High school history projects

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If you're looking for US History Worksheets for your High School or Middle School classroom, check out these, which all include a PDF with answer key and digital option.

Teaching high school history using living literature was an incredible effort for me...until I found this amazing curriculum!

If you teach middle school or high school US History check out this free pacing guide to help ensure that you cover every aspect of the curriculum in your classroom! Pacing is so important to make sure that you don't spend too long on any one unit and allow studenst time to learn all the key things they need to know about American History!

It’s the end of the year and we all need a project that will keep students engaged! This end of the year project creating walk-up songs for historical figures was a huge hit with students! It’s all I can do after standardized testing is over to keep my students from going crazy. If I hear “can I go to the restroom” one more time, I might pull my hair out. I needed a fun activity that would keep my students engaged and this historical walk up song assignment was a blast.

WOMEN'S HISTORY BIOGRAPHY PROJECT: GREAT BULLETIN BOARD DISPLAY LEADING BY EXAMPLE. This is a great biography project for your upper elementary, middle school, or high school classroom or home school students. You can promote a growth mindset by showing students the challenges, obstacles, criticisms, controversy, achievements, and notoriety these women faced. Use it with your 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade students. It also makes a great bulletin board display.

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

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It is not unusual for teens to feel like History is a dull and boring subject. After all, it is difficult for textbooks to be fun to read! However, when you homeschool high school, textbooks are not the only choice for earning those necessary History credits! That is what we are discussing in How to Get Teens Interested in History (on the Homeschool Highschool Podcastl

US History activities and lesson plans that ROCK! Students of History gives you projects and activities for every day of the school year - all planned out for American History!

Ditch the test and create a writing-centered history classroom in which learning is more meaningful and teaching is actually easier.

American History | US History | Middle School | High School | Bell Ringer Journal | 275 writing prompts for the entire school year | The SuperHERO Teacher

Add some hands on interest to your civics, world or U.S. history lesson with gummy bears. Find a FREE download on how to use them for a Types of Government activity your high school students will love. Use them for illustrations, review, or any other creative way. It’s the perfect, fun way to keep your 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade classroom or home school students engaged and interested in history or social studies.{ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth graders, freebie}

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Very few middle school kids want to sit down and only read about history from a dry textbook. They want to get their hands dirty, build stuff, and really get a sense of what it was like to live during the time periods they’re studying. Don't make history boring - use hands-on projects and activities to make history fun. A week of fun and interactive ideas for middle school history.

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10 amazing homeschool ideas to help you teach high school history and enjoy an awesome year with your teens!

It's the end of the year and everyone is exhausted! You need an engaging project for students to do that allows them to be creative and do some independent research, right? This end of the year decades project for US History is perfect. Check out my blog post that explains how I use it in my class. And it's FREE!