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  • September 2, 2022

    7 Social Studies Writing Resources on TpT

    7 Social Studies Writing Resources on TpT

    Writing practice in your social studies classroom should be frequent but that doesn’t mean it always has to be formal. Explore these 7 resources to add a new assignment to your usual curriculum. 1.Fun History Writing Prompts Be goofy. Get students talking about or writing about history with these writing prompts that are weird and […]

  • June 8, 2022

    Taking a break

    Taking a break

    I’m signing off for a little while to enjoy summer vacation. If you are a teacher, do the same. June is not the month to get ready for next school year. Relax. Sleep in. Be with your family and friends. See you later in the summer!

  • May 30, 2022

    Pharaoh Queens

    Pharaoh Queens

    This is the final installment in my Queens of Africa series. To catch up on the others first click the links below: Kandakes of Kush Queens of Ethiopia Queens of Madagascar Warrior and Rain Queens Queens of Africa: Full Bundle Like the other resources before, Pharaoh Queens is a collection of short reads that are […]

  • May 9, 2022

    Project-based learning: Build-a-museum

    Project-based learning: Build-a-museum

    Let’s get right to it. If you’re here you’re wondering what the grade levels are for this PBL. This resource that can be purchased in my TpT store is available for grades 1 – 4, 5 – 8, and 9 – 12. Something for everyone! Brief Overview This resource was inspired by an article I […]

  • May 6, 2022

    Social Studies Skill Builders

    Social Studies Skill Builders

    When the pandemic began, my oldest began learning at home: first, by me (and sort of his school) then full-time via virtual school that was conducted by his school district. It was awesome but I was privy to how little social studies instruction students actually receive. Social Studies is not just one subject and each […]

  • May 2, 2022

    Tru’ng Sisters: A TpT Resource Blog

    Tru’ng Sisters: A TpT Resource Blog

    Adding more women to your world history or Asian history classes can be difficult for many of us because we studied a European-centric curriculum. I knew I wanted to add more women to my world history curriculum but the list of Asian women was limited to two names: Empress Wu and Dowager Empress Cixi. Both […]

  • April 29, 2022

    Pennsylvania Landmarks for Google Classroom™

    Pennsylvania Landmarks for Google Classroom™

    Pennsylvania is a beautiful place to call home. Ensure that you celebrate it in your classroom and explore the geography and landmarks just like the state social studies standards ask you to. This Google Classroom™ resource includes images of each featured landmark with a brief history. I didn’t want this resource to take a lot […]

  • April 25, 2022

    End-of-year Busy Work: 6 Fun Resources

    End-of-year Busy Work: 6 Fun Resources

    If you are a staunch believer that no time in the classroom can ever be wasted then this is not the blog for you. If you are, however, a realist and understand that many times at the end of the year, we are all just hanging on till the end, then read on. I see […]

  • April 22, 2022

    Indigenous Languages of North & South America

    Indigenous Languages of North & South America

    It all began when I gathered too much information about the history of the English language while I built my History Behind Beowulf in my TpT store. I was really enjoying learning so much about English but most of the information would never make the final resource. I packaged it and created a separate resource. […]

  • April 19, 2022

    The Grading Policy That Saved My Life

    The Grading Policy That Saved My Life

    It’s no secret that teachers have no time. There are only so many hours in the day yet the to-do list for teachers is endless, especially if you are at a school that requires you to fully clean out your classroom each year. There are ways to simplify your life but not every method will […]

  • April 18, 2022

    Top 25 Inventions and Discoveries: A Google Classroom™ Resource

    Top 25 Inventions and Discoveries: A Google Classroom™ Resource

    Inspired by the passionate arguments that grownups have over sports, I wanted to inspire students to become just as passionate about world history concepts. It took me a while to figure out but I finally achieved it when I created the Tournament of Technology. Then the pandemic began. Scrambling to convert resources into Google Classroom™, […]

  • April 15, 2022

    Warrior and Rain Queens

    Warrior and Rain Queens

    When I decided to create the African Queens series, I began with two areas that I knew: Egypt and Nubia. I knew of one Nubian kandake and a handful of Egyptian queens. I like that advice. Start with what you know. Researching Nubia led me down a research rabbit hole that led to gathering names […]

  • April 13, 2022

    Pennsylvania Regional Geography

    Pennsylvania Regional Geography

    I’m not sure if the love of geography is genetic but I certainly loved learning it when I was in school and so does my oldest. We’d worked on learning the state names and capitals, their locations, and then I decided he needed to master Pennsylvania geography. First, I created Pennsylvania Geography for Grades 1 […]

