Right triangles from 2,000 years ago? Learners investigate different right triangles found in the earthworks of the Hopewell people, a Native American culture that populated the United States from 200BC to AD 500. Learners apply concepts...

The Hopewell people of the central Ohio Valley used right triangles in the construction of earthworks. Pupils use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine missing dimensions of right triangles used by the Hopewell people. The assessment task...

It's time to test those skills! Assess pupils' knowledge of US history and government with short answer questions, multiple-choice items, and essays. The resource serves as a standardized test that functions well for a final exam....

Ready to test your learners about anything and everything related to United States history and government? The resource uses multiple-choice and essay questions to assess knowledge. 

Are American young people prepared to become tomorrow's leaders in technological innovation, or does an obsession with being cool sidetrack essential skills? That is the question freshmen and sophomores must address in a performance...

Jack London's heart for adventure has come to define the spirit of America and its frontier. Selected passages from the foreword The Cruise of the Snark take eighth graders through London's construction and voyage of his ship before...

Reading and comprehending a poem is a lot different than doing the same for a piece of fiction or an informational text. As part of a sample English language arts examination, readers put their skills to the test by reading passages in...

For this buildings worksheet, students name the buildings that are described in the sentences. Students write 10 buildings total on this worksheet.

A self-assessment using primary sources examining the cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans during the U.S. History period of 1491-1607.

A quick comprehension check over Native American societies before European contact.

Read a short literary text titled "The Dream Catcher," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.

Take this five question quiz over the Native Americans and European exploration in the Americas.

This Khan Academy resource provides notes for American History. "Manifest Destiny" is explained on this resource, along with the implications associated with expansion of the North American continent.

"Potawatomi Prairie" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about the Potawatomi tribe and what their life may have been like during the different seasons of the year. It is followed by questions which require students to provide...

Take this interactive, multiple choice quiz over the Aztecs, and then check your answers for review after answering the questions.

A quick comprehension check over the Manifest Destiny.

An outline of the important information to study on the establishment of the New England Colonies by the Puritans, first in the Massachusetts Bay area, and their evolution and expansion beyond that.

This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the early colonization of North America.

Take this 12 question multiple choice and true or false quiz to test your knowledge on tribal societies in a post industrial society.

In this lesson, students will watch a video [01:14] that features a college student who had moved from her native Mexico border town to Brownsville, Texas. As she speaks Spanish, she compares the dangers of her native Matamoros, Mexico...