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This product is a crossword puzzle over the battles, events, and people surrounding Texas Independence. Included is a reading, a crossword puzzle, and an answer key.

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:

• Moon Phases Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet Fun Back To School Ressource
• 118 Beach Related Words Word Search Puzzles - End of School Activity Worksheets
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• Bilingual ESL Classroom Supply Labels English - Spanish (Colors & Animals)
• 10 Summer Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles Worksheets Activity - 100 Word to Find
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• BIG Summer Vacation Fun Word Search Worksheet - End of School Year Activity

Features:

• 1 PDF File is A4 Size, Includes 2 Pages one for the Puzzles and the other for Solutions.

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Use this crossword and word search combo to review key terms relating to World War II!

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This 7-page Reading Assignment and Worksheet about the Japanese-American experience in World War II presents a broad and deep look at the nature of the four years between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the end of World War II and how it impacted the Japanese immigrants (Issei) and their American-born children (Nisei). Through close reading, this assignment goes beyond typical textbook descriptions of the Japanese internment and the broader Japanese-American experience during World War II. It provides detailed explanations as to the evacuation process, life in the camps and issues that the residents faced. The assignment also includes information about those who didn't live in the camps and those who presented legal challenges to internment. The 3-page Worksheet asks students to answer questions based on their reading. This will reinforce their learning on the topic. An Answer Key is included.

This Reading Assignment is equally valuable for the home-schooled student or for those instructors who want to provide supplemental information to their students. The second page of this assignment provides a list of important terms as well as an explanation about the use of historical terminology. This worksheet will further their understanding about an experience shows the resiliency of both the Issei and the Nisei during a very difficult time.

This is also available as a digital resource through Easel so students may complete the Worksheet online.

Please check out my other Teaching Resources about World War II:
*The Japanese-American Experience in World War II: PowerPoint Presentation
* 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 in World War II: Crossword Puzzle and Word Search
*The Home Front during World War II: Reading Assignment and Worksheet

Get students thinking about presidential elections and political campaign promises with 16 handouts that generate higher level learning.The journal-like prompts include historical facts that will have students wondering, "What if.I was president..?" Social issues to write about include:

family issues

government growth

importing goods

internet issues

laws and rules

leadership style

national debt

national security

social security

space exploration

succession

transportation problems

war

world peace

There are sixteen famous presidents, with their greatest accomplishments. Included are: Adams, Bush, Clinton, Cleveland, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Jackson, Johnson, Kennedy, Lincoln, Nixon, Reagan, Roosevelt,Washington

Includes Extra Resources (videos, web-links) and Ideas for Use in the classroom.

Can be used with English, Government, History classes.

Celebrate Independence Day with this easy to print adorable Happy 4th July Gnomes Coloring Worksheets pack. Designed for Kindergarten and Pre-K learners, these 20 different worksheets are ideal for morning work, centres, quick finishers, home schooling or engaging whole group activities. Featuring a variety of fun gnome illustrations and patriotic elements, these coloring worksheets capture the excitement and joy of the holiday. Your little ones will have a blast coloring in the gnomes festive outfits, stars, stripes, and other Independence Day symbols. Coloring helps develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and concentration. Whether you are looking for engaging activities for the classroom or seeking some Summer themed coloring fun, the Happy 4th July Gnomes Coloring Worksheets are the perfect choice. Ignite your students creativity and celebrate the 4th of July with these charming coloring pages.

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This lesson will have students critically explore a contentious current event issue involving the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The lesson will invite students to examine the context and controversy that surrounds the two cases, although emphasis will be placed on the Eric Garner case. A thought-provoking Slide Presentation & accompanying handouts will prompt students to analyze a variety of news resources; all of which frame the issue in a particular way, and offer different explanations as to the underlying causal factors in Garner’s death.

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This lesson includes:

• One 18 Slide Presentation
• Detailed Lesson Plan
• Handouts:

1. Handout #1- Guided Notes
2. Handout #2- Current Events: America’s Criminal Justice System

Race, Criminal justice system, controversy, racism, Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick

If you liked this lesson see other related 'Government' lessons here:

• Analyzing 'The Bill of Rights' (click here to open in new tab)
• Mock Trial: Truman and the Atomic Bomb (click here to open in new tab)
• Mock Trial: Class Preparation (click here to open in new tab)
• Analyzing The Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution (click here to open in new tab)
• Our Constitutional Amendments: Analyzing Supreme Court Decisions (click here to open in new tab)
• Causes and Effect: Protest Movements of the 1960's
• The Affirmative Action Debate: Exploring Two Sides of the Issue

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This product is a crossword puzzle over the people, places, and events related to the Causes of the Civil War. It covers the years of 1820-1861.

