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Presidential Election 2020 - Distance Learning & Paper Based

By FUNctional Academics Educator

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This is a NO PREP resource!

This is both a digital and paper based resource.

This download includes:

  • 8 different reading pages
  • 3 activity pages with 20 questions
  • Activity pages also available in Google Slides
  • Google Slide vocabulary matching page
  • 2 Google Forms with 25 questions. These Google Forms are self-grading helping you to collect data and save time.
  • Link to Kahoot game with 24 slides/ questions
  • Optional follow up activities

With the upcoming election growing closer students are seeing coverage of it everywhere they turn. This resource is designed as an introductory lesson to the election, political parties and candidates. Students will learn about the presidential and vice presidential candidates, eight key election vocabulary terms, and the political parties. Students will apply learned information with fill in the blank worksheets, differentiate between Democratic and Republican worksheet, a sorting activity and Google Forms.

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World War I Timeline & Activity Bundle Digital & Print | 5th Grade & 6th Grade

By Creative Primary Literacy

This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive and PDF printable equivalent resources. Six complete online lessons, or 6 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!

Included in this bundle:

  • A Google Slides Timeline and Sorting Activity
  • A Google Slides Informational Writing Activity
  • A Google Forms Close Reading Activity
  • A printable PDF Timeline and Sorting Activity
  • A printable PDF Informational Writing Activity
  • A printable PDF Close Reading Activity

It contains a World War I digital timeline research and sorting activity; a digital close reading activity about World War 1; and a digital informational text writing unit. The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 5th grade or 6th grade learning about the the First World War or U.S. History.

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Firstly, there is a great World War I Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key figures and events of the war. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. In total there are 30 posters or task cards that need to be researched and sorted. These can also be printed to make a great classroom display.

Then there is a World War 1 Close Reading Activity. The Google Forms activity comes with an informational text that students need to read through before answering comprehension and grammar questions. An extension writing task is also included.

Finally there is also a World War I Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

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Please ensure when you download this resource into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

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U.S. Revolution Timeline & Activity Bundle Digital & Print | 5th & 6th Grade

By Creative Primary Literacy

This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive. It contains an American Revolutionary War digital timeline research and sorting activity; a digital close reading activity about the war; and a digital informational text writing unit. 6 Online Lessons, or 6 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed! The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 5th grade or 6th grade learning about the American War of Independence or U.S. History.

Firstly, there is a great American Revolution Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key figures and events of the American Revolutionary War. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. In total there are 29 posters or task cards that need to be researched and sorted. These can also be printed to make a great classroom display.

Then there is an American Revolutionary War Close Reading Activity. The Google Forms activity comes with an informational text that students need to read through before answering comprehension and grammar questions. An extension writing task is also included.

Finally there is also an American Revolutionary War Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

Please ensure when you download this resource into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

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World War I Timeline & Activity Bundle Digital & Print | 3rd Grade & 4th Grade

By Creative Primary Literacy

This bundle contains digital resources, either on Google Forms or Google Slides, that link to your Google Drive. It contains a World War I digital timeline research and sorting activity; a digital close reading activity about the war; and a digital informational text writing unit.

6 Online Lessons, or 6 hours of activities, with NO PREP needed!

The Google Forms and Google Slides activities are ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in 3rd grade or 4th grade learning about World History or U.S. History. The PDF versions also come with this bundle so it can be printed.

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Firstly, there is a great World War I Digital Research and Sorting Activity that is perfect for introducing students to some of the key events of the war. Great for class work, distance learning or home schooling. In total there are 30 posters or task cards that need to be researched and sorted. These can also be printed to make a great classroom display.

Then there is a World War 1 Close Reading Activity. The Google Forms activity comes with an informational text that students need to read through before answering comprehension and grammar questions. An extension writing task is also included.

Finally there is also a World War I Informational Text Writing Activity. The activity focuses on key facts about the war, and has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

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Please ensure when you download this resource into Google Drive that you are logged in to the gmail account where you wish to store the activity. In the past teachers have downloaded resources into their school account in error. Thanks :)

This activity is an online resource, that uses Google Slides, and is linked to your Google Drive. It can be completed by students online using tablets or computers. If you are unsure how to allow the students to have their own individual copy take a look at the instructional video below:

Google Classroom - How to make a copy for each student - Assignment

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North America Before European Contact: 5th Grade Studies Weekly: Week 6-8

By Colleen Burdette

Project based learning:

This lessons relate to Studies Weekly weeks 6-8 for 5th grade, but the topics covered certainly work without Studies Weekly. These hands on projects help engage students and lead to better understanding.

