The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, is an award-winning six-part documentary series by noted historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Covering from about the year 1500 through to the new millennium, the series addresses in a detailed yet entertaining way the challenges faced by African Americans throughout these centuries as well as their many triumphs. Each episode lasts approximately one hour, making the series a convenient one to work into a typical high-school class period. About this African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Worksheet This worksheet provides students with 44 fill-in-the-blank problems for them to solve as they watch Episode 3 of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which covers the period of 1860 to 1896 in African American history. Summary of Episode 3: Into the Fire "Into the Fire" examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction’s thrilling but tragically brief “moment in the sun.” From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their own liberation — forcing the Union to confront the issue of slavery by fleeing the plantations, and taking up arms to serve with honor in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom — rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office. Just a few years later, however, an intransigent South mounted a swift and vicious campaign of terror to restore white supremacy and roll back African-American rights. Yet the achievements of Reconstruction would remain very much alive in the collective memory of the African-American community. Teacher Convenience Features Included in this The African Americans Worksheets Packet: ---Time-stamps option for all problems ---A fast-grade answer key ---A full-context answer key

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, is an award-winning six-part documentary series by noted historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Covering from about the year 1500 through to the new millennium, the series addresses in a detailed yet entertaining way the challenges faced by African Americans throughout these centuries as well as their many triumphs. Each episode lasts approximately one hour, making the series a convenient one to work into a typical high-school class period. About this African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Worksheet This worksheet provides students with 45 fill-in-the-blank problems for them to solve as they watch Episode 4 of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which covers the period of 1896 to 1940 in African American history. Summary of Episode 4: Making a Way Out of No Way "Making a Way Out of No Way" portrays the Jim Crow era, when African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines of segregation. At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans left the South, fleeing the threat of racial violence, and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. Leaders like Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey organized, offering vastly different strategies to further black empowerment and equality. Yet successful black institutions and individuals were always at risk. At the same time, the ascendance of black arts and culture showed that a community with a strong identity and sense of pride was taking hold in spite of Jim Crow. “The Harlem Renaissance” would not only redefine how America saw African Americans, but how African Americans saw themselves. Teacher Convenience Features Included in this The African Americans Worksheets Packet: ---Time-stamps option for all problems ---A fast-grade answer key ---A full-context answer key

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, is an award-winning six-part documentary series by noted historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Covering from about the year 1500 through to the new millennium, the series addresses in a detailed yet entertaining way the challenges faced by African Americans throughout these centuries as well as their many triumphs. Each episode lasts approximately one hour, making the series a convenient one to work into a typical high-school class period. About this African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Worksheet This worksheet provides students with 48 fill-in-the-blank problems for them to solve as they watch Episode 5 of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, which covers the period of 1940 to 1968 in African American history. Summary of Episode 5: Rise! "Rise!" examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence. But this time, mass media — from print to radio and TV — broadcast that injustice to the world, planting seeds of resistance. And the success of black entrepreneurs and entertainers fueled African-American hopes and dreams. In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, heralding the dawn of a new movement of quiet resistance, with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as its public face. Before long, masses of African Americans practiced this nonviolent approach at great personal risk to integrate public schools, lunch counters and more. As the civil rights movement scored one historic victory after another, non-violence was still all too often met with violence — until finally, enough was enough. By 1968, Dr. King, the apostle of non-violence, would be assassinated, unleashing a new call for “Black Power” across the country. Teacher Convenience Features Included in this The African Americans Worksheets Packet: ---Time-stamps option for all problems ---A fast-grade answer key ---A full-context answer key

