7th Grade Social Studies & History Assessment

This resource uses the Odd One Out format to review geographical facts related to Africa. From a list of 4 items, students will determine which item does not belong and then how the other 3 are related. Included is 20 Placards, an answer document, and an answer key.

Help your students understand how the American Revolution started with this Battles of Lexington and Concord Reading Comprehension Passage that is designed for grades 4, 5, and 6.

This resource provides a detailed account of the Standoff at Lexington and the Battle at Concord by exploring key events such as the rising tensions, the British plan, Paul Revere’s legendary ride, and the significant standoffs and battles that sparked a nation’s quest for independence.

The passage is accompanied by a set of written response questions, multiple-choice questions, and a helpful context clues graphic organizer.

Answer keys have also been provided to ensure seamless integration into lesson plans.

This is an appropriate resource to use on Patriot's Day to honor the brave people who fought for America's independence.

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Unlock a powerful, multimedia learning experience with this 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit designed for grades 7 and up. Perfectly suited for middle and high school students, this comprehensive unit takes a deep dive into the complex themes of immigration, refugee experiences, human rights, and resilience, offering a diverse range of engaging activities, discussions, and assessments to enhance your students’ understanding of migration.

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

This unit is packed with dynamic content, carefully curated to foster critical thinking, empathy, and real-world connections to the global immigration experience. Whether you're teaching ELA, Social Studies, or Civics, this resource makes it easy to cover key learning standards while keeping students deeply engaged.

Key Features:

• 18-Day Overview with links: An organized, day-by-day curriculum featuring thought-provoking discussions, debates, and creative projects.
• Multimedia Approach: Engage students with film (A Better Life), poetry (e.g., "Home" by Warsan Shire), art, and political cartoons to explore different perspectives on migration.
• Political Cartoon Capstone Project: Culminate the unit with an original political cartoon that challenges students to think critically and creatively about immigration or refugee issues.
• Full-Length Essay: Scaffolded instruction to help students write a STAAR-aligned ECR Extended Constructed Response informational essay on U.S. immigration changes over time.
• Student-Led Socratic Seminars: Foster meaningful student discussion through Socratic seminars on immigration themes, encouraging students to reflect on resilience and media representation.
• Collaborative Projects: Group activities like creating a one-pager on legal immigration pathways and a debate on immigration rights help students work together to deepen their learning.
• Visual Analysis Activities: Analyze and create political cartoons on immigration, developing students' understanding of how media portrays immigration issues.
• Adaptable for Grades 7-12: Scaffolded activities that can be easily modified to fit your students’ grade level, ensuring accessibility for middle and high school learners.

What’s Included:

• Detailed 18-Day Unit Plan: Complete lesson breakdowns and objectives for each day.
• Engaging Activities: Four Corners debates, circle discussions, Socratic seminars, and peer editing sessions.
• Poetry Analysis: Focus on powerful immigration-themed poems like Warsan Shire’s "Home" to build empathy and understanding.
• Film-Based Learning: Dive deep into the immigrant experience with the film A Better Life, supported by guiding discussion questions.
• Political Cartoon Creation & Analysis: Encourage creativity and visual literacy with a capstone political cartoon project, complete with a rubric, directions, and planning sheets.
• Extended Constructed Response (ECR) Essay Assignment: Guide students through writing a detailed essay on the historical shifts in U.S. immigration policies, helping them gather evidence and structure their argument.

Perfect for:

• English Language Arts (ELA) Teachers: Integrate critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing skills into your curriculum through immigration-related poetry, essays, and discussions.
• Social Studies & Civics Teachers: This unit aligns with standards related to immigration, human rights, and social justice, making it an ideal choice for interdisciplinary learning.
• Project-Based Learning: Teachers seeking hands-on, creative projects that encourage students to connect real-world issues with classroom content.
• Middle & High School Classrooms: Adaptable for grades 7-12, making it perfect for different learning levels and classroom settings.

