7th Grade Other (Social Studies & History) Handouts

Geography Types of Geography Chart (Free Resource)

By Geography & Math Made Easy

INCLUDES:

Physical, cultural, political, or economic geography

Students can use this as a guide sheet for studying the types of geography. Laminate them and use them for studying countries and continents.

This is very helpful with our scavenger hunts:

  • North America Scavenger Hunt
  • Central and South America Scavenger Hunt
  • Europe Scavenger Hunt
  • Asia Scavenger Hunt
  • Africa Scavenger Hunt
  • Australia Scavenger Hunt
  • Antarctica Scavenger Hunt

Disclaimer:

One purchase is good for one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this, please purchase additional licenses.

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Chocolate Fun Facts(Interactive Notebook Activity)

By Gail Hennessey

Use this fun factoid activity on chocolate with your students on a Friday, for Valentine's Day, a sub or when you are looking for a one-day activity. In additional to facts, there are questions for students to answer.

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Gail's Website!-my website for teachers/kids has lots of free materials in geography, career surveys, news, bell ringers, short reads,factoids(such as this one) and more.

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9/11 Writing Prompt and Rubric

By History Guru

9/11 Writing Prompt The US History Edition: Writing Worksheets Students will analyze a video and take notes. Followed by creating an essay about 9/11.

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Mayflower: What Might Have Become of the Mayflower? A Reading Passage

By Gail Hennessey

So glad to see so many of you have downloaded this resource. I hope you find it of interest. I found my visit to the "Mayflower Barn" on a trip to England(about 40 minutes by train from London) so very interesting. William Penn is buried in the church yard outside of the Quaker Meeting Building.

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Ever wonder what became of the Mayflower? The ship sailed with 102 Pilgrims over the Atlantic to North America, in 1620. If you are expecting to find it docked to some pier, or in a museum, you’d be wrong. That’s because the Mayflower most likely ended up as scrap wood and may have ended up in an old Quaker Barn in Great Britain! This Reading Passage is a possible Interactive Notebook Activity with Did You Know? facts and several Your Turn questions.

Other possible resources of interest:

1.Want a fun and informative activity to teach your students about the history of Thanksgiving?This webquest has ten informative text questions on the history of Thanksgiving(including the Macy's Day Parade). TURKEY facts,too! Thanksgiving and Turkeys: A Webquest

2. Learn about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims with this informative web quest!There are ten informative text web quests,extension activities,fun facts. Skills include:reading for information and using research/computer skills. Mayflower and Pilgrims: A Webquest

3. A Ms.Bie Ograffee Reader's Theater Script, an interview with Love Brewster, a Pilgrim of Plymouth Colony.Love was an actual member of the 102 Pilgrims that came to America. He was about nine years old. Interestingly, several in his family also had unusual names. He had a sister named Patience, another named Fear and a brother named...Wrestling! Learn lots of interesting information about the Pilgrims and the Thanksgiving feast, of 1623, with this fun format.

Using the format where Love Brewster is a guest on Ms. Bi Ograffee's Talk Show, the studio audience asks Love questions about the voyage on the Mayflower, the first winter and the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth. The play includes comprehension questions, a Did You Know? Section, a Teacher Page with extension activities, links and the key:Reader's Theater Script on Love Brewster, A Pilgrim at Plymouth Colony

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Mayflower: What Might Have Become of the Mayflower? A Reading Passage

By Gail Hennessey

So glad to see so many of you have downloaded this resource. I hope you find it of interest. I found my visit to the "Mayflower Barn" on a trip to England(about 40 minutes by train from London) so very interesting. William Penn is buried in the church yard outside of the Quaker Meeting Building.

Please consider following me. Click on the green star by my picture. Thanks!

