8th Grade U.S. History Handouts

This lesson is a reading on Spindletop and the Texas Oil Boom Era. Students will read paragraphs on the History and the impact of the Texas oil boom and then answer the questions in the chart.

Word search puzzles are incredibly helpful for learning new words. They're like fun games where you find words hidden in a grid of letters. When you do this, you remember the words better and also get better at spelling. It's like a puzzle adventure that helps you learn and remember words in a really enjoyable way!

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General topics:

• Summer Vocabulary
• Beach vocabulary
• Air transport Vocabulary
• Alphabet Vocabulary
• Autumn Vocabulary
• Body Parts Names
• Books Vocabulary
• Colors
• Community Vocabulary
• Family
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Jobs & Professions
• Kitchen Objects
• Classroom Objects
• Clothing Vocabulary

Seasonal:

• 4th of July Vocabulary
• Columbus Day Vocabulary
• Halloween Vocabulary
• Moon Landing Day Vocabulary
• Veterans Day Vocabulary

Astronomy:

• Moon Phases

Days & Months:

• Days of the week
• Months of The Year
• French Days of the Week
• Italian Days of The Week
• Spanish Days of The Week

Animals:

• Animals Names
• Farm Vocabulary
• Birds Names
• Domesticated Animals
• Herbivores Animals Names
• Omnivores Animals Names
• Carnivorous Animals Names
• Water & Land Animals Names
• Wild Animals Names
• Jungle Animals Names
• Mammals Animals Names

Save time and money with this amazing bundle of 30 interactive and engaging activities, designed to enhance your world history classroom! This package helps supplement your existing curriculum, lessons and units, covering key periods from The Industrial Revolution to the 21st Century, and provides a rich variety of learning tools to captivate your students and deepen their understanding of history.

Topics covered in this bundle:

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Age of Imperialism
3. World War I & World War II
4. The Cold War
5. Independence Movements
6. The 21st Century
7. Vocabulary Review
8. Projects and Activities for any unit!

Product Overview: This bundle includes a wide variety of activities to suit different learning styles and classroom needs:

• Interactive Reading Lessons: Explore historical texts and topics with guided questions and activities.
• Worksheets & Notes: Comprehensive resources for classwork and homework.
• Projects & Research Assignments: Encourage deeper investigation into historical topics.
• Crossword Puzzles & Word Searches: Reinforce vocabulary and key concepts in a fun, engaging way.
• Classroom Games: Interactive games that make learning history exciting.
• Detailed Teacher Guides: Easy-to-follow guides for smooth lesson implementation.
• Answer Keys & Rubrics: Simplify grading and provide clear expectations for students.
• ..and so much more!

This bundle is perfect for:

• New teachers wanting to build a solid collection of activities!
• Experienced teachers looking for new ways of teaching a concept!
• Homeschooling Families

Be sure to check out the previews for all activities to see how they are perfect for your classroom!

History will come to life for students when they read primary sources! This teaching bundle will fascinate and engage your students. Primary sources puts the "story" back into history.

Each Primary Source Analysis and DBQ resource gives students a chance to delve deeper into life of women during the Colonial Era (1607-1763), the Revolutionary Era (1763-1783), the Early Women's Rights Movement (1840-1865), the Civil War (1861-1865), the Industrial Revolution (1865-1920), and the Women's Rights Movement (1865-1920) Through reading, review and analysis of sources, students will be able to determine what issues and challenges faced women during each era and how they contributed to society.

*Colonial American Women: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (21 pages)
*Women of the American Revolution: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (19 pages)
*Early Women's Rights Movement: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (22 pages)
* Women in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (20 pages)
* Women during the Industrial Revolution: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (20 pages)
* Women's Suffrage Movement, 1865-1920: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (20 pages)

Along with primary sources, there are Document-Based Questions (DBQs). Additionally, each resource includes a one-page sheet for students that explains what primary sources are and how to analyze them using specific questions through a process called HAPPY. Examples of primary sources include cartoons, diary and journal excerpts, indenture contracts, political cartoons, letters, and more. Each page of primary sources includes questions. Each resource includes two DBQ prompts which help students to weigh and evaluate the significance of women's actions, thoughts and contributions during the era.

