______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Make History Come Alive in Your Classroom! Movies + Excellent Support Materials = Success!!! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These Truman movie worksheets are based on the movie "Truman" starring Gary Sinise, which takes students on a journey that begins before World War I and carries them all the way through to the early 1950s and the new challenges of the Cold War. TEACHER CONVENIENCE FEATURES INCLUDED IN THESE TRUMAN MOVIE WORKSHEETS • The download includes a Word file so the questions can be delivered in paper/pencil format if you wish, and can also be edited to suit your own needs. • The download also includes a "condensed" version of the Word file, with information formatted without blank lines in order to help teachers save on paper and printing. • In addition, you will receive an Examview file so that you can use the questions from these Truman worksheets with a variety of electronic delivery systems. WHAT THESE TRUMAN MOVIE WORKSHEETS COVER The movie covers history from World War I through the 1952 election, so it covers a huge variety of American history topics including: • WWI • WWII • Great Depression • Thee establishment of the state of Israel • McCarthyism • The onset of the Cold War. These Truman worksheets work well in both world history classes and U.S. history classes! QUESTION FORMAT OF THESE TRUMAN MOVIE WORKSHEETS There are 38 questions total: • 15 True/False • 23 Multiple Choice TEACHING OPTIONS FOR THESE TRUMAN MOVIE WORKSHEETS The questions go in the same order as the movie information! Therefore, you could use these questions as a worksheet that students fill out as they watch the movie Or use them afterwards: These questions are perfect for assessing how well students paid attention to the movie, and they can also be used as a springboard to preview important points in the movie or to discuss it with the class afterwards. You can have students take notes during the movie and use them with these questions afterwards, or require them to do the questions from memory only.

52 Multiple Choice Questions about the Constitution's division of government power into three branches, designed to help teachers make even more use of Lesson 11 of We the People! This worksheet is intended for use with Lesson 11 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 11 CONTENT: "Political philosophers since ancient times have written that governments must do three things: make, execute, and judge laws. Unlike the British system, which concentrates power in Parliament, the U.S.Constitution assigns these competing and complementary functions to three separate branches of the national government. This lesson explains how the Framers envisioned the role of each branch."

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

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

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.

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."

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

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 12 of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution. As such, it dives into a key issue dealt with at the Constitutional Convention -- how to distribute powers between the state governments and the new federal government being created. 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!

U.S. Government Worksheet Puzzle Focusing on the little-studied by highly important topic of the federal bureaucracy! These puzzles focus on helping students understand how the federal bureaucracy made up of government agencies forms a key part of the United States government apparatus! Differentiated Learning is Embedded in these Federal Bureaucracy Crossword Puzzle Worksheets This 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 Federal Bureaucracy Congress 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!

Help your students master key information about ancient Greece's two most famous city-states: Athens and Sparta! Most world history textbooks give an overview of the two city-states, but few take the next step of helping students compare and contrast them in detail. The more we can get students to think critically, the more they will learn and remember, and these worksheets are designed with that principle in mind. To that end, this packet includes several resources: • A compare/contrast chart with dozens of descriptors about ancient Greece. For each, students identify if the description matches Athens, Sparta, or both. • A set of 26 follow-up questions about Athens, with many of them designed to reinforce key content vocabulary such as democracy, tyrant, and oligarchy. Others take basic information about Athens and work in additional supporting details to give students a clearer picture of ancient Greece. • A set of 26 follow-up questions about Sparta, with many of them designed to reinforce key vocabulary also. Emphasis is given to the military aspect of life in Sparta, but other topics, including their unusual system of government, are covered as well. • Full answer keys to all activities. All follow-up questions are multiple-choice. Whether you are studying the ancient world in detail or quickly reviewing it as part of a "evolution of modern government" emphasis, these Athens and Sparta activity worksheets will help your students gain more insight into the Golden Age of Greece.

This resource consists of a large question set --more than 100 questions!-- that will engage student interest about the U.S. Constitution. How? Through scenarios when possible! In this way, students are asked to *apply* government knowledge, not just recite it. For example, instead of rattling off the list of requirements to be eligible for President, students are presented with brief life histories and asked which of the people described are actually eligible. I BELIEVE IN MAKING THINGS AS CONVENIENT AS POSSIBLE FOR HARD-WORKING TEACHERS! Articles I, II, and III are all treated separately so that you can discuss a portion of the Constitution and then have a quiz or review session, knowing that the questions at your fingertips are specific to JUST the article under study. When you have finished reading/discussing the Constitution with your class, you can combine all the Examview banks into one test for a final assessment! A VARIED APPROACH TO QUESTIONING STUDENTS All questions are True/False/Yes/No or Multiple Choice, and many of them are "scenario" questions that students find intriguing... for example: "You are a Senator. During your term of office, Congress creates a new job: deputy undersecretary for labor relations with Indonesia. Once you leave the Senate, can you take this job?" The information in the Constitution is thus personalized -- scenario questions strive to demonstrate applications of the rules the government must follow. FOCUS ON THE FRAMERS This question set covers the original Constitution only, meaning Articles I-VII. It does not cover any of the amendments. I treat those separately because in my class, we take a close look first at the Constitution as originally conceived, and when we thoroughly understand THAT, then we look at how time and circumstances have contributed to the amendment process. Articles IV-VII are treated together since each one is relatively short compared to the first three articles. LOOK AT ALL THE CONTENT INCLUDED! In this download, you will get: -- 40 questions on Article I and the Preamble -- 27 questions on Article II -- 15 questions on Article III -- 46 questions on Articles IV-VII. GREAT FOR TRADITIONAL PRINTOUTS --OR-- FOR ELECTRONIC EDUCATION You will receive all the questions in several formats, the better to match your teaching style, available technology, and your instructional needs: ----- Word processing (.rtf) file that Microsoft Word can open. ----- Examview Test file (.tst). ----- Examview Test bank (.bnk)