  • February 28, 2022

    Pennsylvania Essential Bundle

    Pennsylvania Essential Bundle

    It’s easy for teachers to skip the Pennsylvania specific standards because teachers don’t have resources to help teach the information. I’ve begun creating a variety of Pennsylvania specific social studies content and created an essential bundle to help you meet your requirements. Pennsylvania Symbols This Google Classroom™ resource is an opportunity to have students work […]

  • February 25, 2022

    Women’s History Month: A list of women to teach this month

    Women’s History Month: A list of women to teach this month

    My problem with a lot of women’s history month lessons that are built for elementary-aged students is that they tend to highlight women who worked rather than women in history. This sounds divisive but I want students to know that women made history, led revolts, changed nations, fought in wars, and all the other things […]

  • February 21, 2022

    Study more Black History

    Study more Black History

    Sticking with the traditional people such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, or Harriet Tubman is all well and good. Their stories are important, interesting, and essential to American history. But world history teachers need something different for their classrooms. Adding more Black history doesn’t necessarily mean adding more Black American history. World […]

  • December 3, 2021

    Taking a winter break

    Taking a winter break

    I take a winter break every year. Writing, editing, and formatting blogs is time consuming and during December, I am just too busy. Being honest with myself, I’m too busy in the first half of January too as the new year starts too which is why I don’t return until mid-way through January. 2021 has […]

  • November 30, 2021

    Queens of Madagascar

    Queens of Madagascar

    Madagascar has a long history of queen regnants and was a country of unrelenting materialism. Until the Europeans arrived anyway. Once the Europeans set their sights on Madagascar, they infused their code of paternalism and a great social shift occurred. The women of Madagascar fought changing gender roles and expectations while at the same time […]

  • November 15, 2021

    Shop Small TpT Shops

    Shop Small TpT Shops

    Welcome to the fourth annual Shop Small TpT Store blog! I hope you find something you like and will support a small TpT shop this holiday season. Here was my criteria for selection: Must be a small shop (fewer than 3,000 followers) Resource must have a cover For middle and high school only I have […]

  • October 31, 2021

    Queens of Ethiopia

    Queens of Ethiopia

    Learning about the history of Ethiopia and the role they played in Africa is usually contained to their adoption of Christianity. I was ignorant of the role of women in Ethiopia before I set out to create a series about the queens of Africa. However, this might be my favorite resource in the entire series […]

  • October 25, 2021

    History of the English Language

    History of the English Language

    Other than a few tidbits about the progression of the English language, no one teaches the history of the English language. I get it. But I had all this information as I researched and built my History Behind Beowulf resource that I thought I would package the language information and see if anyone liked it. […]

  • October 18, 2021

    Pennsylvania Ice Age

    Pennsylvania Ice Age

    Pennsylvania ice age history isn’t taught in every classroom but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to learn. Our ge0graphy was shaped by the ice age and we were home to many wonderful creatures of the ice age. Plus, this resource aligns with some grades science standards making it a truly integrated social studies topic. […]

  • October 11, 2021

    Chinese History Essentials Bundle

    Chinese History Essentials Bundle

    Especially if you do not have a textbook or other curriculum supplies, teaching Chinese history can be daunting. It is a long and highly documented history that makes it difficult to narrow down the curriculum to what American students need to know. Check out my Chinese History Essentials Bundle. This TpT bundle includes five of […]

  • October 4, 2021

    World History Activities on Google Classroom™

    World History Activities on Google Classroom™

    Google Classroom™ resources are an opportunity to stretch your teaching wings a little and try something new. Digital learning doesn’t mean it is all reading and typing. These activities are all created for high school world history classes and all require Google Classroom™. Use them during a regular class period, during centers, snow days, or […]

  • September 30, 2021

    Kandakes of Kush: Part of the Queens of Africa Series

    Kandakes of Kush: Part of the Queens of Africa Series

    The Kandakes of Kush had to handle the pressure from their northern neighbor, the Ancient Egyptians while they maintained their prominence on the African continent. Combine those pressures with an impending patriarchal shift and you have a group of amazing women. We don’t know a lot about them. We know when some of them ruled […]

  • September 27, 2021

    Fun History Writing Prompts

    Fun History Writing Prompts

    How could you tell your Model-T from your neighbors Model-T? Which would you rather live in: castle or palace? Which old skill would you rather have: being able to dial an 11-digit number on a rotary phone or grabbing a CD without touching any part of it? These are the tough history questions that we […]

