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Great resource for teaching the major civilizations of the Americas: Maya, Aztecs, and Inca! Use the notes and graphic organizer to discuss the environment, cities, language, religion, and achievements of each civilization! Finish with the included quiz to assess students' understanding!

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Looking for a creative history project that will excite and engage your students? The Historical Biography Project: Funko Pop Edition is a unique, hands-on activity where students research and design their own Funko Pop-style historical figure. This project encourages students to develop their biography writing, research skills, and presentation abilities, all while making history fun and interactive!

What's Included:

• Funko Pop Template: A printable Funko Pop figure template for students to create a visual representation of their chosen historical figure.
• Biography Research and Report Template: A step-by-step guide to help students conduct thorough research and write a well-structured biography of a famous historical figure.
• Presentation Guidelines: Instructions for students to present their historical figure, sharing the person’s significance, achievements, and impact on history.
• Assessment Rubric: A comprehensive grading rubric to assess the quality of research, creativity in design, and presentation skills.

How It Works:

1. Choose a Historical Figure: Students select a famous person from history—such as a leader, scientist, activist, artist, or someone who made an important contribution to society.
2. Conduct Research: Using the research template, students explore the historical figure’s background, accomplishments, and role in shaping history.
3. Design a Funko Pop Figure: Students get creative, designing a Funko Pop-style figure that captures the essence and uniqueness of their historical figure.
4. Present to the Class: Students present their Funko Pop figure, explaining the design and sharing key facts from their research in an engaging way.

Key Features:

• Creative History Project: Combines research, creativity, and hands-on activities to help students engage deeply with historical figures.
• Fun and Relevant for Students: By incorporating the popular Funko Pop design, this project taps into students’ interest in pop culture, making history lessons fun and meaningful.
• Adaptable for Different Grades: Ideal for middle school and high school students, with the flexibility to adapt to different levels.
• Cross-Curricular Skills: This project promotes research writing, critical thinking, creative design, and presentation skills—perfect for world history, social studies, and ELA classrooms.

Why Teachers Love This Project:

• Engages All Learners: Whether your students are visual, artistic, or analytical, this project allows everyone to shine.
• Easy to Implement: With clear instructions and included resources like the Funko Pop template, rubric, and research guide, it’s easy to bring this project into your classroom.
• Perfect for History and Social Studies: Works seamlessly in units on historical figures, world leaders, inventors, scientists, and mo

Bring History to Life with This Interactive Trading Card Research Activity and Classroom Game!

Engage your students in a dynamic exploration of historical figures with the History Makers Trading Cards activity. This interactive resource combines historical research with creative design and classroom gameplay, making it perfect for a variety of social studies or history lessons.

Students will research significant figures from history, gather key facts, and design their own trading cards featuring each historical person’s image, accomplishments, and contributions to the world. Once the cards are created, students can use them in a classroom game that encourages discussion, debate, and friendly competition.

What's Included:

• Customizable Trading Card Templates: Templates for students to design unique cards for each historical figure.
• Research Guide: A structured guide to help students organize important information on each individual, such as key dates, achievements, and historical significance.
• Classroom Game Instructions: Fun and competitive game ideas for using the cards in classroom activities to reinforce learning.
• Versatile Usage: Perfect for individual assignments, group projects, or as a creative assessment tool.

Key Benefits:

• Research Skills Development: Students enhance their research abilities by diving deep into the lives of notable figures across history.
• Creativity and Critical Thinking: The hands-on creation of trading cards allows students to engage creatively while critically analyzing each figure’s impact on history.
• Interactive Learning: The trading card game offers an engaging way to review and reinforce historical knowledge in a fun, competitive environment.

This resource is ideal for middle and high school social studies, world history, and US history classrooms. It can be used for individual research projects, group activities, or as a classroom competition. Turn your students into historical researchers and trading card designers while making history lessons interactive and exciting!

Bring history to life this Christmas holiday season with a fun and engaging stations activity your students will love!

In this festive critical thinking activity, students will travel through time as they uncover which famous historical figures wrote 25 intriguing holiday wish lists to Santa! Blending creativity, historical context, and problem-solving, this activity is perfect for middle school or high school social studies classes.

Each wish list includes a mix of both physical items and abstract ideas, giving students clues about the personality, accomplishments, and aspirations of notable figures from both world and U.S. history. Students will match the wish lists to their corresponding figures as they rotate through stations, completing an answer sheet with their guesses.

What’s Included:

• 25 unique holiday wish lists written from the perspective of historical figures
• A student answer sheet for tracking guesses
• A teacher instructions page with setup and modification suggestions
• A detailed answer key for easy grading
• A blank wish list template for an optional extension activity where students create their own historical wish list

*Includes both color and black & white versions of all sheets!*

Uses:

• Interactive lesson or station-based activity
• Holiday-themed class event
• Review or enrichment for history topics
• Collaborative or individual learning

Extension Idea:
Wrap up the activity by having students choose their favorite historical figure and create a wish list from that person’s perspective. Then, let classmates guess the figure based on their creative clues!

