LESSON PLANS
Fun, collaborative book report project for Dr. Seuss Day! (March 2) Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day and Read Across America…
Students will create questions to ask their favorite authors.
Children practice storytelling and write a narrative poem.
Teach your students how to write a narrative poem based on a prose realistic fiction selection using this detailed…
Have students interview a senior citizen to learn what schools, jobs, and community activities were like when they were…
In this creative writing activity, students will write an original historical fiction story.
Identify the setting, plot, point of view, theme, and main characters of a realistic fiction selection.
In this activity, students will have to check facts and references in a historical fiction story for accuracy.
Review the 1920s by simulating the meteoric rise of that decade's stock market, which ended in a disastrous crash.
Write a short, fictional story based on a newspaper article.
Identify who the Progressives were and recognize one industry they wanted regulated.
Identify one reason white settlers wanted Indian lands, and then explain one method the government used in obtaining…
Define segregation and explain what "Jim Crow" laws did.
Offer a rational opinion about a hypothetical situation involving conscience versus the law.
In order to survive the rigors of frontier life, pioneers often faced difficult moral choices.
The economics of the Gold Rush were based on an extreme case of supply and demand: merchants had control of the meager…
ACTIVITIES
A great way to interactively teach your students about the conflict between the average Americans who fought in the…
Explain why the use of interchangeable parts helped factories develop and lessened the role of individual craftsmen in…
Explain what the Monroe Doctrine said, and why President Monroe wrote it.
Explain why the Articles of Confederation failed to properly govern the newly formed United States.
Recognize what the "Great Compromise" accomplished, including how it helped give birth to the U.S. Constitution.
Learn why colonial Americans were upset with British tax laws, such as the Stamp Act.
The search for the maritime Northwest Passage was highly prized but never fulfilled during the "Age of Discovery."
It is as important to listen to a different opinion as it is to question it. This printable social studies activity…
