EDITABLE History Bell Ringer Templates and Warm-Ups for Students | Both Print and Digital (Google Slides) Versions Included! This elementary and middle school teaching resource contains slides of Bell Ringers for any history unit! Also great for classroom discussions and breakout room activities. Includes digital and print templates for: Mapping Mondays Timeline Tuesdays Word Wednesdays (Vocabulary) Thinking Thursdays (Responding to Historical Quotes) Fun Fact Friday Can be used for any history unit / curriculum! Perfect for Ancient Civilizations, US History, World History, Medieval Times, Government, and More! Includes a sample week of Bell Ringers for inspiration!
If you've been following my blog for a long time you'll know it's no secret that I love history! While I typically provide resources for grades 5+, here are some...
One of history’s great villains, Herod the Great is best known for his attempt to remove his rival, the “King of the Jews” by ordering the execution of all male infants in Bethlehem shortly after the birth of Jesus Christ. Herod was a Roman puppet who was neither the legitimate…
Engage your students with a comprehensive Pre-Reading Historical Introduction to Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan. This Digital Google Lesson seamlessly presents this novel’s significant setting with critical world events of the time. This resource greatly improves comprehension while aligning to standards, ensuring a richer literary experience for all learning styles. For use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms Google Slides: 1. **Author Photo and Short Biography** Providing students with a personal connection to the author, enhancing their engagement and understanding of the writer’s influence behind the story. 2. **Historical Fiction Genre** Preparing students to critically analyze how real-world events of the time-period are portrayed through creative storytelling. 3. **Audio Link to Book**Providing an additional resource to support diverse learning styles and ensuring all students can access and engage with the text. 4. **Location Facts, Photos, and Maps** Providing students with a concrete understanding of the setting, enriching their grasp of the historical and geographical context of the story. 5. **Time-period Facts, Photos and Links** Helping students visualize and comprehend the novel’s historical context, deepening their understanding of the events and culture depicted in the story. 6. **Link to Time-period Music** Immersing students in the cultural atmosphere of the era, promoting an emotional connection. 7. **Links to Historical Video Clips** Bringing history to life, providing visual imagery and helping students better understand the events and people of the time-period. 8. **List of Books Written by this Author** Reading other books by the same author is important because it allows students to explore similar themes and styles, fostering a greater interest in literature and a deeper connection with the author's body of work. 9. **Pre- and Post- Printable Assessments with Answer Key** Crucial for the digital introduction lesson helping to gauge students' initial knowledge and track their progress, ensuring their understanding of the novel. DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM: · Introduce new story · Provide factual backstory to historical fiction text · Stimulate group discussion · Create predictions about text · Use as distance learning resource · Post on webpage · Add to electronic notebooks Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson. This lesson is also available in PowerPoint. Enjoy! -From Kiwious About Vocab
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In 1931, John B. Sparks distilled human civilization into a single chart. Even today, it’s great infographic design.
Hollywood has pushed out some impressive historical dramas. Here are some great quality historical movies for junior high and high school, under R.
Objectives for creating timelines:To present a chronological sequence of related events along a drawn lineA fast ‘snapshot’ of time, people and eventsCreating a Timeline – A verti…
Want to bring a little math history into math class? These 10 top math moments get student imaginations churning about mathematicians and great math moments of the past. Bringing these stories into math class is sure to captivate student imaginations!
Learn how to use escape rooms in your social studies classroom to increase student engagement. Free social studies escape room is included!
It's so exciting to see how many exceptional nonfiction books for kids are being published every month!
Over 25 history board games to choose from for your homeschool or classroom, or as the perfect gift for the history lover in your life!
Want to add a little something extra to the daily agenda slides for your social studies classes? Enhance your classroom routine with these engaging "On This Day in History" Daily Agenda Slides for the 2024-2025 school year. Includes over 200 slides: one for every weekday between August and June. Each slide includes: Daily Agenda Space: Easily fill in your daily objectives and reminders for homework, tests, and events. Historical Fact of the Day: Start each class with a fascinating "On This Day in History" fact. These facts can spark engaging conversations, connect to your curriculum, or highlight significant holidays and events. Links to History.com provide additional context and information. Editable Content: Customize each slide to suit your needs. If you use year after year, it is easy to copy and paste content to use again and again. Daily agenda slides are a great way to avoid the dreaded "What are we doing today?" question. These slides can help your classroom routine and promote executive functioning skills while including some interesting history facts along the way.
