In my own classes, I see the value of making learning fun. That’s why I try my best to develop activities and puzzles that students find engaging, even as they make a teacher’s professional life just a little bit easier! This Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle Worksheet focuses on the spread of industrialization to the United States. Teacher Convenience Features in this Industrial Revolution Puzzle This Industrial Revolution Puzzle includes a variety of options designed to give teachers instant options. The puzzle included is designed for differentiated learning, with two difficulty levels provided. First you will see a standard presentation with just the crossword grid and the lists of clues. On the very next page, however, you will see a “basic” version of the same puzzle. This one includes a word bank so that students who need more guided assistance can also succeed on the puzzles, learning along the way. The answer keys are also designed for teacher convenience. First you will see the puzzle grid filled in with the answers. This page also includes the clues for teacher reference. On the next answer page, you’ll find a handy table that pairs up each answer with its corresponding clue. This page will let you review terms and names with your students without having to hunt for the answers on a puzzle grid. Ways to Use This Industrial Revolution Puzzle Worksheet The information included on this puzzles matches what is typically presented in a high school history textbook, but of course if students have internet-capable devices – even their own smart phones, if that works per your school’s policies – they can always augment the textbook with a spot of online research. This Industrial Revolution Worksheet puzzle works great for: • Reviewing key concepts after the text has been read and discussed • Homework assignment • Sub plans – even months after industrialization has been taught, you can use these for emergency substitute lesson plans! • Open-book Industrial Revolution test • Industrial Revolution quiz • Group / Cooperative Learning Activity • History contest activity Thanks for reading this far! I wish you a very happy and productive school year, and lots of fun teaching! Elise Parker

Three Spanish American War worksheets: Multiple choice with 60 questions for a thorough review or test, plus 2 matching worksheets -- one basic, one advanced so you can have differentiated learning materials at your fingertips! How did the United States first start to become a world power? That's a complex question, but one of the key factors was the nation's victory in the Spanish-American War. About the student materials you will get in these Spanish-American War worksheets This teaching resource contains three different worksheets. All of them cover the same basic content: the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish-American War. The first worksheet is a comprehensive multiple-choice overview of the Spanish-American War, containing 60 questions that can be answered using most high-school level textbooks or online resources related to the war. The last two worksheets consist of matching problems designed to help students do a targeted review of key people and items that they should have mastered. Because the matching worksheets focus only on these highly important historical entries, they work very well as quizzes or tests. Matching Worksheet A is the “basic” version of such a test because it contains only 10 definitions, each one of which matches to a person or thing on the provided list. That is, there are not extraneous answers provided as distractors. Teachers may find that Worksheet A is perfect for students who benefit from more streamlined materials. Matching Worksheet B, on the other hand, is the “advanced” version of the same test. Questions and answers are identical to those on the “ basic” matching worksheet, but additional unused answers are also mixed in so that students have more entries to choose from. Content Included in these Spanish American War Worksheets These question sets are titled “American Imperialism: The Spanish-American War” because they are not intended to be a comprehensive view of all 19th century American imperialism. Instead, they cover a limited range of topics: • Cuba’s ongoing conflicts with Spain in the late 1800s • American business interests in Cuba • Jose Marti’s rebellion and Spain’s response • Yellow journalism and growing war fever in America • The destruction of the U.S.S. Maine • Initial fighting in the Philippines • War readiness of the U.S. Army in 1898 • Fighting in Cuba; African American regiments, Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders • The provisions of the Treaty of Paris • American reactions to the idea of empire Other American imperialism topics, such as the Panama Canal and the Open Door Policy, will be covered in forthcoming question sets.

In my own classes, I see the value of making learning fun. That’s why I try my best to develop activities and puzzles that students find engaging, even as they make a teacher’s professional life just a little bit easier! This Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle Worksheet focuses on the spread of industrialization through much of continental Europe after its start in England. Teacher Convenience Features in this Industrial Revolution Puzzle This Industrial Revolution Puzzle includes a variety of options designed to give teachers instant options. The puzzle included is designed for differentiated learning, with two difficulty levels provided. First you will see a standard presentation with just the crossword grid and the lists of clues. On the very next page, however, you will see a “basic” version of the same puzzle. This one includes a word bank so that students who need more guided assistance can also succeed on the puzzles, learning along the way. The answer keys are also designed for teacher convenience. First you will see the puzzle grid filled in with the answers. This page also includes the clues for teacher reference. On the next answer page, you’ll find a handy table that pairs up each answer with its corresponding clue. This page will let you review terms and names with your students without having to hunt for the answers on a puzzle grid. Ways to Use This Industrial Revolution Puzzle Worksheet The information included on this puzzles matches what is typically presented in a high school history textbook, but of course if students have internet-capable devices – even their own smart phones, if that works per your school’s policies – they can always augment the textbook with a spot of online research. This Industrial Revolution Worksheet puzzle works great for: • Reviewing key concepts after the text has been read and discussed • Homework assignment • Sub plans – even months after industrialization has been taught, you can use these for emergency substitute lesson plans! • Open-book Industrial Revolution test • Industrial Revolution quiz • Group / Cooperative Learning Activity • History contest activity Thanks for reading this far! I wish you a very happy and productive school year, and lots of fun teaching! Elise Parker

Three Slavery and Abolition worksheets: Multiple choice with 74 questions for a thorough review or test, plus 2 matching worksheets -- one basic, one advanced so you can have differentiated learning materials at your fingertips! All three of these Slavery Worksheets / Abolition Worksheets cover the same basic content: the institution of slavery in the United States from about 1800 through 1860, as well as the growing abolition movement taking hold of the nation during that time. The first worksheet is a comprehensive multiple-choice exercise focused on slavery and abolition, containing 74 questions that can be answered using most high-school level textbooks or online resources related to United States slavery in the 1800s. The last two worksheets consist of matching problems designed to help students do a targeted review of key people and items that they should have mastered. Because the matching worksheets focus only on these highly important historical entries, they work very well as quizzes or tests. Matching Worksheet A is the “basic” version of such a test because there are no extraneous answers provided as distractors. Teachers may find that Worksheet A is perfect for students who benefit from more streamlined materials. Matching Worksheet B, on the other hand, is the “advanced” version of the same test. Questions and answers are identical to those on the “ basic” matching worksheet, but additional unused answers are also mixed in so that students have more entries to choose from. CONTENT INCLUDED IN THESE SLAVERY WORKSHEETS / ABOLITION WORKSHEETS These question cover the following range of topics commonly studied in U.S. history / American history classes: • Anti-slavery societies and the plan for resettlement of freed slaves in Africa • Influence of preachers / ministers / religion in the abolition movement • William Lloyd Garrison and his abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator • David Walker and his call for slaves to fight for their freedom • Frederick Douglass and his abolitionist newspaper, The North Star • Conditions for rural and urban slaves in the 1800s • Solomon Northrup and his experiences as 12 Years a Slave • Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Slave codes • Justifications for slavery • Petitions for abolition in the nation’s capital, and the “gag rule” reaction

