Integrate current news into your semester-long high school economics course with this teacher-tested project. Encourage students to read and write about a wide variety of economics-related current events. Files are fully editable so that you can customize for your course.

This weekly activity allows students to measure and analyze changes in financial markets and economic data on both a short and long-term basis. It was created for the semester long Economics class commonly taught in United States’ high schools, but could be modified for longer/shorter duration – or location. The file is fully customizable. Students will look at trends and gain fluency with oft-referenced measures of economic status. It also provides a regular classroom structure for building understanding of macroeconomic principles throughout the course.

It’s flexible, powerful, compact, and can help you in a pinch – Primary Source Ninja to the rescue! This versatile primary source analysis tool is designed to deeply engage students in close reading, evidence-backed writing, and personal reflection through the lens of historical themes specific to U.S. and World History. This CCSS oriented analysis framework can be applied to any historical document and is meant to be used and re-used throughout the year with different sources so that students gain comfort with their ability to independently read, analyze, and write about history. The Primary Source Ninja neatly fits on one page, so a primary source reading can be copied on the other side. After students gain comfort with the assignment, it can be easily assigned for homework, or used as a go-to sub plan. The Ninja can also serve as a basis for theme-based projects and formative assessments. Comes with editable file so you can adjust to your liking.

No more hunting for answers without reading. Read for understanding with the History Made Fresh Reading Frame. A go-to reading strategy that goes along with nearly any history textbook. Depending on the publisher’s layout, students can either approach reading a textbook section to answer a Focus Question with a thesis and evidence to back it up, or they can read with the goal of proving the author’s stated thesis. Master file included so that the Reading Frame can be edited to match your history textbook. This lesson is classroom tested.