History Activities

Learn how to make your social studies curriculum more interactive and engaging in the upper elementary classroom! This blog post from The Classroom Nook has 10 ways to make history come alive in your classoom! #upperelementary #teachingsocialstudies #socialstudies #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifthgrade

Try one of these ways to make history come alive in your upper elementary classroom #upperelementary #teachingsocialstudies #socialstudies #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifthgrade

Find out some simple ways to integrate geography into your history class. There are some great tips as well as tools already prepared for you to make this even easier. (aka - less extra work AND better student understanding!) Great for the middle school or high school home school or classroom.

How the 50 US States Got Their Names – Here's a fun online quiz that you can use with your students. Post it to a private audience by using email addresses. #history #geography #socialstudies Read More Source: – sarahwhitaker13 Related

Colleen Graves, SLJ Maker Workshop speaker and 2014 School Librarian of the Year Finalist, describes how her little middle school library maker space grew to encompass an inter-school catapult challenge, an international network, and the support and enthusiasm of teachers.

While you don’t have to spend a ton of time on state history, many states require that at least some state history be taught. Here are several completely free resources that can help you to get that requirement covered without breaking the bank! Resources for all 50 states Apples4theTeacher This has all 50 states with […]

Many United States teachers may not have heard of the term "hot seating" yet, but we envision this creative teaching idea jumping across the pond from the U.K very soon! Overview “Hot Seating” is a teaching strategy in which either the teacher or student takes on the role of a character from a book or real person and sits in the hot seat. Then the other classmates ask questions and the person in the “hot seat” must answer the questions the way the character or historical figure would have…

I'm linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching for Five for Friday! Thank you for hosting, Kacey. I hope all of you had a great week. Happy Friday! These sweet polar bears are hanging over my students' lockers. I love doing this directed drawing activity from Whimsy Workshop. I love everything Susanna does- and I'm so happy she shared this. The kids loved doing it, and felt such a sense of pride when they were done. Susanna shows step by step directions for making these precious bears. It's a…

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Designed for visitors to Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Battle app can be used as a virtual tour of the Civil War battlefield. It includes video, audio, and an abundance of information on notable sites at Gettysburg.

Times Machine is a wonderful database of New York Times articles that allows students to access exact digital copies of the famous newspaper dating back to 1851. You can't get more CCSS than this!

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