Add a little pizzazz to your lessons with some United States History Activities that your students will love!
Age of Exploration History Bell Ringers and Warm-Ups for Students | Both Print and Digital (Google Slides) Versions Included! This upper elementary and middle school teaching resource contains 5 Weeks (25 Slides) of Bell Ringers on Explorers and the Age of Exploration! Also great for classroom discussions and breakout room activities. Includes Mapping Mondays Timeline Tuesdays Word Wednesdays (Vocabulary) Thinking Thursdays (Responding to Historical Quotes) Fun Fact Friday Aligned with United States History Complete Curriculum Aligned with the following topics: Exploration, Age of Discovery, Trading, the Silk Road, Tools & Technology (Compass, Astrolabe, Octant, Sextant, Chronometer, Gunpowder) Marco Polo, The Description of the World, Caravans, Spanish Reconquista, Christopher Columbus's Voyage, Trade to Africa, Trade to China, The Columbus Exchange, Ferdinand Magellan, Circumnavigation, Hernan Cortes, The Northwest Passage, John Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazzano,
Entire Year of Daily STEM Challenges are great ways to engage students in fun activities and learn historical facts. These activities also engages students in STEM thinking and the design process. 360+ - 257 MB - Zip
Did you know that Black History Facts are an important part of our history and culture? Learn how to diversify your classroom with these little known facts during Black History Month and beyond. Where Did Black
Interpreting history can seem like a daunting task for students, but with a few creative tools and ideas, teachers can bring historical events and people to life. I love providing students with an interconnection to the people who shaped our country. Our history is on-going and by studying our past, we can hopefully learn
Students in Middle School and High School will have a great time with this digital resource! English and History teachers can use this to begin their classes every day. Get your students engaged and energized with these MAY daily warm-ups, brain breaks, and fun facts! This resource includes interactive Google Slides with prompts that will get your students thinking, and learning about famous and historical people/events. This is a great resource to use for the Spring Season! NO PREP IS NEEDED!!! Each slide (for each day of the month) will provide interesting facts/quotes/questions that will spark your students' curiosity and create excellent discussion inside your classroom. From brain teasers to fun facts and trivia, this resource is perfect for morning meetings, brain breaks, or as a fun way to start your class. This resource includes: Facts, Famous Birthdays, Quotes, Trivia, Discussion Questions for EVERY day of the month on Google Slides Brain teasers, fun facts, and trivia about random topics in history. Perfect for morning meetings, brain breaks, or class warm-ups As you continue to click on the screen, more information is revealed. First, a fun fact appears on the screen (they include facts about all different types of topics, ranging from history, science, sports, and everything else in between!). The birthdays of famous people will appear. A "Quote of the Day" will appear. A "Discussion Question will appear" The Trivia Question" of the day will appear. Take a look at the sample video included on this page to see a demonstration and how it functions! Get your students excited about learning with these engaging May daily warm-ups and brain breaks. Download now and start using them in your classroom today! NOTE: The product you purchase here is a PDF, which comes with a link to the Google Slides file of the "Fun Facts: Did You Know?" which allows you to fully edit the file if you want to make any adjustments! By clicking on the link of the Google Slides file, you can copy the file into your own Google Drive! For More Brain Breaks and Warm-Ups Click Here: Other Brain Breaks and Warm-Ups! FOR MORE CREATIVE AND ENGAGING RESOURCES, CHECK OUT THE TPT STORE: TPT Store Connect With Teach and Create Today© On: Pinterest Instagram TikTok Twitter WE SOMETIMES DO FUN GIVEAWAYS AND PROMOTIONS, SO COME FOLLOW ALONG! Please feel free to reach out if you ever have any comments or questions about anything. I am always happy to help in any way that I can! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT! IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! Teachers make the best creators! -Teach and Create Today©
This activity is a great way to allow your students to discover some of the important historical events that have shaped healthcare today. Using the internet as their research tool, students will search for the truth behind 20 different statements and then correct the ones that are false. This is a great way to cover a variety of milestones as well as teach proper internet research. Answer key included! **Update: Fillable electronic PDF now included for distance learning! Looking for more content like this? Visit my store HERE! Follow me! Click HERE!
