U.S. History Projects (by date, latest first)

Engage your students year-round with our captivating "Fun Holiday-Themed Activities Bundle! - Social Studies | U.S. & World History!" This comprehensive collection currently features 20 best-selling activities designed to infuse your social studies curriculum with excitement and fun across various seasons and holidays. Check out what's included below!

Back to School

• Blobs and Line - Classroom Icebreaker Activity
• Four Corners - Classroom Icebreaker Activity
• Would You Rather - Classroom Icebreaker Activity

Halloween

• Frighteningly Famous! - Historical Biography Project
• Historic Headstone! - Social Studies Stations Activity

Thanksgiving

• Feasting with Famous Figures - Thanksgiving Holiday Project
• History of Thanksgiving - Crossword & Word Search Worksheets

Christmas / Winter

• History in a Snow Globe - Social Studies Activity
• The History Elf Project - Winter - Holiday - Christmas - Social Studies Activity
• Winter Holidays - Christmas - Hanukkah - Kwanzaa - Crossword & Word Search
• Guess The Wishlist - Holiday - Christmas - History - Who Am I? Stations Activity

Black History Month

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Civil Rights Movement - Crossword & Word Search
• The Civil Rights Movement - U.S. History Vocabulary Crossword & Word Search
• The Civil Rights Movement - Funko Pop Biography Project

Valentine's Day

• Mystery History Date - Valentine's Day - Fun Social Studies Research Activity
• Historical Heartthrobs! Valentines from Famous Figures | Social Studies Activity
• History of Valentine's Day Reading Comprehension & Questions - Holiday Activity
• Valentine's Day Crossword Puzzle & Word Search Activity - Holiday - Winter

Spring Break / Summer / End of Year

• Draw Your Own Sandcastle! Spring Break | Summer | End of the Year Activity
• Biography on a Beach Ball! - End of the Year | Spring Break | Summer Activity

This is a growing bundle and will update as more products are created and included!

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!

World History Ultimate Bundle! Yearlong Activities, Worksheets, Lessons, Games & Projects for Your Classroom

Bring world history to life and save time with this ultimate yearlong bundle! This comprehensive collection includes over 125 engaging activities covering major historical periods, from Prehistory, Ancient Civilizations, and the Middle Ages to World War II and the 21st Century. Designed for middle school, high school, and homeschool students, this bundle provides an extensive range of resources to enhance your world history curriculum, making history interactive, fun, and memorable.

What’s Included:

• Reading Comprehension Worksheets: This is a new product line, currently covering key historical periods from Prehistory to Ancient Greece, with more added throughout the year!
• Interactive Reading Lessons: Explore historical events and figures with guided questions and in-depth analysis.
• Worksheets & Notes: Perfect for classwork, homework, and review.
• Projects & Research Assignments: Encourage deep dives into specific historical topics, fostering critical thinking.
• Crossword Puzzles & Word Searches: Fun ways to reinforce vocabulary and key historical concepts.
• Classroom Games: Make history fun with interactive activities that engage all learners.
• Teacher Guides & Answer Keys: Detailed guides, rubrics, and answer keys for easy lesson planning and grading.

This Bundle is Ideal For:

• New teachers building a robust collection of classroom activities.
• Experienced teachers seeking fresh, creative resources.
• Homeschool families wanting structured, engaging lessons.

Stay tuned for even more resources added throughout the year as the reading comprehension series continues to expand. Check out the previews to see how these activities can enrich your classroom today!

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!

Engage your students with this creative biography project as they learn about key figures of the Civil Rights Movement! Project includes template for a Funko Pop character, Biographical Information/Research Page, "A Letter to the Past" template, grading rubric, and detailed instructions! Students will pick a famous leader from the Civil Rights Movement, research their life and achievements, and have fun as they use their creative mind!

A great mini-project for Black History Month or the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday!

Engage your students in a comprehensive and enriching learning experience with our California’s Missions Report Writing Sheets. These meticulously crafted worksheets provide a structured and engaging framework for students to conduct thorough research, organize their findings, and craft informative and quick reports on the captivating history of California’s missions.

Let your students explore the fascinating stories behind these iconic landmarks and write their specific and organized reports.

YOU’LL GET:

▪︎ Report writing sheets for each of the 21 missions

▪︎ A common report sheet to be used with any mission

▪︎ 2 sample report sheets

▪︎ Interesting facts writing templates (lined and without lines)

▪︎ Mission stories writing template

▪︎ 1 Mission stories sample sheet

Use it for independent study or as part of a group activity, these report sheet caters to various learning styles, making it an adaptable resource for various classroom needs.

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Welcome to the Washington D.C. Virtual Field Trip Project!

In this project, you will have the opportunity to explore the rich history and vibrant culture of the United States' capital city, Washington D.C. Your task is to create an engaging virtual tour that showcases the top landmarks, attractions, and historical sites in the city.

