Connect events of the past to events of today. Budding historians read an eight paragraph passage describing the Watergate scandal. They then connect the Nixon scandal to sex scandals of recent times. There are six critical thinking...

A lot has happened in the month of October in the past 100 years or so. Kids fill in the blank for 31 events, each of which occurred on a day in October. Each event can be found in a New York Times article from the past 100+ years....

In this social studies worksheet, students find the terms in the word search puzzle that point to the events of Watergate. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.

In this 1970's America worksheet, students read assigned textbook pages about the decade and respond to 40 short answer questions.

In this 1970s worksheet, 9th graders answer ten questions with a word or phrase, decide which event (in three different pairs) occurred first, then link two groups of words together by writing what they share in common.