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Westward Expansion Task Cards
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Westward Expansion Task Cards

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Westward Expansion Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 42 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) Terms include: • Vigilantes • Siting Bull • Geronimo • Cowboy/Cowgirl • Populist Party • & more! This set of 42 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the period of period of westward settlement. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★ Looking for Opening the West/Settlement in the West Flash Cards? Find them HERE! ★★ You can find all my Settlement in the West lessons and activities HERE! © 2014 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Reconstruction - Analyzing Reconstruction Museum Walk
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Reconstruction - Analyzing Reconstruction Museum Walk

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Reconstruction Analyzing Reconstruction Museum Walk Included in this resource: • Lesson plan • Do now student centered question based on quotation • Primary & Secondary source documents with scaffolding questions • Application/Higher Order Thinking/Closure analysis question Analyzing Reconstruction, documents, questions, Jim Crow laws, Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, lynching, black freedmen, challenges of Reconstruction for black freedmen, failure of Reconstruction, common core literacy and vocabulary © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
World War II Word Wall
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World War II Word Wall

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World War II Word Wall with Definitions and Images Included in this resource: • Title page • 76 vocabulary words/terms/important people (39 pages) with definitions/descriptions & images Terms include: Fascism Appeasement Munich Conference Blitzkrieg Allied Powers Axis Powers Battle of Berlin Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor WAC WAVES Mobilizaiton Ration Tuskegee Airmen Interment Camps Dwight Eisenhower George Patton and more! ★ This word wall is a great addition to any classroom or bulletin board! Each word can be cut out, laminated, and displayed in your classroom! © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
World War II Flash Cards
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World War II Flash Cards

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World War II Flash Cards Included in this product: • Full Set of 76 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: Fascism Appeasement Munich Conference Blitzkrieg Allied Powers Axis Powers Battle of Berlin Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor WAC WAVES Mobilizaiton Ration Tuskegee Airmen Interment Camps Dwight Eisenhower George Patton and more! ★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Reconstruction Vocabulary Matching Activity
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Reconstruction Vocabulary Matching Activity

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Reconstruction Vocabulary Matching Activity and Recording Sheet Included in this product: • Title page • 45 sets of vocabulary matching cards (words/terms/important people; some do not have image matches) including color sets and black and white (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to record as many sets as you’d like) This set of 45 (plus black and white) vocabulary matching cards outlines the important people, terms, and events during the Reconstruction Era. **Note: you do not have to use the photograph section of the activity. It’s just an anecdote :) Vocabulary Matching Cards include: • Reconstruction • Ulysses S. Grant • Ten Percent Plan • Andrew Johnson • Carpetbaggers • Scalawags • and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★ You can find all my Reconstruction lessons and activities HERE! © 2015 {a social studies life} For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Reconstruction Task Cards GOOGLE DRIVE
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Reconstruction Task Cards GOOGLE DRIVE

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Reconstruction Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Full Set of 49 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 49 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the Civil War. Questions include: • Ten Percent Plan • Reconstruction • Poll Tax • Literacy Test • Grandfather Clause • & more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! Reconstruction Task Cards © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Reconstruction Task Cards
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Reconstruction Task Cards

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Reconstruction Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 48 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don’t have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 48 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during the Reconstruction era. Terms include: • Ten Percent Plan • Reconstruction • Poll Tax • Literacy Test • Grandfather Clause • & more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Great Depression TASK CARDS
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Great Depression TASK CARDS

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Great Depression TASK CARDS and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 58 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 58 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Great Depression unit. Terms include: Herbert Hoover Stock Exchange Hoovervilles Black Tuesday Public Works Bonus Army Hundred Days Fireside Chats Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt New Deal Work Relief Tennessee Valley Authority Dust Bowl Corporation Shares Invest Overproduction Under-consumption Prosperity Recession Depression and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Vietnam Era Flash Cards
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Vietnam Era Flash Cards

