This packet comes with six different lessons that deal with school issues where the students rights may have been violated and students will choose whether or not the school administrator had the right to do what they did based on the Bill of Rights. There are followup questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. The students will then write an argument in support of the administrator or the students.
What you get in the packet:
Each lesson comes with a short story of the scenario like a student being searched in school. It also comes with questions and instructions on how to write an essay if you choose to take the lesson further.
Here are the titles of the six lessons:
1. Students Searched in School: 4th Amendment
2. Fight at School: No Trial! 5th Amendment
3. Students Organize to Protest School Problems and are Suspended: 1st Amendment
4. Principal Censors School Newspaper: 1st Amendment
5. Prayer at a School Football Game: 1st Amendment
6. Students Car is Searched at School: 4th Amendment
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There are three different lessons and two game in the packet on The Five Themes of Geography.
The worksheets include 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.
Your students will also love the games! One is on the 5 Themes of Geography and the other is on land forms!
Students will attempt to solve the mystery as to whether or not Mary Surratt was involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Essential Question: Did Mary Surratt conspire with John Wilkes booth and other Confederate sympathizers to kill Abraham Lincoln?
Here is what is in the packet:
Lesson plan
There are 9 different clues to include pictures, videos and primary source readings.
Detective log with probing questions and a spot to write final judgement as to whether or not Mary Surratt was guilty.
The packet is in Microsoft word so you can edit it as well as PDF.
This is a fun activity for students to learn about the Salem Witch Trials.
Here is what is in the packet:
-There are 3 different Priamry source scripts for the puppet shows:
· Testimony of Tituba a Slave from the Island of Barbados: Salem Court Trial May 1692
· Testimony of Rebecca Nurse: March 1692
· George Jacobs Jr. May 1692 Testimony in Court
-Worksheet to analyze primary source document
-Teachers guide
-Rubric
-There is a parent letter to get puppet show donations
-BONUS! Additional resource that is fun! Worksheet on how to identify a witch.
NOTE: This product is in both PDF and Microsoft Word so you can edit it.
In this packet students will look at 6 different primary sources in order to determine if the British used smallpox against the American colonists during the American Revolution and what George Washington did to defeat smallpox before he could defeat the British.
This packet includes the following items:
A worksheet explaining the effects of smallpox, how a person was infected, and interesting facts about the disease with questions.
6 primary source documents
A historical detective log to answer questions about the primary sources.
A final judgement worksheet.
Answer Key
This packet is in both Microsoft Word so it can be edited as well as PDF.
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 online safety packet contains the following items:
Internet safety quiz with answer key
Anti-cyberbullying brochure with instructions and rubric.
Online safety quiz with answer key
Cyberbullying activity
Online safety interactions worksheet
Anti-cyberbullying comic creation worksheet
Anti-cyberbullying wristband activity
Anti-cyberbullying class activity
Stop cyberbullying short story with questions worksheet
Taking action against cyberbullying worksheet
A total of 17 pages!
The Bill of Rights bundle is loaded with activities and resources. Here is what is in the Bundle.
Bill of Rights writing activities based on different amendments (A total of 6 writing Lessons). These are short stories where the students will argue whether or not a students right was violated based on the Bill of Rights.
Two sets of resources on the Bill of Rights. (Lots of Worksheets)
Bill of Rights trivia review game.
Bill of Right Power Point Project with Rubric.
Bill of rights Tableau/Acting skit activity.
Some of these resources are sold individually, but this is a much better deal with the bundle.
This packet contains 32 character ed. lessons that deal with a variety of topics.