Have your students explore the Protest Movements of the 1960’s by becoming an author of a textbook; whose job is to research, write, and creatively craft a chapter that will both inform and engage its readers regarding a protest movement of this era of time. Using Google Slides, students will be assigned one of the six following protest movements from which to research and create their chapter on:

• The United Farm Workers (UFW)
• The Anti-Vietnam War movement
• The Women’s movement
• The Gay Rights movement
• The Environmental movement
• The American Indian movement (AIM)

Using an inquiry based approach, the accompanied Slide Presentation will first have students explore the cause and effect relationship of how these protest movements came to exist in America during this period of time. The latter portion of the presentation will provide students with an overview of the chapter project with student examples. The final activity will involve students sharing their chapter with their classmates, and completing a Venn Diagram that will serve to critically compare the six different protest movements.

This lesson/project easily lends itself to having a sub take over as well!

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

• Controversy and the Criminal Justice System (Eric Garner Case)
• The 'Bill of Rights' Time Travel
• César Chavez: Analyzing Primary Sources
• Mock Trial: Class Preparation (MY BEST SELLER)!
• Analyzing The Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution
• Post Zombie Apocalypse: What Form of Government Would YOU Create?

Have your students see themselves through the lens of an investigator, exploring a complex and important inquiry…. ‘What factors caused the Great Depression’? Students, or your class investigators, will examine a variety of context clues and information that will help them solve this question. Students will identify the causal clues along with its effects, and then create a ‘LOOP’ (web) diagram that will serve to demonstrate their understandings of how these underlying causes interconnect with one another. This unit will prompt your students to become active learners in their pursuit of solving the mystery.

*This unit will have students explore dynamics of the 1920's, Great Depression, and the New Deal.

In addition, there are 3 optional extension activities to choose from:

1. Comparing advertising from the 1920's to today, and filling out a Venn diagram.
2. Listening to FDR's first fire side chat, and answering comprehension questions.
3. New Deal Matching Game: Analyzing & matching New Deal programs with the problems they attempted to address.

Materials:

• Teacher Reference Guide

• Google Slide Presentation with engaging & informative video clips
• Guided Notes
• Loop Diagram (Web) Grading Rubrics
• New Deal Matching Game 

• Answer Key

Time Frame: 1.5- 2 weeks (1 hr class periods)

If you liked this lesson see other related lessons here:

• Child Labor: Comparing Industrial Era to Today
• Intro to Economics: Needs V. Wants
• Post Zombie Apocalypse: What Form of Government Would YOU Create?
• American Imperialism Interactive Notebook [UNIT]
• FDR & The New Deal Matching Game [Included in this resource] (FREEBIE)

The 1920's, The Great Depression, The New Deal

Students struggle with understanding the Bill of Rights and how it applies to their life. This bundle has:

* A self-grading interactive BOOM CARD game

* A digital Fill-In-The-Blank activity where the students break down the Bill of Rights into "common language" and I CAN statements

* 28 slide PPT presentation covering, in detail, each amendment PLUS 2 scenarios per amendment

*28 slide Google Slides Presentation covering, in detail, each amendment PLUS 2 scenarios per amendment

* Bill of Rights Anchor Poster

These activities lead to a GREAT synchronous or asynchronous discussion!

BONUS: Included in the Bundle are directions to access a FREE Kahoots review game with your students.

Note: This contains a Boom Card download. To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for modern Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (a form of play that gives instant feedback to students for self-grading Boom Cards). 

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Students often can/will recite the basics of SOME of the Bill of Rights but often do not know how they apply to their personal life. They believe that it was written years ago and does not have any relevant meaning to the HERE and NOW. With this interactive activity, my US History and Government classes dived into the Bill of Rights and learned how to apply each of the Amendments to their personal life. This brought about outstanding debates in class (and online) about civil rights and liberties.

This was created as a PDF document to use in the classroom. There is also a Digital Learning Format where it can be assigned to students to complete in a virtual setting such as Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.

I hope your students enjoy this as much as mine did!

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Four-wheelin' or muddin? Cruisin' or going for a drive? Get students thinking about dialects and regional differences with this 22 page engaging, visual presentation. Includes: Dialect and examples Idiolect and examples Jargon and examples Pidgins and examples Creole and examples Review of Terminologies and activity Regional dialects and activity Literature dialects and examples Literature Project activity for Assessment Extra Resources Great for blended, flipped, homeschool, group collaboration, and whole class English and history courses. Interactive and critical thinking skills required!

Are you eager to transform your classroom into an enchanting space that pays tribute to the legendary Johnny Appleseed? Your search ends here!