Perfect for:

• Middle and high school world history or U.S. history classes
• December lessons or holiday-themed units
• Sub plans, early finishers, or enrichment

Add some historical holiday cheer to your classroom with this engaging activity!

Bring history to life this holiday season with The History Elf Project, a fun and engaging classroom project perfect for any social studies unit! This fun, creative activity invites students to step into the shoes (and hats!) of famous historical figures, becoming Santa’s special “History Elf” to uncover the achievements, character traits, and lasting legacies of iconic people from the past. Perfect for the Christmas holiday season, this project combines research, creativity, and writing in a memorable way that makes history engaging for students!

What’s Included:

• History Elf Outline Design Page – Students design their elf to look like their chosen historical figure, adding details to reflect the figure’s life and accomplishments.
• The History Elf’s Holiday Report – In this writing activity, students pen a letter to Santa about their historical figure’s impact and decide if they belong on the “Nice” or “Naughty” list based on what they’ve learned.
• History Elf’s Merry Mischief – Students write a creative story where their elf causes a bit of historical mischief! This optional extension activity lets students imagine their elf changing history in a fun and playful way.
• History Elf - Who Am I? Sheet – This biography sheet helps students organize and summarize their research on their historical figure, covering key achievements, personality traits, and interesting facts.
• Instructions and Grading Rubric – Clear step-by-step instructions for teachers and students, and a comprehensive rubric to guide assessment across creativity, historical accuracy, effort, and more.
• Example Projects - Examples included to give you a better understanding of the direction and design of the project!

Key Features:

• Engaging and Interactive: Blends holiday fun with historical learning to keep students excited about history.
• Perfect for Display: Creates a colorful and festive classroom showcase of “History Elves” with their biographies and stories.
• Flexible Usage: Use it as a stand-alone project, Christmas-themed assignment, or winter break activity!

Encourage your students to explore the past in a fun, memorable way with The History Elf Project! This unique activity is sure to become a holiday favorite in your classroom.

A fun and engaging holiday or winter project for any social studies class!

In this activity, students will choose a historical topic, event, or person to research. Based on their research, students will design a snow globe that represents their topic and write a short summary about their chosen topic!

Activity includes:

- Overview and instructions

- 5 different design/layout options

- Extension activity

- Grading rubric

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A fun and engaging Thanksgiving (or anytime!) project for any social studies class!

Thanksgiving is finally here, and as your students are about to find out, this Turkey Day will be unlike any other. For this year’s feast, you’re inviting three special guests who will travel through time to join you! In this Thanksgiving-themed biography project, students will research the lives of three historical figures, plan out the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, and reflect on what each of their famous guests would be thankful for this holiday season!

Students will create a poster or digital presentation to discuss their historical figures and their Thanksgiving feast!

Project includes:

- Overview and Instructions

- List of 60 significant figures from history

- Printouts for each step of the project

- Grading Rubric and Poster Example

This lesson will have students critically explore what has been described as “one of the worst human rights crisis in the world”— referring to the camps located in the northwestern province of China, which are currently holding a million or more Uighur Muslims. The Chinese government disagrees with this portrayal, and has claimed that the camps are merely “re-education centers.” This lesson will have students analyze the validity of the two portrayals through the study of multiple sources.

The central investigative question is:

Are the camps in China “re-education centers” or are they “concentration camps”?

Time Frame: 2-3 class periods (60 min)

Materials:

• Lesson Plan

• 14 Slide Presentation

• Student Handout

You may hear about natural disasters often, but some of the deadliest disasters in world history have been environmental disasters caused by human activity. This lesson involves having your students investigate environmental disasters that have taken place on our planet. Their initial focus will be to examine the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union. After closely exploring the historical background to this accident, students will then choose and research a different environment disaster, and create a Google Slide presentation to demonstrate their findings.

This Resource Includes:

• Student/teacher instructions
• Google Doc T-Chart
• Grading rubrics
• Copy of UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

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There are so many amazing people we can learn from during Black History Month (and the rest of the year). This board includes several influential Black Americans and phrases that are simple and short enough for younger grade levels!

What You will Get

• 13 PAGES
• PDF + PNG + PPTX Format
• HIGH QUALITY

NOTE

• This is a digital item.

• No physical product or printed material will be shipped.

• No refunds as this is a digital product.

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Do you want to engage and motivate your students to learn about Hispanic Heritage? Do you want to celebrate diversity? Then download this Hispanic Heritage Month Activity Biography Choice Board!

