Hands-on History: American History Activities
Hands-on History: American History Activities

Author: Sundem, Garth

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1618137972

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Making learning fun and interactive builds excitment for your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for the study of important events in American history such as Colonial America, The American Revolution, American Indian Experience, The Civil War, the Oregon Trail, Immigration, and the Civil Rights Movement. These hands-on activities are aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness skills. The hands-on lessons foster engagement, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. In addition to history-based lessons, this resource includes grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. The games in Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history.

Hands-On History: American History Activities
Hands-On History: American History Activities

Author: Garth Sundem

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2005-05-13

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1425890075

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Making learning fun and interactive is a surefire way to excite your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. 192pp.

Hands-On History--Expansion and the Oregon Trail
Hands-On History--Expansion and the Oregon Trail

Author: Garth Sundem

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1425878202

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Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.

Using Biographies in Your Classroom
Using Biographies in Your Classroom

Author: Garth Sundem

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781425804718

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This resource introduces biographies with fun and creative strategies and activities to teach literacy skills and more including: creating a time line; drawing a mural; writing a biography; and acting out a scene. Stimulate student interest with provided TIME magazine covers and background information and meet the needs of all students with specific English language learner strategies and open-ended activities. This resource also includes a Teacher Resource CD with full color reproducibles.

Elections
Elections

Author: Christi Sorrell

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781425809119

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Here's an excellent resource to enhance history and civics programs by introducing and exploring national, state, and local elections. Developed for Grades K-2, Elections will expose students to primary sources and promote critical-thinking skills. Students will enjoy the opportunity to run a simulated election in the classroom and participate in interactive opportunities through discussions, and extension activities. Flexible, self-standing lessons allow students to study specific parts of the process, and differentiation ideas are provided within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels. The included Teacher Resource CD features primary sources and student reproducibles. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Elections
Elections

Author: Kathy Kopp

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781425809126

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Here's an excellent resource to enhance history and civics programs by introducing and exploring national, state, and local elections. Developed for Grades 3-5, Elections will expose students to primary sources and promote critical-thinking skills. Students will enjoy the opportunity to run a simulated election in the classroom and participate in interactive opportunities through discussions, and extension activities. Flexible, self-standing lessons allow students to study specific parts of the process, and differentiation ideas are provided within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels. The included Teacher Resource CD features primary sources and student reproducibles. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Elections
Elections

Author: Christi E. Sorrell

Publisher: Shell Education

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781425809133

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A resource to enhance history and civics programs explores national, state, and local elections and offers differentiation ideas within the lessons to challenge students at their individual thinking levels.

The History and Activities of the Wagon Trail
The History and Activities of the Wagon Trail

Author: Lisa Klobuchar

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781403460622

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Explores the daily lives of pioneers who helped the United States expand westward in the 1900s and includes recipes and crafts related to the period.

Hands-On History--The Civil War
Hands-On History--The Civil War

Author: Garth Sundem

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1425878199

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Make American history fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of U.S. history.