This Johnny Appleseed Bulletin Board Kit is the perfect decoration set that will transport your students into a world of vibrant fall colors and take them on an extraordinary journey through the life of Johnny Appleseed, making it an ideal addition to your classroom.

This product includes:

• " Tiny Seed Grow Mighty Trees" with two letters presented on each page. Each page is sized 11×8.5 inches.
• " Ready To Grow Together" with two letters presented on each page. Each page is sized 11×8.5 inches.
• four attractive full-page size banners: Each banner features vibrant colors that reflect the fall theme. Additionally, you can find four banners grouped together on one page for easy printing and display.
• " Johnny seed" : banner, available in two size full page and four in one page.
• 13 decoration pieces: include; apple tree, apple basket, apple pie, and six apples that can be personalized with your students' names..

May you are interested with Johnny Appleseed products:

Johnny Appleseed Apple Tree Craft Math Activity

Johnny Appleseed Counting Apples Math Task Card Solve The Room

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The Johnny Appleseed Apple Tree Craft is an enjoyable and educational project designed to celebrate the legend of Johnny Appleseed. This activity not only sparks creativity and fine motor skills but also offers an opportunity for math practice.

Encourage your students to begin by coloring the apple tree template. Next, they should carefully cut it out and glue it to the tree trunk. To make the activity even more exciting, students can personalize their apple trees by adding googly eyes and a cheerful smiley mouth. This creative touch will not only make their apple trees unique but also contribute to a lively and engaging classroom atmosphere.

This Craft Activity includes 26 differentiation options that allow students to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division fact fluency in a fun and engaging way.

• Addition to 10
• Addition to 20
• 2 Digit addition w/out regrouping
• 2 Digit addition with regrouping
• 3 Digit addition
• Subtraction within 10
• Subtraction within 20
• 2 Digit subtraction w/out regrouping
• 2 Digit subtraction with regrouping
• 3 Digit subtraction
• Multiplication by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 each in separate worksheet.
• Mixed multiplication
• Division by 2,3
• Division by 2-5
• Division by 6-9
• Mixed division

You can easily provide students with materials that suit their level and needs.

May you are interested with this product:

Johnny Appleseed Bulletin Board Classroom Decoration

Johnny Appleseed Counting Apples Math Task Card Solve The Room

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Veterans Day Collaborative Poster: Lest We Forget

Honor the heroes who have bravely served with this impactful Lest We Forget Veterans Day Collaborative Poster. This interactive classroom project allows students to come together to create a powerful visual reminder of the sacrifices made by veterans. With a design that promotes reflection and appreciation, this collaborative poster is ideal for classroom decorations, school hallways, or Veterans Day events.

In this pack you will receive:

• A PDF that includes 25 Pages.
• Each page size 8.5×11 inch
• Poster Sample
• Poster template
• Students instruction
• Coloring page

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Save 20% on 15 books from the What Is? and What Was? book series. Each one includes a book report flipbook template and a comprehensive reading comprehension digital lesson (with a built-in reward system).

The books in the series include:

1. What Was the Age of Exploration?
2. What Was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
3. What Was the Wild West?
4. What Was the Donner Party?
5. What Was the Ice Age?
6. What Was the Boston Tea Party?
7. What Was Ellis Island?
8. What Was the Great Depression?
9. What Was the Plague?
10. What Was the Titanic
11. What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
12. What is Climate Change?
13. What is the Constitution?
14. What is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
15. What is the Women's Rights Movement?

This product is easy to use:

1. Print the template (same template for every book in this series), cut along the dotted line on each page, then staple the top to create the flipbooks (students can do this on their own).
2. Read the book (independently or as a class/group)
3. Click through the Google reading comprehension digital lesson (no-prep required!)
4. Students fill out the template independently/homework or as a class or group. In my class, we work on the book report template together through each section of the lesson.

The sections of the reading comprehension digital lesson and 9-page book report template include (along with the built-in reward system):

• book title info
• rating & review
• vocabulary
• facts
• text ideas
• series of events
• making life connections
• what I learned
• questions I have
• setting/subject
• interesting event
• important event

If you are looking to explore the topic of immigration in American history, this "What Was Ellis Island?" book report project digital product for 3rd and 4th-grade students is perfect. It's designed to enhance non-fiction reading comprehension and book report writing skills!

This resource includes:

• Comprehensive Google Slides digital lesson for reading comprehension and book report writing support
• 9-page printable PDF book report flip book template

Please see the product preview for more visual details.

NOTE: You need a (free) Google account to access the digital lesson, and you will need access to the book "What Was Ellis Island" by Patricia Brennan Demuth to complete the digital and printable activities.

Students will dive into the historical context of Ellis Island, gaining a deeper understanding of this significant immigration event in world history. The digital lesson guides students through key facts, timelines, and the impact of these events.

