Constitutional Analysis – 7805
Summary In this lesson, students use Voyant, a digital textual analysis tool, to analyze the Constitution of the United States and compare and contrast the …
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Historical Perspectives – 7804
Summary In this culminating lesson to a World War I unit, the students view and analyze three different types of sources from which one can …
Comic Collaboration with Fiction – 7642
Summary During this lesson, students collaboratively recreate a scene from the historical fiction novel “My Brother Sam Is Dead” using Pixton comic strip creator. Students …
Revolutionary War Timelines
Summary In this lesson, each student puts himself/herself into the shoes of a museum curator. The teacher assigns each student a primary or secondary source …
Big Ballin’ – 7802
Summary In this lesson, students listen to a rap song entitled “Big Ballin,” which discusses the “Captains of Industry” and the success of big business …
Latitude, Longitude, and Geocaching – 7800
Summary Many 6th grade students have learned latitude and longitude to some extent in elementary school and are able to plot coordinates on a world …
Geographic Regions Exploration
Summary At the start of this lesson, students are presented with a map of the United States that is divided into the eight geographic regions …
Creating a Digital Museum Exhibit – World War II Version
Summary In this lesson, each student puts himself/herself into the shoes of a museum curator. The teacher provides the students with a variety of primary …
World War II Events Timeline
Summary In this lesson, each student puts himself/herself into the shoes of a museum curator. The teacher assigns each student a primary or secondary source …
Scrapbooking the 20’s and 30’s
Summary In this assignment students develop a historically accurate character that will experience the historic events of the 1920s and 1930s. The student will see …