Do you need a couple of fun ways to get students more thoroughly engaged as you take them through key information about the British Empire during the era of New Imperialism? Look no further than this Queen Victoria's Empire Episode 3 Worksheet set! Designed to go along with a showing of Episode 3 of the PBS series: Queen Victoria's Empire, this teaching guide will help students understand in detail issues such as the missionary impulse to spread Christianity to Africa, the explorations of famed Dr. Livingstone, the importance of the Suez Canal as a lifeline to India, and the debate raging back in England about imperialism itself, with Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone facing off with conservative and liberal views about the imperial enterprise. This Queen Victoria's Empire teaching packet offers you and your students several different choices: --Fill-in worksheet with 39 problems to help students focus in on the concepts that matter most; all problems presented in video order --Fill-in worksheet as above, but including timestamps as well for teachers who like to offer their students this information --Follow-up crossword puzzle with 18 clues and terms --Answer keys for all activities

____________________________________________________________ What Buyers Are Saying: ---I actually used this for a younger grade than was listed (7th/8th grade class) and it was easy to go through the information and worked perfect for us. Thanks! ____________________________________________________________ Do you teach the U.S. Constitution to your government or history students? I go through it every year and constantly work on ways to make it highly interesting and relevant to students -- not to mention, more understandable! Liven up your own teaching with this guided Constitution worksheet that takes students through the details of Article IV, which covers the responsibilities of the states. I BELIEVE IN CRITICAL THINKING The worksheet is more than a reading comprehension activity. At key points, it asks students the application questions that are so essential to true understanding. To complete the worksheet, students will have to do a close reading of Article IV to discover key details, but then they will have to apply critical thinking skills to figure out, for example, what the Framers meant by "republican" government. The Constitution uses the term without explanation; with this worksheet, students are asked to go beyond the surface of the text to reach a level of true understanding. TEACHER CONVENIENCE IS NUMBER ONE WITH ME! As a teacher myself, I know that you have plenty to do. You need support materials that make your life easier, not harder. When it comes to this Article IV Constitution Worksheet, that means: ---The whole worksheet fits on one sheet of paper, front and back. This means that it is quick to copy off a class set, and you won't have to worry about stapling pages by hand if the office copy machine is out of staples. It also means that a set of the worksheets, used year after year if students are directed not to write on them, will take up very little space in your file cabinet. ---A full answer key is provided. It includes not just the bare answer, but also helpful ancillary information to help guide class review and discussion and keep the Constitution interesting. keywords: Constitution, Article IV, federalism, full faith and credit, admitting new states, state responsibilities

A Comprehensive Set of Cloze Worksheets to accompany the PBS documentary "American Experience: George Wallace -- Settin' the Woods on Fire" This 3-hour episode of American Experience explores the life and controversial legacy of Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace, delving deep into the Civil Rights Movement that characterized both his rise and fall. The tag line for the film says it all: "He preached 'Segregation now, segregation forever -- then asked to be forgiven." FEATURES OF THESE GEORGE WALLACE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE WORKSHEETS --More than 100 cloze / fill-in problems for students to complete as they watch the film --Divided into two separate worksheets, one for each part of the video series --All problems in video order --NO PREP -- just print and go! --Both full context and full transcript answer keys included. WHERE TO FIND THE VIDEO American Experience: George Wallace plays from time to time on local PBS stations and is also sometimes available on streaming services. The best way to find out where it might currently be available is to run a simple Google search. TEACHER CONVENIENCE FEATURES 1) All worksheets are designed to be re-usable so that teachers can make file copies and use them over and over. To this end, answer "blanks" in the cloze problems actually consists of five dashes in a row, like this: -----. This makes the blank too short to write on; the position in the vertical midpoint of the line will also discourage students from writing on their George Wallace worksheets. Students are therefore likely to record answers on their own paper! 2) Two answer keys are provided: a full-context one which replicates the student worksheet problems so that teachers can see what students were looking at. This helps with reviewing answers with the class. Also included is a full transcript answer key which will let teachers dive deeper into the context of surrounding passages, should they desire.