WHAT BUYERS ARE SAYING!! • A+++ • I found this to be very helpful for the Magna Carta. • This is an excellent resource! My special education high school class had higher level discussions concerning the differences between the "beliefs" discussed/tested. ________________________________________________________________ This Judeo-Christian / Greco-Roman mini course will help students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western political thought! These activities are designed to assist students to analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of three specific elements of Western politica thought: aw, reason vs faith, and the duties of the individual. WHY I DEVELOPED THIS MINI-COURSE Teaching Judeo/Christian and Greco/Roman traditions was challenging for me for a long time because in my view, even the "best" textbooks didn't do an adequate job of focusing on those key three topics when it comes to the two historical traditions. Creating these charts was my way of supplementing the textbook material; when I got a Smart Board I made the charts interactive, and then I made an assessment to match the charts so I could measure what students were getting from the mini-course. WHAT THIS JUDEO-CHRISTIAN & GRECO-ROMAN MINI-COURSE INCLUDES --Smart Board interactive sorting activity --Examview testbank for assessment --Word version of the testbank for use in making worksheets or testing with paper and pencil. I used to sell each of these separately but I decided it made more sense to bundle them into an integrated unit. DETAILS ABOUT EACH PROGRAM ELEMENT ----Smart Board interactive sorting activity: Includes blank Venn diagrams to generate discussion, Venn diagrams with details about the two traditions for students to practice with, and answer slides. The Venn diagrams relate specifically to Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views regarding 1) law 2) faith versus reason and 3) duties of the individual. Each topic is treated separately and in detail. The preview file demonstrates how one of the three topics is dealt with by using a brainstorming, sorting, and answers-provided chart. -----Examview Question Bank 24 Multiple Choice Questions ----Word file version of the Question Bank For editing or printing off worksheets. SUGGESTED TEACHING PLAN 1 or 2 days using the Smart Board activity to teach the elements of each tradition to the class. Then use the Examview or word file to assess the students' learning of the material. This is a complete teaching unit including assessment, ready to go.

Do you need to see how much your students remember about three key revolutions at once? Do you need to help them review the Glorious, American, and French Revolutions so they can attain true mastery of the Age of Revolutions? Whether you are looking for a set of practice worksheets or a solid review test on the big ideas underpinning these revolutions and their significance, these materials may be just the ticket! As any history teacher knows, there is a big difference between getting students to master a single revolution and bringing them to the point where they are conversant in several at once. Only when a teacher has accomplished that last feat, however, does it become possible to see and understand connections across eras, which of course is essential to truly seeing the great sweep of history in all its glory. These materials were developed in response to the need for review materials that would require students to actively think about the ways in which the Glorious, American, and French Revolutions are similar and different. These worksheets assume that all three revolutions have already been covered in class. That means that now, students are ready to begin the much more challenging work of analyzing larger patterns in history. These worksheets will help students to recall key points about each revolution so that they are truly in command of the facts as they begin to think more broadly about the Age of Revolutions and role this century-plus era played in the history of the world. STRUCTURE AND FORMAT The worksheets contain 56 multiple choice questions delivered in a variety of structured formats (see below for more information). In addition to the multiple choice section, the worksheets contain an essay prompt to help deepen understanding of the issues under study. Doing the multiple choice activity will help get students into the right mindset to write the essay since it will remind them of many, many issues they previously learned regarding the Glorious, French, and American Revolutions. EASY DIFFERENTIATION WITH BOTH GUIDED AND STANDARD FORMATS! NO PREP -- INCLUDES BOTH REUSABLE AND CONSUMABLE VERSIONS!

20 questions on the Magna Carta. These are basic questions focusing on the main idea of the document -- written limitations on government power. There are 20 questions. 11 are T/F, 7 are Multiple Choice, 1 is numeric and 1 is fill-in-the-blank. The questions all cover basics that any student should know about the Magna Carta after a brief lecture or after reading any standard textbook presentation of the topic. TEACHER CONVENIENCE IS A HALLMARK OF MY PRODUCTS. Therefore, you will receive the questions in two formats: 1)Word Processor File (.rft) -- this can be printed off to make worksheets or tests and can easily be edited to customize the questions or add specific content to match your program or teaching emphasis. 2) Examview .tst file. This allows you to use the questions with computer-based testing or student clicker systems like CPS. No need to type anything in -- the work is already done for you! Each file type comes with an answer key.