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:

• Moon Phases Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet Fun Back To School Ressource
• 118 Beach Related Words Word Search Puzzles - End of School Activity Worksheets
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• Bilingual ESL Classroom Supply Labels English - Spanish (Colors & Animals)
• 10 Summer Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles Worksheets Activity - 100 Word to Find
• Fourth (4th) of July Word Search Puzzle Activity Worksheet | 63 Word to Find
• BIG Summer Vacation Fun Word Search Worksheet - End of School Year Activity

Features:

• 1 PDF File is A4 Size, Includes 2 Pages one for the Puzzles and the other for Solutions.

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Use this crossword puzzle and word search combo to review key terms relating to The Cold War!

Save BIG when you purchase the World History Crossword and Word Search - MEGA BUNDLE!

This 22 page Primary Source Analysis activity gives students a chance to delve deeper into the early Women's Rights Movement which took place prior to the Civil War. They will be able to determine the motives and reasons behind the movement, who played key roles in advancing the movement and how and whether the movement was successful. In addition, there are two Document-Based Questions (DBQs). Included is a one-page sheet that explains what primary sources are and how to analyze them using specific questions through a process called HAPPY. Primary sources include speeches, essays, a declaration and cartoons. Each page of primary sources includes questions. There is also a page at the end for students to apply the HAPPY process to one source. An Answer Key to all the questions 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.

There is also an Easel Activity which allows students to answer the questions at the end of each primary source online. For homework purposes, Home Schoolers or for asynchronous learning, this is an especially valuable digital option .

Here are some links below for other Primary Source Analysis and DBQ Resources:

* Colonial American Women: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs

* Women of the American Revolution: Primary Source Analysis and DBQs
* Mini-Bundle: Early America Women's History Primary Source Analysis and DBQs (includes Colonial American Women, Women of the American Revolution and Early Women's Rights Movement)

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Do you or your students like WWII historical fiction? In Hearts at War, Tosh and Betty come of age in Southern California only to have their lives severed by war, family and social pressures once they enter college. Coincidence will throw them together again in the Pacific theater of war as they both serve in the military. Will they be able face the challenges of war and find a way to one another? In writing Hearts at War, I wanted to bring an unknown aspect of history to light. Available on Amazon or Kindle/Kindle Unlimited. Young Adults/Adults/Interracial Romance. I appreciate any reviews!

Easy-to-read, basic facts with 18 pages black and white coloring images to introduce, place in order, use for research/writing, or to reinforce Texas history dates for elementary students. Begins with Anglo settlement in 1820 and ends with U.S. victory of Texas in 1848.

Includes:

Timeline

15 black and white Texas themed graphics to color

15 basic facts

Anglo settlers

Alamo

Currency

German Immigration to U.S.

Government

Mexico

Texas

Santa Anna

Sam Houston

Anson Jones

M. Lamar

State Flag

State Seal

Stephen F. Austin

Uses:

Make into a Texas booklet, have students add handwritten/typed researched information, discussion/essay/journal prompts, make large classroom timeline with students colored pics, reading introduction, bulletin board displays, numerous ELA and Texas history uses!

This highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentation will have students examine; the underlying roots from which the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came to exist in America, the organization's primary tactics of using intimidation & fear in fighting against social equality, and why many poor whites were recruited to join the KKK organization. Students will delve deeper by comparing the circumstances and social conditions of two former KKK leaders (one who lived during the era of Jim Crow, and the other of present day).

Class discussion, and critical thinking is promoted throughout the entire lesson.

Materials Include:

• Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
• Venn Diagram- 'Comparing White Supremacy of the Past with Today'
• Primary Source Reading- 'C.P. Ellis Why I Quit the Klan'
• Teacher Answer Key Included

*All THREE lessons (Era of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, & Jim Crow) is available in the BUNDLE for a discounted %.

This product is a crossword puzzle over people, terms, events, and inventions of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

Unlock the door to immersive historical exploration with this primary source curriculum resource, designed to captivate and inspire your students!

This primary source Worksheet features a passage written by Carrie Chapman Catt in Woman Suffrage and Politics. The passage describes the 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Students will enjoy learning about this famous event. Two Questions follow the Guided Reading.

On the second page, the passage is enhanced with Meanings and Definitions in order to facilitate and improve understanding. A Differentiated Learning Option is also available for students.

The third page includes Background Information and the Answer Key. This is excellent practice in analyzing Primary Sources and in identifying author perspective.