130 Multiple Choice Questions on American Experience Presents -- The Presidents: LBJ! All in video order, conveniently divided into two separate worksheets, one for each of the two hour-long episodes included in the first half of this video series! About American Experience Presents The Presidents: LBJ American Experience Presents The Presidents: LBJ is a comprehensive biography of the 36th President of the United States. The program originally aired on PBS stations throughout the U.S. Lasting about four hours, the video takes students through Lyndon Johnson’s political career including his time as a Congressman and as the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. The program spends the bulk of the four hours, however, focusing in on LBJ’s time as president, first as an “accidental president” who came to power because of the JFK assassination, and then as a president elected in his own right. This exploration of the LBJ administration means that the video does an excellent job of highlighting major events of the 1960s, including in particular the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Format of video that goes with these The Presidents LBJ Worksheets The Presidents: LBJ is usually presented in two 2-hour programs, providing a natural break in the historical narrative. Each of the two hour programs is further subdivided into two parts, providing a total of four logical episode divisions. Conveniently for high school teachers, each of these four parts lasts slightly less than an hour, which is about the length of time available in a typical secondary class period. THESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE LBJ WORKSHEETS COVER THE FIRST TWO HOURS OF THE VIDEO SERIES. Hour One, “Beautiful Texas,” chronicles LBJ’s early years from his early childhood through his rise to the presidency upon the death of John. F. Kennedy. Hour Two, “My Fellow Americans” explores Lyndon Johnson’s administration up until his re-election in 1964. Teacher Convenience Features Included with these American Experience: The Presidents LBJ Worksheets All worksheets include answer blanks in case teachers want students to write directly on them, but there a separate one-page answer sheet matching the format of the answer key is also included!

122 Multiple Choice Questions on American Experience Presents -- The Presidents: LBJ! All in video order, conveniently divided into two separate worksheets, one for each of the two hour-long episodes included in the last half of this video series! About American Experience Presents The Presidents: LBJ American Experience Presents The Presidents: LBJ is a comprehensive biography of the 36th President of the United States. The program originally aired on PBS stations throughout the U.S. Lasting about four hours, the video takes students through Lyndon Johnson’s political career including his time as a Congressman and as the majority leader of the U.S. Senate. The program spends the bulk of the four hours, however, focusing in on LBJ’s time as president, first as an “accidental president” who came to power because of the JFK assassination, and then as a president elected in his own right. This exploration of the LBJ administration means that the video does an excellent job of highlighting major events of the 1960s, including in particular the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Format of video that goes with these The Presidents LBJ Worksheets The Presidents: LBJ is usually presented in two 2-hour programs, providing a natural break in the historical narrative. Each of the two hour programs is further subdivided into two parts, providing a total of four logical episode divisions. Conveniently for high school teachers, each of these four parts lasts slightly less than an hour, which is about the length of time available in a typical secondary class period. THESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE LBJ WORKSHEETS COVER THE LAST TWO HOURS OF THE VIDEO SERIES. Teacher Convenience Features Included with these American Experience: The Presidents LBJ Worksheets All worksheets include answer blanks in case teachers want students to write directly on them. Having answers marked on the blanks instead of just having the correct choices circled makes it easier for teachers to review student efforts. Sometimes, consumable worksheets are the best approach for a given class, but in other cases, teachers may want to copy off a file set of worksheets that can be re-used from year to year or class to class. To help make correcting as efficient as possible in that case, I have included special student answer sheets where answers can be recorded. The teacher answer keys exactly match the format/setup of the answer sheets in order to make correcting fast and easy!