  • September 23, 2021

    Free High School History Resources in my TpT Store

    Free High School History Resources in my TpT Store

    Everyone loves freebies. Download some of my favorite freebies for your high school world history class. Click the image to be directed to my TpT store for download. Social Studies Vocabulary AND Social Studies Project These are two different resources that I also like to suggest together. Working with just vocabulary gets boring. Adding the […]

  • September 6, 2021

    Novels for High School History Class: Books by Time Periods

    Novels for High School History Class: Books by Time Periods

    Fitting in a novel to a world history class is difficult. There is a lot to cover and adding a novel complete with in-classroom discussion seems next to impossible. But if you can manage it, and I highly encourage you to, your students will be greatly benefited. Novels in history class can add a human […]

  • August 26, 2021

    History Behind Beowulf

    History Behind Beowulf

    To this day, there is nothing less satisfying in school than when an English teacher gets the history wrong during the introduction to a new piece of literature. Small mistakes are forgivable. Commonly held beliefs, less so. Plus, teachers too often skip the fun stuff of the fashion. How can students imagine the story if […]

  • August 19, 2021

    Queens of Africa: A TpT Bundle

    Queens of Africa: A TpT Bundle

    As more educators add the stories of Black women to their social studies curriculum, I noticed a complete lack of historical women. There is absolutely nothing wrong with learning about modern Black women but I wanted to create resources that highlighted the stories of historical women that helped shaped the history of Africa. I think […]

  • August 16, 2021

    Free Elementary History Resources in my TpT Store

    Free Elementary History Resources in my TpT Store

    The free samples in my TpT store for elementary aged students are all free samples of larger resources. I do like to include however, enough of a resource that you can get one lesson out of it. Sometimes teachers just need a quick, easy lesson that is free to help them fill some time. There […]

  • August 12, 2021

    Games for World History: A Pacing Guide

    Games for World History: A Pacing Guide

    I’ve got a bunch of games for world history class and if you like more than one of them, you may be asking, “when will I have time?” Here are my suggestions for some of my games in my TpT store. Teaching with Monopoly This is the game I would start with. I would introduce […]

  • August 9, 2021

    Dear Returning Teachers: A Pep Talk

    Dear Returning Teachers: A Pep Talk

    Since March 2020, you’ve had a rough time. Learning how to teach with little to no resources, conquering technology issues, and trying to maintain your own household has taken a toll. Hopefully, this past summer you took some much needed time off because this school year will present you will even more challenges. New challenges. […]

  • August 5, 2021

    Back to the Classroom: Review those History Skills

    Back to the Classroom: Review those History Skills

    Most schools are returning to in-person teaching this fall. Students however, have been out of the classroom for a long time and will definitely need refreshers on the history skills. I know you’ve got a lot to do. I know that history teachers have one of the toughest jobs because they have SO MUCH content […]

  • August 3, 2021

    Minimalistic Classrooms

    Minimalistic Classrooms

    Given the lingering infection rates of covid-19, this year is the perfect year to go minimalistic. When I was in the classroom, I didn’t bring much into my classroom, preferring to embrace blank wall space and directing student attention where I wanted it. Why have a minimal classroom? Cleanliness Less in your classroom means there […]

  • August 2, 2021

    History Writing Rubrics

    History Writing Rubrics

    When I was in school, there was nothing more annoying than history writing rubrics that focused on grammar rather than history. If the teacher was so concerned about the grammar then how exactly did I earn a history grade? I’m not saying that grammar isn’t important. But in history class, history teachers need to be […]

  • June 10, 2021

    Taking a Summer Break

    Taking a Summer Break

    My blog will be on a summer break. See you in August. If you are a teacher, TAKE OFF THE SUMMER! Be sure to make PLENTY of time for yourself and your family. You deserve it. Enjoy. ***************************** Follow me: If you liked this then maybe you’d also like:

  • June 3, 2021

    Old School but Not Outdated: No Screen Time Resources

    Old School but Not Outdated: No Screen Time Resources

    I’m not anti-technology in the classroom but I do believe that great learning can happen with no technology. There are some old-school teaching methods that still work well because great teaching methods are timeless. Whether you are striving for less screen time or want to get back to some basic paper resources, here is what […]