Ancient Aztec facts and worksheets about this historical civilization and empire which were the elite of a militaristic empire located in Central Mexico.
Did you know that Black History Facts are an important part of our history and culture? Learn how to diversify your classroom with these little known facts during Black History Month and beyond. Where Did Black
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Engage your students with a comprehensive Pre-Reading Historical Introduction to Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen. This Digital Google Lesson seamlessly presents this novel’s significant setting with critical world events of the time. This resource greatly improves comprehension while aligning to standards, ensuring a richer literary experience for all learning styles. For use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms Google Slides: 1. **Author Photo and Short Biography** Providing students with a personal connection to the author, enhancing their engagement and understanding of the writer’s influence behind the story. 2. **Historical Fiction Genre** Preparing students to critically analyze how real-world events of the time-period are portrayed through creative storytelling. 3. **Audio Link to Book**Providing an additional resource to support diverse learning styles and ensuring all students can access and engage with the text. 4. **Location Facts, Photos, and Maps** Providing students with a concrete understanding of the setting, enriching their grasp of the historical and geographical context of the story. 5. **Time-period Facts, Photos and Links** Helping students visualize and comprehend the novel’s historical context, deepening their understanding of the events and culture depicted in the story. 6. **Link to Time-period Music** Immersing students in the cultural atmosphere of the era, promoting an emotional connection. 7. **Links to Historical Video Clips** Bringing history to life, providing visual imagery and helping students better understand the events and people of the time-period. 8. **List of Books Written by this Author** Reading other books by the same author is important because it allows students to explore similar themes and styles, fostering a greater interest in literature and a deeper connection with the author's body of work. 9. **Pre- and Post- Printable Assessments with Answer Key** Crucial for the digital introduction lesson helping to gauge students' initial knowledge and track their progress, ensuring their understanding of the novel. DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM: · Introduce new story · Provide factual backstory to historical fiction text · Stimulate group discussion · Create predictions about text · Use as distance learning resource · Post on webpage · Add to electronic notebooks Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson. This lesson is also available in PowerPoint. Enjoy! -From Kiwious About Vocab
In this Social Studies and history icebreakers resource, you receive two icebreaker activities for the first or last days of school. These are ideal in any Social Studies, History, or Geography classroom. You can choose to use both, or choose the game that you feel best fits your kids!In the first...
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Take a historical tour of Spain, home of the Running of the Bulls! Learn all about this Spanish-speaking country's diverse regions, dialects, and traditions.