This is an entire unit of study on three key Enlightenment philosophers: John Locke, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, presented as a set of illustrated worksheets that take students through a step-by-step review of the ideas on government developed by each philosophe. FIVE DIFFERENT WORKSHEETS INCLUDED • 17 multiple-choice questions about John Locke: illustrated worksheet with primary source quote • 13 multiple-choice questions about the Baron de Montesquieu: illustrated worksheet with primary source quote • 12 multiple-choice questions about Jean-Jacques Rousseau: illustrated worksheet with primary source quote • Illustrated comparison chart for students to fill out as a final activity or culminating experience • Crossword puzzle with 18 terms and 18 clues to enjoy as a final activity or culminating experience -- provided both with and with a word bank so it can work as an advanced level/webquest or as a more basic level experience! I KNOW HOW BUSY TEACHERS CAN BE! That's why each one of the four worksheets is formatted to fit onto a single sheet of paper, back and front -- so that you can spend less time dealing with the printer or copy machine as you print off these no-prep worksheets for your students. Answer keys to all activities included. These worksheets provide a variety of activities and are great for teaching AND review/assessment as well as for generating engaging class discussions about these philosophers and also about the Enlightenment in general!

Looking for a teaching resource that zeros in on two of the most critical years in American history? This question set, which targets the important events of 1775 and 1776, helps students to dive deep into issues related to the colonies' decision to break from Great Britain. TOPICS COVERED IN THESE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WORKSHEETS • Political as well as military moves toward independence -- The Second Continental Congress, The Olive Branch Petition, The Declaration of Independence, Bunker Hill • Philosophical underpinnings of the independence movement -- John Locke's influence on Thomas Jefferson • Great publications of the time -- Thomas Paine and Common Sense • Two sides of the issue -- The point of view of Loyalists, the kinds of people in the colonies who gravitated toward the Loyalist cause • Patriots and their supporters -- Their own demographic and socio-economic characteristics • Diverse points of view -- What the prospect of independence would mean for Native Americans and African Americans • Contributions of Great Americans -- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and even lesser-known figures such as independence opponent John Dickinson TWO AMERICAN REVOLUTION WORKSHEETS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE This resource includes a multiple choice worksheet and also a free response worksheet, with no overlap of questions between the two. They do both cover the same range of concepts, however, which means that teachers can use one as a pre-test or formative assessment and the other as a final test or summative assessment! Another choice would be to designate the multiple choice worksheet as a "basic" level task and the free response one as more advanced, and use them accordingly -- to differentiate instruction, build in extra-credit opportunities, or in any other way you use leveled materials. WHAT THESE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WORKSHEETS INCLUDE • Multiple Choice Worksheet with 29 Questions • Free Response Worksheet with 29 Questions • Answer Key for each worksheet The answer keys in this American Revolution resource are full-context so that teachers don't have to look back and forth, question to answer, when reviewing material with the class. Everything needed to go over questions and answers with the class is grouped together for teacher convenience.

Searching for great resources to help students understand the Cold War Space Race and what a huge challenge it was to make it all the way to the moon in just a decade? Look no further than this From the Earth to the Moon worksheet covering a key episode from the acclaimed HBO series! The series has 12 episodes, but finding time to show them all would be nearly impossible in a class setting. For that reason, I've broken out my worksheet set on the series into individual episodes so you can buy only what you need. ABOUT THIS EPISODE 4 FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON WORKSHEET "1968" is a really useful episode for history classes because it integrates key events of this pivotal year with the historic mission of Apollo 8, which went all the way to the moon, orbited it, and returned safely to earth. This mission was critical for getting ready for the moon landing that would occur the next year, but the nation had a lot more on its mind that fulfilling Kennedy's goal for reaching the moon. EPISODE 4 SUMMARY: "Depicts Apollo 8's historic first manned lunar flight, as the redemption of an otherwise strife-torn year filled with political assassinations, war, and unrest. Documentary footage of the turbulent political events are interspersed with the drama, which is mostly filmed in black and white except for scenes aboard the spacecraft and some color newsreel footage. The fears of mission commander Frank Borman's wife Susan of the possibility of her husband dying in a spacecraft trapped in lunar orbit are highlighted." HOLD STUDENTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR VIEWING This worksheet provides students with 32 questions to answer and includes both true/false and multiple choice items. Since the question types are not mixed together, teachers who want some flexibility can use the true/false during viewing and the multiple choice afterwards as a discussion springboard or a quiz (or vice-versa). To assist the teacher, an annotated answer key is provided. This answer key consists of not just answers, but also helpful commentary and additional information that will help to enrich review and discussion of the episode and the Apollo program. Video Questions by Elise Parker