Here are the lessons in the packet:
1. Showing Respect
2. Quitters Never Win
3. Online Safety
4. Preventing and Solving Conflicts Outside the Classroom
5. Preventing and Solving Conflicts inside the Classroom
6. Respect
7. Ranking Your Values
8. Good Sportsmanship
9. The Qualities of Good Sportsmanship
10. True Sportsmanship
11. Respectful at the Park
12. Respectful
13. Responsible
14. Ready to Learn
15. Resolution to Succeed: Abraham Lincoln
16. You Are Judged How You Act: Actor Harrison Ford
17. Overcoming Hardship: Actor Jim Carrey
18. Never Stop Trying: Inventor Thomas Edison
19. Determination: Restaurant Owner Colonel Sanders
20. Taking Responsibility: General Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. Never Give Up: Author Steven King
22. Failure is Sometimes a Lesson Learned: Founder of Sony, Akio Morita
23. Surround Yourself with the Right People: Apple Steve jobs
24. Never Stop Trying: Basketball Player Michael Jordan
25. Be Respectful
26. Recognizing Respectful Behaviors
27. Be Responsible
28. Recognizing Responsible Behaviors
29. Be Ready to Learn
30. Recognizing Ready to Learn Behaviors
31. Reflection letter to parents about grades and school
32. School Scenarios and How to Handle Them
Please note that this is a collection of many of my different Character Ed Lessons and some of these lessons can be bought separate from this workbook, but this packet is the best deal. Get the whole packet here and save!
Surfing the Internet safely, cyber bullying, and practicing good digital citizenship is covered in the 12 activities below.
Here is what is in the bundle:
1. Be Safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Discusses not giving out to much personal information online.
2. Cyber Bullying (2 Page Worksheet) looks at how to identify cyber bullying and how to deal with it.
3. Digital Compass: (1 Page Worksheet/rubric with link to online activity) This is website that looks at different issues with online safety. Very fun for the students.
4. Internet Safety Game: Beat the Hacker! A fun Jeopardy type game with a twist. This game covers Internet safety, Online Friends, Safe or Scam, and Saying Things Online. Play as a class in teams, or individually.
5. Writing activity: (5 Pages) Are Friends on the Internet real friends? Students will write and essay answering the essential question Are Friends on the Internet real friends? The is a one page reading about Internet Friends, a guide on how to write the essay, and writing tips fro struggling students.
6. Famous Magician on Social Media: (2 Page Worksheet) A short story about a magician and his social media account where he is putting himself at risk online. The worksheet includes follow questions.
7. Be safe Online (2 Page Worksheet) Short read with questions. Discusses things that put people at risk online.
8. Online Safety Bumper Sticker: (1 Page Worksheet) This activity comes with rubric and template.
9. Online Safety pledge: (1 Page Worksheet)
10. Online Safety: Safe or Not (1 Page Worksheet and Answer Key) Discusses things that are safe and not safe to say online.
11. Cyber Safety Story Board: Comes with online link and Rubric to complete activity. Fun online activity.
12. How to determine if a website is fake: (2 Page Worksheet with links) This is a fun activity where students will go to a list of website s and try and determine if they are real or fake.
Please note that this is a bundle and that some of the activities are sold separately. Buy the bundle for the best deal!
This is a ready to teach essay writing unit with 16 lessons to choose from. Each lesson comes with a one page or more reading about a topic, questions to answer about the text, a how to write your 5 paragraph essay guide that focuses on the essential question, and a helpful writing tips sheet for struggling writers.
Below are the lesson topics in the packet:
Bill of Rights Essay Unit
1. Students Searched in School: Essential Question: Does the school principal have a right to search a students, backpack, locker and pockets?
2. Students Suspended for Protesting at School: Essential Question: Can the school suspend students that peaceably protest on the sidewalk near the school?
3. Everyone is Suspended after a Fight at School: Essential Question: Does the principal have the right to suspend a student without a hearing?
4. Student Newspaper Censored: Essential Question: Does the school principal have a right censor the school newspaper?
5. Prayer at a School Football Game: Essential Question: Is public prayer before a school football game a violation of the First Amendment?
