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Students will use their research and context clues skills as they explore in depth 16 key figures of World War I through this online (or print) activity, as they work to find the missing pieces of information in the chart!

Key Figures include:

Arthur Zimmerman
Douglas Haig
Edith Cavell
Ferdinand Foch

John Pershing
Manfred von Richthofen
Mehmed V
Nicolas II

...and more!

Google Compatible - just copy and assign to students. Print version also available! Answer keys included!

This is a great resource for students to become familiar with key terms relating to World War II. If you choose to use this as the classroom collaboration project, just share the file with your class, assign a certain number of terms/slides to each student, and allow them to work on the Google Slide together in realtime!

Students will use their research and context clues skills as they explore in depth 20 key figures of World War II through this online (or print) activity, as they work to find the missing pieces of information in the chart!

Key Figures include:

Adolf Hitler
Anne Frank
Benito Mussolini
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr
Bernard Montgomery
Charles de Gaulle
Chiang Kai-shek
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Erwin Rommel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George S. Patton

...and more!

Google Compatible - just copy and assign to students. Print version also available! Answer keys included!

Introduce your students to the Cold War with this interactive reading lesson, which includes:

• notes and highlights about the U.S-USSR tensions
• warm up and review questions
• click and drag activity
• discussion questions to get students to formulate an opinion

Students will be engaged during this interactive lesson, geared toward great classroom discussion and debate!

Engage Your Students in the Key World War II Battles with This Research Assignment!

Dive deep into the critical battles of World War II with this comprehensive U.S. and World History research assignment. Perfect for middle and high school students, this resource guides learners through the most significant military conflicts that shaped the course of WWII. Through independent research, students will investigate the causes, outcomes, and strategic significance of these key battles.

What’s Included:

• Research Guidelines: Clear instructions for students to conduct their own research on pivotal battles such as the Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, the Battle of Midway, and more.
• Critical Thinking Questions: Encourage students to analyze the military strategies, geopolitical impacts, and the role of each battle in the larger context of WWII.
• Battle Overview Template: A structured template for students to organize their findings, including sections for key figures, dates, military forces involved, and battle outcomes.
• Engaging Historical Analysis: Questions designed to prompt deeper understanding of how these battles influenced the outcome of World War II and changed global history.

Key Features:

• No Prep, Ready to Use: This resource is designed for immediate classroom use, requiring no preparation—ideal for history teachers looking for a ready-to-go research project.
• Student-Centered Learning: Allows students to take ownership of their learning by diving into independent research on historical battles.
• Flexible Use: Perfect for individual or group work, class projects, or homework assignments.

Motiva tu clase con una completa presentación en PowerPoint sobre Martin Luther King Jr. Inspira a tu clase con una presentación en PowerPoint sobre Martin Luther King Jr. Diseñada para todas las edades, este recurso presenta contenido atractivo que fomenta el aprendizaje sobre justicia, igualdad y no violencia. Explora momentos clave como su discurso "Tengo un sueño" y su impacto en el Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles. Incluye preguntas reflexivas para promover el pensamiento crítico y conectar el legado de MLK con las experiencias de los estudiantes.

Este recurso visualmente atractivo, se adapta a diversos estilos de aprendizaje, facilitando a todos los estudiantes la comprensión eficaz del material. Capacita a la próxima generación de agentes de cambio con una presentación en PowerPoint de Martin Luther King Jr., una herramienta enriquecedora que no sólo educa, sino que también inspira a los estudiantes a actuar y promover la paz y la igualdad en su vida cotidiana.

Este recurso incluye:

• Diapositiva 1: ¿Quién era Martin Luther King, Jr.?
• Diapositiva 2: La infancia de Martin
• Diapositiva 3: ¿Qué Quería Martin?
• Diapositiva 4: La Lucha de Martin Contra el Racismo
• Diapositiva 5: El poder de la No - Violencia
• Diapositiva 6: El Discurso “Tengo un Sueño”
• Diapositiva 7: El Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles
• Diapositiva 8: Boicot de los Autobuses de Montgomery
• Diapositiva 9: ¿Qué Podemos Aprender de Martin?
• Diapositiva 10: El Premio Nobel de la Paz
• Diapositiva 11: Resolución de Problemas: Lecciones de Martin Luther King Jr.
• Diapositiva 12: Yo Tomo Acción
• Diapositiva 13: Hemos Aprendido Sobre, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Formatos:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

¡Feliz Día de Martin Luther King Jr.!

Engage your class with a dynamic PowerPoint on Martin Luther King Jr. This age-appropriate resource highlights his life, iconic "I Have a Dream" speech and impact on the Civil Rights Movement. With engaging slides and reflective questions, it inspires critical thinking about justice, equality, and non-violence, helping students connect history to their values and experiences.

