Ancient World History GRAPES Activities & Writing Middle School Social Studies
By The Magical Avocado
Ancient World History classes use GRAPES (Geography, Religion, Achievements, Politics, Economics, Social Structure) to analyze different civilizations in social studies class. This middle school (6th, 7th, 8th grade) activity and writing set introduces students to GRAPES as well as the different disciplines in social sciences. Excellent for the beginning of the school year, or any time you want to brush up on social studies!
Specifically, this set includes:
Welcome to Social Studies can be used for:
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Oversimplified- American Revolution Part 1 Worksheets Comprehension Questions..
By Dotty's Printables
I created this resource to use with my own students while watching the Oversimplified American Revolution Part 1.
It includes during-watching questions, comprehension quizzes, a timeline activity, and a word search to help students understand and engage with the content.
After seeing how useful it was in my classroom, I thought, "Why not share it with other teachers?" So, I've made it available on TeachShare for anyone who wants to enhance their students' learning experience with these engaging and effective tools.
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WebQuest Bundle - Nuclear Power Disasters - 4 Assignments
By Quick Assignment Central
Each WebQuest assignment includes 10 engaging questions that guide students in exploring the causes, effects, geography, history, and impacts of each event. Students can easily find the information they need using the provided links.
Written at a 7th-grade level, it's suitable for a wide range of learners.
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Age of Exploration: Secret Message Review Activity
By Gail Hennessey
Want a fun activity to review vocabulary terms/famous people of the Age of Exploration? Looking for an enrichment activity in history? Try my Age of Exploration Secret Message activity. The activity involves students working individually or in groups to review the Age of Exploration. Then,a following direction activity is next where students place letters from the different answers into boxes found at the end of the activity page. Once all the boxes are filled, a "secret message" about the Age of Exploration is revealed! The teacher page includes additional information to share about the "secret message". It's a fun way to reinforce important terms/people of the Age of Exploration! If you prefer to offer a vocabulary box to the students, I have included this as well....
Perhaps these additional resources may be of interest:
1. Try my web quest on the Age of Exploration! This fun and informative webquest will be a great resource to use with your students(grades 4-8)
There are 14 questions and lots of extension activities and links. There are also comprehension questions to use after the completion of the web quest. The resource addresses several common core standards in social studies.
Note: Columbus,Magellan, Prince Henry, Henry Hudson, Vasco Da Gama, Marco Polo, Juan Ponce de Leon, Sir Francis Drake, Amerigo Vespucci are covered. Also
Latitude/longitude, sea monsters,navigational tools, timelines,St. Brendan, Zheng He, Vikings are mentioned in extension activities.
Age of Discovery, A Webquest
2. Learn about Christopher Columbus with this informative play. There are 10 questioners asking questions of Columbus. Additionally, comprehension questions and discussion questions are included. Use with a unit on the Age of Discovery or during October for Columbus Day. Columbus
3. Use this informative Reader's Theater Script to learn about Marco Polo. Marco Polo helped to start the Age of Discovery with his book on his adventures to China. The fun/informative play uses the format of Marco Polo being a guest on a talk show and the studio audience asks questions about his life. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee's Talk Show Series:Marco Polo, A Reader's Theater Script
4. In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set out on an amazing adventure, in an attempt to voyage around the world. Although he did not complete the journey, several of his crew did complete the trip. This Reader's Theater Script provides lots of information about the Age of Exploration and Magellan's voyage in a fun/informative method. There are 13 audience questions, Did you Know? fun facts, comprehension questions and a teacher page with extension activities, key and additional links for teachers.Ferdinand Magellan
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Iran Hostage Crisis and its Enduring Impact Reading Comprehension Worksheet
By More Lessons Less Planning
DAILY BELLRINGER Ancient Egypt Worksheet PACK with VIDEOS and answer key!
By Jared Bruening
Each worksheet includes additional questions on the front side, a writing activity or table to complete, on the backside some include a PRIMARY SOURCE or an ART ACTIVITY or an INTERACTIVE WRITING PROMPT. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED.
