American History Part 1 Subscription
A hands-on early American History Curriculum filled with intrigue-based activities designed to heighten student interest and enhance skill development PLUS all the supplements.
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✔ 13 complete American History units ✔ Engaging Crime Scene Investigation activities ✔ Hundreds of intrigue-designed lessons ✔ Google 1:1 ready resources ✔ Traditional interactive notebooks ✔ DIFFERENTIATED primary source lessons ✔ Native American resources and review games ✔ "I Can" statement logs to track learning |
✔ 100% Google Drive DIGITAL Notebooks ✔ "Who Am I" flash card sets ✔ 365 days of "On this Day in American History" warmups ✔ Engaging Holiday lessons ✔ Escape Room breakout activities ✔ Ice-breaker games and class-starters ✔ Social Media biography templates ✔ Class posters, math and map integration |
The American History Part 1 subscription is an entire early American course jam-packed with student-centered, engaging, and authentic activities that are guaranteed to re-energize your classroom. This curriculum has been tried, tested, and perfected, and these resources have been positively reviewed by over 40,000 teachers. It is time to toss the textbook, skip the boring worksheet, and get students excited about history. If you teach the full scope of U.S. history, check out the Total Package Subscription here.
This curriculum provides over 25 units and bundles of materials and is designed to engage a variety of learning styles. All students learn differently, and these materials were created with that in mind. Each unit features daily resources organized to provide the best flow for your students, "I Can" statement logs to track student understanding and progress, and a variety of hands-on materials including Crime Scene Investigations, visual notes, image and text analysis, and map and graph integration activities. Social media biography templates, unit exams, essay rubrics, ice-breaker activities, games, and much more!
Spanning from Native Americans and the 13 Colonies to Reconstruction, this subscription features all of my best-selling supplements. Infuse the traditional or digital interactive notebooks and differentiated primary sources seamlessly to challenge all learners. Be prepped for the holidays with fun hands-on resources. Integrate daily "On This Day in US History" warmups to start (or end) class. Wrap up each unit with trivia challenge review games, change the pace with great team-building Escape Room activities, easily integrate math and geography with easy-to-use skill-building activities, and much, much more.
Read below to view the plethora of units and bundles, and the thousands of pages of resources, that are included in the all-inclusive PLUS curriculum. It is easy to see why this bundle is the most popular, best-selling curriculum out there.
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BONUS: 13 Colonies Guiding PowerPoint and Guided Notes
0-Conquistadors DBQ: How were they able to easily defeat the natives?
0-Conquistadors GOOGLE Instructions
1-CSI Lost Colony: What Happened to the Lost Colonists?
1-CSI Lost Colony Key
1-Lost Colony CSI GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
2-Jamestown Picture Sequencing
2-Jamestown Picture Sequencing GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-Jamestown Fort
3-Jamestown Fort GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
4-Jamestown Reading
4-Jamestown Close Reading GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
5-Pilgrim Notes
5-Pilgrim Notes PowerPoint
5-Pilgrim Notes GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
6-The Puritan Faith
6-Puritan Religion DBQ
7-13 Colonies Scavenger Hunt
7-13 Colonies Scavenger Hunt GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
9-Quaker v Puritan: You might be...
9-Quaker v Puritan GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
10-Compare Colony Regions Reading and Matrix
10-Comparing Colony Regions GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
11-Middle Passage Exploration
11-Middle Passage Exploration GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
12-Salem Witch Trials CSI Investigation
12-Salem Witch Trials CSI Investigation GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
13-13 Colonies Assessment (EDITABLE)
14-13 Colonies Log (EDITABLE)
1-Enlightenment Stations (Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Voltaire)
1-Enlightenment Men GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
2-French and Indian War Role-Playing / Guided Notes / Matrix
2-French and Indian War PowerPoint
2-French and Indian War War key
2-French and Indian War GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-Timelines
3-Guiding Notes & PowerPoint Time-lining Rev Period GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-Time-lining Rev Period PowerPoint
3-Timelines Teacher Guide
4-Analyzing Boston Massacre
4-Boston Massacre GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
4-Patriot, Loyalist, or Neutral Scenario Activity
4-Patriot Loyalist GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
5-Primary Sources in Revolutionary Period (Excerpted Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, etc.)
