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Common Core RH.6-8.4 rubrics
Solve History's Mysteries- Stonehenge
History is full of unsolved mysteries, and who doesn’t love a good mystery? This packet is one of a growing collection of engaging inquiry-based learning adventures for your students. In each packet, students will investigate a mystery from history and try to solve the case!This investigation requires your history detectives to travel back in time to 5000 B.C. where they will enter the world of the Celts and Druids in Britain. Their mission: unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. How was it buil
Sargon of the Akkadians - World History Mini-DBQ
Bring your unit on Mesopotamia to the next level by giving students the chance to find their own answers like a historian! In this mini-DBQ students will analyze one primary source about the reign of the first emperor Sargon of the Akkadians, and an infographic on the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin showing the conquering Akkadians riding into battle. Using that analysis, they'll answer the question "How did Sargon create the first empire in Mesopotamia?"Each source features lots of support for a var
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6th - 9th
World Religions DBQ
Bring primary and secondary sources to your students' fingertips as they annotate and analyze ten primary sources from the World History's most influential religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This full DBQ guides students through the analysis process and provides numerous supports for struggling readers and English Language Learners.Each religion features two primary source excerpts, formatted with plenty of space for students to annotate, and a full page of analysis
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6th - 9th
World History Mini-DBQ: The Black Plague
Bring primary and secondary source documents to your students' fingertips as they analyze three sources about how the Black Plague affected life during the Middle Ages in Europe. Included in this resource are three shortened sources, formatted to support students with space to annotate, a glossary, analysis questions, and embedded mini-rubrics for annotation and analysis. Also included are a cover page and writing page both with specific instructions and optional PEEL paragraph sentence stems to
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Mini-DBQ Bundle
World History Mini-DBQ: The Medieval Catholic Church
Bring primary and secondary source documents to your students' fingertips as they analyze two sources about how the Catholic Church helped people during the Middle Ages in Europe. Included in this resource are both sources, formatted to support students with space to annotate, a glossary, analysis questions, and embedded mini-rubrics for annotation and analysis. Also included are a cover page and writing page both with specific instructions and optional PEEL paragraph sentence stems to support s
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Middle Ages Mini-DBQ Bundle
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs "Fakebook" Project
A great way to get middle school students engaged in class material is by incorporating one of their favorite things into the learning process: social media. A project that my students always have a ton of fun with is the “Fakebook” project. Students use their notes and additional information that they’ve been provided with during class to create a social media profile in the style of Facebook for a historical figure. What I love most about this assignment is that it allows students to express t
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5th - 8th
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The Passport Project Book: Unit Project
This project goes along with the AMAZING true story The Passport Project: Two Sisters Ditch Middle School for a Life-Changing Journey Around the World by Kellie McIntyre. This book is a great opportunity to include reading comprehension into your social studies class!Passport Project UnitThis project includes a Digital Journal that follows along each chapter in the book. Each part of the digital journal has 3 tasks that go along with each chapter:Vocabulary and Currency/Language IdentificationRe
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6th - 8th
The Preamble: The Goals of the Constitution
This mini-unit, which is divided into 3 parts: Introduction, Analysis, and Synthesis, aims to educate students on the significance and relevance of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution today. Part 1 Introduction provides background information on the Preamble, including reading and vocabulary development; Part 2 Analysis offers opportunities for students to paraphrase and apply the Preamble to current society; Part 3 Synthesis provides a final assessment through a slideshow or Prezi project tha
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6th - 8th
Mexico’s Role in the American Revolution - Activity & Resource Bundle
Mexico played a crucial role in the American Revolution. Explore Mexico's contributions through a core reading with complementing vocabulary and analytical writing activities and original rap lyrics that cover all core vocabulary terms.
