History lesson plans

Free homeschool history unit studies and lesson plans for all ages and grades

I've read about choice menus forever, but never tried it until just recently. I decided to created a menu to use during social studies review when students finish with stations early or we have a few extra minutes in class. I introduced the menu a week ago and you would've thought I'd given my students gold! They were thrilled!! I asked if they'd seen a menu before and we talked about a fast food restaurant menu. Then I asked what they would buy if I told them they had $5 to spend at the…

Vast range of World War 1 (The Great War) Worksheets. Tailored towards UK KS3 & KS4 however used globally. Produced by internationally renowned history teac

If you teach World War 1 in middle school US History or World History, check out these awesome lessons, projects, activities, and videos for your unit plan! Everything is done for you so you never have to stress about what to teach!

Borrowing ideas from other teachers to create anchor charts for class

Looking for some engaging, high-quality history lessons? Then check out my favorite free US history lessons for middle school!

If you teach middle school or high school US History check out this free pacing guide to help ensure that you cover every aspect of the curriculum in your classroom! Pacing is so important to make sure that you don't spend too long on any one unit and allow studenst time to learn all the key things they need to know about American History!

Teaching Resource: A timeline poster of the main events from World War One.

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If you teach middle school history, these are some of the most hands-on engaging lesson plans and activities you can find! Great for 8th grade US History or World History in the middle grades!

Finish out your history class with a bang with these creative end of the year games! They are a fun way to review history for kids, and many would work for a literature class as well. They are easily adapted for different age groups by requiring different levels of detail and complexity in their responses.…

Teach all your K-12th kids homeschool world history together! This curriculum includes a year of lessons from creation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire plus worksheets, maps, quizes, tests, coloring pages, and dig deeper ideas like videos, projects, & activities!

I randomly came up with this idea during the last week of school. One of my reading groups had finished their book and project before any of the other groups had finished. Instead of giving them a new book (there was only one week left), I quickly created this template and told them to pick an event in history and research it. I had one boy choose the Vikings, someone else chose the atomic bomb, a girl wanted the great depression, and another student picked the Korean war. I loved that…

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

Early Explorers for Kids - free lesson plans for 5 weeks of creative, fun educational activities to make history come alive for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary age kids to learn about Vikings, Magellan, Hudson, Columbus, Cartier, and more. Includes FREE explorer worksheets and FREE lapbook perfect for homeschool families to study history as a family #homeschool #history #explorers #education #kidsactivities

The Renaissance was a period of rapid change in Europe between 1300 and 1600 that influenced art, culture, politics and medicine.

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This free Lesson Plan for Kids Discover World War II will you teach kids all about the glories and tragedies of this trying time in history, as you cover everything from the political wrangling that led to the war and its most pivotal battles to and how lasting peace was made.

4 MAIN causes of ww1