  • May 27, 2021

    Asian Women’s History Short Reads

    Asian Women’s History Short Reads

    Ensuring that women are included in history curriculum can sometimes be a daunting task because most of us didn’t have women included in our own historical studies. Especially if you teach world or Asian history then another thing educators have to think about is the inclusion of Asian women and in this country, finding sources […]

  • May 20, 2021

    PA Symbols for Google Classroom™

    PA Symbols for Google Classroom™

    Pennsylvania is a fantastic place to call home and I am so happy that students are required to learn about their home. Stop skipping these important social studies lessons and show your state pride with this awesome Google Classroom™ resource. This resource is only available for Google Classroom™ because I really wanted to showcase pictures […]

  • May 13, 2021

    Quick Last Minute High School History Resources for the End-of-the-Year

    Quick Last Minute High School History Resources for the End-of-the-Year

    Testing is over. You’ve already turned in your textbook (or you never had one to begin with). Your students are burned out and need a change. Your brain is DONE with the school year. Whatever the reason, I’ve got some ideas for some quick, last-minute history lessons that will work well at the end of […]

  • May 6, 2021

    Quick Last Minute Elementary Social Studies Resources for the End-of-the-Year

    Quick Last Minute Elementary Social Studies Resources for the End-of-the-Year

    Social studies is the ignored subject by elementary school teachers due to the fact that most states do not test social studies. Stop using that as your excuse to skip the lessons because they are important and students need these lessons for future years. Here are some quick and easy social studies lessons for your […]

  • April 29, 2021

    Tru’ng Sisters Short Read

    Tru’ng Sisters Short Read

    Until it became my mission to discovery women to add to Asian curriculum I had never heard of the Tru’ng Sisters. Their story was one of my favorites that I found. The Tru’ng Sisters are historical icons in Vietnam. Their bravely fought the invading Han Chinese, keeping them out of Vietnam for a short time. […]

  • April 22, 2021

    Top 25 Inventions and Discoveries: A Google Classroom™ Resource

    Top 25 Inventions and Discoveries: A Google Classroom™ Resource

    Get your students thinking, reasoning, analyzing, and comprehending some of world history’s most important concepts. Now your students have an opportunity to think about the development of the human story in history in relation to the most important inventions and discoveries. How monumental was the discovery of fire? Was it more important or significant than […]

  • April 15, 2021

    Pennsylvania Founding Fathers

    Pennsylvania Founding Fathers

    Despite being part of the Pennsylvania social studies standards, I highly doubt most Pennsylvanians could name a PA founding father other than Benjamin Franklin. If that describes you AND you are a PA teacher who is supposed to be teaching about the founding fathers, have no fear. I have the perfect resource for you. Select […]

  • April 8, 2021

    Build-a-cartouche: An Ancient Egypt Add-on Activity

    Build-a-cartouche: An Ancient Egypt Add-on Activity

    Cartouches are cool. They are mysterious, make fun decoding activities, and are a great way to add an activity to an Ancient Egypt unit. Regardless of the grade level you teach, your students will have a great time building their own cartouche. The cartouche is the circle-like shape that surrounds a name written in hieroglyphics. […]

  • April 1, 2021

    World History Activities: A TpT Bundle

    World History Activities: A TpT Bundle

    Google Classroom™ is an opportunity to try new activities in world history. Challenge your students with three unique world history activities, some with writing prompts. Top 25 Inventions and Discoveries: This is a great activity to get students to compare and contrast very simple concepts in world history as well as review the progression of […]

  • March 25, 2021

    Japanese Women’s History Short Reads

    Japanese Women’s History Short Reads

    It shouldn’t be a surprise anymore that history leaves women out of the conversation. The problem is only worse for American students when they study world or Asian history because the already women-deprived curriculum leaves them out almost entirely. Japanese history in world history, for American students, does just that. The only mention of women […]

  • March 18, 2021

    Empress Wu Short Read

    Empress Wu Short Read

    Empress Wu is the only woman to sit on the throne in all of Chinese history yet American history classes ignore her. Oh, they mention her. How can they not? By examining several American world history textbooks however she never gets more than a paragraph and the tone in which they discuss her is one […]

  • March 4, 2021

    Agrippina the Younger: A New Take

    Agrippina the Younger: A New Take

    Agrippina the Younger will never, ever have a different narrative. Contemporary historians hated her guts and every historian after believed her to be a truly horrid human being because of the writings of the contemporary historians. The best she can hope for is what I am going to write about her and unfortunately, my readership […]

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