Here are some links below for other resources relating to the Women's Suffrage Movement:
* Women's Suffrage Reading Assignment and Worksheet
* Women's Suffrage Power Point Lesson
* Women's Suffrage DBQ's and Primary Sources
Or all three of the above in the bundle below:
* Women's Suffrage Teaching Bundle

And the following resource which includes wonderful photos of the suffrage parade referenced in the passage!

* Women's Suffrage Gallery Walk, 1900-1920

Do you love historical fiction? My novel, Hearts at War, features a white girl and a Japanese-American boy who are childhood friends whose growing attraction to one another in high school will be severed by war, family and social pressures once they enter college. They come of age in California and coincidence will throw them together again in the Pacific theater of war as they both serve in the military. Will they be able face the challenges of war and find a way back to each other? Available on Amazon or Kindle/Kindle Unlimited. Young Adults/Adults/Interracial Romance. I appreciate any reviews! Thank you! - Christa Nonnemaker (B.A./M.A, History)

30 activities to celebrate Veteran's Day! Coloring, lists, poems, writings, and more...for using critical thinking skills to learn about a national holiday. Includes: Democracy is... Freedom is... Liberty means... The eagle is representative of... Veteran's Day Speech Map for listing no. of veterans/naming veterans 10 Ways to Thank a Veteran Make your own dog-tags Many faces of soldiers Many roles of soldiers What Veteran's Day means to me... Thank you to a Veteran My Message to a Veteran Decorate the tombstone of a fallen soldier Veteran Acrostic Poem A Veteran's Poem My favorite branch of armed services My Pledge for Peace Veteran's Day Maze Veteran's Day Word Search Women's roles in the Armed Services How many words can you make from "veteran" What will you do on Veteran's Day? From a soldier's point of view: What Veteran's Day means... The War Wall--fill in to make and display your own war wall 30 activities to help students acknowledge, appreciate, celebrate, and honor veterans and what the special day means.

This is a lesson over Alexander Hamilton and his role in the United States economy as the first Secretary of the Treasury. Students will read about the Hamilton's economic proposals and then the response and impact of those proposals. Students will answer the questions that follow the reading.

Scavenger Hunt:
This engaging and educational scavenger hunt is designed to introduce students to the history and significance of women's suffrage in the United States. This activity is tailored for middle and high school students, aiming to foster critical thinking, collaboration, and historical understanding.

Students embark on a journey through key moments and figures of the women's suffrage movement, solving clues to unravel the rich tapestry of this pivotal period in history.

The activity begins with an optional introductory overview which provides historical context. If using the in-class option, the teacher will explain the objectives of the scavenger hunt. Students are divided into teams and equipped with clue sheets necessary for their adventure. Each clue leads teams to different locations where cards are posted. If an individual activity, the student will read the Overview and then answer the clues on the provided sheet.

This scavenger hunt encourage students to think critically about the strategies, obstacles, and achievements of the suffragists, fostering a deeper understanding of the movement's complexities.

"Who Am I?" Game

This fun ice-breaker or culminating game is a great way for students to quickly gain knowledge or review past knowledge about the women's suffrage movement. The teacher can use the provided names which can be attached to student's backs, or they can take the names and add to post-its which can be attached to student foreheads.

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Ready for a road trip? My Road Trip to the Top Ten National U.S. Parks lets you think about and plan to visit the top ten U.S. national parks:

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Grand Canyon National Park

Yosemite National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park

Olympic National Park

Zion Canyon National Park

Grand Teton National Park

Acadia National Park

Glacier National Park

35 pages of fact-based fun and interesting facts, such as how many visitors pass through parks and scenic and wildlife information, along with where each park is located. Note park spellings are based on National Park Service website for student research purposes.

Includes:

Directions with Ideas for Implementation and for Assessment

Includes writing prompts, diorama, research ideas, and more...

Research and Writing Components

Math and Science Skills Connections

Info Sheet Handout with Junior Ranger Motto and core values of the

National Park Service

My Road Trip U.S. Map to plot itineraries

My Road Trip Mileage Chart for incorporating math skills

Location of Parks

Established Dates of Parks

Sizes of Parks

Scenic Beauty coloring sheet for each park

Scenic Beauty facts

Fact Boxes to add visitor/researched info

Fun Sheet to List the Top 5 places to visit in each park

Record Yearly Temperatures and Averages (Science)

Best Time to Visit

Best Features

Excellent across curriculum lesson plan that encourages critical thinking and planning skills for a fun U.S. national parks road trip! Students who have visited listed parks can be class experts as the lesson plan progresses.

Meets CCSS.

Need a great accompanying packet?

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The lesson is a biographical reading over the life and legacy of Stephen F. Austin. Students will read paragraphs and then answer the questions that follow.