Students will deepen their understanding of the achievements of Hispanic people in this biography research activity. Students select from various topics including athletes, poets, politics, activists, and more. Then, students select from one of three short research projects. Activities include writing paragraphs, creating a poster, or sharing why they would like to spend a day with one of the individuals.

Use this choice board when celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, in the Spanish classroom, or for biographies and research.

➟Great for Hispanic Heritage Month, research projects, biographies, Spanish class

➟Included in this product:

• One choice board with 9 options - fully digital
• Instructions with details on 3 different projects
• Grading rubric
• Website Evaluation Form

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Engage your students in a deep dive into the Hundred Years War with this no prep comprehensive lesson on the pivotal role of the longbow. Designed for middle and high school history classes, this resource guides students through the analysis of key battles like Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and Agincourt (1415). Students will collaborate to explore battle strategies, assess the effectiveness of the longbow, and test historical hypotheses through structured group presentations.

Resource includes:

• Task Sheet with clear instruction and structure
• 4 slide editable introductory slide deck

Common Core Outcomes

• Reading: Integration of knowledge and ideas (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6-8.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7).
• Social Studies: Analyzing historical events and their connection to the present (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7).

Australian Curriculum Links and Codes:

• Continuity and change in society in ONE of the following areas: crime and punishment; military and defence systems; towns, cities and commerce (ACDSEH051)

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Do you want your students to be engaged in learning about women? Do you want to foster their creativity and support their voice? Then download this Women's History Month Activity Choice Board! This choice board comes with 8 unique activities, allowing students to deepen their understanding of women's history. Great for differentiating instruction and various learning styles!

Students can write poems, draw murals, or even create (imitation) social media accounts of various women of their choosing. There is an activity for every type of student!

Also included is a list of 30 lesser-known women - with an emphasis on women of color - to ensure students are getting a more accurate picture of this history month.

This is all you need to help your students learn about this all-important month!

➟What's included:

• Choice board with 8 unique activities
• List of 30 lesser-known women
• Grading rubric
• Instructions
• Terms of Use

➟ Why Choice Boards? Students will...

• Demonstrate what they’ve learned
• Take ownership of their learning
• Be a more responsible, independent, and accountable learner
• Tap into their own creativity
• Stay motivated as they have a ‘voice’ in their own learning

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In this lesson, students learn more about famous structures and landmarks in Ukraine and the individuals who created them. Students choose the landmarks they will research and then create a presentation using Google Earth to showcase their information along with pictures, videos and maps. Included with the lesson are student expectations, grading rubric and a tutorial for Google Earth (a free, Web 2.0 tool that does not require download). For classrooms with limited technology, this lesson can be completed with students working in pairs or small groups. The completed presentations can be shared with the rest of the class if the teacher chooses.

This is a great activity for a social studies or history class, or for a technology class. This lesson was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary grades or high school as well.

Materials Required:

· Computers with Internet access for each student (or pair of students)

· Access to Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides (optional – students can use Web 2.0 tools instead)

Files included:

· Teacher & Student Resources

· Student Instructions, Expectations and Grading Rubric

· Google Earth Getting Started Tutorial

Approximate Lesson Duration:

· Introduction to the Lesson: Video (link included), overview of the project - .5 - 1 (50 minute) class period

· Research and Google Earth Project: 2-4 (50 minute) class periods

· Presentation of projects to class (optional): Time will vary based on how many presentations are shown and time for discussion

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Engage your students in a deep dive into the Hundred Years War with this no prep comprehensive lesson on the pivotal role of the longbow. Designed for middle and high school history classes, this resource guides students through the analysis of key battles like Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and Agincourt (1415). Students will collaborate to explore battle strategies, assess the effectiveness of the longbow, and test historical hypotheses through structured group presentations.

Resource includes:

• Task Sheet with clear instruction and structure
• 4 slide editable introductory slide deck

Common Core Outcomes

• Reading: Integration of knowledge and ideas (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6-8.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7).
• Social Studies: Analyzing historical events and their connection to the present (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7).

Australian Curriculum Links and Codes:

• Continuity and change in society in ONE of the following areas: crime and punishment; military and defence systems; towns, cities and commerce (ACDSEH051)

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Bring history, art, and imagination together in a spine-tingling exploration of historical figures with "Frighteningly Famous," the perfect activity for Halloween or anytime of year! This engaging and multidisciplinary classroom project invites students to embark on a journey that blurs the lines between fiction and reality. In this captivating activity, students select classic monsters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and others and transform them into famous historical figures from the halls of history.