In my own classes, I see the value of making learning fun. That’s why I try my best to develop activities and puzzles that students find engaging, even as they make a teacher’s professional life just a little bit easier! This Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle Worksheet focuses on the various theories that sprang up to explain how industrial economies work. (Note -- there is a separate crossword puzzle covering Karl Marx's theory of radical socialism.) Teacher Convenience Features in this Industrial Revolution Puzzle This Industrial Revolution Puzzle includes a variety of options designed to give teachers instant options. The puzzle included is designed for differentiated learning, with two difficulty levels provided. First you will see a standard presentation with just the crossword grid and the lists of clues. On the very next page, however, you will see a “basic” version of the same puzzle. This one includes a word bank so that students who need more guided assistance can also succeed on the puzzles, learning along the way. The answer keys are also designed for teacher convenience. First you will see the puzzle grid filled in with the answers. This page also includes the clues for teacher reference. On the next answer page, you’ll find a handy table that pairs up each answer with its corresponding clue. This page will let you review terms and names with your students without having to hunt for the answers on a puzzle grid. Ways to Use This Industrial Revolution Puzzle Worksheet The information included on this puzzles matches what is typically presented in a high school history textbook, but of course if students have internet-capable devices – even their own smart phones, if that works per your school’s policies – they can always augment the textbook with a spot of online research. This Industrial Revolution Worksheet puzzle works great for: • Reviewing key concepts after the text has been read and discussed • Homework assignment • Sub plans – even months after industrialization has been taught, you can use these for emergency substitute lesson plans! • Open-book Industrial Revolution test • Industrial Revolution quiz • Group / Cooperative Learning Activity • History contest activity Thanks for reading this far! I wish you a very happy and productive school year, and lots of fun teaching! Elise Parker

Spanish is spoken in far more places than just Spain or Mexico, yet most Spanish textbooks hardly ever emphasize the multinational aspect of the language. Enhance your teaching with these fun interactive exercises / computer games which will help students "grasp" the simple concept: Se habla español en muchos paí­ses. Spanish Interactives Mean Automatic Differentiation! The exercises are done on computer and work right inside a web browser! Each exercises consists of a matching drag-and-drop game where students have to pair up Spanish synonyms. Download the preview to see it in action -- the preview has 4 games for you to try out. The full download has 16. With computer-based instruction, all students can be actively engaged at once in the computer lab -- and each one will be working at his or her own pace to achieve mastery. I taught Spanish for 12 years and developed an extensive Spanish-instruction website to help my students. My exercises really led to mastery -- and trust me, the ones in the textbooks I used generally didn't. The solution to passing the AP Exam: Practice, Practice, Practice! Every student I trained for the AP Spanish exam passed it, and exercises like these with fun, intensive practice that leads to mastery, is a big reason for that record of success. These exercises could be used for enrichment/enhancement or you could make them an extra credit activity -- OR, you could incorporate them into your core curriculum in order to give your students a more well-rounded understanding of Spanish as a multinational language. Spanish Exercises by Elise Parker

TEACH THANKSGIVING WITH HUMOR USING CRASH COURSE! Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching the history behind our modern Thanksgiving holiday, the YouTube series Crash Course U.S. History is a great place to start since it devotes an entire episode just to Thanksgiving! The Thanksgiving episode of Crash Course contains about 12 minutes of content and is available to stream for free at the following link: Timestamps or No Timestamps? This packet will provide you with three resources to help you use the Thanksgiving episode with your classes: • A student worksheet without timestamps • A student worksheet with timestamps showing at which point in the video the needed information is presented • A full context answer key. This contains the student questions, the answer (sometimes annotated with additional information), and the timestamps for each question. About These Thanksgiving Video Worksheets For the Thanksgiving episode, the worksheet contains 24 True/False problems for them to solve as student watch. All questions are presented in video order so that students can easily follow along, but these worksheets are not mere outlines that merely ask students to generate their own notes. Instead, they focus in on certain key issues that students watching the videos should master in order to have a clear and concise understanding of the topic under study. Ideas for Using this Crash Course Thanksgiving Worksheet Only a teacher knows what constitutes best use for a particular class, but I always find it helpful to see what creative approaches other teachers are using. Here are some good options for these worksheets. • Standard use: Print off copies and have students complete them as they watch the video. Or send the copies electronically so students can complete them on tablet/laptop devices, if that is an option in your setting. Go over answers out loud if time permits (great for discussing/debriefing the video content) or collect papers to grade them more formally. • Accommodate students who claim that the worksheets "go too fast:" Assign students to do only the evens or only the odds. After watching the video, pair students up to discuss and fill in missing answers. • Create basic and advanced levels from the same worksheet: This is easily done by declaring that the "basic" level is odds-only (or evens-only) while the "advanced" level consists of all the questions.