______________________________________________________ What Buyers Are Saying: ---Excellent resource for the movie. ---I used it today with the movie. It was awesome. Nice job ---Great questions for the end of the year assignment ______________________________________________________ These Thirteen Days Worksheets consist of a comprehensive set of questions covering the movie "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban Missile Crisis. 138 questions in all, but super-fast to correct since they're all True/False or Multiple Choice! STRUCTURE OF THESE THIRTEEN DAYS MOVIE QUESTIONS WORKSHEETS You will get two full sets of questions, each covering the entire movie. 1) One set is divided into files that address very specific timed portions of the movie, so if you show from the start to 25 minutes in, for example, you will have an assessment ready to go for just that portion of the movie. 2) The other set is made up of general files that don't have time-stamps on them but cover approximately 1/4 of the movie each. See the free preview file, which has 20 True/False, 11 Multiple Choice, and 1 Numeric Question. This file is a general one that covers about the first fourth of the movie. HOW TO USE THESE THIRTEEN DAYS MOVIE QUESTION WORKSHEETS Because you will have TWO complete sets of movie questions, you can use one set as quick assessments during the showing, and the other as a final assessment! This is a good way to use the materials, since it means that the final test is not made up of the exact same questions students have already worked with, even though it will cover the same material. The "time stamped" question sets provide 44 questions while the "general" sets provide 94 additional questions. Formats provided: --->Examview .tst so you can print tests out or use them with CPS/Examview electronic testing systems --->Examview .bnk so you can combine the various question banks in any way you please to make your own tests (For example, combine one set of files to make a during-viewing paper/pencil worksheet and combine the other set of files to make a post-test.) --->.rtf Microsoft Word and other word processors can open these files. The rtf files are perfect for making worksheets or adding other enhancements to the files. Movie Questions by Elise Parker

______________________________________________________________________ What Buyers Are Saying: ---My students were able to flow along fairly easy with these worksheets. Great job. ---Awesome!!! ---Definitely helped keep student attention. ---Perfect for the movie! ______________________________________________________________________ The movie Gettysburg is a fantastic Civil War experience for students and teachers alike, but to keep your classes fully on-task and watching, what could be better than to provide your students with these ready-made worksheets that will help them follow along? TEACHER CONVENIENCE FEATURES BUILT INTO THESE GETTYSBURG WORKSHEETS • You will receive seven different Gettysburg worksheets , each one covering a different phase of the movie. All worksheets are time-stamped so that you will know exactly which phase of the movie a given worksheet is intended to cover. • All questions are provided in movie order so that students can keep up with their responses without the worksheets distracting them from the events on-screen. • There are nearly 120 questions provided in all! They focus on both the "big issues" connected to the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg, and on key details particular to the plot and characterization depicted in the movie. Help your students enjoy a great history movieeven more with these guided Gettysburg movie worksheets. Movie worksheets by Elise Parker keywords: Gettysburg, Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Joshua Chamberlain, Meade, Pickett's Charge, Little Round Top