How to use this resource:

• Have students read the book, "What Was Ellis Island?"
• Print the book report flip book template
• Open and present the Google Slides digital lesson
• Follow the intuitive prompts, which will take you through each step of the book report. For example, if it's time to work on the "facts" page, there is a series of multiple-choice questions on specific facts detailed in the text that will help refresh the students' memories and comprehension. Then students can fill in the facts they found most interesting.
• Have fun guessing the mystery puzzle between each section of the book report!

The printable PDF book report flip book template provides creative book report ideas, such as summarizing the events, using critical thinking skills, and creating a timeline. It can be used with any non-fiction book. Students will also use a book review template to evaluate the significance of Ellis Island and America's history of immigration. Overall, this project offers an engaging way for students to explore non-fiction text structures while learning about a crucial moment in history.

The non-fiction book report flip book pages include:

   ✏book title info

   ✏rating & review

   ✏vocabulary

   ✏facts

   ✏text ideas

   ✏series of events

   ✏making life connections

   ✏what I learned

   ✏questions I have

   ✏setting & subject

   ✏interesting event

   ✏important event

If you liked this product, you might also like . . .

   ✏What Were the Salem Witch Trials? Non-Fiction Book Report Project 4th Grade

   ✏Non-Fiction Book Report Template Project 4th Grade | What is Climate Change?

   ✏What Was The Plague? Non-Fiction Book Report Project 4th Grade Reading Comp.

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If you want to explore non-fiction book report writing while strengthening reading comprehension skills, this "What Was The Wild West?" book study and report project digital product for 3rd and 4th-grade students is perfect. It's designed to enhance non-fiction reading comprehension and book report writing skills!

This resource includes:

• Comprehensive Google Slides digital lesson for reading comprehension and book report writing support
• 9-page printable PDF book report flip book template

Please see the product preview for more visual details.

NOTE: You need a (free) Google account to access the digital lesson, and you will need access to the book "What Was the Wild West?" to complete the digital and printable activities.

Students will dive into the historical context of Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Wild West, gaining a deeper understanding of this significant event in American history. The digital lesson guides students through key facts, timelines, and the impact of these events.

How to use this resource:

• Have students read the book, "What Was The Wild West?"
• Print the book report flip book template
• Open and present the Google Slides digital lesson
• Follow the intuitive prompts, which will take you through each step of the book report. For example, if it's time to work on the "facts" page, there is a series of multiple-choice questions on specific facts detailed in the text that will help refresh the students' memories and comprehension. Then students can fill in the facts they found most interesting.
• Have fun guessing the mystery puzzle between each section of the book report!

The printable PDF book report flip book template provides creative book report ideas, such as summarizing the events, using critical thinking skills, and creating a timeline. It can be used with any non-fiction book. Students will also use a book review template to evaluate the Wild West's significance. Overall, this project offers an engaging way for students to explore non-fiction text structures while learning about a crucial event in history.

The non-fiction book report flip book pages include:

   ✏book title info

   ✏rating & review

   ✏vocabulary

   ✏facts

   ✏text ideas

   ✏series of events

   ✏making life connections

   ✏what I learned

   ✏questions I have

   ✏setting & subject

   ✏interesting event

   ✏important event

If you liked this product, you might also like . . .

   ✏What Were the Salem Witch Trials? Non-Fiction Book Report Project 4th Grade

   ✏Non-Fiction Book Report Template Project 4th Grade | What is Climate Change?

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My students LOVE interactive storyboards! This activity would be a perfect way to finish up your study over Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes open-ended questions, vocabulary and a timeline to list five important events in MLK's lifetime. Children are very creative and can use the artwork and their own imaginations to embellish and make it their own. I use file folders as the base but large manila or construction paper can be used as well. I've included pictures to give you an idea of how to arrange it.

Here are some more storyboards you might want to try!

Fables Storyboards

Gingerbread Man Storyboard

Graphic Novel Storyboards

Fairy Tales Storyboards

Martin Luther King, Jr. Storyboard

Little Red Hen and Other Stories Storyboards

Project based learning:

This lessons relate to Studies Weekly weeks 6-8 for 5th grade, but the topics covered certainly work without Studies Weekly. These hands on projects help engage students and lead to better understanding.

Students will study and represent Indigenous People's dwellings, complete an infographic concerning different native tribes, explore being an archaeologist, and work trade routes.

Project based learning helps students approach information in a variety of ways.

What's included:

• Instructions for teachers.
• Instructions for students.
• Data and response sheets.
• Necessary rubrics.
• Necessary information cards.
• Infographic posters to complete.

How is this resource useful:

• Engaging for students.
• Low prep for teachers.
• Hands on.
• Covers Indiana standards. (5.E.1, 5.E.2, 5.H.1, 5.H.3, 5.G.7)
• Ties into Studies Weekly lessons.