ANCIENT EGYPT VIDEO PLAYLIST THAT GOES DIRECTLY WITH WORKSHEETS: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWndCnip3V0Hf1UL3-zbNVqmcJ9BCgTy\&si=OQM0vb7uZt96MbVp
PACKET INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING WORKSHEETS:
All About Costa Rica: Basic Info, Landmarks, Icons, Quiz, Passport Cutout
By TheJoyfulMorgan
All About Costa Rica Worksheets: Basic Info, Landmarks, Icons, Quiz, Passport Cutout
Welcome to Travel the World: Geography Worksheets. These basic worksheet packets are designed for children ages 3-12 to use when learning about another country.
Each country packet has 4 worksheets: 1) Basic Info & Flag, 2) Famous Landmarks & Icons, 3) Short Quiz, and 4) Suggested Activities. The answer key is included. These are designed to pair with a short instructional video of your choice and google research. A suggested playlist is available on youtube called Travel the World: Geography Worksheets at the link https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG97xcKppNzQbu9Jq3atSJ6XhwbKDQEVJ\&si=cTeybPYKpnsf5yVx
An additional resource found in my store is a free passport printout for the children to design and construct. Portions of each worksheet can be cut out and pasted into the child’s passport. Or a child can create their own passport binder and collect their worksheets throughout the year to remember where they’ve been.
Primary & Secondary Sources Activities & Writing Upper Elementary Social Studies
By The Magical Avocado
Understanding Primary and Secondary sources is crucial in social studies. This set helps upper elementary students (4th, 5th, 6th grade) to practice differentiating between a primary source and a secondary source in a variety of exercises. Excellent for the beginning of the school year, or any time you need to refresh students on the importance of these history resources.
Specifically, this set includes:
· Primary or Secondary Source Maze (with answer sheet)
· Primary and Secondary Source Cut and Paste activity (with answer sheet)
· Primary and Secondary Source Worksheet
· Two writing prompts
This activity is great for:
· First Week Activities
· Formative assessment
· Extension activities
· Centers activity
· Review
· Homework
· Subplans
· Anywhere you want to work with Primary and Secondary sources!
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WebQuest - Three Mile Island (1979) - Disaster Series - Nuclear Power
By Quick Assignment Central
This WebQuest assignment includes 10 engaging questions that guide students in exploring the causes, effects, geography, history, and impacts of each event. Students can easily find the information they need using the provided links.
Written at a 7th-grade level, it's suitable for a wide range of learners.
Be sure to visit my store for more WebQuests and a variety of other assignments on different topics!
Taj Mahal: Exploring World Landmarks: Reading Comprehension Passages
By Gail Hennessey
Explore World Landmarks are great to introduce kids to some popular world landmarks around the world. Great for a Friday activity, for social studies classes or when you are going to have a substitute for the day.With writing in the content area, the short activities can also be a positive addition to Language Arts classes, too! About one page of reading, discussion questions and extension activities all help students learn some informative facts about famous world landmarks in the world. This reading is on the the Taj Mahal!
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
If you'd like a Student version, contact me via Q/A and I will be happy to send one along to you.