Benefits for Your Classroom:

• Standards-Aligned: Fully aligned with ELA, social studies, and civics standards for middle and high school.
• Easy to Implement: Clear, step-by-step instructions and a well-organized unit plan make it easy to integrate into your teaching.
• Creative & Engaging: Helps students develop both analytical and creative skills through a variety of learning activities and projects.
• Fosters Critical Thinking: Encourages deep reflection and discussion on complex issues like immigration policy, human rights, and media portrayal.
• Boosts Empathy: Through multimedia and personal stories, this unit helps students build empathy for people facing migration and displacement.

Bring immigration to life for your students with this engaging, interactive, and thought-provoking 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit. Get your classroom discussing, debating, creating, and writing about one of the most critical global issues of our time!

Teaching with comics and/or cartoons is a great way to get students engaged in their learning process. What kid doesn't like comic strips? Teaching students how to read and create political comics/cartoons requires not only the basics of blooms such as comprehension and understanding but encourages students to reach higher by applying and analyzing the details around the topic they are exploring.

This lesson is very versatile and can be used to cover a wide range of topics related to history, current or future events within the world geography, history, civics, etc. classrooms.

Includes all that is needed:

• Samples of political cartoons with analysis.

• Cartoon strip reproducible

• Speaking and thinking bubbles reproducible

• Detailed teacher instructions including introduction, procedure, and closure/evaluation

• Resources for digital classrooms

• How to analyze political cartoons handout

• Create a cartoon plan sheet

• Tone and Mood reproducible

Note: this lesson may take up to 90 minutes depending on the ability level and work-pace of your students.

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Looking for fun lessons and activities that will keep your students engaged and your prep-time to a minimum? Then the Ancient Greece and Rome Activity Bundle is right for you!

Enhance your classroom's study of the Ancient/Classical Greek and Roman civilizations with these 16 amazing resources! Save BIG when you purchase this bundle with 16 fun and engaging lessons, assessments, and activities!

Included in the bundle are...

• EIGHT Interactive Reading Lessons (notes, reading passages, built-in warm-ups, review questions, writing prompts, and exit tickets)
• Two sets of PowerPoint Notes with corresponding Foldable Activity and Graphic Organizer
• Worksheets, Crosswords/Word Searches (with answer keys)
• Editable Unit Test (for The Roman Empire Unit)
• Exploring Empires Project (for individual or group assignment)

Topics covered...

• Greek Geography and First Civilizations
• Greek Philosophers
• Athens and Sparta
• Alexander the Great
• Roman Geography
• The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
• Julius Caesar
• The Roman Empire
• Roman Emperors
• The Fall of Rome
• Roman Culture, Literature, Language
• Justinian's Code and the Byzantine Empire
• The Latin Language
• Christianity and the Roman Empire
• And more!

Your students will love learning about Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire through these tried and tested activities, suitable for any middle school or high school classroom!

15 World War posters with ELA/SS/History writing activities or discussion starters for secondary students. Use as individual assignments or with small/whole group settings. Excellent graphics with 3 thought provoking prompts per each page.Includes: use: Propaganda (Definitions, Activity for defining, and application of) Critical thinking skills Analysis Explanation Illustrating Inferencing Designing Problem Solving Segregation and much more! Excellent for teaching fact-based, textual evidence with inferencing and critical thinking, as well as for standardized testing practice.

This biography WebQuest has 10 questions that explore life, achievements, and contributions. Each question has a link for students to explore.

An answer key is included on the final page of the answer key document.

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This bundle includes every product in my Socratic Seminar Bundle line. Multiple novels and short stories are included for grades 6-12! My students LOVE Socratic Seminars, and I often use them as their final assessment grade. The can be used in small literature circle groups, or with a full class. Please ask if you have any questions!

Engage Your Grade 6 Students with "Canadian Communities: Past & Present" - Podcasts and Study Guides!

This comprehensive resource package is designed to enhance your teaching of the first part of the Ontario Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum: Canadian Communities: Past & Present. Bring this fascinating topic to life with engaging podcasts and reinforce learning with accompanying study guides, quizzes, essay questions, and glossaries.

