Students will learn why text features are important and how they help you read better. This is a great activity to teach text features. You can use this lesson with any textbook! Its also a Power Point so there is no need to make worksheets!

This lesson on the Stamp Act comes with four primary source documents to read with questions. It also comes with a lesson plan and additional follow up questions on the Stamp Act.

This assignment is to create a song or Jingle on the Boston Massacre. It has two different rubrics and instructions about pitch, lyrics, melody and beat. It also has a teachable moment about the song Yankee Doodle and how the song came to be as it was originally an insult sung about Americans from British officers in the army. This is a lesson that students will love and they will never forget the Boston Massacre. Have them sing their songs to the class.

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, the snowflake template, and a link to a video about how to make QR codes.

The students will try and solve the mystery of who fired the first shots at Lexington by looking at Primary sources, finding the main idea of the documents, making judgments and then writing up a detective report to explain what they discovered in a 5 paragraph essay format.

Who fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington? Was it the British or the Minutemen? To this day it is still hotly debated. In this mock trial activity it puts the minutemen on trial to determine if they shot first. Students will look at three primary sources from conflicting accounts to determine what happened at the Battle of Lexington and to determine if the minutemen are innocent of guilty. What you get in the lesson: Three conflicting primary source accounts of the Battle of Lexington, a guide in how to hold the mock trial, and worksheets that are set up to prepare your students for the mock trial. ORDER IN THE COURT!

Have fun teaching about the Aztecs by playing a trivia game. Great for reviewing vocabulary, Aztec Culture, Conquistadors, and the fall of the Aztecs. It is also easy to change a question if you need to. This is also great to review before a test or quiz.

A primary source document with questions to help the students better understand the Emancipation Proclamation.

Have fun teaching your students about Ancient Egypt by playing a trivia game! It covers a lot of vocab like Papyrus, the Nile River, Pyramids, Embalming, the Sphinx, Pharaohs, Hieroglyphics, and more!

This is a great activity to better understand the Constitution. It has questions for each section of the Constitution. A great guide to help your students better understand the Constitution

Have fun teaching about the Aztecs by playing a trivia game. Great for reviewing vocabulary, Aztec Culture, Conquistadors, and the fall of the Aztecs. It is also easy to change a question if you need to. This is also great to review before a test or quiz.

Put President Harry Truman on trial for dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan! This lesson helps to guide students through a mock trial and gives them the tools to help conduct it. It comes with worksheets to set everything up from the opening statements to the questioning of the witnesses to the verdict. It also comes with a primary source about the bombings of Japan and a short read about the pros and cons of dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan.

There are three different STEM design challenges in this packet. Have students compete to make the best design by following the design process. Each packet includes the lesson plan which follows the design process, instructions on how to perform the challenge and a prototyping worksheet. Lessons included are 1. STEM CHALLENGE: EARTHQUAKES AND BUILDINGS 2. STEM CHALLENGE: ZIP LINE TRANSPORTING GOODS 3. STEM CHALLENGE: TOXIC WASTE CHALLENGE

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

Students will debate the first amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to pray at a school football game based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. What you get: 1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides. 2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. 3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate.

Students will debate the First Amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to publish the school newspaper based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. What you get: 1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides. 2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. 3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate