8th Grade Social Studies & History Assessment (by date, oldest first)

Toolkit for discussion-based teaching! This 10-page editable document includes participation evaluation worksheets, role-playing exercises, and discussion trackers that you might use to improve your Harkness discussions and socratic seminars.

Here is what you'll get in this 10-page document:

• Participation Self-Evaluation Worksheets: The first two handouts will invite students to reflect on how well they are listening, thinking, speaking, asking questions, and using evidence. These editable handouts can be used as a student self-evaluation worksheet; or they can be used by the teacher to provide feedback and grades on students' participation. (2 pages)

• Formulating Questions Handout: This handout provides students with advice about how to formulate effective questions. Whether your class is about to embark on a series of student led-discussions, or your class is about to write papers about topics of their choosing, this handout will help them to formulate genuine interpretive questions that are grounded in concrete textual evidence. (1 page)

• Discussion Role-Playing Exercise: Challenge your students to develop their discussion skills by assigning each student a particular role to play during a discussion. This handout contains a list of roles such as "questioner," "text referencer," "clarifier," "focuser," and so on. The experience of playing these roles will help your students to develop concrete skills and to expand their awareness of the range of different contributions they can make to a discussion. At the same time, it will prompt students to reflect upon the discussion skills they exercise habitually as well as the ones they experience as more challenging. (3 pages)

• Harkness Discussion Trackers: Four discussion tracking sheets will enable you to keep track of how many times each student spoke during a Harkness discussion. The trackers also feature "keys" that will enable you to keep track of the kinds of contributions made by each student: questions, textual references, building comments, etc. The keys are editable so that you decide to track the particular skills that your class may be working on at any given moment in the year. Want to track when your students work through a constructive disagreement? Just add "CD" to the tracking key! (4 pages)

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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.

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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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This resource uses the Odd One Out format to review geographical facts related to Europe. 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 resource uses the Odd One Out format to review geographical facts related to Asia. 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 resource uses the Odd One Out format to review geographical facts related to 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 product is a set of 3-Way Matching Cards of World Landmarks with the Name of the Landmark, the Location, and Picture of the Landmark. There are 10 slides with 3 sets of 3-Way match cards on each slide for a total of 30 sets.

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.

This is a bundle of 14 Lessons that introduce various topics of World Cultures. Topics include Types of Maps, Continents and Oceans, 50 States, Government, Economics, Culture, Inventions, and Landmarks.

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 80+ question assessment is a great way to evaluate what your students know going into the school year, what they have learned during the first semester as well as what knowledge and skills they have gained by the end of the school year.

Why waste precious time creating a thorough and effective test when it has already been done for you? Use this clean and well-put-together assessment over and over again throughout the school year to assess your students.

Comes with questions, a student answer sheet, and a teacher's key. Covers a wide variety of concepts such as map and graph reading, culture, government, economics, basic map reading skills, and religion. Took 8 hours to compile the test.

To save paper, make a class copy of the test and print out an answer sheet, one for each student. Have students write their name on the back of the last page of the test booklet just in case it is written in.

Please note: if you find this test is long for your group of students, please know that by modifying it (copying and pasting it to a new Word document the questions you wish for your students to answer), I do not consider this breach of copyright for any of my lessons. I expect that all teachers will modify, to a point, my resources to meet their students' needs and abilities. This assessment is "thorough" in order to give you an accurate understanding of what your students already know. It was created for the purpose of using itat the beginning of the year, mid-year, and end-of-year to measure what your students have learned.

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Geography teachers, are you always looking for a great Getting To Know You back-to-school geography icebreaker activity for the beginning of the year for all ages? This activity will encourage your students to become familiar with their classmates as they work in groups and rotate through various stations. What a great introduction to basic geography skills such as graphs, charts, maps, and the concept of culture. It truly teaches geography skills all the while allowing students to collaborate, have fun, and get to know one another.

This lesson has received high ratings from TeachShare users across the country.

