Introduction to Sociology Unit

Want to make your life easier? This is the product for you! This is a complete introduction to sociology unit with 17 separate lessons. Each class period is planned for you for 55 minutes! There are worksheets, Powerpoints, two projects, hands on activities, TED talk and Youtube video clips, and a test provided with a key. This is a print and use unit that will make your life easier!

Lessons Include:

-Why is having empathy important?

– what is sociology?

– What is the sociological imagination?

– How might live your life differently if you live with sociological mindfulness?

– What are the four main sociological perspectives?

– Who are famous sociologists?

– How can the four theories relate to society?soc unit

 

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Causes of the Civil War Stations Lesson

Want to get your student’s engaged in the study of history? Want to get them out of their seats? Want them to analyze primary sources? If you answered yes to all of the questions then this product is for you!
 
This is a complete 5 station lesson for the causes of the Civil War. This is a perfect lesson to teach all the causes of the Civil war in one 50 minute class peri

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od. I have my students spend 6-8 minutes a station. There is also an extra two page homework assignment if they finish a station early.
 
There is a handout provided that students carry around and complete at each station, which is clearly labeled to keep them organized. This lesson is designed in Word and Powerpoint, which can be adapted to fit your classroom. This is a print and use stations lesson! No need to modify unless you want to 🙂 The class period goes so fast with stations!
 
Stations Included:
 
– Station 1: Powerpoint notes on the two sides of the Civil War
– Station 2: North and South Map to Color
 
– Station 3: Compromise and Causes Reading
 
– Station 4: Video on the Causes of the Civil War
 
– Station 5: Analyze Political Cartoons on the causes of the Civil War
 
– Extra two page homework assignment on the compromises and popular sovereignty
 
 

Gender Sociology Project

Want to have an educational show and tell in your sociology class? This is a FREE gender and toy analysis project where students bring in their favorite toy and respond to a few prompts about how the toy relates to their gender.

They also have to use the sociological terms to describe the toy. There is a rubric provided to grade their responses. I do this activity as a show and tell after they write the response for homework. It makes a really fun activity. This was designed in word and can be modified for your classroom.

If you like this product it is included in this Gender Unit!

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U.S. History Bulletin Board

Want a ready made bulletin board for your classroom for September? This is your product! This is a U.S. history hashtag bulletin board display featuring hashtags and pictures from U.S. history.
 
I copied it in color, cut out the images and words, and laminated it for a bulletin board in my classroom. It was designed in powerpoint and can easily be modified for your classroom.bulletin board
 
Just print, cut, and display!
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AP US Government and Politics Course

Are you teaching AP U.S. Government and Politics? I have been teaching this course 12 years! This course will make your life easier and and simplify your job!!!

What is currently included in this curriculum?

This is everything you need for a AP U.S. Government Full Year Course. Over 1,200 individual products in ONE package! Free downloads for life! I teach this course every year and update my plans. This course was updated for the 2018-2019 redesign.

What will this curriculum contain?

It includes full lesson plans, student activities, and all other needed materials to implement the lessons. Includes cooperative group activities, centers, readings, games, projects, rubrics, tests, and so much more. I teach with the 55 minute period for the full year. I am a very organized teacher. Each lesson is organized on a calendar with links to individual items and each lesson is located in their own folder.

Helpful Tips:

This is a HUGE file over 1,200 items, so be prepared for a large download! Files are all organized into unit folders for ease of use. Each folder has multiple folders included an extra folder, tests, and each unit is organized in number order that I taught them.

  • Google Drive with lifetime FREE updates and any new products
  • All the videos will be included in Powerpoints
  • Email support for any questions you may have
  • 13 years of experience in the classroom and I still teach this course.
  • New lessons are added all the time, to give you even more options
  • I teach this course every year and update my plans.
  • Each lesson is organized on a calendar with links to each task on specific class days.

Options to access files: You can either download the files using Dropbox link and edit in Word or Powerpoint OR click the urls and edit all the materials digitally on Google Drive!

If you want to see a sample unit, please email me what unit you would like to see: notanotherhistoryteacher@gmail.comj

 

 

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AP Government and Politics Course

Are you teaching AP U.S. Government and Politics? Want to make your life easier? I have been teaching this course 12 years! This course will make your life easier and and simplify your job!!!

What is currently included in this curriculum?

This is everything you need for a AP U.S. Government Full Year Course. Over 1,200 individual products in ONE package! Free downloads for life! I teach this course every year and update my plans. This course was updated for the 2018-2019 redesign.