This product will allow you to easily integrate a daily "On this Day in History" fact of the day into your Warm Up and/or Bellringer routine! Historical facts for each day of the month organized into an easy powerpoint, journal and bulletin board. I have organized these facts in a variety of ways so that you can choose what best fits you! This product began when I started failing miserably with keeping up with writing an "On This Day in History" fact on the whiteboard outside my room everyday. It seemed so simple, but ended up being just ONE MORE THING I had to keep up with. I started brainstorming on how I could still integrate an "Event of the Day" but be effective this time. This product contains all the ways I have integrated an "On This Day in History" fact in my classroom. When you purchase this product you have all these options: Option 1: Powerpoint & Bound Journal Display the powerpoint without prompts on your projector. This slide provides the event of the day and extra details to provide context for your students. Print the journal and bind/staple/hole punch so that they have the journal for the month. The journal has a shortened version of the event of the day and a response questions. Collect the journals at the end of the month for assessment or simply have them collect them as the year goes on. Option 2: Powerpoint & Weekly Response Sheet Display the powerpoint without prompts on your projector. This slide provides the event of the day and extra details to provide context for your students. Print the journal entries for a single week front–to-back so that Mon-Wed are on one side of the paper, and Thurs-Fri are on the back. Collect each week to check for understanding. Option 3: Powerpoint Only Display the powerpoint with prompts on your projector. This slide provides the event of the day and extra details to provide context for your students, and then has the response question from the journals. Students can respond on paper or in a composition book. Option 4: Bulletin Board Print the powerpoint without prompts to display on a bulletin board in your room. Consider printing, laminating and hole punching at the top and using rings to create a flip chart you can just flip each day. Students can read at their leisure. I also have displayed these outside my door for students to peruse in the hallway. Bulletin board letters also included in this bundle! Option 5: Interactive Bulletin Board Print the powerpoint with prompts to display on a bulletin board in your room. Consider printing, laminating and hole punching at the top and using rings to create a flip chart you can just flip each day. Students can read at their leisure, then respond on a sheet of paper. I also have displayed these outside my door, or on a whiteboard for students to peruse in the hallway and write their response on the whiteboard around the poster. Bulletin board letters also included in this bundle! All of these items are designed with a modern, clean look that focuses on the content and is in black and white- no need for color printing. These are designed to look fabulous printed on plain white paper, or if you're feeling fancy, colored copy paper. This contains facts for everyday in September, including weekends. The Journal contains only the facts and prompts for weekdays for the school year. There will be an update on the Journal each summer with free updates for life. Like this product? Good News! This Product is a part of a MONEY SAVING BUNDLE Questions? Please use the Q&A function if there is any information I can provide you to help you determine if this is the product for you or not!
Back to School: Thinking Like a Historian, Searching for Historical Evidence-- In this 9-page guide for grades 8 and up, students will learn to see themselves in your history class as detectives, searching for answers in primary sources to mysteries that have never been completely solved. This guide will empower students to navigate complexity, adapt to new situations, and refrain from hasty conclusions. Historians engage in continuous discussions to interpret historical facts, analyzing the significance and causes of events. The guide contains exercises and information to help students: Question the credibility of sources Assess the evidence provided to support the arguments Analyze and interpret the source more deeply than any historical narrative they have encountered previously Included in the guide: Main lesson Plan--For clearly articulating objectives and establishing the unit's tone. Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan-- To clarify the goals and instructions for the exercises. "Thinking Like a Historian: Developing Tools to Understand Our History"--Three tools are provided for searching and identifying historical context. "Strategies for Thinking Like a Historian"--Tips for sourcing, contextualizing, and analyzing historical documents. "How to Spot Fake News"--Tips on recognizing "fake" news sources and finding credible ones. "Remember the Ladies--Thinking Like a Historian"-- An exercise involving the application of newly acquired skills through letters between Abigail and John Adams during the Revolutionary War. Be sure to check out the other guides included in my store! Other Ways to Connect: Email (get an automatic freebie for signing up!) Blog: Historical Classroom Notes Instagram Pinterest Facebook Click here to follow my TpT store! Don't forget to leave a review of this product for money off future TpT purchases. Remember, history happens when you least expect it!
Almost everyone has heard of autism. We've come a long way in raising awareness about it. But, the facts about autism and how it affects people, along with the history of the condition, are lesser-known.
Here is a collection of websites for bringing history to life. Along with other engaging history resources such as historical fiction, fun with maps, and virtual field trips! These are sure to help kids be more engaged in their history studies!
UK Local History KS2 Primary Classroom Resources in partnership with Historic England. Our exciting local history project provides you with everything you need to complete a local history study that is relevant to your school and local community.
Grade Levels: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th Resource Type: .pdf Digital Download Pages: 140 pages 32 Historical Figures-Learn about Martin Luther King, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, and more. Teach your students about diversity by reading these biographies and check for understanding with comprehension quizzes. Use this engaging activity with your high school students for Black History Month and beyond. For more classroom ideas visit Black History Facts for the Classroom.
MLK Day snuck up on my this year big time. So I went on a hunt to find some quality resources that I could use this week. Well, I found tons and lots for free 🙂 Click on the pictures to be taken to TpT where you can download each file. Don’t forget to leave ... Read More about MLK Freebies Galore!