This visually appealing resource caters to diverse learning styles, making it easy for all students to grasp the material effectively. Enhance your lesson plans and empower the next generation of changemakers with a Martin Luther King Jr. PowerPoint presentation. This enriching tool not only educates but also inspires students to take action and promote peace and equality in their everyday lives.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
• Slide 2: Martin's Childhood
• Slide 3: What Did Martin Want?
• Slide 4: Martin’s Fight Against Racism
• Slide 5: The Power of Non-Violence
• Slide 6: The “I Have a Dream” Speech
• Slide 7: The Civil Rights Movement
• Slide 8: Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Slide 9: What Can We Learn From Martin?
• Slide 10: The Nobel Peace Prize
• Slide 11: Problem-Solving: Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.
• Slide 12: I Take Action
• Slide 13: We Have Learned About: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

This presentation is designed for children to connect the history of Pearl Harbor and relate it to their own lives. This resource approaches this historical event through reflection and learning to promote peace and dialogue, even in the face of differences. This amazing resource offers an excellent opportunity to present and develop unique, real-life ideas for our students.

Each slide provides a straightforward, child-friendly description of the history and the most significant facts related to what happened in Pearl Harbor. Additionally, it helps children understand the concept of conflict's historical and contemporary existence, emphasizing the importance of its prevention and solution.

Your students will find this event easy to comprehend and will be able to learn unique lessons from it for their lives.

This resource includes:

• Slide 1: What is Pearl Harbor Day?
• Slide 2: Pearl Harbor Attack - Part I
• Slide 3: Pearl Harbor Attack Part II
• Slide 4: Where is Pearl Harbor?
• Slide 5: Why Japan Attacked Pearl Harbor?
• Slide 6: Life in Hawaii After the Attack
• Slide 7: Heroes of Pearl Harbor
• Slide 8: USS Arizona Memorial
• Slide 9: Lessons Learned from Pearl Harbor
• Slide 10: How We Remember Pearl Harbor
• Slide 11: Pearl Harbor Reflections
• Slide 12: We Have Learned About ... Pearl Harbor Day

Formats:

• Powerpoint
• PDF
• Google Slides
• Keynote
• JPG images

Enjoy this Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Resource!

Travel through time with our back then versus now items presentation! Students will compare pictures of items that were used in the past with their modern-day counterparts. Clip art and an answer key are included for easy identification. Perfect for history lessons or just a fun trip down memory lane. Shop now and bring the past to life in your classroom!

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This resource will provide students with an engaging way to learn about the 'Bill of Rights'. In a critical reading activity, students will explore and understand the historical background of how each Constitutional Right came to exist. The provided reading is an easy to read, attention-grabbing resource. The second part of this lesson involves having students delve deeper into their analysis by completing a graphic organizer in which students will:

1. Interpret each amendment.

2. Summarize the historical background of why/how each amendment came to exist.

3. Illustrate: Find an image/gif (or draw) that best depicts the meaning behind each of the 10 amendments. Be creative!!

SUPPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES:

Option #1: This activity will have students vacillate between two different time periods: late 1700’s and current day. The slide presentation will guide students through the ‘Bill of Rights' reading AND prompt student discussion and debate as it surrounds the 1st, 2nd, 5th, & 8th amendments.

Option #2: The Bill of Right Rank-O- Meter will have students rank their Constitutional Rights in terms of importance. Working collaboratively, students will present and defend their analysis to their classmates.

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Are you looking to engage your students in the study of FDR's New Deal? This New Deal Matching Game is the perfect way to get your students excited and engaged with history. The game provides slides to guide both the teacher and the student through note-taking, student discussions/debate, and the ‘New Deal Matching Game’.

Instructions: Organize into groups of 3-4 students. Each group will analyze 10 scenarios that will be presented in the next several slides. Fill out the T-chart addressing the following…

1. Which New Deal program(s) is the best match in addressing the problems associated with each scenario? Write in the letter of the card. 

(*You will use each program only once).

2. Acronyms? Write in the abbreviation. 

3. Which of the 3 R’s best applies to each of the scenarios; Relief, Recovery, or Reform? (Hint, scenario #3 is the only one that has two of the R’s)

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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 pushed the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. This lesson will have students critically examine the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba that led to this climatic point in history. Students will delve deeper into this conflict by analyzing the differing points of view and perspectives concerning the events that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis through the study of three sources of information.

This resource is a perfect lesson for students to work independently, or for a substitute to teach!

This lesson includes:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• Reading: ‘On the Brink- From the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis’
• 44 min Documentary film ‘Fidel Castro Declassified’
• 2 page set of 7 questions (analysis and comprehension)
• Venn Diagram
• American history textbook version

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• Hot War Turns into the Cold War
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• Cold War Unit Review & Assessment
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This lesson will have students explore & debate the five major compromises that were made at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. The delegates were charged with the task of amending the Articles of Confederation. However, they quickly decided to replace the Articles and write a new constitution. Because the delegates came from all parts of the country, they differed on a number of key issues. In order to keep the convention going and ensure ratification of the Constitution, the delegates had to compromise a number of times. As a result, the final document is sometimes described as a "bundle" of compromises.