Other resources you may find of interest:
1. Explore World Landmarks are great to introduce kids to some popular world landmarks around the world. Great for a Friday activity, for social studies/LA classes or when you are going to have a substitute. About one page of reading, discussion questions and extension activities all help students learn some informative facts about famous world landmarks in the world. This resource covers Ayers Rock/Uluru.Ayes/Uluru, Exploring World Landmarks Reading Passage/Activities
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
2. Learn about the Great Wall of China with this informative reading. Also included are 10 Did You Know? facts about the Great Wall, ten comprehension questions, a teacher page with extension activities, additional links and the key.Great Wall of China, Explore World Landmarks Reading Passage/Activities
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
3. Explore World Landmarks are great to introduce kids to some popular world landmarks around the world. Great for a Friday activity, for social studies classes or when you are going to have a substitute for the day.With writing in the content area, the short activities can also be a positive addition to Language Arts classes, too! About one page of reading, discussion questions and extension activities all help students learn some informative facts about famous world landmarks in the world. This reading is on the Eiffel Tower.Eiffel Tower, A World Landmarks Reading Passage Activity
Other Readings of Interest:
1. If you live where there is snow, you have probably built a snowman. The snowman has been around for quite a while. In fact, the earliest drawing of a snowman was found in a book dating back to 1380! The book, “Book of Hours” was found in a library in the country of the Netherlands. Read about a famous sculptor hired to make a snowman, a snowman which helps predicts the weather in Switzerland and two more stories about snowmen! Four short reading passages with questions and extension activities: Snowmen FOUR Readings
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
2. Mrs. Paddington and the Silver Mousetrap Shoppe(Historical Fiction)
This humorous historical fiction shares the custom of 18th century wealthy women wearing very towering hairstyles.Sugar water/beef tallow kept hair in place so bugs and mice were attracted to the hair.What if a MOUSE jumped out of YOUR hair into a fancy teacup or scurried down your back as you were dancing at the ball?What to do?Comprehension/extension activities: Mrs. Paddington and the Silver Mousetrap Shoppe
Reading Comprehension Questions and Questions
3. Why do We Have to Learn History? Students always ask me this question. My answer-much of what we have today was because of things developed by people that lived long ago.This reading activity shares many things we have today thanks to previous cultures. I've included several comprehension questions and two extension activities: The Past Shapes Our Present Reading Activity
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
4. One of the oldest lasting examples of graphic communication is the Bayeux Tapestry.It dates back to 1083. If you are doing a unit on the Middle Ages, you might find a short reading of the tapestry of value to use with your students. The Bayeux Tapestry: Middle Ages Reading Passage
Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions
5. The adventures of substitute teacher, Mrs. Purpilopolis and her Purple Adventure Goggles.This adventure has students travel back to learn about Alexander Graham Bell. While wearing the purple adventure goggles, the students are witnesses to history being able to see and hear history as it is happening. Reading comprehension in content area/comprehension questions: Mrs. Purpilopolis and the Purple Adventure Goggles: Alexander Graham Bell
6. The adventures of substitute teacher, Mrs. Purpilopolis and her Purple Adventure Goggles. This adventure has students travel back to learn about George Washington. While wearing the purple adventure goggles, the students are witnesses to history being able to see and hear history as it is happening. Reading in content area/comprehension questions, too. Mrs. Purpilopolis and the Purple Adventure Goggles: George Washington
7. The adventures of substitute teacher, Mrs. Purpilopolis and her Purple Adventure Goggles. This adventure has students travel back to learn about the very first Thanksgiving. While wearing the purple adventure goggles, the students are witnesses to history being able to see and hear history as it is happening. Reading in content area/comprehension questions, too. Mrs. Purpilopolis and the Purple Adventure Goggles
8.Learn about the interesting gift that Thomas Jefferson received on New Year's Day, in 1802. The whopper of a cheese tipped the scale at about 1235 pounds. The reading also includes a Did You Know? section with lots of informative factoids about Thomas Jefferson, comprehension questions and seven extension activities. Great for a study of the author of the Declaration of Independence, for President's Week or for a reading in the content area.