What's Included:

This package is organised into four key units, mirroring the curriculum expectations:

• Choosing Canada as a Home: Explore the diverse reasons why people immigrated to Canada, examining push and pull factors, and the challenges and opportunities they encountered.

• Establishing Canadian Communities: Delve into the establishment and development of various communities across Canada, highlighting the contributions of different groups and the impact of geography and historical events.

• Interaction Among Communities: Examine the complex interactions between different communities in Canada, exploring both cooperation and conflict, and the ongoing journey towards reconciliation.

• Exploring Canadian Identity: Engage students in thoughtful discussions about what it means to be Canadian, considering the diverse perspectives and experiences that shape Canadian identity.

Each unit folder contains the following resources:

• Engaging Podcasts: Two identical podcasts (provided in both WAV and MP3 formats for maximum compatibility) bring the curriculum content to life through dynamic conversations. Podcast lengths vary from 8 to 18 minutes.

• Comprehensive Study Guides ("FAQs"): Reinforce key concepts and address common student questions with detailed study guides. These FAQs provide a valuable resource for independent study and review.

• Short Answer Quizzes with Answer Keys: Assess student understanding with short answer quizzes, complete with answer keys for easy grading and feedback.

• Thought-Provoking Essay Questions: Encourage critical thinking and deeper analysis with a list of essay questions that prompt students to explore complex themes and issues related to Canadian communities.

• Glossaries of Key Terms: Support vocabulary development and ensure students understand essential terminology with glossaries of key terms for each unit.

How to Use This Resource:

• In-Class Listening: Use the podcasts during class time to introduce new concepts, spark discussions, and engage auditory learners.

• Independent Study: Assign podcasts and study guides for homework or independent study, allowing students to learn at their own pace.

• Assessment Tools: Utilize the quizzes and essay questions to assess student understanding and critical thinking skills.

• Differentiated Instruction: The variety of resources provided allows for differentiated instruction, catering to diverse learning styles and needs.

Benefits for Teachers:

• Saves Valuable Prep Time: This ready-to-use resource package saves you valuable time and effort in lesson planning and material creation.

• Enhances Student Engagement: The engaging podcasts and interactive activities capture student interest and make learning more enjoyable.

• Supports Curriculum Objectives: The resources are aligned with the Ontario Grade 6 Social Studies curriculum, ensuring that your teaching effectively covers the required learning outcomes.

• Provides Flexible Learning Options: The variety of resources allows for flexible use in different classroom settings and learning environments.

Bring Canadian history to life in your classroom! Download this comprehensive resource package today and empower your students to explore the rich and complex story of Canadian communities.

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This product includes adapted notes about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. After reviewing the packet, students can complete the questions - short answer, fill in the blanks, and true false at the end of the product independently or with support.

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Are you studying Ancient Rome and want students to have access to a great proforma to research and prepare an essay response.

This booklet is complete preparation task. Its provides clear scaffolding from decoding the words of the research to guides on what to include in each paragraph.

This has been successful used by numerous educators to help students learning to write analytical essays.

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Throughout history, man has used engineering to solve many problems and to create some architectural wonders. Your job is to create a timeline of engineering accomplishments throughout history.

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Have your students create a trading card for historical figures! Research a famous person and create a trading card to share important information about what they learn! A quick and free activity!

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Discard the paper/pencil approach to assessment. This quiz will have students access their knowledge of important facts and information regarding the United States' Civil War in an interactive & engaging way. This PowerPoint presentation is rich in primary sources and colorful imagery that will prompt students to examine context clues when answering the provided questions. If you liked this lesson see other related ‘Civil War’ lessons here: • Civil War Role Play/Debate Activity (click here to open in new tab)

Are you looking for a way to incorporate some movement into your lesson on the Stone Age? Try out this Stone Age Scavenger Hunt that focuses on the basic facts.

How to use this product:

Cut the 10 cards and place them around the classroom.

Groups of students will start at different 'letters' to avoid congestion.

Have students record their answers on the recording sheet.

If students find their way back to their original card, they will know (and you will too!) that they have completed the scavenger hunt successfully.

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No Prep, minimal Marking:

Power Point with video links Graphic Organizers with teacher notes in PDF and Google Slides, Journal Response choice questions and Rubric.