5-Primary Sources Rev GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
6-Sons of Liberty Picture Activity
6-Sons of Liberty GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
7-Common Sense Excerpt Activity
7-Common Sense GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
8-Ending Audio
8-Patrick Henry Speech (Give me liberty)
9-Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Timeline Prezi Activity
9-Midnight Ride GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
10-Dec of Ind Scavenger Hunt GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
10-Declaration Scavenger Hunt
11-Declaration "In your own words" Activity + Key
11-Declaration Own Words GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
12-Strengths and Weaknesses Web Quest
12-Strengths and Weaknesses KEY
12-Strengths and Weaknesses GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
13-Causes of Revolutionary War Assessment (EDITABLE)
14-Causes of Revolutionary War Log (EDITABLE)
BONUS: Causes of Rev War DBQ
BONUS: John Adams in BM
BONUS: Patriot Loyalist Class Debate Docs
BONUS: Patriot and Loyalist Propaganda Assignment
BONUS: Enlightenment and Great Awakening Guided Notes
BONUS: Enlightenment and Great Awakening PowerPoint
BONUS: Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
BONUS: Stamp Act Resource
1-Strengths and Weaknesses Web Quest
1-Strengths and Weaknesses Out GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
2-Battle Graphic Organizers
2-Battle Project Resources
2-Battle Quiz
2-Battle Project in Rev War GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-African Americans and Women in Rev War
3-African Americans and Women in Rev War GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
BONUS: US Constitution Guiding PowerPoint and Guided Notes
1-Are all governments Equal GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
1-Are All Governments Equal? Graphic Organizer Assignment
2-Articles of Confederation Close Reading
2-Articles of Confederation Close Reading GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
2-Articles Confederation Instructions and Breakdown PowerPoint
3-Shays' Rebellion Reading/Skit
3-Shays Rebellion GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
4-Four Compromises Text/Organizers/Prompt
4-Four Compromises GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
4-Four Compromises Breakdown PowerPoint
5-Colonial Constitutions
5-Colonial Constitutions GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
6-Slavery in the US Constitution Web Quest
6-Slavery in the US Constitution Web Quest GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
7-Federalist v Anti Federalist Sources and Graphic Organizers
7-Federalist v Anti Federalist Sources GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
8-Constitution Scavenger Hunt
8-Constitution Scavenger Hunt GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
9-Understanding the US Constitution Stations / Excerpt Activity
9-Understanding Constitution GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
10-How Bills become Laws Competition (Student Guide, PowerPoint, Bill Number Sheet)
11-27 Amendments Guided Notes / Crib Sheet
11-27 Amendments GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
12-Which amendment was violated scenarios worksheet
12-Which amendment was violated GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
13-Bill of Rights Current Events Activity
13-Bill of Rights and Current Events GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
14-Electoral College Poster Project
14-Electoral College Poster GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
15-Supreme Court Cases GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
15-Supreme Court Cases Webquest
16-US Constitution Assessment (EDITABLE)
16-US Constitution Log (EDITABLE)
BONUS: New Nation Guiding PowerPoint and Guided Notes
1-Inauguration Intro PowerPoint (video included)
2-Hamilton's Financial Plan Guided Notes
2-Hamilton's Financial Plan Lesson and PowerPoint
2-Hamilton's Financial Plan GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-Washington's Ways: Background Reading / Matrix of Washington's Foreign and Domestic Policies
3-Washington's Ways: Background Reading / Matrix GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
3-Washington's Ways Chart
4-Land Ordinance and Northwest Territory Text Analysis / Township Activity
4-Land Ordinance and Northwest Territory GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
5-Treaty of Greenville Mapping (3 Levels)
5-Treaty of Greenville GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
6-Should Washington support the British or French Propaganda Poster
6-British or French Propaganda Evidence / Primary Source
7-Washington's Farewell Text Analysis
7-Washington Farewell GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
8-1796 Election Debate Script
8-Election of 1796 Adams v Jefferson Webquest
8-1796 Election Sim GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
8-1796 Election Debate Testimonial/Propaganda Roles
8-1796 Election Debate Extra Resources
9-XYZ Affair and Alien and Sedition Prezi
9-XYZ Affair and Alien and Sedition Organizer
9-XYZ Affair GOOGLE INSTRUCTIONS
10-Political Cartoon Assignment
11-New Nation Assessment (EDITABLE)
12-New Nation Log (EDITABLE)
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