Key Features:

1. Inspire Creativity: Encourage students to unleash their artistic talents by creating detailed drawings that depict classic monsters dressed as renowned historical figures. Foster their creativity as they imagine how these monstrous personas would blend with the characters of history.
2. Promote Research Skills: Cultivate strong research skills as students delve into the lives and achievements of the historical figures they choose. Through research, they gain a deeper understanding of the chosen figures and their historical context.
3. Develop Critical Thinking: Challenge students to think critically about the connections between classic monsters and historical figures. How do these characters' traits and stories intersect, and what ideas might they share with each other?
4. Enhance Writing Abilities: Encourage students to express their imagination and knowledge through a creative essay about their selected historical figure. This exercise hones their writing skills while deepening their appreciation for history.
5. No-Prep-Needed Resources: Our comprehensive package includes materials, including a teacher instructions sheet, grading rubric, and worksheets for students

Educational Value: The "Frighteningly Famous" Activity offers a unique blend of art, history, and critical thinking, making it an invaluable addition to your classroom resources. It promotes creativity, research skills, and interdisciplinary learning, fostering a deeper appreciation for history and art.

Perfect for Middle and High School: This activity is specifically designed for middle and high school students, providing age-appropriate content and challenges that align with educational standards.

Perfect for Halloween or to use anytime of the school year when you need a fun activity!

Transform your social studies classroom into an engaging hub of historical exploration with the "Historical Headstones!" Stations Activity, great for Halloween or anytime of year! This versatile and comprehensive resource is perfect for teaching students about prominent historical figures while fostering critical thinking, creativity, and research skills.

What's Included:

1. Stations Activity

• • Engage students with intriguing epitaphs (headstones) that conceal the identities of famous historical figures.
  • Encourage deductive reasoning and historical context analysis as students decipher who each epitaph represents.
  • Explore a diverse range of figures from various eras and regions, making history come alive in an exciting way.
  • Promote interactive learning through a rotating station format, keeping students actively involved and eager to uncover historical truths.
  • A worksheet with clear instructions for students to record their guesses and reflect on their discoveries.

2. Create Your Own Historical Headstone Extension Activity:

• • Encourage students to take their learning to the next level by selecting a historical figure of their choice.
  • Provide opportunities for research and critical thinking as students gather information about their chosen figure's life and achievements.
  • Foster creativity and artistic expression through the design of custom headstones and epitaphs that capture the essence of the historical figure.
  • Promote public speaking skills as students present their creations to the class, providing insights into their chosen figures.
  • A worksheet with detailed instructions to guide students through the research, design, and presentation process.

Unlock the wonders of history while fostering creativity and critical thinking in your classroom. Explore "Historical Headstones!" and watch your students uncover the secrets of the past while crafting meaningful tributes to historical greatness.

Looking for a fun and exciting way to incorporate Valentine's Day into your social studies classroom? Look no further than "Historical Heartthrobs: Valentines from Famous Figures!"

This engaging teaching resource features a collection of heartfelt Valentine's Day messages inspired by famous figures from history and pop culture. From influential leaders and activists to beloved artists and entertainers, each Valentine's Day message offers a unique and imaginative glimpse at some of history's most iconic individuals.

Students will use context clues, research skills, and their knowledge of history and pop culture as they read through the Valentine's Day cards to determine which "Historical Heartthrob" would have written it! With a diverse range of figures spanning different time periods and backgrounds, this resource encourages students to explore the lives of historical figures in a relatable and engaging way.

Activity includes:

- Historical Heartthrobs: Valentines from Famous Figures - World History Edition Worksheets

- Historical Heartthrobs: Valentines from Famous Figures - U.S. History Edition Worksheets

- Extension Activity: Create Your Own Historic Valentine!

- Answer Keys

Make Valentine’s Day Educational with This Fun History Research Activity!

Engage your students with this exciting, Valentine’s Day-themed research activity that blends history and fun! Perfect for middle and high school social studies or world history classes, students research a historical figure and learn more about others as they hear from potential Mystery History Dates! Each student will choose a historical figure, complete a Mystery Date profile of them, and meet other Mystery Dates in this stations-based activity. After they read about all Mystery Dates, students will identify who each figure is, and determine who would be least and most compatible with their own chosen figure. Out of all these Mystery History Dates, will they find a match? Or a dud?

Activity includes:

- Overview and instructions

- Mystery History Date Profile Sheet

- Mystery History Date Guess List

- Mystery History Date Compatibility Sheet

- Variations for small-groups and a Game Show edition!

The project is divided into fourteen sections, including the front pages. Sections include Language/Population, Habitat/Geography, Family Structure, Government, and several others. Each section has a list of criteria and questions that must be answered to complete the section.

I would expect a single student to take about ten weeks, with a weekly goal (perhaps a little faster) of completing one section.

There is a score for each section and teacher info on ways to make it work.

The project contains a cover sheet, a teacher's page, two student pages and a sheet to help students select an appropriate civilization.

There is also a list of civilizations that have an abundance of information available on line.