Covers The Fur Trade, Indigenous and European Interactions, Affects on the Indigenous people and the environment, The Voyageurs, Coureur de Bois, North West Trade company, Hudson's Bay Co., Alexander Mackenzie and Henry Hudson.

This Bundle of resources uses the Odd One Out format to review geographical facts related to North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia and Oceania. From a list of 4 items, students will determine which item does not belong and then how the other 3 are related. Included is 20 Placards, an answer document, and an answer key.

This is a set of 3 American Revolution Reading Comprehension Passages with Multiple Choice Questions.

It is perfect for students in grades 4, 5, and 6, and even suitable for 7th-grade learners looking to dive into the history of the American Revolution.

The passages include;

• What was The American Revolution? This passage breaks down the big event that started it all and explains why it’s such an important part of American history.
• Causes of The American Revolution: Here, students will read about the different factors that led the thirteen colonies to fight for their independence.
• Key Events of The American Revolution: From the Boston Tea Party to the Declaration of Independence, this passage covers the major events that students need to know.

Each passage is accompanied by 10 thought-provoking multiple-choice questions, designed to assess comprehension and critical thinking skills. Plus, we've included answer keys for easy grading and feedback.

Whether you’re teaching the whole class, breaking into discussion groups, or assigning independent work, these passages are flexible and fun. They’re a great resource for any history lesson.

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1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit Grades 6+ | Project, Essay, Assessments, Seminar

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Explore the theme of equity and disabilities in schools and society with this 18-day unit designed for grades 6+. Students will engage with informational texts, videos, and case studies, leading to a STAAR-aligned extended essay and research project. This resource includes Socratic seminars, assessments, and creative projects to promote critical thinking and empathy. Perfect for SEL, humanities, and cross-curricular classrooms.

2. 18-Day Human Migration & Immigration Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Poetry, Assessments

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Dive into the global topic of migration and immigration with this 18-day thematic unit for grades 7+. Through poetry, short stories, and informational texts, students will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of immigrants. Includes project-based assessments, writing tasks, and creative multimedia projects to foster understanding and empathy. A great resource for ELA, social studies, and SEL instruction.

3. 18-Day Multimedia Anti-Bullying Thematic Unit for Grades 5-8 | SEL Humanities

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This 18-day multimedia unit on anti-bullying for grades 5-8 engages students with a range of media—films, political cartoons, short stories, and songs—to understand the impact of bullying in schools and society. Includes two Socratic seminars, a STAAR-aligned extended essay, and a creative capstone project. Ideal for SEL-focused classrooms and humanities teachers.

4. 19-Day Social Identity Unit | Low Prep | Grades 6-8 | Texts, Videos, and Project

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Help students explore their own social identity and the factors that shape it in this 19-day unit for grades 6-8. The unit includes videos, readings, and group projects focused on themes like identity, community, and belonging. A low-prep, high-impact resource that encourages self-reflection and empathy through engaging multimedia activities and a culminating project.

5. 20-Day Social Media Mental Health Unit Grades 7+ | Project, Essay, Assessments

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Explore the intersection of social media and mental health in this 20-day unit for grades 7+. Students will examine the effects of social media on well-being through informational texts, videos, and podcasts. Includes a STAAR-aligned essay, Socratic seminar, and multimedia project, making it an essential resource for teaching critical thinking and digital literacy.

6. 7-Day World Religions Research & Presentation Unit: Interdisciplinary Grades 6-8

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This 7-day research and presentation unit allows students to explore major world religions through research-based learning. Perfect for grades 6-8, students will develop presentations on various religions, fostering understanding and global awareness. Includes guided research templates, presentation rubrics, and cross-curricular connections.

7. Human Rights 5-Day Research and Writing Unit | Middle School Social Essay Project

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Introduce your middle school students to the concept of human rights in this 5-day research and writing unit. Students will engage with informational texts to explore human rights issues globally and locally, culminating in a social justice essay project. This unit is ideal for quick yet impactful lessons that combine research, writing, and advocacy.