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Historical Correspondence
What might Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner Truth have written to each other? Benito Mussolini and Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Dwight Eisenhower and Anne Frank? Or characters from different times such as1
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What might Abraham Lincoln and Sojourner Truth have written to each other? Benito Mussolini and Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Dwight Eisenhower and Anne Frank? Or characters from different times such as O. J. Simpson and Clarence Darrow? In this activity, students write the correspondence between the historical figures.
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Speaking with Roles
Make historical characters come alive for your class. In this activity, students are each assigned a historical figure. Students research their historical figures in pairs, write a speech from the ch1
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Make historical characters come alive for your class. In this activity, students are each assigned a historical figure. Students research their historical figures in pairs, write a speech from the character’s perspective and share their speeches with teammates. Students, in role, are interviewed by their teammates.
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Commonalities
What do the Vietnam War and the Korean War have in common? What do Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi have in common? In this activity, students analyze historical events or characters for their commo1
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What do the Vietnam War and the Korean War have in common? What do Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi have in common? In this activity, students analyze historical events or characters for their commonalities.
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Analyze the Difference
Analyzing the difference is contrasting without comparing. A Venn diagram is often used for comparing and contrasting. A graphic organizer is also helpful for analyzing the difference, but in this ca1
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Analyzing the difference is contrasting without comparing. A Venn diagram is often used for comparing and contrasting. A graphic organizer is also helpful for analyzing the difference, but in this case, the circles of the Venn do not intersect, as students are not exploring similarities. In this activity, students analyze the difference in key social studies concepts.
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Political Cartoons
Political cartoonists have an uncanny ability to convey a tremendous amount of meaning with an illustration and just a few words. Sometimes the cartoon is biting, sometimes it’s hilarious, often it’s1
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Political cartoonists have an uncanny ability to convey a tremendous amount of meaning with an illustration and just a few words. Sometimes the cartoon is biting, sometimes it’s hilarious, often it’s both. In this activity, students plan their political cartoon with a partner, create it and share it with teammates.
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Comical History
Comic strips are usually composed of several cells, each illustrating a step in a sequence of events. In this activity, students work in teams to create a comic strip illustrating the sequence of a h1
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Comic strips are usually composed of several cells, each illustrating a step in a sequence of events. In this activity, students work in teams to create a comic strip illustrating the sequence of a historical event.
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News Report on History
The standard format of newspaper articles is to lead with basic information on who, what, when, where, why, and how. In addition to the five w’s, the writer attempts to make the lead (the first parag1
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The standard format of newspaper articles is to lead with basic information on who, what, when, where, why, and how. In addition to the five w’s, the writer attempts to make the lead (the first paragraph) interesting or creative enough to entice the readers to continue reading. Information is reported in descending order of importance. If space requirements demand, the article can be cut, at the end, where the least important information is written. In this activity, students write a newspaper article on any social studies topic.
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Time Lines
When was World War I? How about World War II? Truly understanding historical events involves not only learning the details of the event, but understanding its relationship in time to other events. In1
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When was World War I? How about World War II? Truly understanding historical events involves not only learning the details of the event, but understanding its relationship in time to other events. In this activity, develop students’ logical/mathematical intelligence as students work in teams to sequence events on a time line.
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The Me Map
In this activity, students mark on a map of the world where they and their ancestors came from. Students write about their cultural background and share it with teammates. This activity promotes appr1
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In this activity, students mark on a map of the world where they and their ancestors came from. Students write about their cultural background and share it with teammates. This activity promotes appreciation of cultural diversity, geography knowledge and makes the content more personally relevant.
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Social Studies Songs
Do you seem to remember all the lyrics to songs you haven’t even heard in years? Putting the curriculum to music not only makes learning fun, but it also helps with mastery of concepts and recall, es1
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Do you seem to remember all the lyrics to songs you haven’t even heard in years? Putting the curriculum to music not only makes learning fun, but it also helps with mastery of concepts and recall, especially for your musically inclined students. In this activity, pairs work together to create a social studies song. They sing their song to the class as a duet.