TEACH WITH HUMOR USING WORLD HISTORY CRASH COURSE! Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching history contents, the YouTube series Crash Course World History is a great place to start. The script of each episode is packed with humorous observations about life and culture -- ones that help to make strong points about the history being communicated. Just as importantly, the host, John Green, has what it takes to keep students' interest: enthusiasm about the topics, a quirky way with props, and a funny, sometimes deadpan delivery of content. Students like watching the series, which means they pay attention to it and learn! 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 WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS Time stamps are provided for each and every question to help students zero in on the answers. If you do not care to provide your students with time stamp information, however, the packet also includes a "questions only" worksheet for each episode. Each worksheet focuses on a single episode of Crash Course World History 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. Some worksheets are free answer and some are true/false -- and in the answer key, all false answers are annotated to give additional information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPISODES INCLUDED IN THESE CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS This resource includes a worksheet, a time-stamped worksheet, and a detailed answer key for episodes 26-30 of Crash Course World History: • The Seven Years War • The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook • Tea, Taxes, and the American Revolution • The French Revolution • The Haitian Revolutions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TEACH WITH HUMOR USING WORLD HISTORY CRASH COURSE! Few classroom strategies are as successful as this simple approach: make learning fun! That, or course, is easier said than done, but when it comes to teaching history contents, the YouTube series Crash Course World History is a great place to start. The script of each episode is packed with humorous observations about life and culture -- ones that help to make strong points about the history being communicated. Just as importantly, the host, John Green, has what it takes to keep students' interest: enthusiasm about the topics, a quirky way with props, and a funny, sometimes deadpan delivery of content. Students like watching the series, which means they pay attention to it and learn! 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 WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS Time stamps are provided for each and every question to help students zero in on the answers. If you do not care to provide your students with time stamp information, however, the packet also includes a "questions only" worksheet for each episode. Each worksheet focuses on a single episode of Crash Course World History 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. Some worksheets are free answer and some are true/false -- and in the answer key, all false answers are annotated to give additional information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPISODES INCLUDED IN THESE CRASH COURSE WORLD HISTORY WORKSHEETS This resource includes a worksheet, a time-stamped worksheet, and a detailed answer key for episodes 31-35 of Crash Course World History: • Latin American Revolutions • Coal, Steam & the Industrial Revolution • Capitalism & Socialism • Daimyo, Samurai, Nationalism & Matthew Perry • Imperialism in the 19th Century -- The New Imperialism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This 37 page presentation teaches students the basic sequence of events in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. About these WWII Pacific Theatre Games for Smart Board The presentation, which runs using Smart Board notebook software, has 24 pages taking students through the key facts and events of the Pacific Theatre, including: -----the formation of the Axis, -----the attack on Pearl Harbor -----the OTHER locations attacked by the Japanese on Dec 7-8, 1941, -----the early battles of Coral Sea and Midway, -----the Philippine and island-hopping campaigns, -----the Casablanca Conference at which decisions about the war against Japan were made, -----the strategic importance of Iwo Jima, -----the atomic bombing of Japan, -----and the surrender of Japan. After those 24 pages, there are 13 pages of review activities asking students to recall key events, leaders, and alliances, as well as to put the Pacific War in order. These are self-checking interactive activities. Ways to Use these WWII in the Pacific Games for Smart Board I use this presentation both to teach and review the Pacific War. It is a great sponge activity -- during our World War Two unit I will have it on the Smart Board at the start of class and students will enthusiastically try the games, day after day. This presentation helps both to teach the students and motivate them to learn! SmartBoard Presentations by Elise Parker

Do your students confuse Yalta and Potsdam? Mine used to, so I created a set of teaching slides AND GAMES that help them better grasp four of the most important WWII War Conferences: Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. About these Allied War Conferences Games for Smart Board The presentation begins with an overview of when and where the four conferences took place, and includes a variety of interactive games to review and help students learn/remember the key points. After that introduction, the presentation treats each conference separately and details both who attended and the important decisions that were reached. Again, interactive games are provided to reinforce understanding and retention of the key points. Students are asked to compare conferences on several slides, once they have been taught about more than one. Primary source photographs are used to illustrate concepts and deepen students' understanding. All conferences are presented in the context of the ongoing war, with reference to events in the war that influenced the decisions made at the conferences. Ways to Use these Allied War Conferences Games in Class This is an interactive presentation. Yes, it teaches the concepts, and does so in a clear, concise way, but it also reviews and assesses students along the way, by means of games and activities that the whole class can enjoy. During your World War II unit, if you have this on the board when students come in each day, it will provide a fun sponge activity as students get settled -- one that helps them revisit the conferences until they know the details of each! The full download has 32 slides chock full of information and games. Smartboard Presentations by Elise Parker *Requires Smart Board Notebook software to run *note: Tehran is also spelled Teheran. I have chosen to use the Tehran spelling throughout my presentation.

What better way to teach, review, and encourage broad learning than to use these fun interactive games in class? About these WWII Interactive History Games Cover the broad topic of "Global Conflict 1931-1941," the individual games address a variety of key issues of the period, including: American isolationism Early phase of WWII in Europe (up to 1941) The Holocaust American entry into World War Two Nuremberg Laws Battle of Britain Pearl Harbor Lend-Lease Act Mussolini Shoah Anschulss ...and many, many more! Activity Types included in these Early WWII Games The games include word games, crosswords, sports-scored games, anagrams, geography games, timed puzzles, put-the-events-in-order and many, many more. All the games are interactive and almost all of them are self-checking. Some of the games are also very appropriate as "teachable moments" -- the answer is "internationalism," so who can tell me more about that? Let's look at that in a little more detail before we continue to the next slide... you get the idea. The preview file contains 3 games and the full download has 11. All the games are locked, but people who purchase the full 11 game version of the file can contact me to request the password that will unlock the slides and let you edit the games, customizing them further with your own content, as much as you please. History Games created by Elise Parker