A set of 11 exercises to help students get a solid foundation in Spanish verb meanings and conjugations. Self-checking individually paced learning that really makes differentiation a snap -- and that promotes true mastery of the language! INTEGRATE WORD MEANINGS WITH GRAMMAR TO PROMOTE TRUE COMPREHENSION INSTEAD OF ROTE LEARNING When students are practicing conjugations, they should at the same time be acquiring the MEANING of the words they are using. What sense does it make to have them write charts of rompo, rompes, rompe, etc, when they don't know what the words MEAN? My exercises are designed to constantly reinforce the meaning of the conjugated forms. As students advance through the exercises they will master increasing numbers of word meanings, and all the while, they have been acquiring the target conjugations as well. TARGET SPECIFIC TROUBLE AREAS THAT LEARNERS STRUGGLE WITH No matter what textbook I used, the book always took for granted that students would understand when to use the nosotros versus the ellos/Uds. forms. You probably know that students have HUGE difficulty in figuring out which form is needed in any given plural situation. Sure, they'll use the ellos form when the sentence says "ellos," and they can handle a simple nosotros, too, but what about when the sentence says "Marta y Luis," or "Maria y yo," or "Los profesores y Ud.?" Sentences like that would absolutely baffle my students until we started doing massive practice sets on how to know when you need a nosotros versus an ellos/ellas/Uds. form. But these exercises take care of that for you! I built them that way from the start so that students would have tons of practice in recognizing real-life subjects -- which as we know, do not always consist of the pure subject pronouns. So yes, sometimes the exercises cue them with "Ella," but sometimes they use a name or a title (La alumna) or even a non-person noun when the verb is suitable (El libro...). And when it comes to the plural forms, students will work with complex subjects from the start: Maria Elena y tú, El director y los estudiantes. Tú y yo. Uds. y yo. Juan, Elena, y Teresa. Etc, etc, etc. This exercise set has a special multiple-choice section that requires students to focus on when they would need the nosotros or the ellos forms for complex subjects. THE NITTY-GRITTY: HOW THESE SPANISH INTERACTIVE EXERCISES WORK All exercises are computer based and designed to run in any web browser. All you have to do (as explained in the included Read Me file) is copy the exercise set to a computer's hard drive and double click on the START HERE file!

We the People Crossword Puzzle -- A Great Way to Preview and Review Material! Looking for a fun way to get students engaged with lesson content and help them zero in on key concepts and important details about U.S. government and the U.S. Constitution? Puzzles work well! This puzzle activity is intended for use with Lesson 20 of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution. As such, it dives deep into the expansion of voting rights over the course of United States history -- everything from the elimination of property requirements to the enfranchisement of African Americans, Native Americans, women, and young adults. This will help students see how the work done by the Framers of the Constitution has been augmented over time by both constitutional amendment and federal law. Differentiated Learning is Embedded in these We the People Crossword Puzzle Worksheets This We the People Crossword Puzzle Packet contains worksheets with two levels of difficulty to help teachers differentiate the material for their students. The first crossword included features a standard format with just the puzzle grid and the clues list. The second crossword puzzle page, however, is intended for students that need learning aids – it also includes a Word Bank list that will assist students in filling out the puzzle by providing them with all of the possible answers. This “basic” level puzzle still requires students to think critically, though – they have to read each clue and figure out which word bank entry best suits it. Teacher Convenience Features in these We the People Puzzle Worksheets This packet includes a traditional crossword puzzle answer key that shows the words filled into their correct slots. However, to help teachers who want to conduct a class discussion on the terms, there is also an “Answer List” page that matches up the key words with their clues. This format means that teachers don’t have to hunt for answers on the grid when they are discussing items with the class!