A page near the end of each resource allows students to apply the HAPPY process to one source. An Answer Key to all the questions and the DBQs and the HAPPY process is available at the end of the packet.

This is excellent practice for all high school students, particularly Honors and AP students, but all students will find these resources engaging.

Students can read this on their own as a homework assignment or it can be a group activity in a classroom. It is also ideally suited for home-schoolers, college students or independent learners who want to learn more. Teachers can assign just a few sources to analyze or the entire packet. Student time will vary. A Worksheet with questions based on the reading is included, along with an Answer Key. Each resource can take up to 2-3 class periods depending on whether they complete the entire packet or just complete portions of it.

Do you or your students like WWII historical fiction? Consider having your students read Hearts of War, a novel about a Nisei soldier who served in the Military Intelligence Service and a woman who served in the Women Army Corps. In writing this book, I wanted to bring an unknown aspect of history to light. Available on Amazon or Kindle and I appreciate any reviews!

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It's 1901, and Anthony Lucas needs investors for finding oil at the Spindletop Oilfield--will your students invest after they learn about the first gusher in Texas? In comic book format for fun learning and comes with comic templates for students to fill in their own dialogues and facts. Includes: Joseph Sayers, 1901 Governor of Texas Comparison before and after the oil boom Blank Check Format Stock Certificate to Fill In Newspaper Template Drilling Bit Striking Oil Gusher Wildcat Boll Weevil Roughneck Population Explosion Chart Drilling Rig and Labeled Parts US and World Map with Oil Contributions Advertisement Boomtown Changes to Beaumont Infrastructure Timeline of the Spindletop Gusher Great way to combine history/social studies and science with writing skills and concepts! Fun historical comic book to make and fill in after reviewing basic facts and timelines. Can be used for introductions to 1901, drilling, geology, time period, basic Texas history facts, assessment, and more...

Includes a set of 12 questions with separate answer key - written at a 10th grade level for each episode of the World War 2 in Colour series - 13 total.

This is a 48-page set of worksheets for the story "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson.

I divided the book into eight sections. For each section, there are two worksheets:

* comprehension questions

* vocabulary and story analysis

In addition, this book study includes a wide variety of differentiated worksheets and activities:

* story review

* language skills

* story reflection

* theme

* motif

* review activity

* cause and effect

* compare and contrast

* writing a letter

* w questions

* illustrations

* people

* character analysis

* comic strip

* story map

* book design

* news report

* critical thinking

* inferences

* summaries

* interviews

* crossword puzzle

* word search

* story test (4 pages)

Also, there is an answer key at the end of the PDF file.

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A Million Miles Away Movie Guide and Cultural Exploration

This is more than just a movie guide this is a Complete Cultural Exploration.

Includes a Before you Watch Reading that includes the topics

of Symbolism, Michoacan, Music choice, Artists of choice for the film and relevance.

In order for students to truly appreciate the film it is crucial that they also have some background information and that they have a solid understanding of the music and cultural representations that will appear in the film.

Next there are 3 types of questioning Level A, B, C.

A is for lower level B mid and Level C is for higher levels.

There is also a coloring page for fun.

Includes answers.

This coordinate system graphic art mystery picture would be ideal for students that are just beginning with graphing coordinates or students that need a little extra practice. It is also a great fun activity and engaging worksheets for Grade 4-12 for St. Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, or any time of the year. Prep free! Differentiated! Independent!

The picture has two different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom.

- One picture to be graphed in first quadrant with positive whole numbers only only

- One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers

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Dive into the history and significance of Labor Day with this comprehensive educational resource.  Perfect for upper middle to high school students, this freebie includes a detailed and complex reading passage on the origins and evolution of Labor Day, along with 20 thought-provoking questions and a separate answer key.  Also included are note-taking sheets to enhance student engagement and retention. This resource is ideal for history lessons, social studies classes, or as an enrichment activity leading up to Labor Day.

This product is a great way to help aid in the memorization of the American Creed. It makes learning fun and exciting.

