Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Digital Interactive Notebooks With Google Drive

I'm really excited to tell you about these brand new resources for your secondary history classes! They are sets of fully-editable, digital online Interactive Notebooks using Google Drive!


Each is based on hugely popular traditional interactive notebook sets, however these can be completed all online with laptops, tablets, phones, or any other device that supports Google Drive!

Current sets include the Great Depression, World War 2, and the Civil War. And more sets are on their way soon!

For each, students type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! This is a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab. They are also fully printable if you want students to save them in their notebooks.

Answer keys are included with each set of interactive notebook pages along with 2 pages of teacher directions. All you only need is a Google account and you're ready to go!

You can download these  digital Interactive Notebooks by clicking here!

 

If you think you'd like access to these plus over 500 other amazing lessons for throughout the school year, check out my new site - StudentsofHistory.org! For one monthly subscription, you get immediate access to all of these Google Drive resources, plus PowerPoints, project-based learning, interactive notebooks, review materials, tests, and more!

Check out my American History and World History curricula and how to join today!

Thanks for looking!



Saturday, January 16, 2016

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 Lesson Plan

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!

Hamilton Musical PowerPoint


Monday, November 9, 2015

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!

Thanks for looking!

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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!

Monarchs Notebook Lesson

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!

Absolute Monarchs Interactive Notebook  Absolute Monarchs Interactive Notebook

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!

Thanks for looking!

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

Thursday, September 24, 2015

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!

Thanks so much for looking!