Ever wonder what became of the Mayflower? The ship sailed with 102 Pilgrims over the Atlantic to North America, in 1620. If you are expecting to find it docked to some pier, or in a museum, you’d be wrong. That’s because the Mayflower most likely ended up as scrap wood and may have ended up in an old Quaker Barn in Great Britain! This Reading Passage is a possible Interactive Notebook Activity with Did You Know? facts and several Your Turn questions.

Other possible resources of interest:

1.Want a fun and informative activity to teach your students about the history of Thanksgiving?This webquest has ten informative text questions on the history of Thanksgiving(including the Macy's Day Parade). TURKEY facts,too! Thanksgiving and Turkeys: A Webquest

2. Learn about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims with this informative web quest!There are ten informative text web quests,extension activities,fun facts. Skills include:reading for information and using research/computer skills. Mayflower and Pilgrims: A Webquest

3. A Ms.Bie Ograffee Reader's Theater Script, an interview with Love Brewster, a Pilgrim of Plymouth Colony.Love was an actual member of the 102 Pilgrims that came to America. He was about nine years old. Interestingly, several in his family also had unusual names. He had a sister named Patience, another named Fear and a brother named...Wrestling! Learn lots of interesting information about the Pilgrims and the Thanksgiving feast, of 1623, with this fun format.

Using the format where Love Brewster is a guest on Ms. Bi Ograffee's Talk Show, the studio audience asks Love questions about the voyage on the Mayflower, the first winter and the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth. The play includes comprehension questions, a Did You Know? Section, a Teacher Page with extension activities, links and the key:Reader's Theater Script on Love Brewster, A Pilgrim at Plymouth Colony

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA: FREEBIE(Interactive Notebook Activity)

By Gail Hennessey

Great for an INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK. Give students the factoids and have them do one or more of the extension activities.

Learn lots of fun facts about the Presidents of the United States. A couple of extension activities are included, too.

Please check out these resources:

1. Did You know that President John Quincy Adams had an alligator? Martin Van Buren had two tiger cubs and President McKinley's pet parrot could whistle, "Yankee Doodle". Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt served HOT DOGS to the King of England? Did you know that President Garfield could write with both his right and left hand at the SAME time? Presidential Webquest/Extension Activities: Presidents:A Webquest

2. Did you know that Florence Harding was the first woman to be able to VOTE for her husband in a presidential election? Learn about the contributions of some of our first ladies with this fun and informative web quest. First Ladies of the USA: A Webquest

3. Learn about Abe Lincoln with this informative web quest! President Lincoln started our national Thanksgiving holiday.And, you may not know that Abraham Lincoln didn't like the name Abe and that even his wife called him by the name Lincoln. Skills include:reading for information and using research/computer skills. Updated to include extension activities for language arts. Abraham Lincoln: A Webquest

4. Learn about the White House with 10 informative web questions, comprehension and discussion questions and several extension activities. White House: A Webquest

I have also written several plays on First Ladies including: Dolly Madison, Abigail Adams, Martha Washington,Florence Harding, Edith Wilson, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt,Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.

Other FREEBIES:

1. BOOK Fun Facts(great for National Library Day, 4/15 and Library of Congress Day, 4/24: Book Fun Facts

2.Earth Day Freebie: Earth Day Freebie

3. Women' s History Month Freebie: Women's History Month Freebie

4. Black History Month Freebie: Black History Month Freebie

5. Pumpkin Facts: Pumpkin Fun Facts

6. Amazing Mummy Facts: Amazing Mummy Facts

7. Amazing Chinese New Year Factoids: Chinese New Year Factoids

8. King Tut Day Freebie: King Tut Day Freebie

9. April Fools’ Day Freebie: April Fools’ Day Freebie

10. Learn about Diwali: Diwali Fun Facts

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Famous Games from Ancient Greece(Interactive Notebook Activity)FREEBIE

By Gail Hennessey

Use this free resource during your discussions of the famous games which began in ancient Greece. The 2022 Winter Games will be held in Beijing, China, in February.