Reading Passages:
George Washington and the Camel
Calvin Coolidge and the “Pennsylvania Avenue Zoo”
John Quincy Adams Takes a Swim
Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Cheese
Sojourner Truth
Santa Fe Trail: Wind WagonThomas
Revolutionary War Heroine: Catherine “Kate” Moore
Barry(Battle of Cowpens)
Enheduanna, First Known Poet in History
Artemisia(Female Naval Commander during the Battle of Salamis)
Hanno: Phoenician Explorer
Ramses the Great
Hatshepsut
Hammurabi
Alexander the Great
Aesop
Socrates
Hannibal
Hypatia: First Woman Mathematician
Aglaonike(Greek astronomer)
Agnodice(First Female Doctor of Ancient Greece)
Julius Caesar
Archimedes
Sparticus
Diocles
Joan of Arc
Phillis Wheatley
Mary Anning
Caroline Herschel
Sophie Brahe: Astronomer and Horticulturist
Hildegard of Bingen(Middle Ages)
Aida de Acosta(First Woman to Fly a Powered Aircraft)
Women’s Suffrage: The Silent Sentinels
History of Pretzels
History of Marshmallows
History of Tulips
Snowmen in History
History of April Fools’ Day
Great Wall of China
Eiffel Tower
Ayres Rock(Uluru)
Taj Mahal
Travel to Iceland
Travel to Greece
Travel to Japan
Unveiling the Iran-Contra Affair Guided Reading Comprehension Worksheet
By More Lessons Less Planning
DAILY BELLRINGER Early People and The Fertile Crescent Worksheet w/key
By Jared Bruening
Each worksheet includes additional questions on the front side, a writing activity or table to complete, on the backside some include a PRIMARY SOURCE or an ART ACTIVITY or an INTERACTIVE WRITING PROMPT. ANSWER KEY INCLUDED.
LINK TO VIDEO PLAYLIST THAT GOES DIRECTLY WITH WORKSHEETS: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWndCnip3V2D6NhWypoME3VcAcmeYuYf\&si=Ed1fN00xe\_gE\_gkh
WORKSHEETS INCLUDED IN THIS PACKET:
All About India: Basic Info, Landmarks, Icons, Quiz, Passport Cutout
By TheJoyfulMorgan
All About India Worksheets: Basic Info, Landmarks, Icons, Quiz, Passport Cutout
Welcome to Travel the World: Geography Worksheets. These basic worksheet packets are designed for children ages 3-12 to use when learning about another country.
Each country packet has 4 worksheets: 1) Basic Info & Flag, 2) Famous Landmarks & Icons, 3) Short Quiz, and 4) Suggested Activities. The answer key is included. These are designed to pair with a short instructional video of your choice and google research. A suggested playlist is available on youtube called Travel the World: Geography Worksheets at the link https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG97xcKppNzQbu9Jq3atSJ6XhwbKDQEVJ\&si=cTeybPYKpnsf5yVx
An additional resource found in my store is a free passport printout for the children to design and construct. Portions of each worksheet can be cut out and pasted into the child’s passport. Or a child can create their own passport binder and collect their worksheets throughout the year to remember where they’ve been.
Differentiated Reading - Fukushima Disaster (2011) - Disaster Series ESOL/ELL
By Quick Assignment Central
This set of assignments is ideal for differentiating instruction in your classroom. Both readings offer essential information and include questions to engage students.
One is tailored for 7th-grade ESOL students, featuring four paragraphs and four questions, while the other is designed for 5th-grade ESOL students, with two paragraphs and three questions.
Visit my store to explore more WebQuests and a wide variety of assignments on different topics!
Age of Exploration: Secret Message Review Activity
By Gail Hennessey
Want a fun activity to review vocabulary terms/famous people of the Age of Exploration? Looking for an enrichment activity in history? Try my Age of Exploration Secret Message activity. The activity involves students working individually or in groups to review the Age of Exploration. Then,a following direction activity is next where students place letters from the different answers into boxes found at the end of the activity page. Once all the boxes are filled, a "secret message" about the Age of Exploration is revealed! The teacher page includes additional information to share about the "secret message". It's a fun way to reinforce important terms/people of the Age of Exploration! If you prefer to offer a vocabulary box to the students, I have included this as well....
Perhaps these additional resources may be of interest:
1. Try my web quest on the Age of Exploration! This fun and informative webquest will be a great resource to use with your students(grades 4-8)
There are 14 questions and lots of extension activities and links. There are also comprehension questions to use after the completion of the web quest. The resource addresses several common core standards in social studies.