Keep students on-task and engaged with this set of easy-to-use packet of Tuskegee Airmen Worksheets! -- These Are Fully Editable files for Teacher Customization! The worksheets provided here are designed to be used by students as they watch the video. Students will pay better attention and will focus in on important details as they solve the problems included in the activity. Structure of worksheet: Key statements from the film's script are included on a worksheet, with important words or phrases blocked out. Students are to fill in the missing words or phrases as they watch the film. I have used these worksheets with my classes and have found them to be highly successful at helping students notice things that are politically/historically/culturally significant about the WWII era. The worksheets are two pages long each and have 29 cloze (fill-in-the-blank) problems to be solved while students watch the film. I BELIEVE IN TEACHER CONVENIENCE Therefore, I have organized student materials in four ways so that you have a variety of options when using these Tuskegee Airmen movie worksheets in class: 1) Re-usable Student Worksheets. Make one class set and use it with multiple groups over multiple years. Save on paper, ink, and the hassle of making printouts. Answer blanks on this set are noted with the characters: ---. This is on purpose so that students do not feel they have a "blank" to write on. --- is too short to be of much use and the position of the hyphens would block their writing in any case. 2) Re-usable worksheets as above, but with timestamps included on each problem. These show students how far into the movie each key statement occurs. Depending on your class needs, you might want them to see the timestamps or not. 3) Consumable Student Worksheets. 4) Consumable worksheets with timestamps. TEACHER MATERIALS INCLUDED IN THESE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN WORKSHEETS Two complete answer keys are included. 1) A contextual answer key provides the answers along with the full text of the key statement students used. This will aid the teacher in class discussions of the material. This key also includes timestamps so that you can quickly find the material in the movie, should you choose. 2) A linear list of answers that will make correcting student work much easier if you choose to have students write on their own

My Boy Jack Movie Worksheets are designed for use with the excellent WWI film "My Boy Jack" starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig. ABOUT THE MOVIE: MY BOY JACK My Boy Jack is a dramatic presentation (not a documentary) telling the true story of Rudyard Kipling and his son, who was killed in World War I -- but who arguably should not have been allowed to join up at all, since he didn't meet the vision requirements for battlefield work. As such, the movie raises profound questions about the duties of patriotism and of parenting, even as it portrays *both* life in the trenches and on the home front. TOPICS COVERED IN THESE MY BOY JACK WORKSHEETS Topics covered in the movie include • nationalism • British empire • Motivations for war / Causes of WWI • Total War • Life on the UK home front • Trench warfare As you can see, all very appropriate and topical for world history and European history classes! SET UP WITH TEACHER NEEDS IN MIND The questions are organized into three separate files, each one covering a specific portion of the movie. The segments are timed such that in a normal high school period, you would have enough time to show a full segment of the movie and then use the associated question set with the students as either a quiz or discussion-starter activity. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING: A THREE-DAY PLAN OR A TWO-DAY PLAN In this way you could show the 90 minute movie over a three day period and do assessment on it as you go. Another option would be to print out the Word files included in the download and have students fill them out as worksheets while the movie plays. In this way the entire movie could be completed in two class periods, including assessment being done as it plays. 68 Questions total, all true/false or multiple choice for super-fast correcting! FULLY EDITABLE FILES All questions are provided in both Word format for paper/pencil use and also in Examview format so that if you want to use them in CPS or Examview, you will not have to type them in. Either way, you can edit the files if you want to customize them! LOOKING FOR A CRITICAL THINKING OPTION? To help students analyze the film in more detail -- and to help personalize the experience of watching it, so students feel much more drawn into the action, you might want to look at my My Boy Jack Critical Thinking Questions, also here at TES. Movie Questions by Elise Parker.

_______________________________________ What Buyers Are Saying: ---Lots of questions to choose from! ---Saved me hours of work! ---Thanks it really helped! ______________________________________ A GREAT MOVIE FOR U.S. HISTORY! "A More Perfect Union" portrays the 1787 Constitutional Convention in detail. These More Perfect Union Quiz Questions, split into three separate files for ease of use, will allow you to assess students' attention and understanding of major concepts presented in the film. If you're like me, you've downloaded the official Teacher's Guide that goes with this movie. It wasn't adequate for my needs. It had only a few questions and some of them couldn't be answered from the movie content. So I created my own assessments for the movie! My questions are designed to be used batch by batch as students finish watching portions of the movie -- or they can be used after the whole movie has been watched, as a final assessment. I find that students are MUCH more attentive and on-task during a class movie if they know they will be assessed afterward on the main ideas and important details in the film. ABOUT THIS A MORE PERFECT UNION RESOURCE Since teacher convenience is very important to me, and I assume to you, I've provided all the questions in three different formats to match various teaching styles and types of technology. You'll get .rtf word processing files of all questions, as well as .tst and .bnk files for use with Examview or CPS software. The total download contains 105 questions, split up into files that match the beginning, middle, and ending phases of the movie. Full answer keys are, of course, provided. A PDF easy-print version of this resource is also available here on TES. Movie Questions created by Elise Parker keywords: James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Philadelphia Convention, 1787, Alexander Hamilton