Ratifying the Constitution Worksheets: Multiple choice with 48 questions for a thorough review or test, plus both a fast-correct and a full context answer key! This Ratification Worksheet is a comprehensive multiple-choice exercise containing 48questions that can be answered using most high-school level textbooks or online resources related to United States slavery in the 1800s. Perfect for review, homework, sub plans, and even a ratification quiz or ratification test! CONTENT INCLUDED IN THESE RATIFICATION WORKSHEETS These question cover the following range of topics commonly studied in U.S. history / American history classes: • The Federalist point of view • The Anti-Federalist point of view • Major issues in dispute • Publius and The Federalist essays • Anti-Federalist literature • Which states ratified first and last • Which states were considered essential • Arguments for and against a Bill of Rights • Addition of the Bill of Rights • Provisions included in the Bill of Rights

A set of 10 exercises to help students get a solid foundation in Spanish verb meanings and conjugations. INTEGRATE WORD MEANINGS WITH GRAMMAR TO PROMOTE TRUE COMPREHENSION INSTEAD OF ROTE LEARNING When students are practicing conjugations, they should at the same time be acquiring the MEANING of the words they are using. What sense does it make to have them write charts of lavo, lavas, lava, etc, when they don't know what the words MEAN? My exercises are designed to constantly reinforce the meaning of the conjugated forms. As students advance through the exercises they will master increasing numbers of word meanings, and all the while, they have been acquiring the target conjugations as well. TARGET SPECIFIC TROUBLE AREAS THAT LEARNERS STRUGGLE WITH No matter what textbook I used, the book always took for granted that students would understand when to use the nosotros versus the ellos/Uds. forms. You probably know that students have HUGE difficulty in figuring out which form is needed in any given plural situation. Sure, they'll use the ellos form when the sentence says "ellos," and they can handle a simple nosotros, too, but what about when the sentence says "Marta y Luis," or "Maria y yo," or "Los profesores y Ud.?" Sentences like that would absolutely baffle my students until we started doing massive practice sets on how to know when you need a nosotros versus an ellos/ellas/Uds. form. But these exercises take care of that for you! I built them that way from the start so that students would have tons of practice in recognizing real-life subjects -- which as we know, do not always consist of the pure subject pronouns. FOCUS ON COMMONLY CONFUSED VERBS I identify problem verbs from the start, and provide practice specifically targeted to them. Problem verbs are the ones that students consistently mix up when they are trying to communicate. In this set, lavar and llevar are problem verbs. Students use llevar when they mean lavar, and vice-versa. An exercise of nothing but distinguishing lavar and llevar takes care of the problem. Students reach mastery and gain confidence with my exercises! THE NITTY-GRITTY: HOW THESE SPANISH INTERACTIVE EXERCISES WORK All exercises are computer based and designed to run in any web browser. All you have to do (as explained in the included Read Me file) is copy the exercise set to a computer's hard drive and double click on the START HERE file. To have your whole class use the exercises at once, load them onto your local area network.

This history-through-literature learning packet is designed to accompany The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Woman Survived the Holocaust. This memoir tells the true story of Edith Hahn Beer, who suffered as a slave laborer in both agricultural and industrial camps in the Nazi empire before finding a way to disappear into Aryan society. She lived out the rest of the war as a “U-boat,” or a Jewish person passing for Aryan, eventually marrying a German to help preserve her cover. After the war, she confronted the realities of life in the Soviet sector, finally fleeing Germany for freedom in England and eventually, Israel. ABOUT THIS TEACHING PACKET This resource consists of student worksheets to accompany each chapter of The Nazi Officer’s Wife. Each worksheet consists of a variety of text-dependent questions about the target chapter. All questions are free-response and are presented in order to match the sequence of the target chapter; each worksheet is formatted to provide students enough space to record their answers. WHY ONLY FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS? The basic purpose these questions are meant to address is that of reading check; they are designed to help teachers assess which students have carefully read the assigned chapter(s). To accomplish this, they need to lend themselves to guessing as little as possible. Using true/false or multiple choice questions would defeat this objective. The questions themselves are carefully constructed to make guessing difficult. Questions with a limited logical set of answers, such as “What color?” or “Did Werner believe Edith?” are not included. In a number of cases, the correct answer is actually the least likely thing to occur to someone guessing, as in “What did the Russians answer when Edith asked them to help her husband?” – In that case, the correct answer is “Nothing,” since the text is explicit about the fact that they did NOT answer her despite her repeated requests.