Students will study and represent Indigenous People's dwellings, complete an infographic concerning different native tribes, explore being an archaeologist, and work trade routes.

Project based learning helps students approach information in a variety of ways.


What's included:

  • Instructions for teachers.
  • Instructions for students.
  • Data and response sheets.
  • Necessary rubrics.
  • Necessary information cards.
  • Infographic posters to complete.

How is this resource useful:

  • Engaging for students.
  • Low prep for teachers.
  • Hands on.
  • Covers Indiana standards. (5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.H.1, 5.H.3, 5.G.7)
  • Ties into Studies Weekly lessons.
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Protest Worksheets | Protest Activities | Civil Rights Movement | Civil Rights

By Queen's Educational Resources

Protest Worksheets | Protest Activities | Civil Rights Movement | Civil Rights

This resource is also included in the following discounted Bundles:

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  • ELA/SEL MEGA BUNDLE

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ABOUT THIS RESOURCE

★ Protest Activities

29 pages

Suitable for Middle and High School Students

Print and Digital (PDF and Google Slides)

Editable version included

This resource includes:

12 Protest Graphic Organizers (PDF, Google Slides, and EDITABLE)

5 ANSWER KEYS

Google Slide Links

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This resource is also included in Google Slides! Text boxes have already been created to make it easier for you and your students! Each worksheet slide includes two instruction solution tabs for when students accidentally delete text boxes and when they want to zoom in (to enlarge worksheets). It's super helpful for students who are not that familiar with how to use Google Slides or need the extra assistance.
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This resource includes 12 Protest Activities and Graphic Organizers to help students examine and analyze the purpose of protests, causes and effects of protesting, the difference between violent and non-violent protesting, whether the advantages of peaceful protesting outweigh violent protesting, and how protesting can make a difference in addressing the problems our society faces.

These activities can foster great discussions and help students explore questions like “What is the root cause of violence?” “Are nonviolent protests always the best way to achieve change?”, “Is violence ever justified?”, “What factors make protests effective?”, etc.

These activities are also designed to help students analyze past and current protests and demonstrations and consider actions they might take around the issues they care about. Students have opportunities to reflect about what can make their voices uniquely powerful as well as how they can have a real impact on society.

The activities contain breath-taking borders, fonts, and clipart to appeal to your students and make the display of students’ work on bulletin boards visually appealing.

❤ These graphic organizers will make a great addition to ANY LESSON!

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✅ Editable versions are also included. Kindly note that the editable versions do not have the same page borders and fonts as the activities in the PDF and Google Slides versions due to copyright terms by other contributing artists. The fonts included in the editable versions are TimesNewRoman and Calibri to ensure that they are organized and accessible to you. You may change borders, fonts, texts, images as you wish to meet the needs of your students!!

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The Protest Graphic Organizers feature the following topics:

⭐ Peaceful vs. Violent Forms of Protests (and ANSWER KEY)

⭐ Effects of Peaceful and Violent Protests (and ANSWER KEY)

⭐ Advantages vs. Disadvantages of Non-Violent and Violent Protests (and ANSWER KEY)

⭐ Examining Protests and Demonstrations

⭐ Why Protesters Resort to Violence – Causes and Triggers

⭐ Your Perspective on Protesting

⭐ Comparing Protests Venn Diagram (You choose protests to analyze)

2 Protest Details

⭐ Making Inferences About Protests (under study) and Citing Evidence

2 Protest Tactics and Outcomes

Lesson plans are not included. You can use these activities in addition to your own lesson plans and in such a way that best meets the needs of your students.

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MOCK TRIAL: Class Preparation

By Sarah Austin

This resource will provide students with an introductory framework from which to understand the judiciary process. Students will delve into the fundamental aspects of a courtroom such as: the basic structure and lay-out of a courtroom, the function of different roles (judge, jury, defense, prosecutor), and the common procedures and language used in a courtroom environment. Students will also explore the importance of how to create an opening and closing statement, the legal grounds of when to object, and understand the dynamics of a direct and cross examination. This resource will be very useful for teachers who are searching for an engaging & informative way to introduce students to the concept of mock trials.