Help your students understand the Preamble as never before even as they engage in critical analysis skills, examining the Enumerated Powers of Congress as listed in Article I as they work their way through these Preamble and Enumerated Powers Worksheets. Reading the Constitution is one thing, but thinking carefully and critically about it is far more valuable! This worksheet will give teachers the tools they need to help students analyze the Enumerated Powers of Congress. Many students find the Enumerated Powers rather boring, but there's no reason for that, not when they are given the opportunity to dive deep into the text and do a little close reading analysis! Encourage Deep Learning with these U.S. Constitution Analysis Worksheets The goal of these worksheets is to encourage students to think more deeply about how actions by Congress can serve the nation by fulfilling the goals of government listed in the Preamble. These goals are: • to form a more perfect union • to establish justice • to ensure domestic tranquility • to provide for the common defense • to promote the general welfare • to secure the blessings of liberty Format of these Enumerated Powers Worksheets In this activity, students are provided with a simplified list of the enumerated powers and are asked to classify them according to which goal of government they tend to serve. For example, the Constitution specifies that Congress can establish and support a navy; this clearly relates to providing for the "common defense." Other powers will require them to think more deeply, however. What goal does the establishment of bankruptcy and copyright laws promote, for example? My idea in writing this was to make the enumerated powers something the students could work with and consider instead of just a list we go over and they quickly forget. The way it is structured should lead students to a finer understanding of the Preamble as well. Follow-Up Included with this Preamble and Enumerated Powers Worksheet In the follow-up, students are challenged to think beyond the text and come up with their own list of powers that they would grant to Congress if they were designing the government from scratch. Constitution Activities by Elise Parker

What better way to teach, review, and encourage broad learning than to use interactive games in your class? These games are super fun, improved based on student input, and can be played on a Smart Board using Smart Notebook software. WHAT THESE INTERACTIVE SMART BOARD HISTORY GAMES COVER About the games -- they all cover the topics of World War I and the Russian Revolution. These games are based on the material in Chapter 8 of Glencoe's World History: Modern Times but of course history is history. These games include the relevant vocabulary such as propaganda, armistice, militarism, etc. You can use these games to teach about Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Lawrence of Arabia, Czar Nicolas II Lenin, Trotsky, and many other topics no matter what textbook you use! However, if you ARE using the Glencoe text, these games will perfectly coordinate with the chapter listed and really make your lesson planning a snap! All the games are interactive and many of them are self-checking! HOW TO USE THESE WWI AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION HISTORY GAMES I like to use the games on the Smart Board with a few students at the board at at time while the other watch, and then follow that with a trip to the computer lab where EVERY student can play on an individual computer at his/her own pace. The students learn and retain more via games than via other types of review activities, and they enjoy history and tell others how fun your class is -- it's a win/win teaching strategy. Some of the games are also very appropriate as "teachable moments" -- the answer is "reparations," so who can tell me more about that? Let's look at that in a little more detail before we continue to the next slide... you get the idea. The file contains 7 slides full of games. All the games are locked, but people who purchase the file can email me to request the password that will unlock the slides and let you edit the games, customizing them further to your own content, to your heart's content.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

_______________________________________________________________ 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.

_____________________________________ MAKE GEOGRAPHY FUN AND ENGAGING _____________________________________ Which countries in the world allow the greatest freedom of international travel? Find out along with your students by watching a sleek and polished YouTube video on the subject! Instead of just learning about this world's 25 most powerful passports, though, transform the video into a learning experience like none other by having students use these varied and engaging worksheets! FOCUS ON GEOGRAPHY SKILLS * Zero in on key content like country names or the reasons why these 25 countries are considered to have such powerful passports * Find the key 25 countries on worksheets featuring labeled regional and world maps * Label the key 25 countries on worksheets featuring outline political maps * Full answer keys make the teacher's life easy * Instructions, helpful hints, and bonus questions give the teacher options DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION EMBEDDED IN THESE GEOGRAPHY VIDEO WORKSHEETS The wide range of worksheets and activities included makes it simple to create "basic" and "advanced" levels of a variety of activities! ABOUT THE VIDEO THAT GOES WITH THESE GEOGRAPHY WORKSHEETS Check out the video that goes with these fun geography activities by streaming from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLHbiQ8Q57M (The 25 Most Powerful Passports in the World) Happy teaching! Fun Geography Activities by Elise Parker keywords: Europe map, Asia map, World map, map skills

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.