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8th - 11th
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Middle Ages Mini-DBQ Bundle
Get the most for your money with this bundle of (4) Mini-DBQs about the Middle Ages. The 4 Mini-DBQ topics are:- Charlemagne- The Medieval Catholic Church- Peasant Life- The Black PlagueEach DBQ features 2-3 primary and secondary sources for students to annotate and analyze. Each source has been carefully formatted to provide a glossary of terms, plenty of space for annotations, analysis questions, and embedded mini-rubrics for annotation and analysis. Also included is the full grading rubric fo
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6th - 8th
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The Declaration of Independence: modern translation
This U.S. history lesson is centered around the modern translation and interpretation of The Declaration of Independence. The six items are within a google folder, which can all be used 100% virtually or printed for physical handouts. The actives are best for grades 7 and up, but all assignments are fully editable, so the specific prompts could be altered to work for younger students.This folder includes:- A suggested 5 day lesson plan- 35 section translation class activity- Side by Side Modern
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7th - 9th
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Enduring Issue Activities and Essay
An enduring issue is a challenge or problem that a society has faced and debated or discussed across time. An enduring issue is one that many societies have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.In the introductory assignments students will use documents and their knowledge of social studies students to:Identify and define an enduring issue raised by the set of the five documents provided.Use their knowledge of social studies and evidence from the documents to argue why the issue
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7th - 8th
Close & Critical Common Core Reading Strategy~All Subjects Informational Text
This is an incredibly effective, polished and research-driven method of assessing your students' understanding and higher level application + analysis of their reading -- particularly with informational texts. This reading rubric can be utilized in any secondary classroom regardless of subject matter/course, with higher expectations set on student thinking and responses for each of the four core questions on this reading assessment. You may use this with a specific, teacher-selected informationa
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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History In Hashtags Formative Project Based Assessment
With this Instagram template project, students will choose a topic, person, or event they've learned about and create a pretend Instagram post about it. By creating an Instagram post, students can evaluate their learning with an image, caption, and hashtags, making it a fun and unique way to assess their understanding. This project is suitable for most classes, subject areas, and grade levels, and can be incorporated multiple times throughout the school year. It helps students practice essential
Grades:
6th - 8th
Vocabulary Matching for “Mexico’s Role in the American Revolution”
Pre- / post- assessment for the complementing core reading.
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8th - 11th
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Also included in: Mexico’s Role in the American Revolution - Activity & Resource Bundle
Social Studies Group Project - What Does a Historian Do?
In small groups, you will be researching one of six jobs, writing a paper, and then presenting it to the class. Jobs: anthropologist, archivist, archaeologist, genealogist, historian, and paleontologist. The class will be divided into 6 groups.
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5th - 8th
Document-Based Question: Age of Exploration Rubric
This is an essay outline aligned to the documents for the Document-Based Question: The Age of Exploration. The outline provides sentence starters and open-ended questions to prompt students. This can be useful for special education students or middle school learners who struggle with typical essay format.Essay question: How did European arrival in the Americas affect Europeans and Native Americans?Rubric is posted separately and aligns to the Individuals and Societies Humanities Criterion A and
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6th - 8th
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Greek Mythology Project: Instructions and rubrics
This project is a creative assessment for a Greek Mythology Unit for either ELA or Ancient Civ. I designed it for use 6th grade to 12th grade.Students have lots of choice in the focus of their project. Firstly, they get to choose from a list of Greek gods and heroes to honor with a stamp design. This stamp design is accompanied by a persuasive letter, where students try to convince the "stamp of honor committee" that their god or hero deserves that honor. Secondly, students get to choose from th
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6th - 12th
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Modern American History: 1939 to Present
This is an all-inclusive, year-long curriculum that you can use in its entirety, or as an enhancement to what you are already teaching. Units are divided by decade with the exception of 1939-1945 (WWII and the Holocaust) and 1945-1959 (Communism and Korean War).Within each unit, there are 40+ very dynamic, ready-to-use Powerpoint files, which can be edited, projected and read in class together, or can be assigned as a reading when uploaded to your student learning platform, such as Canvas or Goo
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7th - 9th
Early Humans- Paleo and Neo Vocabulary Project
This is a fun little project with rubric included on the Early Humans. Prior to the start of the unit, I like to get students familiar with some of the vocabulary. Students will create a Google Slide defining vocabulary terms, using them in a sentence, adding visual representations and generate a write up with the use of the vocabulary words.
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6th
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Essay Materials
Used for 8th grade history, rubric, graphic organizer to plan an essay
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Acrostic Poem Rubric
Acrostic Poem Rubric is an outstanding assignment to use for those students who learn differently. Remember, not all evaluations require a test, the acrostic poem rubric allows students to prove understanding while being creative.
This includes an example of an acrostic poem and a rubric.
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6th - 12th
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Propaganda and the Boston Massacre
This comprehensive lesson focuses on propaganda and its use in inciting colonists against the British after the Boston Massacre and provides ample opportunities for students to engage in critical thinking through a vocabulary study of propaganda, an examination of primary and secondary sources, and an analysis of the types of propaganda Revere used in his engraving. To assess their learning, students will write an argumentative paragraph showcasing Revere's use of propaganda in his engraving and
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5th - 10th
Analyzing & Interpreting Historical Quotes
Students will select a quote from the provided list and analyze its meaning. They will explain what they believe the author meant, use historical context to interpret why the author may have said it, and explain how the quote relates to their own life. They will create a poster. Rubric is included.
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4th - 8th
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