6. Students car searched: Essential Question: Is the principal allowed to search your car on school property?
Fun 5 Paragraph Essays
1. Bigfoot: Essential Question: Does Bigfoot exist?
2. Drones: Who owns the sky?
3. Internet Friends: Essential Question: Are friends on the Internet real friends?
4. Ownership of the Moon: Essential Question: Who owns the moon?
Conflicting Primary Source History Essays
1. Atomic Bombing of Japan: Essential Question: Should President Truman have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan?
2. Battle of Lexington: Essential question: Who fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington?
3. American Revolution George Washington: Essential Question: Was George Washington a traitor or a patriot?
4. Alexander the Great: Essential Question: Was Alexander the Great really great or was he a villain?
5. Cherokee Removal: Essential Question: What is the best way to save the Cherokee way of life and culture?
6. Cortes and the Aztecs: Was Hernan Cortes a hero or a villain?
Some of these assignments are sold separately in my store, but buying this whole packet is the best deal.
Total Pages: 60
This packet contains over 30 different technology lessons, teaching ideas, and more. I sell a few of these lessons separately, but it is bundled here for a much better deal. I have been teaching Technology for a long time and these are some of my best lessons.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Online safety lessons: Several worksheets on safety and an Online Safety Pledge.
2. Frames Animation News Cast Current Event with Rubric
3. Prezi Me Project with Rubric
4. Bill of Rights Prezi Project with Rubric
5. Frames Animation: Project on Famous Inventor with Rubric
6. A four day course to teach students how to do simple coding.
7. Scratch Greeting Card Project: Create an animated Greeting Card. Teach students how to code out a simple animated card with block coding. Includes Rubric. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
8. Scratch Pong Game: Teach students how to code out a simple game with block coding. Includes Rubric. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
9. A list of simple coding projects with tutorials. Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience!
10. Create a catch game with Code: Anyone should be able to teach this with little to no coding experience! There are tutorials!
11. Go animate: Create an Animated Newscast.
12. Publisher: Create a country brochure
13. PowerPoint Project: More advanced PowerPoint Project that includes how to build out a quiz.
14. Blogging
15. Current events worksheet
16. History Space Social Media Activity
17. PowerPoint Project American revolution
18. Publisher: Planets Project creating a brochure with rubric
19. How to Write a Resume: Complete guided out lesson with sample.
20. QR coded project with video to learn how to do it.
Note that a few of these lessons need additional programs you may have to purchase. Some have trials that can be used instead of buying them. If you have Microsoft Office, or adapt the Office lessons to Google Docs, than you should be able to do most of the projects without purchasing more programs.
The unofficial book to run your PBIS program second edition has everything you need to get your program up and running strong. Each school is a little different, but this packet can be modified to fit any school. Over 50 pages of PBIS posters, Character Ed lessons, PBIS activities, guides and ideas to get your PBIS program up and running quickly. If you are looking to go for PBIS gold there is help in this packet for that as well. I have worked on PBIS gold committees developing a strong PBIS program for years. Let this packet help guide you to gold
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!
This is a huge bundle of PBIS material to get your program up and running strong. All of the material is editable and can be modified to fit any PBIS school.
Here is what is in the big PBIS bundle:
1. PBIS GAMES
- PBIS Jeopardy
- PBIS Expectations Trivia Game
- PBIS Elementary School Jeopardy
- Online Safety Trivia Game
2. CHARACTER ED LESSONS:
There are 32 character ed. lessons that deal with a variety of topics.