Quick and Easy Simulation to Provide Your Students with a Clear Understanding of Both Procedural Due Process and Substantive Due Process of Law! No materials needed! This Due Process of Law Activity includes: • Introductory explanations to assist teacher • Detailed step-by-step procedure to do the simulation in class • Alternatives for use with students who might find elements of the simulation disturbing • Fundamental Rights worksheet • Fundamental Rights worksheet answer key MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DUE PROCESS OF LAW TEACHING RESOURCE: Each year as my classes read through the U.S. Constitution, we encounter the phrase “due process of law” in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Defining due process is pretty simple: the government has to follow its own rules when depriving someone of their life, liberty, or property -- the justice system is not allowed to "make up" new rules that apply just to a particular individual. Due Process: A Better Definition But that definition, of course, only provides a surface understanding of due process. In fact, it leaves out half the story since it only deals with what legal experts call "procedural" due process. That's the easy to understand kind of due process, but it's not the only kind. There's also "substantive" due process, which in my experience has been a lot harder for students to grasp, since it builds on an understanding of fundamental civil rights. Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse! Really, though, you can communicate the concept of what substantive due process is without getting into the minutiae of fundamental rights -- and that's how I like to start. It's really easy, too, building on students' own experiences! Even better, this quick and easy due process simulation actually gets students to comprehend the basic nature of both procedural and substantive due process! If you teach government, civics, law, or related subjects, then this due process of law worksheet and simulation resource will help your students master procedural vs. substantive due process like never before!

GET REAL IN GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS CLASSES WITH A CRITICAL LOOK AT OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Sicko, released in 2007 by famed documentary-maker Michael Moore, addresses the crisis in health care in the United States. The film heavily focuses on the problems of Americans who actually have health insurance – but it is insurance that in many ways leaves them in the lurch when they have a major problem. INCLUDED IN THIS SICKO MOVIE GUIDE AND WORKSHEETS PACKET You will get 120 Sicko movie questions, all presented in video order so that students can follow along, answering as they pay attention to the movie – though it is equally possible to use the questions after viewing as a test or quiz follow-up, or even as a way to review content and spur class discussion. All questions are provided as both multiple choice and free response problems. You will also get 7 follow-up topics to get students thinking more deeply about the movie’s issues so they can formulate their own points of view. These topics work equally well for debate and discussion, essays, and projects, giving teachers a lot of flexibility. Full answer keys are provided, along with detailed introductory teaching notes as well as guidance notes on the discussion and essay topics. EASY DIFFERENTIATION WITH BOTH BASIC AND ADVANCED LEVELS PROVIDED! All 120 questions are provided in both multiple choice and free response formats so that teachers can easily differentiate, with both basic and advanced worksheet versions available at their fingertips. TEACHER CONVENIENCE FEATURES Questions are numbered sequentially so that teachers can start and stop the movie whenever it suits them, instead of trying to match their instruction to worksheets that divide the movie up into pre-established segments.