Designed to accompany the PBS documentary, "The Armenian Genocide," this comprehensive set of worksheets contains more than 70 key questions divided into two sections -- one to go with each half of the video. What these Armenian Genocide Worksheets Include You will receive a wealth of materials including: --student worksheets designed to be reused year after year to save you time (and possibly even money!) --student worksheets designed to be written on, in case this format/approach works best with your students --a simple answer key that makes correcting a snap --an elaborated answer key designed to make it easy to go over answers and discuss issues with the class --an additional student/teacher resource page set up to facilitate independent or group research into specific individuals killed in the Armenian genocide Where to Find the Video that Goes with These Armenian Genocide Video Worksheets Include The video that goes with these worksheets can be found through a simple Google search. At any given time, it may be available on YouTube or Netflix. It may also show up in the PBS app or be playing on your local PBS station. For teachers who wish to own a permanent copy, it can be purchased from pbs.org. A link to the purchase page is included in the preview file and in the full download file. Make your teaching of the "first genocide of the 20th century" more engaging for students by showing the video and holding students accountable by using this detailed worksheet set.

TEACH WITH HUMOR USING WORLD HISTORY CRASH COURSE! Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching history contents, the YouTube series Crash Course World History is a great place to start. The script of each episode is packed with humorous observations about life and culture -- ones that help to make strong points about the history being communicated. Just as importantly, the host, John Green, has what it takes to keep students' interest: enthusiasm about the topics, a quirky way with props, and a funny, sometimes deadpan delivery of content. Students like watching the series, which means they pay attention to it and learn! Each episode of Crash Course contains about 10 minutes of content plus a brief time for the credits. Episodes are available for free on YouTube at the following playlist: If you are new to Crash Course, I encourage you to watch a few videos as soon as you can. I expect you'll be just as enthusiastic about the classroom possibilities as I am! ABOUT THESE CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS Time stamps are provided for each and every question to help students zero in on the answers. If you do not care to provide your students with time stamp information, however, the packet also includes a "questions only" worksheet for each episode. Each worksheet focuses on a single episode of Crash Course World History and typically contains between 10 and 20 items for students to complete. Worksheets are formatted to fit on one page for easy copying and a detailed answer key is provided for each episode. Some worksheets are free answer and some are true/false -- and in the answer key, all false answers are annotated to give additional information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPISODES INCLUDED IN THESE CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS This resource includes a worksheet, a time-stamped worksheet, and a detailed answer key for episodes 31-35 of Crash Course World History: • Latin American Revolutions • Coal, Steam & the Industrial Revolution • Capitalism & Socialism • Daimyo, Samurai, Nationalism & Matthew Perry • Imperialism in the 19th Century -- The New Imperialism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

BARGAIN-PRICED BUNDLE TO HELP YOU TEACH WITH HUMOR USING CRASH COURSE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS! Teach with Humor using Crash Course Government! Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! For government or civics classes, one easy way to work in some student enjoyment is by showing episodes of Crash Course U.S.Government and Politics. The script of each episode is packed with humorous observations -- ones that help to make strong points about the civics under study. Students like watching the series, which means they pay attention to it and learn! Produced by PBS Digital Studios, each episode of Crash Course contains about 10 minutes of content plus a brief time for the credits. Episodes are available for free on YouTube at the following playlist: If you are new to Crash Course, I encourage you to watch a few videos as soon as you can. I expect you'll be just as enthusiastic about the classroom possibilities as I am! ABOUT THESE CRASH COURSE GOVERNMENT WORKSHEETS Each worksheet focuses on a single episode of Crash Course Government and typically contains between 10 and 20 items for students to complete. Worksheets are formatted to fit on one page for easy copying and a detailed answer key is provided for each episode. In addition to these regular worksheet items, open-ended extra credit or discussion items are also included for each and every episode. These can be used as debate starters, essay prompts, or . . . the sky's the limit! For more information on the content of the worksheets, visit the address provided above and look at the wide range of topics included in the playlist. You'll get one worksheet per episode, for a total of 50 worksheets in all! Answer keys included for all 50 worksheets! All questions in video order.

