Students examine the liberation of concentration camp survivors from two different points of view. In this Holocaust survivors lesson, students read and discuss personal accounts of liberation from the perspective of a concentration camp...

In this knights activity, learners view the videos about knights and fill in the blanks to sentences about what they saw. Students complete 8 sentences and 7 spaces in a crossword.

High schoolers study the social class conflicts that existed during the Russian Revolution by reading the short stories of Anton Chekov and Leo Tolstoy. They analyze the stories to find criticisms of pre-Revolutionary Russia before...

Young scholars read, evaluate and respond to both positive and negative reviews of Harriet Beecher Stow's, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

In this vocabulary building instructional activity, middle schoolers matches the word with a definition, and uses definition clues to select the correct word.

In this sentence completion activity, students complete the second sentence based on what the first sentence says. Students complete 10 sentence in a multiple choice problems.

In this comprehension questions for Stitching Stars worksheet, students answer 30 comprehension questions after reading the book about quilts made by slaves in the 17-19th centuries.

Students explore Wisconsin's natural and cultural history through hands-on exploration of Upham Woods. They are shown the basic paddling skills and they work in teams to paddle across the river on barge. Students describe cultural...

In this Street Pharm questions activity, students complete several short answer questions in order to advance their understanding of the text.

Students bring in vegetables that the Native Americans ate. In this vegetable lesson, students create a graph that shows how many students brought in each vegetable. They measure their vegetable to find the length, circumference, and...

Fifth graders investigate the end of slavery and the hidden paths slaves used to travel.  In this U.S. history instructional activity, 5th graders examine the travel routes slaves used in Essex County known as the Underground...

Students explore British football. In this current events activity, students visit the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum, and the Manchester United Museum online or in person to discover the history of the game as...

High schoolers discuss the Afghan elections and times when they have voted, i.e. student council, American Idol. Cooperatively, they create definitions for election, local council election, national government election, candidate,...

In this primary history exploratory instructional activity, students read about Roman tombstones, examine 3 vocabulary words, and complete a short answer research question.

Students study early New Orleans Jazz music and recognize Louis Armstrong as an early jazz artist. They recognize the elements and roots of Jazz.

Students explore the social change during the nineteenth sand early twentieth centuries. The founding of the American Red Cross by Clara Barton and the role it played in organizing help for those in need is examined in this instructional...

Students investigate push and pull factors. In this population trends lesson, students examine primary sources that help them comprehend how push and pull factors have changed over time. 

Fifth graders investigate an introduction to both Invention Convention and Unit 3 in the Social Studies Book, the teacher will point out that many changes occurred in the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s.¿¿¿...

For this reading comprehension worksheet about the Wampanoag Tribe, students are given a two-page essay to read, and 6 multiple-choice and short-essay questions to answer.

In this online interactive American history learning exercise, students answer 13 matching questions regarding contemporary American history. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Students examine advertising from early to mid twentieth century.  In this advertising techniques lesson, students assess the different ways advertisers "sold" the concept of railroad travel.  Students examine a variety of...

Learners investigate Jim Crow laws. For this segregation lesson, students analyze images that display American segregation. Learners use the provided questions to aid them in their evaluation of the images.

Students analyze the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." In this human rights lesson, students explore the text of this document and watch Amnesty International videos about human rights. Students then locate and discuss articles on...

In this emotion adjective worksheet, students read a situation and see how the writer feels. Each adjective is written with an -ed ending and an -ing ending.