motion PowerPoint Lesson

This amazing lesson features a PowerPoint on America's Founding Fathers filled with Harry Potter-style "magical portraits" that move, blink, smile, and look around your classroom!

Turn a boring PowerPoint into a dynamic activity that will engage your visual learners and have your students gasping when they see Thomas Jefferson smile and wink at them! I promise they will be howling with delight!

The PowerPoint includes a warm up, notes for each founding father, and 7 moving video portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Mason!

The videos are also separate files that you can insert anywhere or use in any other resource. You can download this lesson as a zipped folder by clicking here.