What was the view of Jews in the United States during the 1930s as the Holocaust loomed ominously ahead? What did the United States try to do to lessen the scale of the horrific tragedy . . . and what more could the nation have done? Take your Holocaust teaching to the next level by examining what the U.S. government knew about events unfolding in Europe, and what it did in response. These America and the Holocaust worksheets and activities go with the PBS film "America and the Holocaust," which is an episode of the series American Experience. INCLUDED IN THIS AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST WORKSHEET AND ACTIVITIES PACK --Detailed synopsis of the film --Teacher introduction with suggested instructional approaches --Reusable fill-in-the-blank student worksheet for use while viewing the video --Consumable version of the same worksheet --Detailed answer key --Two follow-up activities for students to do after viewing the film --Worksheets and Holocaust timeline to facilitate the student follow-up activities SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO FROM PBS "Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the US had an opportunity to open its doors, but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country. It was not until 1944, that a small band of Treasury Department employees forced the government to respond." WHERE TO FIND THE VIDEO "America and the Holocaust" plays occasionally on PBS stations as a part of the series American Experience. However, it is also available online at a variety of streaming sites. The best way to find where it may currently be available is to run a simple Google search. For teachers who prefer hard media, however, the film can be purchased through pbs.org. ABOUT THE CLOZE ACTIVITY INCLUDED IN THESE AMERICA AND THE HOLOCAUST WORKSHEETS The worksheet provided here is designed to be used by students as they watch the video. Students will pay better attention and will focus in on important details as they solve the problems included in the activity. Structure of worksheet: Key statements from the film's script are included on a worksheet, with important words or phrases blocked out. Students are to fill in the missing words or phrases as they watch the film. I have used these worksheets with my classes and have found them to be highly successful at helping students follow the movie better.

This is an Examview version of my set of worksheets / quizzes about the History Channel documentary, "The Real Story of Halloween." As such, these Real Story of Halloween worksheets in Examview format are perfect for electronic instruction. They include: ~~~50 multiple choice questions~~~ ~~~Two Examview .tst files: with and without video time stamps~~~ ~~~All questions presented in "video order" so students can answer them as they watch~~~ About "The Real Story of Halloween": This documentary, appropriate for students in both middle school and high school, usually airs on the History Channel each October. It can often also be found on a variety of video streaming sites. The best way to find it online is to run a simple Google Search. The program lasts about 42 minutes, making it a great fit into a one-period class. ---I BELIEVE IN MAKING CLASS AS FUN AS POSSIBLE--- "The Real Story of Halloween" is a fascinating look into the historical roots of our current-day American Halloween customs. The video asks, and then answers, a variety of interesting and fun questions such as: • Why do we wear masks and costumes on Halloween? • Why is it customary to hand out treats on that night? • Where did the tradition of going door to door start? Along the way, a number of historical eras, peoples, and events are discussed, including: • The ancient Celts • The ancient Romans • Europeans during the early and late Middle Ages • The "Gunpowder Plot" / Guy Fawkes Day in England • Colonial America • The Great Depression in America • The Post-War Boom and 1960s America • The Current Day My personal opinion is that most history teachers would probably enjoy watching this video even if they had no plans to use it in class -- it's simply that fun of a ride. Using it with students, of course, is even better. As long as my world history classes are where they should be each October 31, I like to take a day out of the regular curriculum and use this video. They enjoy it a lot, particularly because it is both fast-paced and fascinating -- but they also learn a great deal about the various periods in history that contributed to our modern conception of how to celebrate Halloween. ---I BELIEVE IN TEACHER CONVENIENCE--- To that end, I have embedded convenience features into these Real Story of Halloween worksheets: One of the two Examview .tst files provided includes a time stamp on every question, revealing when that question is addressed in the video. The other file is without time stamps for teachers who prefer none.

