Activities

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United States History
World History
Ancient History
Geography


United States History

The Constitution Early Republic Westward Expansion North and South
Woman's Suffrage Abolition Movement Civil War and Reconstruction Industrial Revolution

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State Report

State Scavenger Hunt

Founding of a Nation

The Mayflower Compact

The Magna Carta

You Be the Historian

Early America History Detective

Early America PowerPoint Notes

The Jamestown Online Adventure

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Thirteen Original Colonies

American Revolution from Brain Pop

Liberty! The Road to Revolution Game

John Adams – Lesson Plans and Activities based on the HBO miniseries on the life of John Adams, his extraordinary relationship with his wife Abigail, and the first 50 years of the United States.

Declaration of Independence Vocabulary Study Chart

The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence from Sparknotes.com

War for Independence History Detective

American Revolution CyberHunt

Revolutionary War Scavenger Hunt

The Constitution

Why do we have rules and laws?

The Confederation Era

The Articles of Confederation

Articles of Confederations Questions

Shays's Rebellion

Constitutional Convention Notes

The Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan

The Preamble to the Constitution

Comparing the Articles and the Constitution

Constitution Notes PowerPoint

Slavery and the Constitution

The Constitution from SparkNotes.com

Bill of Rights PowerPoint Notes

Save the Bill of Rights Interactive Game

Could you pass the latest citizenship test? In October 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be taken by all applicants. Could you pass it? The questions are usually selected from a list of 100 samples that prospective citizens can look at ahead of the interview. Some are easy, some are not. We have picked some of the more difficult ones.

Could you pass the citizenship test?

Three Branches of Government game

First Amendment Rights in Everyday Life

Court Cases and the Bill of Rights PowerPoint

Due Process in Schools

Early Republic

The Right Stuff: What qualified George Washington to be president

Challenges to the New Government PowerPoint

Washington's Presidency

George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Jefferson vs. Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson Takes Office

Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton

Marbuy vs. Madison

How Laws are Made

How Citizens Participate

Washington's Farewell Address

Early Republic CyberHunt

James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving

Political Parties

The War of 1812

Westward Expansion

The Louisiana Purchase

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Northwest Ordinance

Jacksonian Democracy

The Second Bank of the United States

President Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States

Indian Removal

At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie

The Oregon Trail

Texas Revolution PowerPoint Notes

The Mexican War

The Gold Rush

Manifest Destiny

Westward Expansion PowerPoint Review

The North and South

The Hopes of Immigrants PowerPoint Notes

Henry Clay's American System

The Monroe Doctrine

Writers from the mid-1800's

The History of Education in America

Early Industry and Inventions PowerPoint Notes

Comparing and Contrasting the North and South

Comparing and Contrasing the North and South PowerPoint Notes

Timeline of Slavery in America

Nullification and States' Rights

Women's Suffrage

A Brief History of the Women's Rights Before the Civil War

The Declaration of Sentiments

The Declaration of Sentiments and Declaration of Independence Compared

"Let Us All Speak Our Minds"

Ain't I a Woman

The Women's Suffrage Movement

Current Statistics Related to Women

Abolition Movement

The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Dred Scott Decision

Frederick Douglass

John Brown

Abolition Quotes: Frederick Douglass and John Brown

The Civil War

Election of 1860

The Crisis Deepens PowerPoint Notes

Timeline of the Civil War

Civil War Begins PowerPoint Notes

Abraham Lincoln's Speeches

The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg Address Vocabulary PowerPoint

The Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War Soldiers

Civil War Battles

Important People from the Civil War Era

The Civil War's Important People

Reconstruction

Reconstruction Notes

Reconstruction Amendments - Excerpts from the Constitution

Reconstruction Documents

Reconstruction Amendments

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Growth in the West

Texan and Tejano Accounts of Comanche Relations

Old West Scavenger Hunt

Native American History

The Industrial Revolution and the Early 1900's

The Great Railroad Race – Here is your chance to help America become united and economically strong. The Civil War has begun but it still takes months of dangerous travel to get across the U.S. from coast to coast. Business leaders, military planners, and travelers want a much faster and cheaper way to move goods and people. They want ships from Asia to be able to land in California and then send goods to buyers overland, rather than sending the ships all the way around the tip of South America to eastern harbors. In order to be strong, the nation must decide where to build a railroad to unite East and West. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signs the Pacific Railway Act.