Note: Columbus,Magellan, Prince Henry, Henry Hudson, Vasco Da Gama, Marco Polo, Juan Ponce de Leon, Sir Francis Drake, Amerigo Vespucci are covered. Also
Latitude/longitude, sea monsters,navigational tools, timelines,St. Brendan, Zheng He, Vikings are mentioned in extension activities.
Age of Discovery, A Webquest
2. Learn about Christopher Columbus with this informative play. There are 10 questioners asking questions of Columbus. Additionally, comprehension questions and discussion questions are included. Use with a unit on the Age of Discovery or during October for Columbus Day. Columbus
3. Use this informative Reader's Theater Script to learn about Marco Polo. Marco Polo helped to start the Age of Discovery with his book on his adventures to China. The fun/informative play uses the format of Marco Polo being a guest on a talk show and the studio audience asks questions about his life. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee's Talk Show Series:Marco Polo, A Reader's Theater Script
4. In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan set out on an amazing adventure, in an attempt to voyage around the world. Although he did not complete the journey, several of his crew did complete the trip. This Reader's Theater Script provides lots of information about the Age of Exploration and Magellan's voyage in a fun/informative method. There are 13 audience questions, Did you Know? fun facts, comprehension questions and a teacher page with extension activities, key and additional links for teachers.Ferdinand Magellan
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Hotel Rwanda 20 Movie Viewing Guide & Discussion
By More Lessons Less Planning
Unravel the Tragedy and Hope of "Hotel Rwanda": 20 Insightful Movie Questions Delve deeper into the harrowing and inspiring story of "Hotel Rwanda" with this thought-provoking set of 20 questions. Crafted to mirror the film's emotional journey, these questions will ignite deep discussions, challenge perspectives, and leave a lasting impression on you and your audience.
Why choose our "Hotel Rwanda" Movie Quiz Questions?
Follows the Narrative: Questions unfold alongside the film's powerful story, allowing viewers to analyze key moments and character choices scene by scene.
Prompts for Reflection: Go beyond plot with questions that explore themes of courage, morality, responsibility, and the ripple effects of conflict.
Perfect for: Movie nights, classrooms, online forums, or simply sparking meaningful conversations about history and humanity.
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"Hotel Rwanda" is more than just a film; it's a powerful experience. Use these questions to unlock its full potential, foster dialogue, and learn from the complexities of our world.
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Compare and Contrast - Zhou Dynasty Vs Ancient Greece
By Quick Assignment Central
Transform your classroom with this versatile assignment, featuring two concise, information-packed readings—each just 4 paragraphs long and written at a 7th-grade level, making them ideal for a wide range of students, including high school English language learners. The readings provide detailed content that challenges students to think critically as they answer four compare-and-contrast questions, building essential skills.
Whether you're facilitating partner projects or encouraging independent work, this adaptable assignment is a perfect fit for your teaching needs.
Includes a comprehensive answer key.
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World Landmarks, A Bundle of Resources!
By Gail Hennessey
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WORLD LANDMARKS:
A BUNDLE OF RESOURCES
Includes:
Eiffel Tower Reading Passage/Comp. Questions/ extension activities
Taj Mahal Reading Reading Passage/Comp. Questions/extension activities
Great Wall of China Reading Passage/Comp. Questions/ extension activities
Uluru(Ayers Rock) Reading Passage/ Comp. Questions/extension Activities
World Landmark A Webquest(13 webquestions/ Comp. Questions/ extension Activities
US Landmarks, A Webquest (12 webquestions/Comp. Questions/ extension Activities
Cold War Echoes to Desert Storm: An Analysis of George H.W. Bush Guided Reading
By More Lessons Less Planning
Emergency Sub Plans - 1 Hour - Ancient Civilization Reading and Responding
By Quick Assignment Central
Each reading includes 5 questions which can be included or discarded depending on time. With the questions this lesson could be extended past 1 hour.
Written at a 7th grade level but suitable for many different classes.