Here are the lessons in the bundle:
1. Showing Respect
2. Quitters Never Win
3. Online Safety
4. Preventing and Solving Conflicts Outside the Classroom
5. Preventing and Solving Conflicts inside the Classroom
6. Respect
7. Ranking Your Values
8. Good Sportsmanship
9. The Qualities of Good Sportsmanship
10. True Sportsmanship
11. Respectful at the Park
12. Respectful
13. Responsible
14. Ready to Learn
15. Resolution to Succeed: Abraham Lincoln
16. You Are Judged by How You Act: Actor Harrison Ford
17. Overcoming Hardship: Actor Jim Carrey
18. Never Stop Trying: Inventor Thomas Edison
19. Determination: Restaurant Owner Colonel Sanders
20. Taking Responsibility: General Dwight D. Eisenhower
21. Never Give Up: Author Steven King
22. Failure is Sometimes a Lesson Learned: Founder of Sony, Akio Morita
23. Surround Yourself with the Right People: Apple Steve jobs
24. Never Stop Trying: Basketball Player Michael Jordan
25. Be Respectful
26. Recognizing Respectful Behaviors
27. Be Responsible
28. Recognizing Responsible Behaviors
29. Be Ready to Learn
30. Recognizing Ready to Learn Behaviors
31. Reflection letter to parents about grades and school
32. School Scenarios and How to Handle Them
3. PBIS BOOK: The unofficial book to run your PBIS program second edition has everything you need to get your program up and running strong. Each school is a little different, but this book can be modified to fit any school. Over 50 pages of PBIS posters, Character Ed lessons, PBIS activities, guides and ideas to get your PBIS program up and running quickly. If you are looking to go for PBIS gold there is help in this packet for that as well.
Everything in this bundle is editable to meet the needs of your school.
Please note that this is a PBIS bundle and some of these lessons are sold individually but this bundle is a much better deal!
This packet contains a large amount of worksheets, short readings, lessons, PowerPoint’s and Trivia Games for an American History class from the Founding of America through the Civil War.
Here is what is in the packet:
1. Pocahontas Saves John Smith Primary Source Letter Activity (4 Pages)
2. US History 13 Colonies Trivia Game
3. American Revolution Boston Massacre Create Song or Jingle (5 Pages)
4. American Revolution Jeopardy Trivia Game
5. American Revolution Puppet Show: Sugar Act, Tea Act, Stamp Act, and more with Rubric, lesson plan, outline for play and parent letter
6. Boston Massacre 5 Paragraph Essay: Primary Source activity (6 pages)
7. Boston Massacre Mock Trial Activity (14 Pages)
8. Boston Massacre Lesson with questions (3 Pages)
9. Boston Massacre PowerPoint Presentation: Propaganda in the Picture
10. John Adams Independence Day: Primary Source with follow up questions
11. Lexington Mock Trial (15 Pages)
12. Liberty Pole Project (6 Pages)
13. Paul Revere Poem 3 lessons
14. Stamp Act Activity with Primary Sources and Questions
15. US History American Revolution Tableau Skit 5 Different Lessons
16. US History Declaration of Independence July 4th Tableau Skit
17. Valley Forge 5 Paragraph Essay
18. Bill of Rights Writing Unit 6 lessons (30 pages)
19. Bill of Rights Packet
20. Bill of Rights Tableau Skit Activity
21. Bill of Rights Trivia Game
22. Constitution And Bill of Rights Worksheet Packet (18 pages)
23. Constitution Study Guide (14 Pages)
24. Cherokee Removal Essay
25. Frederick Douglas The Hypocrisy of American Slavery 1852 Lesson
26. Industrial Revolution Jeopardy Trivia Game Fun Stuff
27. Industrial Revolution Morse Code
28. Jefferson Trivia Game
29. Mexican American War Essay activity
30. Missouri Compromise: Jefferson’s prediction of Civil War to come
31. Monroe Doctrine
32. Star Spangled Banner Summary Activity
33. The War of 1812 This is a 7 lesson unit (11 pages)
34. War 1812 essay
35. War of 1812 Puppet Show
36. Civil War New Technologies: Several short articles with questions about Civil War Technology and a writing activity. Answer Keys included (13 Pages)
37. Civil War Trivia Game
38. Civil War Review Game
39. Emancipation Proclamation: Short article with questions
40. Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln with follow up questions.
41. How the North won the Civil War: Worksheets
42. Five Themes of Geography Lesson
43. 5 Themes of Geography Trivia Game
44. Current Events several different lessons
45. History Space: Use with any historical character.
46. Land Forms Trivia Game
Hundreds of pages of Lessons, Games and Activities!