Technology in the 1900's

Work, Lyddie! Work! - Are you thinking that school is boring and that it would be more fun to be out working? This is a chance for you to find out what it was like to have to work instead of having the chance to go to school. Analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. Then read a historical novel about the time Lyddie by Katherine Paterson and research modern day youth labor issues to see if the things faced by Lyddie are really so different today in places where young people do not have the opportunity to go to school. To share what you learned with others, you will write a poem or labor song.

What's in a Factory? - Step into the role of an early 19th century mill owner. Use the essay "Why A Factory?", an introductory paragraph, and the diagram of a factory floor to answer: "How many machines, how many people, and how much money are needed to run a factory?" While the numbers you are given will not be exact, they will closely represent the circumstances of an early 19th-century factory.

The Gilded Age – You are a member of a film production studio which has recently been hired to produce a documentary about the Gilded Age. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by historians in an effort to illustrate the outwardly showy, but inwardly corrupt nature of American society during the industrialization of the late 1800's. The documentary will need to highlight the many aspects of society that made up the Gilded Age, including: technological innovation, big business, urbanization, immigration, and reactions to the period.

And They Came to the Streets That Were Paved With Gold - Chinese history in America

The Chinese Boycott Case

1900's History Detective

 

 

World History

Roman Empire Islam in the Middle Ages Africa: Ghana and Mali The Americas
China in the Middle Ages Medieval Japan Europe in the Middle Ages Renaissance

Rome

Beginning of Christianity

Religious Tolerance and Persecution in the Roman Empire

Justinian Code

The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic PowerPoint Notes

Islam

The Basics of Islam

The Prophet Muhammad's Last Sermon

Medieval Muslim Life Revealed in The Rubiayat by Omar Khayyam

Medieval Sourcebook: From The Sunnah

Religious Architecture and Islamic Culture

Religions of the Western World

Africa

Africa Cyberhunt

African Mask

The Americas

Mayan Culture

Story of the Aztecs

The Incas

China

China Cyberhunt

Asia CyberHunt

Buddhism CyberHunt

Japan

A Brief History of the Samurai

Japan Cyberhunt

Middle Ages in Europe

Coat of Arms

Warrior Challenge: Knights - There's more to a knight than just armor. As a squire, your job is to know how to handle your knight's weapons. You will act as a knight's squire for six scenarios in the history of knights that will test your knowledge of knightly weapons to the hilt - literally.

Medieval Life: Squires, Maidens and Peasants

The Life of a Child in Elizabethan England

Art of Chivalry - Medieval Knight Game

Black Death PowerPoint Notes

Destroy the Castle - Siege a castle with a trebuchet

Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Exploration, Enlightenment, and Age of Reason

Renaissance Inventions PowerPoint Notes

Luther Sparks the Protestant Reformation

Retrying Galileo

Reasons for and Outcomes of the European Exploration

Important People from the Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Discovery, and Enlightenment

Important People from the Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Discovery, and Enlightenment PowerPoint

Ancient History

Ancient Civilizations Cyberhunt

Mesopotamia PowerPoint Notes

Ancient Egypt Cyberhunt

Ancient Hebrews Cyberhunt

Ancient India Cyberhunt

Hinduism PowerPoint Notes

Han Dynasty PowerPoint Notes

Buddhism CyberHunt

Ancient Greece PowerPoint Notes

Greek gods and goddesses

Warrior Challenge: Romans - Barbarians are invading the Roman frontier! Command your legion with a strategy using the pilum. Choose carefully -- your plan can could bring triumph or defeat.

Warrior Challenge: Gladiators - It could seat 50,000 spectators and made the gladiator games a world unto themselves. Enter the realm of the gladiator in this interactive tour of the Roman Coliseum.

Geography Lessons

Where in the World?

What is the world is wrong with this map?

Latitude and Longitude

Map Skills

Landforms and Bodies of Water

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make me a Map

Country Report

My Family History

 

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