Materials Include:

• Student Guided Notes T-Chart
• 23 Slide Presentation
• Teacher Answer Key

Supporting Questions:

• What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
• What are the five compromises of the Constitution?
• How did the Constitutional Convention address the issue of slavery?

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The year is 1956. You & your partner have taken advantage of new economic conditions & purchased a suburban home. Upon moving to the suburbs, you find you need to fill your home with clothes & furniture. 

Use the Sears catalog provided to fill your home. The average monthly income in the USA in 1955 was $360. Let’s say you & your partner have been saving, and have a savings account of $600. The mortgage payment on your home is $60 per month, & let's say you use $40 per month for groceries. That leaves you with $500 to spend for the month!

Fill out the provided order sheet with the products you want to buy, and their prices. Do not spend more than $500, because then you will end up in debt! Beware–life events and circumstances happen, so adjust accordingly!

This Resource Includes:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• Google Slide Presentation
• Sears Catalog Student Handout
• Life Event Cards
• 1956 Sears Catalog (Printable & digital versions)

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1950s & 60s: Conformity or Rebellion (Counter-culture)?

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This inquiry based lesson will vicariously draw your students into the lives, circumstances, and struggle for social justice as they engage in the analysis of three primary sources. Specifically, this resource will have students;

• Discuss and analyze the motivations and philosophy of César Chávez
• Understand the problems faced by farmworkers in California's central valley and beyond. 
• Analyze primary sources related to the meaning and context of the Chicano Rights Movement.

The primary sources include;

1. Photograph taken on December 19, 1969 outside of a Safeway supermarket in Seattle, WA (strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez)
2. Speech given by César Chavez to the Commonwealth Club of California on Sept 9, 1984.
3. Viva La Causa Documentary film- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. The film shows how thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the most exploited people in our country — the workers who put food on our tables.

Materials Include:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• Google (10) Slide Presentation
• Interactive Guided Notes Handout
• Economics Chart

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• Proposing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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In this lesson, students will gain a frame of reference for understanding how multiple factors can influence how history is written. This resource will prompt students to be able to answer not only “What happened?” BUT-- “How do you know?” and “Why do you believe your interpretation is valid?”

Critical questions are posed;

• What kind of factors can influence how history is written?
• What is a primary source? What is a secondary source? Strengths and limitations of each?
• Does one's analysis of recent historical events differ from distant past events?

Students will explore these important questions through the study of Christopher Columbus. Through the analysis of primary & secondary sources, students will re-examine the way in which the Columbus story has been portrayed in mainstream literature. A culminating Venn diagram activity will complete the lesson.

Two Optional Extension activities include;

#1. Analyze Excerpts from Children's books; Identify the different possible ways in which the following images and/or text can influence a reader’s understanding of Christopher Columbus and the Taino culture.

#2. Debate: Should Columbus Day be Celebrated?; FOR & AGAINST arguments included.

This Resource Includes:

• Teacher Reference Guide
• 34 Google Slide Presentation & Guided Notes
• Two Optional Extension Activities: 1# Analyzing Children's Literature, #2 Debate- Should Columbus Debate continue to be celebrated?

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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 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

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This U.S. President research project includes both a Google version and a hard copy. It is everything you need in order for students to study the U.S. Presidents!! It is easy to use and an awesome project that your students will love! It includes over 29 pages of graphic organizers (with examples!), vocabulary terms, and quizzes on the Google/online version. The hard copy contains 16 pages of graphic organizers, vocabulary, and grading tools.

• The physical/hard copy of this resource is a group research project intended for small groups to complete and present (in person).
• The Google/online copy of this resource is designed for individual research (in person or distance learning).

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Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, and the westward expansion!

Are you looking for ways to get your students researching on the internet? This fun GOOGLE DRIVE activity is perfect for providing students an opportunity to research independently, while learning about Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, and the westward expansion. This research activity comes with a teacher guide, a National Geographic website guide, a graphic organizer, and a self-reflection survey. It is easy to use and an awesome independent research activity that you & your students will love!

What's included:

- Access to a Google Drive folder containing 5 resources:

1. Teacher How-To-Use Guide - Shares main ideas, student outcomes, materials, standards/curriculum connections, and assessment/grading. You also get to see an overview of all the documents that are shared with the students.

2. National Geographic Kids Website Guide - This document provides students with a detailed description on how to use the National Geographic Kids website, including pictures and steps.

3. Research Graphic Organizer - Graphic organizer for students to record their individual research on Lewis and Clark.

4. Student Checklist and Research Activity Reflection - This is this the final part of this research project. Students are asked (format: Google Survey) to fill out a checklist marking if they completed all aspects of the research project. They then reflect on what they did well on, what they can improve on, what they learned, and if they enjoyed the research project.

5. Terms of Use

★ This product is great for Distance Learning. Simply assign the Google Slides to students on Google Classroom or your classroom digital platform. It can be accessed at school or home and requires no prep at all!

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