Whether used as lead-ins to upcoming lessons or as wrap-up activities, these brief mini-simulations provide your students with experiences that will shape their historical perceptions and positively enhance their understanding of past, current, and future events.
Topics include Night, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Hitler’s "Jewish Question" speech, resisting dehumanization, images from the Holocaust, and the White Rose.
Topics include differing perspectives of indigenous peoples and Europeans; the impact of "guns, germs, and steel"; Amerigo Vespucci; Sir Francis Drake; world maps over time; and El Dorado.
Topics include Shakespeare, why the Renaissance started in Italy, Leonardo vs.
Topics include interpreting cave paintings, human migration, bipedalism, Neanderthals and Denisovans, classification of early humans, and Lucy.
Activity types: reading for information, practicing higher-order thinking, analyzing by means of graphic organizers, responding to writing prompts, primary source analysis, vocabulary and map activities, and more.
With the aid of graphic organizers, students analyze arguments, examine dissenting perspectives, and reason through multiple viewpoints of historical issues.
Topics include Middle English and Chaucer, the Magna Carta, the First Crusade, the Vikings, the Black Death, and Henry IV’s walk to Canossa.
Topics include why the Maya abandoned their cities; Montezuma; comparing the Aztec, Inca, and Maya; the Battle of Cajamarca; geography’s influence on the three civilizations; and Machu Picchu.
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