Materials:

  • Teacher Reference Guide
  • One 32 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes
  • One 12 Slide Presentation & Guided Notes (Step by Step Application)
  • Mock Trial Handouts
  1. Jury Role Play
  2. Opening Statement
  3. Closing Statement
  4. Objections
  5. Debriefing

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Jim Crow Laws: Interactive Primary Source

By Sarah Austin

This resource will have students critically explore the period of the Jim Crow era, with a focus on the segregation of schools. This highly engaging, interactive, primary based Slide Presentation will have students analyze and understand the implications of the Jim Crow laws, along with the monumental Supreme Court decisions of 'Plessy v. Ferguson', and 'Brown V. Board of Education'.

The teacher will have a choice of three supplementary activities; 

  • The 1st Optional Activity will have students analyze four political cartoons. Students will identify whether the author was FOR or AGAINST the Jim Crow Laws, & describe supportive details from the cartoon on their POLITICAL CARTOON HANDOUT.

  • The 2nd Optional Activity will have students critically read a primary source article titled ‘A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS’, and respond to text dependent questions in their **‘**TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS QUESTIONS HANDOUT. The teacher can do a read-aloud, OR students can read independently. Class discussion is encouraged.

  • The 3rd Optional Activity will have students analyze a film titled ‘FREEDOM SONG’. Students will apply their knowledge from their guided notes, and respond to open-ended questions in their FREEDOM SONG HANDOUT.

Materials Include:

  • Teacher Reference Guide
  • 38 Slide Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout (Answer Key Included)
  • A Tale of Two Schools' Supplementary Reading Comprehension Activity
  • 'Freedom Song' Movie Handout

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Women's Suffrage: Iron Jawed Angels Film

By Sarah Austin

This resource will have students explore the arduous journey of how women came to have the right to vote in the United States. The Slide Presentation is full of interactive visuals, discussion & debate topics, and engaging video clips from the movie 'Iron Jawed Angels'-- all of which will encourage students to delve deeper into examining the events & factors that led to the passage of the 19th Amendment. The core of this lesson involves cultivating critical reading skills by having students compare two different portrayals of how women gained suffrage (American History textbook, V. the film 'Iron Jawed Angels').

Materials Include:

  • Teacher Reference Guide
  • Slide Presentation (61 slides) with video clips from the movie 'Iron Jawed Angels'
  • Guided Notes, Venn Diagram & Answer Key
  • American History Textbook PDF

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  • The Ku Klux Klan: The Past & Today
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Japanese American Internment: Comparing Primary & Secondary Sources

By Sarah Austin

This lesson will have students analyze and explore secondary and primary sources of information that pertain to the Japanese- American internment experience in the United States during WWII. Students will critically examine the way in which the internment camps were presented to the public through the portrayal of the U.S. government and their use of propaganda, and from the drawings and paintings of the Japanese-American internees who lived in the camps.

The Slide Presentation is full of interactive visuals, discussion topics & hands-on activities that provoke critical thought, & will encourage students to delve deeper into the ‘politics’ of how history is presented.

Materials Include:

  • Teacher Reference Guide
  • One 56 Google Slide Presentation
  • Guided Notes & Venn Diagram
  • Answer Key
  • 3 Optional Extension Activities

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  • Civil Rights Movements: Then and Today
  • César Chavez: Analyzing Primary Sources

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U.S. Imperialism UNIT: Interactive Notebook

By Sarah Austin

Interactive Notebooks are an effective, creative & engaging way to encourage your students to take an active role in their learning process. This unit on U.S. Imperialism will invite students to take a journey through time—having them critically explore colonialism from a variety of perspectives through the analysis of primary sourced based materials. Students will demonstrate their understandings through hands-on projects and discussion pieces. The graphic organizers and foldables in this resource are designed to be folded, cut, glued, & written upon in effort to enhance your instruction of history. A summative multiple choice assessment is included!

