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Looking for an engaging lesson plan for that first day of history class? Help your students understand the importance of history with this critical thinking activity called Why Study History. Teachers will love the quality content, and students will appreciate the relevant application. Included is a

Buy lessons for Back to School for your US History class and save! Purchase the bundle of beginning of the year activities for any history course! In this bundle, you will receive all of my beginning of the year lessons – from a Why Study History! to activities for Setting Up your Interactive Notebook. Each of these lessons involve an Interactive Student Notebook component and are designed for maximum engagement for your students. ***************************************************************************** Customer Tips: How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺ Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: • Look for the green star next to my store logo and click it to become a follower. You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ © Social Studies Success. This purchase is for you and your classroom. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. Do you want to buy one for a friend? Additional copies can be purchased for only half price! If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote. Please review all product descriptions and previews. If you have a question, contact me before you purchase at [email protected]. As this is a digital product, all sales are final.

You can enjoy teaching high school history at home! Just follow these easy tips for an awesome and fun year studying history at home.

WOW! Just wow! Summer is gone. G-O-N-E. I cannot believe it. I officially have a high schooler now and my twins are in their last year of elementary school! What-The-What!!!!!!!?? As usual, one of our back to school traditions is taking photos the DAY or DAY before. Trying to capture a few good photos the morning of NEVER works! And the weather is always so unpredictable so I enjoy setting aside some time to capture my children, in their back to school clothing, in a less stressful time frame/environment. Because TY only allowed me to take TWO photos, I will start with him FIRST. A HIGH SCHOOLER, really? HOW. CAN. IT. BE.? Sigh.... And he certainly acts like a high schooler. Check out how "too cool" he is to just say "Cheese!" But, as you can see, HE DID hold a cheesy sign that read, "Only 3 more years of these dumb photos!" LOL! I think this dude was excited for High School. He went to be "early" the night before school (11 pm) and woke up "early" (6:15 am). Ty and I had a mother-son date the day before school started. He picked out two really nice pairs of shoes and several outfits. His biggest hurdle was the silliest of them all... "I hope there is someone to sit with in lunch" He achieved that hurdle for both A Day and B Day! Yay! My heart is heaving knowing that my first born is in his last four years of grade school. Ty, keep your eyes wide open. This is where the end of your childhood occurs. And then... you’ll be adulting. If you follow in your mom and dad’s footsteps, you might even meet your wife in this building. 🥰 My dream for you is for you to enjoy every single moment in this building BUT, only IF it means doing it unto the Lord. I cannot live vicariously through you, but my desires for you are for you to work with passion, treat EVERYONE with kindness, and like your principal said today “CARE and TRY”!!!! You can’t change the world, but you can make a difference. I am excited for you AND I’m praying hard for you stay focused. Learning is a GIFT FROM GOD! Yes, it’s hard and not always fun, but it’s a gift. Loads of positive things can happen for you in these next four years. BUT.... give into temptation, join the wrong crowd, or grow complacent in your studies.... and everything negative could also happen. Your future is in your hands. Not mine! I can’t work for you but, I will work with you to help you to achieve ANYTHING you are willing to also work for!!! I love you. Parents of toddlers, DO. NOT. BLINK.

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As the summer comes to an end and you get ready for back to school, here is a checklist of things to do before the start of the school year. It is in a timeline format and includes from one month before to the night before. This document includes an English copy and a Spanish one.

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This Interactive Timeline Activity for US History is an awesome back to school or first day of school activity! The resource features 33 events from American History on cards to cut out and give to students. They then must line up in chronological order or use one of 5 other lesson activities! Stude...

Back to School time can be fun and thrilling for kids and parents alike. It can also be stressful and scary for your kids as well. Not everyone is ready to make the transition back to school. There are some things you can do to make this time of year FUN for your kids! Here are ten ideas you can do celebrate the time of year.

As a middle school history teacher, I know that on the first day of school most students get bombarded with rules and expectations for most of their first day. How about doing something different? Get them out of their seats and give yourself a chance to observe the kids you're going to be with all year. UPDATE - AUGUST 2020 Realizing that many of you will be starting out this year with distance learning or using a hybrid model, I made this resource available to be used digitally in Google Slides. See the preview for an example. For just the digital version click HERE. The Pictures Included: Andrew Jackson, Boston Massacre, California Gold Rush, Civil War (1861-1865), Cotton Gin, Donner Party, Harriet Tubman, Jamestown, John Wilkes Booth, Lewis & Clark, Louisiana Territory, Manifest Destiny, Middle Passage, Nat Turner, Pocahontas, Robert E. Lee, Salem Witch Trials, War of 1812, Washington Crossing the Delaware This U.S. History Museum Walk does just this for your first day of school. Included are 20 pictures of famous people, events, or objects that the kids will learn about in their 8th grade U.S. History class. Each item gets printed and taped to a wall with the corresponding number taped over them - you know, for the mystery effect. Decide where you'd like to conduct this activity such as your classroom, library, hallway, or wherever you think would work best so you can observe your students. TABLE OF CONTENTS 20 pages: Image with number and question 20 pages: Numbers to cover pictures 1 page: Student answer sheet 1 page: Teacher answer sheet 1 page:Teacher observation sheet Remember, middle school students need to be able to communicate, move, and be engaged in their learning. Hopefully this gets things off to a good start for you and your students! See ALL of my History Resources! Great History Resources for Middle School For a GREAT classroom management tool check out one of my BEST-SELLERS! Student Conferencing "Deli-Style" Connect with Surviving Social Studies... Be sure to follow my TpT store by clicking on the ‘Follow Me’ next to my logo to receive notifications of new products and upcoming sales. Follow me on Pinterest Follow me on Instagram Follow me on www.survivingsocialstudies.com Thanks for stopping by! Surviving Social Studies Terms of Use: Copyright ©Surviving Social Studies. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.