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As teachers, we always need additional resources to help make planning easier. Through the years, I have compiled this list of Bloom's Taxonomy action verbs, stems, and sample questions to assist in planning for Geography and Social Studies lessons. There are a series of questions and stems for knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It is always nice to have this handy to refer to while planning.

Using Bloom's Taxonomy allows you to ascertain if your students have a basic understanding, yet allows you to raise the bar in developing guiding questions via cognitive, psychomotor & affective domains.

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Are you always looking for a good pretest & post-test for your students? We have worked hard to develop a pretest bundle that includes a pretest for each continent: North America, South American, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia. Use these pretests to gain knowledge of where your students are before you begin your unit and then use the test as a post-test to see what students gained during the unit. All answers included. Tests questions are centered around: Physical, economic, cultural, government. Take a moment to view the preview. Don't want to use it as a pretest? Use it as a scavenger hunt or a simple handout.

☑ 7 Individual Pretests (Pre-assessments): North America, Central & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

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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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A culminating activity for students to work in groups to revisit what they learned throughout the year. Students will be able to see what they have accomplished and how much they have learned while having fun with their classmates through this game. This is designed for an end-of-year activity; however, the concept can be used every grading period (6-weeks, 4 quarters, semesters, etc) for review. Students will work in groups to recall as much geographical information as they can from the year and will be given the opportunity to win points by fact-checking and challenging others' facts. Students will have fun with this game while reviewing information.

Materials:

• Notebook Paper

• Writing Utensils & Highlighters

• Computer for Fact-Checking

• Concept Guide Sheet

• 5 Point Tokens (20 Per Group)

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No two students enter a classroom with identical abilities, experiences, and needs. Learning style, language proficiency, background knowledge, readiness to learn, and other factors can vary widely within a single class group.

Need a lesson plan that motivates your students to** work cooperatively** while **self/peer teaching **through his/her own interests? Can't find time to spend hours creating a multiple intelligence's lesson? This lesson can be **used multiple times throughout the year **and is written to be versatile to almost any subject or topic being studied.

Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences.

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• Teacher instructions
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• Graphic organizers
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These graphic organizers are a great resource to use when reading content, taking class notes, for formative assessment, or incorporating into other assignments and activities. These can be used on a daily basis and in a variety of settings. Ready-to-pint!

It has been proven that students who are able visually to organize the content retain it better. These 10 organizers will teach students how visually organize the information presented in social studies, science, math, and language arts. I use these on a daily basis to help students learn how to organize the material being covered. The T-Note organizer is a great training tool to use in teaching students how to create clear and neat notes. It also encourages students to inquire. Once you purchase these, you will be able to save them to your computer and tweak them to use in your classroom.

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Want to create aesthetic, useful task cards for your class, but just don't have the time to create a template? This pre-made, reusable template will help you save time. You can adapt these tasks cars to any social studies lesson. All you need is 24 questions and Microsoft Word, Photoshop, Adobe editor, or another program that will let you add graphics and text.

Included in this package:

A PDF Template (Add your questions using an Adobe editing program such as Adobe Reader)

A Microsoft Word Document (Add text boxes and questions)

JPG files of each page.(Insert into any program that will allow you to add text such as Photoshop, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)

What are task cards?

They are great for the introduction and review of any subject. Post them around the room and have students on a timed rotation to visit each station/task card and complete it, giving students a time frame in which to do so.

Disclaimer: This product cannot be used to create products to be sold or for profit. One purchase is good for one teacher's use (classes unlimited). If additional teachers wish to use this product, please purchase the additional licenses at a discounted rate.

This 30-minute teacher-made world government and culture assessment / test comes complete with (15) higher-level multiple choice questions, (2) short answer questions, and (1) short essay questions. The questions were carefully written and thoughtfully developed around government types and culture concepts. This test is what I have used to test my students on both government and culture.

This resource includes:

• A printable test
• Answer sheet for students
• Teacher's key

Save yourself hours of developing key questions, typing, and preparation. Simply print and copy.

Note: This test covers both government and cultural concepts taught at the beginning of the year.

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