TEACH WITH INSIGHT AND 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 up to 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 WORKSHEETS Each worksheet focuses on a single episode of Crash Course U.S. 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! TIMESTAMPS INCLUDED FOR ALL QUESTIONS Every worksheet comes in two version: with timestamps and without. That way, teachers can decide which option suits their needs best. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS COVERED IN THESE CRASH COURSE WORKSHEETS This set of worksheets covers the following episodes: • 21 -- Judicial Review: Where the Supreme Court's vast power comes from, and what they can do with it... • 22 -- Judicial Decisions: What factors judges consider when weighing a case, and also what kinds of things influence them... • 23 -- Civil Rights and Liberties: What are they, and what basic civil liberties are protected by the Constitution... • 24 -- Freedom of Religion: All about the Establishment Clause and the court cases that have further defined it, plus free exercise practices vs. beliefs • 25 -- Freedom of Speech: What kinds of speech are protected, and from whom.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All questions are presented in video order so that students can easily follow along!

BRING THE AFTERMATH OF WWII TO LIFE USING THESE NUREMBERG WORKSHEETS AND THE COORDINATING HISTORY CHANNEL VIDEO: NUREMBERG, TYRANNY ON TRIAL. This is an editable and Examview version of my Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial worksheets and primary source study activities pack. The Nuremberg Trials were a key moment in world history, demonstrating for the first time that crimes against humanity could and would be prosecuted. Today's World Court is a direct descendant of the Nuremberg Tribunals. With Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial from the History Channel and these no-prep worksheets, you can help your students master the aftermath of WWII like never before! INFORMATION FOR THE TEACHER Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial is a short documentary produced by the History Channel. Because it lasts only 46 minutes, it fits perfectly into a typical class period in a middle school or high school. Teachers who have class periods that last about an hour should have time to both show the video and review answers, all during the same class session. Those who can afford to devote two periods to a more in-depth study of the Nuremberg Trials can show the video one day and discuss the answers in more detail the next day. WHERE TO FIND THE VIDEO Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial is available online at a variety of streaming sites. The best way to find where it may currently be available is to do a simple Google search for the title. It also airs on the History Channel on an infrequent basis and is available for sale on DVD. Teachers who prefer hard media may find the best prices at sites like Amazon and eBay, where used DVDs for educational programs are often put up for sale. WHAT THE ZIP DOWNLOAD FILE CONTAINS ---An editable file in Microsoft Word docx format containing worksheets that present students with: ---48 multiple choice questions ---Free response variants of all 48 multiple choice questions ---Political cartoon primary source study worksheet With the above editable file, teachers can customize the worksheets to their heart's content! ---Examview files of all program materials. Both .tst and .bnk files are included so teachers have maximum flexibility in how they use the resources. With the Examview files above, teachers can implement paperless learning and assessment, delivering questions via a variety of software options such as CPS, Insight 360, and online Learning Management Systems such as Edmodo, Schoology, Haiku, etc.

Conspiracy Movie Questions are designed to help students pay better attention and learn more as they watch this highly accurate real-time re-enactment of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. The movie stars Kenneth Branagh and Stanley Tucci as Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann, the two chief architects of Nazi Germany's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." WHAT THESE CONSPIRACY MOVIE WORKSHEETS INCLUDE Editable Word Processing File with: --Detailed teaching notes including information on how to prep students to watch the movie and what vocabulary to introduce in advance --Detailed rating and content information [The movie is rated R for language and verbal content only; there is absolutely no onscreen violence or nudity.] --128 multiple choice questions in movie order --128 parallel free-response questions in movie order: The free response question prompts are the same ones as used in the multiple choice questions, allowing teachers an easy way to differentiate instruction. --Fast correct student answer sheet with identically formatted answer key for the multiple choice set. Students can record all their answers on a single page, and teachers can rapidly correct all student work! --Detailed answer key for the free-response question set. Examview Test and Bank Files for electronic and online learning: --All 128 questions in movie order also provided electronically! With this option, teachers can use the questions with software programs like Insight 360 and CPS in addition to Examview computer testing software. They can also easily load these questions onto an online learning management system such as Haiku, Schoology, Edmodo, and the like! CONVENIENCE FEATURES All student prompts are in exact movie order so that the worksheets can be used while the movie plays if desired. Alternately, teachers can save the worksheets for afterwards, using them as a test or quiz. 128 questions of each type give teachers lots and lots of options. Differentiate by assigning student groups to do just the odds or just the evens of multiple choice to space the questions out more. This will give you TWO basic level worksheets instead of one. Or do the same with the free-response questions to instantly create TWO advanced-level worksheets. Stop and start the movie whenever you please! The questions are numbered sequentially instead of being divided up into predesignated parts in advance, which makes it easy for you to stop the movie at any time and resume it later. Just for reference, I usually show Conspiracy over the course of three days to allow plenty of time to discuss and debrief, but if you want to stretch that out to four days or compress it to just two [the movie is 96 minutes long], this question set gives you all the flexibility you need!