Next Gen is a wonderful resource for personal finance lessons. NGPF has designed 12 Units that feature 65 lessons, 200 activities, over 400 curated videos, and much more! Everything we offer from Assessments and Data Crunches to Projects and Case Studies can be found organized into Units on this page. There are tons of resources- I love their assessments, lessons, and interactive videos that are already curated. It will save you hours of time planning!
Check it out today: https://www.ngpf.org/
What’s included:
1. Handout for how a bill becomes a law
2. PowerPoint on how a bill becomes a law
3. Two YouTube links on how a bill becomes a law
4. Web-search for students to track current bills in Congress.
This Political Spectrum Activity is a 33 slide power-point file about the political spectrum designed for a government class. It is a great follow up lesson after students learn about the different political parties.
The lesson typically takes 30 minutes with group-work followed by a discussion. It leads to an interesting discussion about what is moderate and why political candidates tend to be flippers. I printed them in color and laminated them to use multiple years.
Directions:There is a student handout provided that I give them to copy down notes after the activity. I print each slide of the power-point and tape the spectrum (left-right liberal to conservative) to the board. I print each of the example slides with about 5 examples per group. Working in groups of four students need to match the examples to the correct end of the political spectrum. Click here to get the activity
Economics can be a very broad subject. Because of the vastness of economics itself and given the amount of time we have left in the school year, students will have the
opportunity to pick an economic topic that interests them. They will be given plenty of time to work on this project in class and for part of the grade a 10-15 minute presentation will be required. They will be required to create a visual to support your topic and write an essay on the topic.
This is a two part project one part is a visual component such as a movie or power-point and the other part is a three page position paper. I typically give them three days to do the research and collaboration for the project and three days for the research paper. They then present their projects 10-15 minutes to each class.
Rubrics are provided for both assignments and there is a list of possible questions they can pick as their final project. It was designed in word and can be modified for your classroom. Click here to purchase it.
Want to save yourself hours of prep-time? I am selling my US History review folder with a ton of useful materials to review United States history in preparation for a final exam or Regent’s exam.
This is a folder of over 100 review items for US History Final Review. There are multiple folders of resources included in this package. The materials are for U.S. history Regents review but it can be applied to any U.S. history course. You can purchase it here.
What’s included? 
⇒ cartoon review
⇒ DBQ Essays
⇒ General Resources
⇒ Major Graphic Organizers
⇒ Review Handouts
⇒ Review Packets
⇒ Thematic Essays
⇒ Supreme Court
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Sample Included Lessons:
⇒ U.S. History Review # 1
⇒ U.S. History Review Cartoons
This is easily four weeks of AP Government and Politics Exam Review materials. There are folders with multiple downloads for review for amendments, practice tests and quizzes, handouts, FRQ, games, powerpoints, and two complete stations lessons. There is easily over 300 items in this folder.
It is a Google drive download so be prepared for a large download. All the lessons were designed in word, powerpoint, or pdf. They can easily be modified for your classroom.
If you want to see any sample lessons check out my review materials sold separately. This is my WHOLE review folder so every lesson sold separately is now bundled in this group.
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Sample Included Lessons:
⇒ AP GOV Review Stations Lesson
⇒ AP Government Political Culture, Public Opinion, Participation Review Game
⇒ AP Government Vocabulary BINGO
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More Curriculum:
⇒ AP Government and Politics Complete Course
⇒ Constitutional Underpinnings
⇒ Political Beliefs, Behaviors, and Culture
⇒ Political Parties and Electoral Practices
⇒ The Legislative Branch and the Congress
⇒ The Executive Branch and the Presidency
⇒ The Bureaucracy Unit
⇒ The Judicial Branch Unit
⇒ The Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Unit
⇒ Exam Review
How do I find out about and access new materials as they are posted?
Continue to follow me to get the notification emails of new products. Then, simply re-download the files and copy over the new items.
This purchase is for one teacher only. This resource is not to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses. Licenses are non-transferable. If you are a coach, principal, or district interested in transferable licenses to accommodate yearly staff changes, please contact me for a quote at notanotherhistoryteacher@gmail.com. This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.
I learned about Blubbr from a colleague at work. Blubbr allows users to take any video clip or series of video clips and paste trivia or review questions after or before a video clip. It makes watching video clips into an interactive game. This would be a great addition into any flipped classroom! You can even have your students compete to get the best time with the game. Create trivia games about the things you are passionate about or lessons you are teaching your students. You can challenge your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other social networks. Check it out today!
Here is one on Hammurabi’s Code:
Do you have a story to tell? Do you need to capture the right attention? Tired of PowerPoint? Check out Adobe Voice. It’s an iPad app that turns your story into an animated video in minutes. Adobe Voice allows students to create stunning and beautiful videos in just minutes. Your students select images and can then tell a story over the pictures. They can pick from over 25, 000 iconic images or all their own images. Your students can persuade, inform, or inspire anyone to act with this beautifully designed application. Creating a powerful documentary is fun, fast, and very simple to use. You can share the videos on Facebook, Twitter, email, or your own web page for anyone to watch, on any device.
I plan on using this program for my social stratification unit. My students will educate our community about the effects of poverty and hopefully inspire and inform our community.
The Miller Center is a website that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history. The Miller Center has an impressive official oral history project for every administration from President Carter to President Obama. They are also transcribe White House audio tapes of President FDR through President Nixon. The Miller Center provides first hand accounts on how administrations have dealt with complex and difficult issues. They have an impressive collection of presidential speeches from transcripts, audio, and video that is easily searchable by topic and president. This primary source collection could significantly enhance any US History or Government course.
Reconstruction Seminar Resources Shared:
General Resources Shared:
Compliments of Joe @JoeSangillo
Forty-five states have implemented the Common Core State Standards in ELA and Mathematics for every subject. These standards are not intended to drive history and other subjects away from the curriculum, but they are designed to encourage our students to be critical readers who can apply the knowledge they learned. These standards are intended to engage students in the history curriculum and teach them skills needed to be successful. The websites listed below are useful to supplement the curriculum and teach students the skills needed to be successful 21st century learners.
Under Common Core Student’s will be encouraged to:
Websites:
Are you doing something amazing in your classroom that engages students and helps them to learn more? Do your students love social studies and love learning in your class? Or, perhaps, you feel stymied or frustrated by the current state of our education system? Do budget cuts and dwindling resources leave you little choice but to teach in isolation?
In order to be prepared, it’s best to bring along the following to an EdCamp