This packet has 3 different lessons about the Bill of Rights. One lesson has students look at different scenarios like when a cop wants to search you house. The students will then determine what protections they have based on the Bill of Rights. Another lesson looks at the meaning of the different Bill of Rights. The third lesson has students draw a picture for each of the Bill of Rights and then answer a few questions.
Read 3 different primary sources about Hernan Cortes and the Aztecs. These primary sources look at the Spanish greed for riches, land and gold and how the Aztecs had a lot of enemies that Hernan Cortes will exploit to defeat the Aztecs. After reading the primary sources have the students answer the questions about the readings.
Have students create QR coded poems and then take the QR codes and past them onto spring shapes. Great for making interactive bulletin boards! Included in this packet is several spring shapes, a sample poem, a rubric, and a link to a video that will help the students make their QR code.
Have students write winter poems and put the poems into QR codes. Then take the QR codes and paste them on the snowflake templates. This lesson is a great way to easily build out an interactive bulletin board! This lessons comes with a rubric, a sample poem, and a link to a video about how to make QR codes.
This is a packet designed for a middle school technology classroom. Most lessons can be modified if you do not have the programs or software. Lessons are below:
Syllabus for Technology
The Bill of Right: PowerPoint Project
Create a Math trivia Game: Power Point Hyperlink Project
Go Animate Newscast: Current Event
Email Your Senator
Famous American Inventor: Informational Video
Frames Animation: Poetry Video
Scratch Animated Name Project
Pocahontas Movie: Letter to Disney
The Colonization of Mars: Create a Brochure in Microsoft Publisher,
The Colonization of Mars: Create a website on Google Sites
The Colonization of Mars: Create a Video Advertisement In iMovie or Windows Movie Maker
Summer QR Code Project
Snowflake QR Code Project
Spring QR Code Project
Valentines Day QR Code Project
Poetry Project: Using Frames Program
Informational Planets Brochure: Microsoft Publisher
The Battle of Lexington: Mysteries in History 5 paragraph Essay
Atomic Bombing of Japan: Mysteries in History 5 paragraph Essay
Cherokee Removal: Mysteries in History 5 paragraph Essay
I sell a few of these individually,but you can get them all in this packet for a lot less!
Lesson includes lesson page for teachers, a rubric, a break down page of the law or act the student group will use to better understand the law, and a donation letter to get supplies from parents for the puppets.
Students will create a puppet show based on one of the British laws leading up to the American Revolution:
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts
• Tea Act
The students will write out a short dialog for their puppet show and then create their puppets. Then they will put on the puppet show! This is a very fun activity your students will not forget!
In 335 B.C., Alexander the Great set out on a campaign to recapture former Greek cities and to expand his growing empire. Ten years into his campaign Alexander had never known defeat. He now controlled an empire that included Greece, Egypt, and the massive Persian Empire. His troops grew tired of war but Alexander wanted to push on into India. He makes an awesome speech to rally his men. This activity includes some background on Alexander the Greats campaigns, an Excerpt: Speech of Alexander the Great, 326 B.C. at Hydaspes River, India and questions about the reading. A great primary source activity.
This activity compares two conflicting primary source writings about the War of 1812 and examines why some wanted war with Great Britain while others saw it as a bad thing that would hurt the country and trade with other nations. After reading the primary sources the students will choose a side and answer this essential question: Should the United States have gone to War with Great Britain during the War of 1812?
Included in the packet is the two primary sources, a guide in how to write a five paragraph essay, sentence starters for struggling students and a rubric.
Play a trivia game with your class and learn about the 13 American Colonies. Learn about the New England Colonies, Middle colonies, Southern Colonies, the Back Country and other fun colony facts. If you want you can edit questions to fit your class!
This is a Character Education Packet that is made up of 19 great lessons. Many of the lessons focus on character traits like being Respectful, Responsible, and Ready to Learn. There is also other lessons that talk about real life classroom issues, online safety, sportsmanship and values.
This is a game like Jeopardy that is very fun for the students. Your students will learn about different land forms, Geography terms and continents. I love to use this as a review as well when teaching. You can also easily edit questions to fit your needs.
A game similar to Jeopardy to help students learn about the Aztes, Incas, Pizzaro, and Hernan Cortes. You can easily modify the questions to fit you needs. Very fun and great for review
This is a fun lesson about the Sons of Liberty, and the Liberty Pole. Like the liberty tree the colonists would make liberty poles with flags showing their unity against the British and make speeches under them. In this lesson students would make a liberty pole and then write a speech about the grievances they had against the British. Have your students give a speech under the liberty pole!
This lesson comes with a lesson plan, a rubric for how to make a flag for the liberty pole and a rubric for the protest speech. It also comes with four different flag templates
There are three different lessons in the packet on The Five Themes of Geography. One is a graphic organizer where students will draw pictures of the five different themes. One lesson is a chart and the other is a Microsoft word assignment with rubric for students who like to do it on the PC. The administrators are always telling teachers to differentiate your instruction so give your students a choice with three different lessons to choose from.
This speech was given by president Franklin Roosevelt the day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The lesson comes with his speech and questions.
Below is the beginning of his speech:
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific........
This is a Jeopardy Trivia Game on the Industrial Revolution. Students will love to play this game and compete against each other. If you do not like a question it is easy to change. A great fun lesson your students will love.
There are three lessons on the Bill of Rights. One lesson discusses real life scenarios and how people are protected with the Bill of Rights. One Lesson is based on the Bill of Rights to get students to know their protections. The final lesson is vocab terms and questions.