What will this curriculum contain?

It includes full lesson plans, student activities, and all other needed materials to implement the lessons. Includes cooperative group activities, centers, readings, games, projects, rubrics, tests, and so much more. I teach with the 55 minute period for the full year. I am a very organized teacher. Each lesson is organized on a calendar with links to individual items and each lesson is located in their own folder.

Helpful Tips:

This is a HUGE file over 1,200 items, so be prepared for a large download! Files are all organized into unit folders for ease of use. Each folder has multiple folders included an extra folder, tests, and each unit is organized in number order that I taught them.

  • Google Drive with lifetime FREE updates and any new products
  • All the videos will be included in Powerpoints
  • Email support for any questions you may have
  • 13 years of experience in the classroom and I still teach this course.
  • New lessons are added all the time, to give you even more options
  • I teach this course every year and update my plans.
  • Each lesson is organized on a calendar with links to each task on specific class days.

 

 

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Federalism Scavenger Hunt

Want to get your student’s out of their seats? Want them to be engaged in concepts related to Federalism? This Federalism Scavenger Hunt lesson is for you then! My kids LOVE this lesson! I place them in teams of three students. One person is the researcher, selfie photographer/ social media person, and one person writes the answers.
 
They will be throughout your school finding the eleven locations using the federalism clues provided. They need to find the location and take a selfie of each location. They also need to research the federal mandate after they find each clue. It was designed in Powerpoint and can be edited for your classroom! scavenger hunt
 
What’s included:
 
1. Very clear instructions before the scavenger hunt begins
2. Two page scavenger hunt
3. Two page answer key of each location
 

United States Stations Lessons

Want to get your student’s more engaged in lessons? I find stations are an easy way to get my students engaged in the content, moving around the room, and learning in a fun and productive way.

This is a collection of 8 United States stations lessons from 1865 to the present broken into five or six different activities. Each lesson is for 55 minutes. There is a handout provided that students carry around and complete at each station, which is clearly labeled to keep them organized. This lesson is designed in Word and can be adapted to fit your classroom. This is a print and use stations lesson! No need to modify unless you want to 🙂 The class period goes so fast with stations!

Check my reviews on each station! This is a wonderful product!

Helpful Tips:

⇒ I highly suggest printing the station handouts on different colored paper and put them in folders to keep them organized so every year you have them ready to go!

⇒ I give my student’s 6 minutes a station with a minute passing time to complete a 45 minute class period, with a few extra minutes at the end of the lesson to discuss the main ideas from the lesson.

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What’s included:

⇒ Imperialism Stations Lesson

⇒ U.S. During World War I Stations Lesson

⇒ 1920’s Stations Lesson

⇒ World War II Homefront Stations Lesson

⇒ Kennedy Administration Stations Lesson

⇒ Vietnam War Stations Lesson

⇒ US Civil Rights Movement Stations Lesson

⇒ Stock Market Stations Lesson

Impeachment of a President Lesson

This is a complete 55 minute lesson on how to impeach a president. There is a word document for notes and a powerpoint slide with images, notes, and videos. It was designed in Word and Powerpoint, which can be used as is or adapted for your classroom. The end of the video introduces the idea of impeaching trump with recent news clips calling for his impeachment.

What’s included:

1. 11 slide powerpoint on impeachment procedures

2. four videos on youtube on impeachment

3. One page notes handout on impeachment and one page as a webquest on president’s who have been impeached.

4. Article for homework- how to remove a president?

5. A key for the notes and webquest

 

 

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Civil Liberties Project (3-5 Days)

This is a four to five day civil liberties project where students are assigned one minority group in the United States and trace the history of discrimination to the fight for equal rights of that group. The United States has always been home to many different racial and ethnic groups that have experienced varying degrees of acceptance into American society. For this project, you will assess the “journey” of one of those groups throughout U.S. history with a special focus on the recent issues facing the group.

This project has two options: a powerpoint project or a documentary film option. I personally do the documentary film option if I have time. The projects are a lot of fun and kids really enjoy it. There is a rubric attached to grade both assignments. Both projects were designed in Word and can be adapted to your classroom.

Task: Using the review book, textbook, the handout provided, and the Internet, your task is to create a 5-7 minute multimedia presentation.