Each worksheet includes additional questions on the front side, a writing activity or table to complete, on the backside some include a PRIMARY SOURCE or an ART ACTIVITY or an INTERACTIVE WRITING PROMPT. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED.

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• Writing of the Declaration of Independence
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The ‘Hot to the Cold War’ lesson involves having students examine important events as they chronologically unfold from the onset of the Cold War to China becoming a communist country. This comprehensive 56 Slide Presentation is full of primary sources, embedded with engaging sound effects, music, and video clips that will provide students with a critical context from which to see how the U.S and the Soviet Union’s alliance’ during WWII evolved into one of rivalries. Problem solving, debate, and higher analytical skills are fostered throughout the presentation. A supplementary, hands-on debate activity takes place at the conclusion of the lesson in which students jump forward in time and analyze the controversial issue of the manufacturing and weapons sales that takes place today.

Materials:

• One 56 Google Slide Presentation
• Teacher Reference Guide
• Printable Handouts:
• Handout #1- Guided Notes
• Handout #2- 'Arms for the Poor' Film Discussion Guide
• Handout #3- Role Play/Debate Activity

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As time passes, many great Americans who have shaped the arts, sciences, sports, and history of our nation and culture get lost in time. The Great Americans Series of Biographies and Worksheets is an easy-to-read 200-word Biography of just the highlights of each subject's life designed to keep young readers engaged. The Questions page ensures student reading comprehension and grasp of key points. The Vocabulary page introduces and explains new words, phrases, and/or institutions students may not have been familiar with. The Quotes page challenges students to write what a famous quote by the subject means to them. The Great Americans Series is available individually or in bundles, making great bell work. An Answer Key is provided with each worksheet.

This is a bundle of products about Andrew Jackson. It includes notes over Andrew Jackson, a reading about the Trail of Tears, and a crossword puzzle on Andrew Jackson.

This Moon Landing word search puzzle worksheet is for the memory of landing on the moon. The words are hidden in all directions and there may be some overlaps making this a challenging word search. A great activity worksheet for class or home that will help students learn a lot about this great achievement.

The 24 hidden vocabulary words are: Aeronautics, America, Apollo, Astrology, astronaut, astronomy, Buzz Aldrin, Eagle, Eleven, exploration, Historical, John F. Kennedy, landed, landing, launch, lunar, Michael Collins, mission, Moon, Neil Armstrong, orbit, Space, spacecraft, telescope.

Engage your students with these activity resources:

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Embark on an epic historical journey in your classroom with the "U.S. History Full Year - Crossword & Word Search Puzzles MEGA Bundle!" Featuring an impressive 70 different activities for 35 different topics from the early colonies to the dawn of the 21st century, this comprehensive bundle is your ultimate companion for exploring a year full of American history.

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This Home Front in World War II Crossword Puzzle and Word Search activity will help your students with historical literacy, engage them with the material they are learning and get their brains moving. There are 12 terms so this will be quick but won't take up too much time during the class or it's a great take-home assignment. Answer key included for both the crossword puzzle and the word search.

Please check out my other Teaching Resources about World War II:

*The Japanese-American Experience in World War II: PowerPoint Presentation
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*Women in the US Military during World War II: Reading Assignment and Worksheet
*Victory Gardens of World War II: PowerPoint Mini-Lesson
*Victory Gardens during World War II: Analyzing Primary Sources
*The Home Front during World War II: Reading Assignment and Worksheet

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Who is Mary Fisher, and what is her impact on society? 20 active learning, engaging activities to help students learn about and understand the life and times of Mary Fisher, known as Te Ata, a Chickasaw storyteller, performer, and artist. Includes: Black and white coloring images on pages Who is Mary Fisher (synonyms)? Timeline of Life (blank timeline to retell and fill in) Compare & Contrast School Days (1900s vs. Today) Become a Journalist (Interview) "Bearer of the Morning" Bumper Sticker Storytelling a Family Tradition The Royal Speech Crossword Puzzle & Answer Sheet (Answers on Timeline for students) Mary's FakeBook Broadway Marquee Poem Pictograph Point of View Treasure of Oklahoma (State Focused) Legend of the White Wolf Te Ata, the Movie (Design ad) Te Ata, the Cast (Cast the Parts)