Check out these resources:

1. Learn about the History of the Famous Games of Ancient Greece with this fun/informative webquest: History of the Ancient Games of Ancient Greece

2. Learn about the country of France, host country for the 2024 Summer Games: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/FRANCE-a-Webquest-Part-of-my-Country-in-Focus-Series-11641940

3. Learn about the country of Greece, where the famous games originated with this webquest. There are also comprehension questions and extension activities:Learn about the country of Greece!

Check out my website for teachers/kids:Gail's Website for Teachers/Kids

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Chocolate Fun Facts(Interactive Notebook Activity)

By Gail Hennessey

Use this fun factoid activity on chocolate with your students on a Friday, for Valentine's Day, a sub or when you are looking for a one-day activity. In additional to facts, there are questions for students to answer.

Please consider following my store. Thanks.

Gail

Gail's Website!-my website for teachers/kids has lots of free materials in geography, career surveys, news, bell ringers, short reads,factoids(such as this one) and more.

Free

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA: FREEBIE(Interactive Notebook Activity)

By Gail Hennessey

Great for an INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK. Give students the factoids and have them do one or more of the extension activities.

Learn lots of fun facts about the Presidents of the United States. A couple of extension activities are included, too.

Please check out these resources:

1. Did You know that President John Quincy Adams had an alligator? Martin Van Buren had two tiger cubs and President McKinley's pet parrot could whistle, "Yankee Doodle". Did you know that President Franklin D. Roosevelt served HOT DOGS to the King of England? Did you know that President Garfield could write with both his right and left hand at the SAME time? Presidential Webquest/Extension Activities: Presidents:A Webquest

2. Did you know that Florence Harding was the first woman to be able to VOTE for her husband in a presidential election? Learn about the contributions of some of our first ladies with this fun and informative web quest. First Ladies of the USA: A Webquest

3. Learn about Abe Lincoln with this informative web quest! President Lincoln started our national Thanksgiving holiday.And, you may not know that Abraham Lincoln didn't like the name Abe and that even his wife called him by the name Lincoln. Skills include:reading for information and using research/computer skills. Updated to include extension activities for language arts. Abraham Lincoln: A Webquest

4. Learn about the White House with 10 informative web questions, comprehension and discussion questions and several extension activities. White House: A Webquest

I have also written several plays on First Ladies including: Dolly Madison, Abigail Adams, Martha Washington,Florence Harding, Edith Wilson, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt,Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.

Other FREEBIES:

1. BOOK Fun Facts(great for National Library Day, 4/15 and Library of Congress Day, 4/24: Book Fun Facts

2.Earth Day Freebie: Earth Day Freebie

3. Women' s History Month Freebie: Women's History Month Freebie

4. Black History Month Freebie: Black History Month Freebie

5. Pumpkin Facts: Pumpkin Fun Facts

6. Amazing Mummy Facts: Amazing Mummy Facts

7. Amazing Chinese New Year Factoids: Chinese New Year Factoids

8. King Tut Day Freebie: King Tut Day Freebie

9. April Fools’ Day Freebie: April Fools’ Day Freebie

10. Learn about Diwali: Diwali Fun Facts

Free

Famous Games from Ancient Greece(Interactive Notebook Activity)FREEBIE

By Gail Hennessey

Use this free resource during your discussions of the famous games which began in ancient Greece. The 2022 Winter Games will be held in Beijing, China, in February.

Check out these resources:

1. Learn about the History of the Famous Games of Ancient Greece with this fun/informative webquest: History of the Ancient Games of Ancient Greece

2. Learn about the country of France, host country for the 2024 Summer Games: https://www.TeachShare.com/Product/FRANCE-a-Webquest-Part-of-my-Country-in-Focus-Series-11641940

3. Learn about the country of Greece, where the famous games originated with this webquest. There are also comprehension questions and extension activities:Learn about the country of Greece!

Check out my website for teachers/kids:Gail's Website for Teachers/Kids

Please consider following my TeachShare Store. Click follow by my photograph. Thank you.

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