Materials:

  • Teacher Reference Guide
  • Slide Presentation (91 Slides) with video clips
  • Interactive Notebook Student Handouts
  • Secondary Sources: ‘A Peoples’ History’ & a chapter from U.S. Textbook
  • Unit Exam & Answer Key

Time Frame:

  • 1.5 weeks

Topics covered include:

  • Japan- ‘Gunboat Diplomacy’
  • Alaska- Seward’s Purchase
  • Hawaii- Annexation
  • Midway Islands
  • Cuba- Spanish American War
  • Philippines
  • Panama Canal & the Obstacles
  • China- The Open Door Policy

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Civil Rights Movements: Then and Today

By Sarah Austin

Engage your students in having them draw important connections between the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s and contemporary grassroots movements taking place in the United States. This lesson will prompt students to analyze short documentary video clips that focus on six different contemporary grassroots movements:

1) Women’s March

2) Immigration

3) Standing Rock

4) Black Lives Matter

5) Climate Change

6) Teacher Strikes

With the corresponding video clips, students will fill out a provided T-chart that will identify the following aspects of each movement:

1) Desired Outcome/Changes

2) Group(s) involved

3) Strategies

4) Obstacle/Challenges

5) Questions

Hands-on activities: Two relevant, critical thinking activities follow that involve having students take their prior knowledge of the Civil Rights era (1950/60’s) and;

1. Using a Venn diagram, students will compare this time period with current day grassroots movements.

2. Each group will then discuss what issues are relevant and meaningful for them. Students will choose an issue that they wish to see change, and then as a group, will create a poster that promotes their cause.

Time frame for lesson:

  • 3-4 class periods (60 min) *If time is an issue; the teacher can choose from the six contemporary movements that he/she would like for their students to focus on.

Materials:

  • One 21 Slide Presentation
  • Detailed lesson plan
  • Digital Student Handouts:
  1. HANDOUT #1- PowerPoint T-Chart
  2. HANDOUT#2- Venn Diagram
  3. HANDOUT#3- Grading Rubrics
  4. HANDOUT #4- Rethinking schools blog: Making People’s History in Arizona: Educator’s Rise Up

*Note:

Students will have already learned about the Civil Rights era. This lesson serves as a critical thinking extension activity that encourages students to draw connections to contemporary grass roots movements & the Civil Rights movement.

Civil Rights Movement, current events, grassroots, racism, controversy, poster, Trump

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Child Labor: Compare Industrial Era to Present Day

By Sarah Austin

This lesson involves having students examine the impacts of the Industrial Era in the United States with a specific focus on child labor. It is recommended that students will have explored, to some degree, the Industrial era prior to this lesson. This resource will prompt students to analyze social activist Lewis Hines' photographs that depict the various jobs and working conditions that children experienced. The Slide Presentation is interactive, problem posing, and vicariously draws the students into the lives of the children of the Industrial era.

Optional Extension Activity: Students compare and contrast the child labor of the Industrial era with the child labor that exists today. A 22 minute documentary film titled 'Zoned for Slavery: The Child Behind the Label' supplements this lesson.

This lesson includes:

  • Slide Presentation [59 Slides]
  • Student Guided Notes
  • Venn Diagram Handout

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Mystery: What Caused the Great Depression?

By Sarah Austin

Have your students see themselves through the lens of an investigator, exploring a complex and important inquiry…. ‘What factors caused the Great Depression’? Students, or your class investigators, will examine a variety of context clues and information that will help them solve this question. Students will identify the causal clues along with its effects, and then create a ‘LOOP’ (web) diagram that will serve to demonstrate their understandings of how these underlying causes interconnect with one another. This unit will prompt your students to become active learners in their pursuit of solving the mystery.

*This unit will have students explore dynamics of the 1920's, Great Depression, and the New Deal.

In addition, there are 3 optional extension activities to choose from:

  1. Comparing advertising from the 1920's to today, and filling out a Venn diagram.
  2. Listening to FDR's first fire side chat, and answering comprehension questions.
  3. New Deal Matching Game: Analyzing & matching New Deal programs with the problems they attempted to address.

Materials:

  • Teacher Reference Guide

  • Google Slide Presentation with engaging & informative video clips
  • Guided Notes
  • Loop Diagram (Web) Grading Rubrics
  • New Deal Matching Game 

  • Answer Key

Time Frame: 1.5- 2 weeks (1 hr class periods)

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Post Zombie Apocalypse: What Form of Government Would YOU Create?

By Sarah Austin

Are you looking to engage your students in the study of different forms of GOVERNMENT?

This Post-Zombie Apocalypse simulation is the perfect way to get your students excited and engaged with

1) learning about different forms of government &

2) Applying this knowledge and creating their own form of government.

The slide presentation will guide both the teacher and the student through note-taking, student discussions/debate, and activities.

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