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Vietnam Era Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 49 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: • Guerrilla Warfare • Respond • Flexible Response • Executive Order • Peace Corps • Fidel Castro • Bay of Pigs • CIA • Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Blockade • NASA • John Glenn • Apollo 11 • Neil Armstrong • Vietnam War • Ho Chi Minh • Geneva Accords • Hanoi • Ngo Dinh Diem • Vietcong • Regime • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Escalate • Search and Destroy Missions • Napalm • Agent Orange • Counterculture • Military Draft • Deferment • Conscientious Objector • Tet Offensive • Credibility Gap • Robert F. Kennedy • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Hubert H. Humphrey • George C. Wallace • Richard M. Nixon • Henry Kissinger • “Vietnamization” • Demonstrations • Martial Law • Pentagon Papers • Paris Peace Accords • M.I.A. ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Civil Rights Movement Task Cards
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Civil Rights Movement Task Cards

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Civil Rights Movement Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 50 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 50 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Civil Rights Movement unit. Terms include: • Discrimination • Racism • Segregation • CORE • NAACP • Plessy v. Ferguson • Thurgood Marshall • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Earl Warren • Integration • Little Rock 9 • Rosa Parks • Boycott • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Civil Disobedience • John F. Kennedy • “New Frontier” • Lyndon B. Johnson • Poverty Line • Job Corps • Medicare • Medicaid • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Sit-in • Ella Baker • Robert F. Kennedy • Interstate • James Meredith • George Wallace • Medgar Evers • Register • “Freedom Summer” • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Malcolm X • “Black Power” • Feminists • NOW • Equal Rights Amendment • Sandra Day O’Connor • Latino • Cesar Chavez • American Indian Movement These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2017 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
Cold War Task Cards
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Cold War Task Cards

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Cold War Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 56 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 56 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the Cold War unit. Terms include: Harry Truman Winston Churchill Iron Curtain Fair Deal Cold War Containment Communism Truman Doctrine NATO Warsaw Pact Berlin Airlift Mao Zedong 38th Parallel Blacklists Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Closed Shop Stalemate Demilitarized Zone Arms Race Nuclear Summit Korean War and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
America in the 1970s Flash Cards
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America in the 1970s Flash Cards

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America in the 1970s Flash Cards Included in this product: Title page Full Set of 43 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: • Henry Kissinger • Realpolitik • Detente • Balance of Power • “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” • Zhou Enlai • Technology • Leonoid Brezhnev • Salt I • Embargo • Yom Kippur War • Golda Meir • Anwar el-Sadat • New Federalism • Revenue Sharing • Affirmative Action • OSHA • EPA • Tight Money Policy • Deficit • OPEC • Energy • Watergate Scandal • Sam Ervin • Executive Privlege • Gerald Ford • Impeach • Resign • Controversy • Amnesty • Jimmy Carter • Trade Deficit • Three Mile Island • Human Rights • Apartheid • Camp David Accords • Salt II • Fundamentalists • Iranian Revolution • Election of 1980 • Richard Nixon ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
1990s America Task Cards
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1990s America Task Cards

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1990s America Task Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 38 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 38 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 1990s Terms include: George HW Bush Dan Quayle Saddam Hussein Hubble Space Telescope Colin Powell Norman Schwarzkopf Operation Desert Storm Persian Gulf War Bill Clinton Al Gore Grassroots Movement Deficit Spending Budget Deficit NAFTA START End of USSR Clarence Thomas Ross Perot LA Riots Hillary Clinton OJ Simpson Trial Impeachment of Bill Clinton and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
1990s America Flash Cards
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1990s America Flash Cards

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1990s America Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 38 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: George HW Bush Dan Quayle Saddam Hussein Hubble Space Telescope Colin Powell Norman Schwarzkopf Operation Desert Storm Persian Gulf War Bill Clinton Al Gore Grassroots Movement Deficit Spending Budget Deficit NAFTA START End of USSR Clarence Thomas Ross Perot LA Riots Hillary Clinton OJ Simpson Trial Impeachment of Bill Clinton and more! ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
2010s America Task Cards
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2010s America Task Cards

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2010s America Task Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 27 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 27 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 2010s Terms include: Barack Obama Joe Biden Election of 2012 Osama bin Laden Hurricane Sandy Black Lives Matter Boston Marathon Bombing Election of 2016 Donald Trump Mike Pence Michelle Obama Melania Trump Election of 2018 Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★★ Looking for the Google Drive Distance Learning version of this resource? Find it here! 2000s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
2010s America Task Cards GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING
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2010s America Task Cards GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING

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2010s America Task Cards FOR GOOGLE DRIVE DISTANCE LEARNING Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 27 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 27 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 2010s Terms include: Barack Obama Joe Biden Election of 2012 Osama bin Laden Hurricane Sandy Black Lives Matter Boston Marathon Bombing Election of 2016 Donald Trump Mike Pence Michelle Obama Melania Trump Election of 2018 Nancy Pelosi Hillary Clinton and more! These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard-copy version of this resource? Find it here! 2010s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
2000s America Task Cards
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2000s America Task Cards

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2000s America Task Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 40 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you’d like) This set of 38 task cards covers important people, terms, and events of the 2000s Terms include: George W Bush Richard Cheney September 11, 2001 Terrorism Election of 2000 Condoleeza Rice al-Qaeda Counter-terrorism Department of Homeland Security USA Patriot Act 2001 War in Afghanistan War on Terror WMD Iraq War Hurricane Katrina Nancy Pelosi Gobalism Trade Deficit World Trade Organization Global Warming Hillary Clinton Joseph Biden Great Recession Barack Obama John Kerry Operation Enduring Freedom No Child Left Behind Columbia Explosion These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★★ Looking for the Google Drive Distance Learning version of this resource? Find it here! 2000s America Task Cards ASSL © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
2000s America Flash Cards
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2000s America Flash Cards

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2000s America Flash Cards Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 40 vocabulary words/terms flash cards with definitions Terms include: George W Bush Richard Cheney September 11, 2001 Terrorism Election of 2000 Condoleeza Rice al-Qaeda Counter-terrorism Department of Homeland Security USA Patriot Act 2001 War in Afghanistan War on Terror WMD Iraq War Hurricane Katrina Nancy Pelosi Gobalism Trade Deficit World Trade Organization Global Warming Hillary Clinton Joseph Biden Great Recession Barack Obama John Kerry Operation Enduring Freedom No Child Left Behind Columbia Explosion ★★ This flash card set is a great activity to use for review. I print out a few sets, laminate back to back and have the students use them for review before a test/exam. Or, you can have the students utilize them if they “finish early!” © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
George Washington and John Adams Task Cards and Recording Sheet
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George Washington and John Adams Task Cards and Recording Sheet

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George Washington, John Adams, and the Federalist Era Task Cards and Recording Sheet for Student Responses FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this product: • Title page • Full Set of 42 vocabulary words/terms/important people tasks cards in the form of a question (you don't have to use all the cards in your activity!) • Answer Key Cards (you do not have to give these to students or you can after the activity) • Recording Sheet for student responses (can make enough copies for your students to answer as many questions as you'd like) This set of 42 task cards covers important people, terms, and events during George Washington's presidency and the Federalist Era. These cards are great for stations, centers, as an independent study tool, SCOOT and other cooperative learning activities. ★★ Looking for George Washington and the Federalist Era Flash Cards? Find them HERE! ★ You can find all my New Nation/George Washington/John Adams lessons and activities HERE! ★★ Looking for the printable, pen and paper version of this resource? Find it here! New Nation Task Cards ASSL Digital Papers by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts © 2012 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.
George Washington Precedents Snapshot Activity
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George Washington Precedents Snapshot Activity

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George Washington's Precedents Snapshot Activity/Project FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this product: • Cover Page • George Washington's Precedents Snapshot Foldable Task Sheet and Reminders for students • Foldable template • George Washington's Precedents Snapshot Foldable Rubric • Directions for teacher (to give to your students) with images • The completed foldable images (to show you what the end result should be) Do your students LOVE the app Snapchat?? This foldable/project is a great way for them to create "snapshots" of the precedents set during George Washington's presidency. Students will create a collection of snapshots from the study of the presidency of George Washington. The snapshot foldable booklet will include: • Title and illustration on the cover • Three "snapshots" that include COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS exemplifying three precedents set by George Washington's presidency. • Students will write a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) next to/under each image explaining the image and why it became a precedent set by George Washington. • Illustration on the back page of your booklet that summarizes the presidency of George Washington. This foldable project can be given as in an in-class assignment/assessment or a homework assignment. It is up to teacher's discretion. Digital, 1:1, interactive Social Studies learning! ★★ Looking for the printable, pen and paper version of this resource? Find it here! George Washington's Precedents Snapshot Activity ASSL Digital Papers by Ashley Hughes KG Fonts © 2015 A Social Studies Life For personal use only. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.