Project Topics:

  1. African Americans
  2. Native Americans
  3. Latino Rights
  4. Asian Pacific Islanders
  5. Women
  6. Older Americans
  7. Disabled American
  8. LGBTQ Rights
 
 

Interest Group Stations Lesson

This is a complete 50 minute 5 station lesson on United States interest groups. There is a handout included that students carry to each station as well as clear station directions on what to do at each station. I give my students 9 minutes a station for each of the 5 stations. This lesson is designed in Word and Powerpoint. They will need access to computers or devices at one station. This is a print and use stations lesson! No need to modify unless you want to 🙂 The class period goes so fast with stations!
What’s included?
 
– Station 1: What is an interest group? notes
 
– Station 2: Youtube Video clip and questions
 
– Station 3: web-search on PACS
 
– Station 4: Political cartoon and questions
 
– Station 5: Matching vocabulary
 
– Homework: Reading on interest groups
 
– Teacher Key
 

World War II Resources

One of my favorite units to teach about is World War II. I love showing how the US was able to enter the war and how the effects of the war are still very much present today. I love teaching with this World War II homefront stations lesson. With this fast 55 minute lesson kids are engaged in a variety of resources on the US homefront from rationing to women entering the workforce, to Japanese discrimination to African American enfranchisement. My kids ask for stations since the class period seems so different. They are engaged in primary sources, World War II posters, and videos on the homefront in one class day if you are teaching a survey course it is very helpful.

The World War II Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about World War II. This is the perfect resource to introduce or review FDR, Pearl Harbor, Hitler and the Holocaust. The World War II Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. Students are given a secret code name and sent on a secret mission to restore Anne Frank’s Diary. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.

These World War II sensory figures can be printed in black and white or color, and the set includes the seven most prominent leaders of World War 2. A sensory figure is a drawing of a historical, living, or fictional figure with first-person descriptions of what they might have thought, seen, heard, touched, said, felt, or otherwise experienced during their lifetime. Students “show what they know” about the figure by writing 1-2 sentence descriptions for their figure’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. After writing the descriptions, students connect them to the part of the body to which it most closely relates. For example, a feeling might be connected to the heart. The descriptions should be specific to the historical figure’s life, not generic statements that could apply to anyone. Students should be encouraged to address several topics in their descriptions instead of repeating information.

This World War II Documentary activity allows each student to become an expert on one topic from WWII. They create a 2 minute video clip with footage and voice-overs to explain the topic. All clips are then combined into one large documentary that covers World War II. In this resource, you receive the project sheet, participation and overall rubrics, suggested topic sheet, and research graphic organizer.

18+ ready-to use digital notebook pages on World War II are great for your World War 2 unit. Students learn about and analyze topics related to World War II such as leaders, the Allies and the Axis, and the Japanese internment camps

I am not a fan of military history so I teach the battles using this two page handout about the key turning points of WWII in a graphic organizer. Students can complete this with the internet or with a textbook. It is a nice review of a unit or reinforcement of key concepts.

Here are some wonderful resources that are free!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Civil War Resources

Whether it is called the Civil War, the War between the States, the War of the Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence, the events of the years 1861–1865 were some of the most traumatic in the nation’s history.

Mission US has some interesting interactive games from different periods of history. This is the one related to the Civil War. I walked through it with some students once and they had lots of good questions at the end. http://www.mission-us.org/pages/landing-mission-2

The Civil War Causes stations lesson is a perfect lesson to teach all the causes of the Civil war in one 50 minute class period. I have my students spend 6-8 minutes a station. There is also an extra two page homework assignment if they finish a station early. Stations lesson includes coloring, notes, cartoons, video, and primary documents.

 

The Battles of the Civil War Scavenger Hunt can be used as an introduction or review activity. You can use the Battles of the Civil War as task cards, a scavenger hunt or both. Students will learn about Civil War leaders like Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, George Meade and many others. The Scavenger Hunt is designed so that students must visit each of the ten Civil War Fact Cards at least two times! That means they have to read the small passage or skim for details twice! Students will use non-fiction social studies content to practice reading skills, improve fluency and reading comprehension. Also included are 10 ideas for how to use task cards! The possibilities are endless for this cross-curriculum activity! This engaging activity covers the following Battles of the Civil War: Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Ironclads, Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Spotsylvania.

 

Here are some wonderful resources for teaching about the Civi War: 

  • Here is a wonderful video on the Gettysburg Address. It’s short and right to the point. It is the perfect video for teaching about the Gettysburg Address.
  • NEH The American Civil War 
  • Civil War Music is a wonderful way to teach about the Civil War from the Library of Congress.
  • The Pen is mightier than the sword when using sketches in the classroom from the Library of Congress