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Dr. Gesundheit and the Mystery of Snake Valley
Thick forest and tall grasses hide tantalizing clues about the people once calling Snake Valley home, and world-renowned archeologist Dr. Gesundheit needs your students’ help to unravel the region’s mysteries. Equipped with rich content, new skills, and a drawstring bag of tools, your students travel to Snake Valley’s dark interior where they collect, organize, and analyze archeological evidence– everything from eroded burial mounds to sediment-filled post holes. Students follow Dr. Gesundheit from one archeological site to another revealing the story of Snake Valley’s people one observation and artifact at a time.
The Civil War Begins
The Civil War Begins immerses you and your students in the anxious months and fractured loyalties leading to the dramatic 34-hour bombardment of Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor, the opening battle of our country’s bloodiest war. This 96-page ready-to-implement resource includes extensive teacher directions, four readings with complementary activities, a project-based assessment, a quiz, teacher answer keys, scoring rubrics, and accommodated materials for exceptional students.
Resources For Mentoring Student Teachers and Teaching Interns
Mentors provide guidance, feedback, and safety nets during the student teaching experience. This ebook presents tools in pdf and modifiable Word formats for mentors and student teachers to facilitate meaningful communication, record ideas and reflections quickly, and for student teachers to organize resources they will rely upon when managing classrooms of their own. Practical FAQ lists provide a framework for creating and managing a comprehensive student teaching experience and explain how to use an adaptable emergency procedures resource, an activity record sheet, an observation form, a formative assessment form, and resources to develop a personal teaching philosophy. Examples of completed forms complement detailed directions to aid implementation.
The Three Branches Memory Game
This easy-to-prepare and fun activity reinforcing the purposes, compositions, and law-making roles of the United States Federal Government’s Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches. This variation of a traditional memory game challenges players to match cards based upon information—not by matching identical images or text—requiring all cards to be read and comprehended fully. Students use correctly matched information cards to complete corresponding questions sheets composed of low and high-order thinking items. The “Three Branches Memory Game” can be played solitaire, head-to-head or between three students to collect and work with information and concepts related to the United States’ Federal Government.
Life and Works of Thomas Paine: Text, Reading Strategy, and Two DBQ Activities
Common Sense and The American Crisis author Thomas Paine presented a variety of faces during the United States’ early history: patriot, propagandist, hero, conspirator, criminal, and villain. This copy-ready ebook includes a 1,600-word informational text framing Paine’s literary works within the complexities and controversies of his personal experiences, a complementary reading strategy, two document-based-question activities based upon Common Sense and The American Crisis, and complete answer keys.
DBQ & Persuasive Writing Prompt: Thomas Jefferson’s Views On Education
Thomas Jefferson called for a public-supported education system in 1779 through “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge” as part of a greater plan to create an ideal republic. Few people question the need for education, but growing numbers question the close relationship between education and government. These activities provide opportunities for students to examine Jefferson’s 18th Century call for public education and to choose sides in the public education debate.
Investigating The Past Through Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary and secondary sources provide students with information to investigate the past, make sense of the present, and plan for the future– all aims of historical research. Each type of source has a particular role to play in the research process, and each must be used appropriately to find, organize, and analyze information. This ebook provides all of the resources and activities necessary to conduct a five-day mini-unit for students in grades 8 through 10 addressing the effective use of primary and secondary sources when conducting research.
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