40 Multiple Choice Questions about the federal and state powers to help teachers make even more use of Lesson 12 of We the People! This worksheet is intended for use with Lesson 12 of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, an excellent high-school level textbook published by the Center for Civic Education. MEETING TEACHERS' NEEDS If you have used this text, you have probably had the same reaction to it as myself -- fantastic content, placing government concepts in their rich historical context where they are best understood.... but where’s the testing program? Indeed, the major drawback I have found to the We the People textbook is a lack of strong ancillaries. That is why I have developed my own. This worksheet has been used by real high-school students and has kept them engaged and on-task while providing me, their teacher, with valuable information about how well each of them is mastering government concepts. Using These We the People Worksheets in Class All questions are presented in “Lesson order,” so that they can be used as a guided reading activity if desired. I often use them as tests instead, however, requiring students to answer questions from memory alone. I have found that if students read the text with partners and discuss it along the way, they have excellent recall and can easily achieve scores of 80% and higher even without being able to look in the textbook to check their first impressions! Teacher Convenience Means Fast Grading and Reusable Worksheets! This We the People worksheet includes a convenient student answer sheet that is formatted exactly like the answer key. This makes for super-fast grading of multiple choice items! As an added bonus, if students write their answers on the answer sheet instead of on the worksheets themselves, the worksheets will remain blank and can be re-used from year to year without the need to make fresh copies! LESSON 12 CONTENT: "The relationship between national and state powers, more than any other issue, explains the need for the Constitutional Convention. This relationship was at the core of the first major debate, the one between supporters and opponents of the Virginia Plan. After forging the Great Compromise, the delegates worked out a series of other regulations and compromises that defined what the national and state governments could and could not do. Several of those compromises involved the question of slavery, the most potentially divisive issue among the states."

In my own classes, I see the value of making learning fun. That’s why I try my best to develop activities and puzzles that students find engaging, even as they make a teacher’s professional life just a little bit easier! This Industrial Revolution Crossword Puzzle Worksheet focuses on one of the primary reactions to industrialization: the development of labor unions to represent and defend the interests of the working class! Teacher Convenience Features in this Industrial Revolution Puzzle This Industrial Revolution Puzzle includes a variety of options designed to give teachers instant options. The puzzle included is designed for differentiated learning, with two difficulty levels provided. First you will see a standard presentation with just the crossword grid and the lists of clues. On the very next page, however, you will see a “basic” version of the same puzzle. This one includes a word bank so that students who need more guided assistance can also succeed on the puzzles, learning along the way. The answer keys are also designed for teacher convenience. First you will see the puzzle grid filled in with the answers. This page also includes the clues for teacher reference. On the next answer page, you’ll find a handy table that pairs up each answer with its corresponding clue. This page will let you review terms and names with your students without having to hunt for the answers on a puzzle grid. Ways to Use This Industrial Revolution Puzzle Worksheet The information included on this puzzles matches what is typically presented in a high school history textbook, but of course if students have internet-capable devices – even their own smart phones, if that works per your school’s policies – they can always augment the textbook with a spot of online research. This Industrial Revolution Worksheet puzzle works great for: • Reviewing key concepts after the text has been read and discussed • Homework assignment • Sub plans – even months after industrialization has been taught, you can use these for emergency substitute lesson plans! • Open-book Industrial Revolution test • Industrial Revolution quiz • Group / Cooperative Learning Activity • History contest activity Thanks for reading this far! I wish you a very happy and productive school year, and lots of fun teaching! Elise Parker

