Tag: Google Classroom
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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…
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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™,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Queen Seondeok Short Read
Queen Seondeok was Queen regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. She is also ignored in Asian history classes and world history classes (at least here in the US) and that needs to be corrected. Queen Seondeok lived from c. 595-610 – 647 and ruled Silla for 15 years. She is remembered…
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St. Patrick’s Day: An Elementary Social Studies Lesson
St. Patrick’s Day is a fun way to spend a day in elementary classrooms but too many resources I’ve seen don’t dive into the history of the symbols of the day. Yes, shamrocks are popular but why? Yes, you wear green on this day but why? This TpT resource highlights the historical information behind some…
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Pennsylvania Essential Social Studies Resources
Of all the Pennsylvania social studies standards, I know that teachers tend to skip the PA specific requirements. Whether its because the teacher honestly doesn’t know what to include or they don’t know the history well enough to build a meaningful lesson, it doesn’t matter anymore. I’ve created a three PA specific resources that are…
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Chinese Women’s History Short Reads
I don’t want to contribute to the deletion of women from history and that is certainly true when teaching Asian history. Unfortunately, for many reasons, the American resources that schools often use, whether it is for Asian history or world history, never include more than one woman, Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China.…
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Addressing a Letter: A Google Classroom™ Resource
This resource came to be when I had a chance to flip through my son’s second grade social studies textbook. I thought it would be fun to build this lesson for him and I love how it turned out. First, this resource was built entirely for Google Classroom™ which means it is completely prep free.…
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Pennsylvania Geography for Grades 1 – 3
Pennsylvania is a great state to live. The natural beauty is stunning and should be celebrated with our students. Don’t skip PA geography anymore! This TpT resource aligns with PA geography standards in grades 1 – 3 and can be completed in one sitting or spaced out for several days. There are several pages of…
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Google Classroom™ History Resources
Now that the US is in the midst of a pandemic schools are turning to digital learning and TpT authors are catching up. I joined the ranks of thousands of teacher-authors who updated resources to work in Google Classroom™. Hopefully you can find something that works in your history classroom. Click the image to see…
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Updated Resources to use with Google Classroom™
I’ve been updating some of my resources to work as an interactive resources in Google Classroom™
Integrated Social Studies 