These motivating activities, arranged chronologically, cover North American history from pre-exploration times to the present. Each activity includes a reproducible student handout and a teacher page. Most of the handouts include everything students need to get started; the others require only readily available resources. The teacher page states the academic objective and identifies the basic skills students will use in completing the project. It also provides a list of needed materials, procedures, suggested group size and member roles, evaluation guidelines, and activity variations. Students naturally think critically about historical events and become personally involved in political and social issues as they: - compare and retell Native American creation myths
- write poems about the real story behind Paul Revere's ride
- invent and break Civil War codes
- report on the trial of the Molly Maguires
- create time lines of the Depression and the New Deal
- speak about teenage leaders in the civil rights movement
- and complete scores of other fascinating projects!
Grades 6-9. |