_______________________________________________________________ What Buyers Are Saying: • This was a great Halloween activity for my social studies classes! • Love the resource! Thanks • Excellent Resource! _______________________________________________________________ Make your October academics spooktacular this year by using these Real Story of Halloween worksheets -- teaching students this history behind many of our beloved and familiar Halloween traditions! This resource provides 50 multiple choice questions designed for use with the History Channel documentary, "The Real Story of Halloween." Students will enjoy the film while you'll have a way to track how much they are getting from it. Plus, with these worksheets, students will be motivated to stay on task! ABOUT THIS FUN HALLOWEEN VIDEO This documentary, appropriate for students in both middle school and high school, usually airs on the History Channel each October. It can often also be found on a variety of video streaming sites. The best way to find it online is to run a simple Google Search. The program lasts about 42 minutes, making it a great fit into a one-period class. ---MAKE CLASS FUN USING THESE REAL STORY OF HALLOWEEN WORKSHEETS--- "The Real Story of Halloween" is a fascinating look into the historical roots of our current-day American Halloween customs. The video asks, and then answers, a variety of interesting and fun questions such as: • Why do we wear masks and costumes on Halloween? • Why is it customary to hand out treats on that night? • Where did the tradition of going door to door start? Along the way, a number of historical eras, peoples, and events are discussed, including: • The ancient Celts • The ancient Romans • Europeans during the early and late Middle Ages • The "Gunpowder Plot" / Guy Fawkes Day in England • Colonial America • The Great Depression in America • The Post-War Boom and 1960s America • The Current Day My personal opinion is that most history teachers would probably enjoy watching this video even if they had no plans to use it in class -- it's simply that fun of a ride. Using it with students, of course, is even better. As long as my world history classes are where they should be each October 31, I like to take a day out of the regular curriculum and use this video. They enjoy it a lot, particularly because it is both fast-paced and fascinating -- but they also learn a great deal about the various periods in history that contributed to our modern conception of how to celebrate Halloween.

Getting set to teach about Veterans Day, Memorial Day, or the U.S. impact and cost of the Vietnam War? This versatile video-based activity is ideal! Highly engaging for students and easy to implement for teachers, this video activity really brings home the true cost of one of America's most controversial wars: Vietnam. WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THESE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL WORKSHEETS This teaching packet for “Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25” includes two separate question sets so that teachers can differentiate instruction! Materials included: • Student worksheet with 20 True/False questions. The worksheet is formatted with enough space for students to write answers, but because it doesn’t have official answer blanks, teachers can easily tell students to write on their own paper so that their file copies of the worksheet can be used year after year. • True/False answer key ---- with most false answers annotated with additional information to assist the teacher! • Student worksheet with 13 Multiple Choice Questions. Again, the worksheet is formatted so that it can be reusable if teachers desire. • Multiple Choice answer key   WHERE TO FIND THE VIDEO THAT GOES WITH THESE REMEMBERING VIETNAM WORKSHEETS The questions included here are based on the a video from the Smithsonian Institution: "Remembering Vietnam -- The Wall at 25.” You can download the 46-minute video from iTunes and have it to use in perpetuity for a very small charge. Alternately, you can try to find the video on a streaming site. Just run a Google search for the title! HOW TO USE THESE REMEMBERING VIETNAM: THE WALL AT 25 WORKSHEETS IN CLASS: TWO-DAY LESSON PLAN The video lasts 46 minutes, which means that with these questions, you can easily turn it into a 2 period unit at the secondary school level. • Day 1: Introduce the video, show it, and then debrief a little. • Day 2: Review main points of the video using one of the two question sets, and then use the other set as a follow up activity. For example: o Use either the true/false questions as a whole class review o Assign the multiple choice questions as an individual quiz or group activity ONE-DAY LESSON PLANS • Option 1: Pass out true/false questions and show the video. Have students complete the questions as they watch. Alternately, use the multiple choice questions instead. If the class period lasts at least 5 minutes past the 46 needed to show the video, you will even have time to go over the answers before the bell rings. • Option 2: As above, but have students do one of the two question sets during the class period and the alternate question set for homework.

