Popular Elementary Books Word Search Pack Charlotte’s Web The Giving Tree Where the Sidewalk Ends Holes Because of Winn-Dixie Number the Stars Matilda A Wrinkle in Time Bridge to Terabithia Wonder The Enormous Crocodile Hatchet

Elvis Presley Activity Pack 1. Elvis Presley Handout - 20 pages 2. Word Search 3. Source Analysis Activity x2 4. Elvis Presley Picture Starter Activity 5. Solve the message puzzle from Elvis 6. Elvis Presley Comic Strip and Storyboard 7. Elvis Presley Informative PP with video link

The Lincoln County War Activity Pack The Lincoln County War Handout Overview The Lincoln County War Word Search Alexander McSween Handout Billy the Kid Handout Billy the Kid Timeline and Quotes Billy the Kid Comic Strip and Storyboard John Chisum Handout John Tunstall Handout Lawrence Murphy Handout Pat Garrett Handout William J. Brady Handout

Wyatt Earp Activity Pack Wyatt Earp Handout Wyatt Word Search Wyatt Timeline and Quotes Wyatt Earp Solve the message puzzle Wyatt Earp Comic Strip Storyboard Doc Holliday Handout Doc Holliday Word Search Gunfight at the OK Coral Handout Gunfight at the OK Word Search

The Berlin Wall Activity Pack - engaging student activities The Berlin Wall Activity Handout The Berlin Wall JFK Source Analysis Activity The Berlin Wall Comprehension and Questions Activity Solve the message puzzle JFK Speech Berlin Solve the message puzzle from Ronald Reagan about the Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall Vision Templates The Berlin Wall Crossword The Berlin Wall Word Search Conrad Schumann Word Search

Jamestown Settlement Activity Pack Jamestown Settlement PP Learning Objectives: The student will be able to explain about the History of the Jamestown Settlement 25 questions within 60 slides: excellent pictures and sources to engage and motivate pupil’s study of the History of the United States. Can easily be edited as required. Includes word search, design a stamp/word search. Extra notes/info given in the PP notes section. Video link to Time Team Special 32 (2007) - America's Birthplace (Jamestown, USA Teacher Notes This is an excellent activity/game/plenary to further improve student’s work and knowledge. I split the class into two teams (in one class I have girls against boys but in another class I have just divided the room down the middle) and when we play the game each side decides on a volunteer to come to the front, facing the class so they can’t see the board (one team at a time). A word is shown on the IWB and each time the word is answered correctly I display another. This works really well but it is important to set some ground rules such as not using words that rhyme with the word on display. I’ve yet to come across a class who doesn’t like the concept. Works brilliantly in pairs also - 1 student turns their back to the IWB. Further Notes Student sits at front with back to board. Words are displayed behind him/her. Rest of class has to describe word to student - see how many he/she gets in 1 min. Can be reversed so that student can see the words and has to describe them to the class. Jamestown Settlement Handout Jamestown Settlement Comic Strip and Storyboard Jamestown Settlement Word Search Captain John Smith Jamestown Word Search

The Battle of Gettysburg Activity Pack What do you know about the US Civil War Templates The Battle of Gettysburg Handout Weapons of US Civil War PP Game - 25 Questions - Can be played in several ways. Remove the words and use as whole class Pupils pair up - 1 person turns their back to the board/screen. Their partner describe the word without saying the word. The US Civil War Cloze Activity Robert E Lee Handout The Battle of Gettysburg Crossword Solve the message puzzle from Joshua Chamberlain Solve the message puzzle from Robert E Lee The Battle of Gettysburg Word Search Pickett’s Charge Word Search

The World at War Key Episode Guides - Questions for students to answer from the video The World at War Episode 1 - “A New Germany (1933–1939)” The rebirth of Germany and growth in power of the Nazi Party leading up to the outbreak of war. The World at War Episode 5 Barbarossa (June – December 1941) Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the massive invasion of Soviet Union. Despite several quick victories, the invasion ultimately stalls after a failed assault on Moscow during Russia’s harsh winter. Interviewees include General Walter Warlimont, Albert Speer, Paul Schmidt (interpreter), Grigori Tokaty, W. Averell Harriman and Sir John Russell. The World at War Episode 6 – Banzai! Japan (1931–1942) The rise of the Japanese Empire, the Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts, Pearl Harbor and the early Japanese successes in the fall of Malaya and Singapore. Interviewees include Kōichi Kido, Minoru Genda, and J. G. Smyth. The World at War Episode 9 Stalingrad (June 1942 – February 1943) The mid-war German situation in Southern Russia resulting in the Battle of Stalingrad, and its ultimate German catastrophe. The World at War Episode 20 – Genocide (1941-45) Begins with the founding of the S.S. and follows the development of Nazi racial theory. It ends with the implementation of the Final Solution. Interviewees include Karl Wolff, Wilhelm Höttl, Rudolf Vrba, Primo Levi, Richard Böck, and Anthony Eden. The World at War Episode 23 - Pacific (February 1942 – July 1945) The successive and increasingly bloody land battles on tiny islands in the expansive Pacific, aimed towards the Japanese heartland. Following the bombing of Darwin, the over-extended Japanese are progressively turned back at Kokoda, Tarawa, Peleliu, the Philippines, Iwo Jima and finally Okinawa. The World at War Episode 24 – The Bomb The development of the atomic bomb, the ascendency of President Harry Truman, emerging splits in the Allies with Joseph Stalin, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, ultimately leading to the surrender of Japan. The World at War Episode 25 – “Reckoning (April 1945)” The situation in post-war Europe including the allied occupation of Germany, demobilisation, the Nuremberg Trials and the genesis of the Cold War. The episode concludes with summations about the ultimate costs and consequences of the war. Interviewees include Charles Bohlen, Stephen Ambrose, Lord Avon, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Hartley Shawcross, Noble Frankland and Alger Hiss.