When I was teaching Spanish, one of the best purchases ever was that comedy jewel, Dumb and Dumber. You see, I found a DVD with a Spanish audio option, and I thought, neat! The students know the movie fairly well already, in most cases. They can listen to it in Spanish and pick up a few words! Even more student-friendly is the option of turning on English subtitles with Spanish audio, so that students can read along in English as they listen to the words and structures rendered into Spanish. I made this vocabulary chart to give students some specific words to look for and learn as they enjoy a fun movie, making class both educational and *highly* entertaining. The chart is just one page long, containing about 60 key terms, along with room for students to write the English translation of the Spanish terms they are looking for. The chart is really helpful if you use this particular movie with the Spanish audio, which makes it a highly specialized product, but in case it's of use to a Spanish teacher looking for a fun activity that will last a couple of class periods -- enjoy!

Versatile resource designed for elementary, middle, and high-school students! Having your students watch presidential debates is a hugely worthwhile endeavor whether it's election season or not. Obviously when election day is approaching, it's good to let students see what both major candidates have to say about the issues and the country. Videos of past debates, though, can also be really useful when studying history. Imagine teaching the Cold War era and showing students segments from the iconic Kennedy/Nixon debates, for example. Engagement is Key The challenge of using presidential debates to help you teach current events or historical periods, however, is keeping students highly engaged while they watch. Most students, even in the earlier grades, can watch 5 minutes without their eyes glazing over, but much more than that and you might start losing the attention and interest of many of your students. This is particularly true for younger students, but it can also be a challenge even with high school seniors, since some of them are a *lot* more immature than others. So How Does Presidential Debate Bingo Work? Once you've printed off from some Presidential Debate Bingo sheets, have students predict what key words or phrases they expect to hear during the debate. Have them fill in one word or phrase per square on their grid. This usually takes between 5 and 10 minutes, depending on the size of the grid in use and the background knowledge level of the students. When grids are ready, play the debate or the debate segment you want the class to watch. Tell students to listen carefully so that they can mark off their words/phrases as they occur. If you have stickers handy, students --even high school seniors!-- love using them to mark off their squares. Otherwise, you can have students cross through their entries as they watch. Students love this and it really livens up watching debates!

Help your students understand the structure and vagaries of the Electoral College like never before as they study the map that represents Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in 1964. This is a Critical Thinking Worksheet that requires students to do a lot more than just read the included map. You won't find "giveaway" questions here -- no asking students who won Tennessee or how many electoral votes Nevada had that year. Instead, students are challenged to use the information on the map to reach conclusions about a number of issues, including: --From the map data, which states appear to have approximately equal populations? --From the map data, how many members in the House of Representatives must a specified state have? --Why did Goldwater win Arizona even though the rest of that region of the nation chose Johnson? --What did the popular vote probably look like, considering how the electoral vote went? When finished, students should have a thorough understanding of the structure of the Electoral College, with states receiving vote allotments based largely, but not exclusively, on their populations. They should also understand how the "winner take all" system in use by most states tends to skew the map toward one that makes even a landslide election look a lot more one-sided than it really was! A Good Review of American Geography! The map included on the worksheets has electoral vote allotments marked, but state names are not indicated except for a few small states along the eastern seaboard. To answer questions, however, students will need to be able to identify several unmarked states. Students who do not know one state from another will benefit from using a standard map from their textbook or from an online source. Having to compare one map to another is a positive benefit -- it can help students learn a few more states! At the very least, it will point out to students that they don't yet know the U.S. map well, which means they need more practice and study with it. What This 1964 Electoral College Worksheet Includes ---Student worksheet with map and 12 critical thinking questions ---Student extended-thinking worksheet with map and 3 challenge prompts ---Detailed annotated answer key for the critical thinking worksheet ---Additional answer key for the challenge prompt worksheet