A comprehensive set of questions covering the PBS Series Queen Victoria's Empire. This series is fantastic for World History classes because it covers both the Industrial Revolution and the age of New Imperialism, and further explores the close causal relationship between the two. This download will provide you with a set of questions for each of the four episodes that make up the series. You can use the questions as worksheets to give students key concepts to watch for during the videos, or save them to assess students after each episode as a closing activity for the video. Teacher convenience is a hallmark of my products. Therefore, several different formats are provided in the download: --->Examview .tst so you can print tests out or use them with CPS/Examview electronic testing systems --->Examview .bnk so you can combine the various question banks in any way you please to make your own tests (For example, combine all files to make a master test for the whole series). --->.rtf Microsoft Word and other word processors can open these files. The rtf files are perfect for making worksheets or adding other enhancements to the files. All Questions are multiple choice or true/false and there are 166 questions in all, divided as follows: Episode 1: Engines of Change: 37 Questions Episode 2: A Passage to India: 49 Questions Episode 3: The Moral Crusade: 44 Questions Episode 4: The Scramble for Africa: 36 Questions Key World History topics such as the Sepoy Mutiny, Crimean War, and the Irish Potato Famine, are included in this series. LOOKING FOR MORE QUEEN VICTORIA'S EMPIRE VIDEO ACTIVITIES? If you prefer fill-in-the-blank Queen Victoria's Empire worksheets or you'd like to have some puzzles that coordinate with episodes of the series, then some of my other products might be just the thing for you! I have available a cloze worksheet and puzzle set for each of the 4 episodes. A complete teaching solution would be to use the cloze worksheets during viewing and then these questions afterwards as an imperialism test or imperialism quiz.

Students learn best through immediate feedback. These activities provide that. They are html files; load them into any web browser and students will be presented with a detailed narrative about U.S. History -- with some words missing. They fill in the blanks using the drop-down lists provided and can check their own answers as they go. These Interactive U.S. History Games will allow you to individualize and personalize instruction. Students consider them both fun and challenging! WHAT THESE INTERACTIVE U.S. HISTORY GAMES INCLUDE Your download will consist of a zip file containing 14 web pages of fill-in exercises. These exercises are interactive and self-correcting if used on a computer -- though they can be printed out to make static fill-in worksheets that students do at their desks. The 14 pages will take students sequentially through the eras of settlement, revolution, and the Constitution in United States History. SIMPLE TO SET UP, EASY TO USE! To run the exercises, all you have to do is double click on one of the three index files provided. These serve as tables of contents to the exercises. Your web browser will open and you will be able to play the fill-in game, which in each case will consist of several pages in a row that students cycle through. To have students use the exercises, you might want to load them onto a central location on your school network and provide students the link. That way, you can load the files once and have them available network-wide. Otherwise, you will have to load the files onto the hard drive of each computer that will be using them. U.S. HISTORY GAMES AUTOMATICALLY DIFFERENTIATE LEARNING! Those who can master the material faster will move ahead into new sections while those who need more time and practice can run through the same exercise until they master it. This means that everybody is working at his or her level, rather than waiting for other students to catch up before the class can move on. For your information, here are the topics covered in each of the three activities: Section 1-1: *Converging Cultures * The Earliest Americans * European Explorations * Early French and English Settlement * The Thirteen Colonies * Crisis Over Land * A Diverse Society Section 1-2: Dissent and Independence * Mercantilism and the Glorious Revolution * The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening * Growing Rebelliousness * The Road to War * Fighting for Independence Section 1-3: The Constitution * The Young Nation * A New Constitution * The Fight for Ratification

Encourage broad learning; use games in class with your Smart Board! HISTORY TOPICS INCLUDED IN THESE REAGAN SMART BOARD GAMES About the games -- they all cover the topic of "The Reagan Era" in United States history. Major topics include: --The Election of 1980 --SDI / Strategic Defense Initiative --Supreme Court shifts --1980's cultural trends --Cold War treaties --Perestroika --The Iran-Contra affair --And many other topics! GAME TYPES INCLUDED IN THESE REAGAN SMART BOARD ACTIVITIES The games include matching, tiles games, anagrams, brainstorming games, image arrange, events arrange, timed puzzles, multiple choice, electoral college analysis and many, many more. All the games are interactive and almost all of them are self-checking. Some of the games are very appropriate as "teachable moments" -- the answer is "Sandinistas," so who can tell me more about them? Let's look at Nicaragua in a little more detail before we continue to the next slide... you get the idea. WHAT YOU WILL GET IN THESE REAGAN SMART BOARD GAMES The full download has NINETEEN slides full of games, many with multiple rounds/items. Playing these games can easily occupy a full class period. The sample games in the preview file are locked, but in the full download all the games can be edited, allowing you to customize them further with your own content if you wish. History Games created by Elise Parker