Top 10 Inventors of all Time Ten of the greatest inventors who helped change the world. 1. Thomas Edison (1847–1931) Edison filed over 1000 patents. He developed and innovated a wide range of products from the electric light bulb to the phonograph and motion picture camera. 2. The Wright Brothers Successfully designed, built and flew the first powered aircraft, showing that man could fly. One of most important inventions of Twentieth Century. 3. Benjamin Franklin (1705–1790) Polymath who discovered electricity and invented the Franklin stove. 4. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian-born scientist who emigrated to the US. He was a brilliant scientist who played a key role in the development of AC electricity, through the AC induction motor, transformer, and Tesla coil. His method of AC electricity has been the template for global electricity use. 5. Charles Babbage (1791–1871) Created first mechanical computer, which proved to be the prototype for future computers. Considered to be the ‘Father of Computers’. 6. James Watt (1736–1819) Inventor of the steam engine, which was critical in the industrial revolution. His invention of a separate condensing chamber greatly improved the efficiency of steam. 7. Alexander Bell (1847–1922) Credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Also worked on optical telecommunications, aeronautics and hydrofoils. 8. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) One of the greatest ever minds. He invented models that proved workable 3-500 years later. 9. Galileo (1564–1642) Developed a powerful telescope and confirmed revolutionary theories about the nature of the world. Also developed an improved compass. 10. Tim Berners Lee Developed the http:// protocol for the internet, making the World Wide Web freely available.

Top 10 Scientists of all Time Word Search Pack Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) Newton was a polymath who made investigations into a whole range of subjects including mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy. In his Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, he laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining law of gravity and the laws of motion. Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) Pasteur contributed greatly towards the advancement of medical sciences developing cures for rabies, anthrax and other infectious diseases. Also invented the process of pasteurisation to make milk safer to drink. He probably saved more lives than any other person. Galileo (1564–1642) Creating one of the first modern telescopes, Galileo revolutionised our understanding of the world, successfully proving the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. His work Two New Sciences laid the groundwork for the science of Kinetics and strength of materials. Marie Curie (1867–1934) Polish physicist and chemist. Discovered radiation and helped to apply it in the field of X-ray. She won the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics. Albert Einstein (1879–1955) Revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) for his discovery of the Photoelectric effect, which formed the basis of Quantum Theory. Charles Darwin (1809–1882) Darwin developed his theory of evolution against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. He collected evidence over 20 years, and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859). Otto Hahn (1879–1968) Hahn was a German chemist who discovered nuclear fission (1939). He was a pioneering scientist in the field of radio-chemistry, and discovered radioactive elements and nuclear isomerism (1921). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Tesla worked on electro-magnetism and AC current. He is credited with many patents from electricity to radio transmission, and played a key role in the development of modern electricity. James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Maxwell made great strides in understanding electro-magnetism. His research in electricity and kinetics laid the foundation for quantum physics. Einstein said of Maxwell, “The work of James Clerk Maxwell changed the world forever.” Aristotle (384 BCE–322 BCE) A great early Greek scientist who made many researches in the natural sciences including botany, zoology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology and geometry.

US Navy Word Search Pack

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The Colonial Period 1630-1763

Little House in the Big Woods (1932) Farmer Boy (1933) – about her husband’s childhood on a farm in New York Little House on the Prairie (1935) On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939) The Long Winter (1940) Little Town on the Prairie (1941) These Happy Golden Years (1943)

Entrepreneurs Word Search Pack Andrew Carnegie Thomas Edison JP Morgan The Wright Brothers Henry Ford Bill Gates Walt Disney Milton Hershey Nikola Tesla Steve Jobs John D. Rockefeller Levi Strauss Oprah Winfrey

Explorers Word Search Pack Roald Amundsen Neil Armstrong Daniel Boone Christopher Columbus Captain James Cook Vasco da Gama Sir Francis Drake Edmund Hillary Henry Hudson Lewis and Clark Ferdinand Magellan Francisco Pizarro Marco Polo Juan Ponce de Leon Sacagawea Hernan Cortes Francisco Pizarro Juan Ponce de Leon Leif Erikson Sir Walter Raleigh John Cabot Charles Darwin

Famous US Figures from World War Two Word Search Pack

Summary handouts with great pictures/images This is very useful for homework, discussion/group and research activities. Sir Winston Churchill Isambard Kingdom Brunel Diana, Princess of Wales Charles Darwin William Shakespeare Sir Isaac Newton Elizabeth I John Lennon Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Oliver Cromwell

US Athletes Word Search Pack