Ready to "cook up" a great first day of school? It's easy with this recipe for a successful start to the school year! PREP: ➤ Think about how you will set the tone for your classroom on the first day of school. ➤ Plan to keep students engaged and active. ➤ Prepare to build a positive rapport with students from the first instant that they become a part of the classroom community. INGREDIENTS: ➤ Warm-Up Activity ➤ Get-to-Know-You Activity ➤ Game that gets students out of their seats ➤ Get-to-Know-the-Teacher Activity ➤ Writing Prompt ➤ Extension Activity Once you've gathered your ingredients, you can get "cooking!" (CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE RECIPE!) PROCEDURE: STEP 1: Begin with a warm-up activity. Place an activity on students' desks that they can complete independently. You might try a simple survey or poster. An All About Me poster is a quick way to learn about students. You can even gather them together for an awesome classroom display. Or, a survey is a wonderful way to collect information about students. You might include questions about where students like to sit, their favorite way to learn, and activities that they enjoy so that you can start connecting with students. Another awesome warm-up activity is an "All About You" name tag. Students answer questions about themselves while coloring in a name tag based on their responses. Then, students can place the name tag on their desks to help you learn your students' names. This activity is particularly awesome if you have multiple sets of students. You can collect the name tags and re-distribute them each day during each class while you learn names. Oh, and as a bonus, you can gather them together and leave them with substitute teachers throughout the year! If you'd like to check out ready-made Back to School Warm-Ups, just click here for the poster, here for the survey, and here for the name tags. STEP 2: Mix in a get-to-know-you activity. Give students a chance to share about themselves and learn about their classmates with an engaging get-to-know-you activity. One of my favorites is a doodle-inspired mini-book. Students transform a single sheet of paper into a doodley mini-book all about themselves. After students make the mini-book it's fun to hang them on a clothesline. Then, as students finish their work during the first days of school, you can encourage fast-finishers to grab a classmate's mini-book and learn about him or her. Check out the doodle mini-book HERE. Or, you could have students create this 3-D About Me Activity. Students create an infographic-style book about themselves. After answering some simple questions, they do a little cutting and gluing to create a 3-D "About Me" display. These are especially fun because students can set them on their desks and then everyone can tour around the classroom and learn about their peers. (These are awesome for Open House too!) Learn more HERE. STEP 3: Scatter in an activity that gets students moving. Since students crave opportunities to get up and out of their seats, plan to get your class moving on the first day of school. You might have students complete a scavenger hunt or even play a learning game that requires students to move around. I'm a huge fan of this simple get-to-know-you activity that gets students moving (and you can download it for FREE here.) First, students make paper airplanes. They write their name and 3 interview questions on the wings. Then, students line up shoulder-to-shoulder and launch the planes. Next, they pick up a classmate's plane, find him or her, and ask the interview questions. You can repeat the airplane launch as often as you'd like! Find everything you need to do this activity in this FREEBIE. If you'd like to combine movement and learning on the first day of school, then you and your students will love this Back to School Doodle Infographic. First students fill in the infographic with facts about school. There are 21 facts and you can hide them around the room to get students moving. Then, they put together the infographic to make a fun and doodle-y poster! Check it out HERE. STEP 4: Sprinkle in a chance for students to get-to-know-you (their teacher). On the first day of school, students are very curious about you. They want to learn about you, so you'll want to be sure to share about yourself. You can give a simple biography of yourself, or you might try these easy and engaging activities: Create a teacher interview question along with 4 or 5 prize cards for each student in your class. Then, tape the questions and the prize cards under students' seats before class begins. During class, explain to students that they all have something under their chairs. It might be a question and it might be a prize. If they get a prize card, have students keep it quiet. Then, call on students. They can either read a question for you to answer or reveal that they won a prize. If they won, you might give them a pencil, piece of candy, or a homework pass. You can find all my favorite questions HERE. Or, you might have students complete a "Teacher Guess" about you. First, they predict the answers to questions about you. Then, as you reveal the answers, they earn points for every correct prediction. It's a fun activity that students truly enjoy! You can check it out HERE. STEP 5: Add a fun writing prompt to your back to school activities. A writing prompt is a great way to gather a baseline for students' writing on the first day of school. You might give students a simple prompt about their summer or goals for the new school year. However, I love to add a fun creative writing prompt into the mix. For example, with this writing prompt students select a setting, character, problem, and 3 random objects. Then, they need to work them all into a story. It's fun, engaging, and a great way to see where your students are starting the school year. Find this writing prompt HERE or check out this collection of 10 creative writing activities. STEP 6: Top it off with a review of tomorrow's warm-up. Set students up for success during your next day of school by quickly reviewing what they will need to do when they arrive to class. If you're planning to have students work through warm-ups like these This or That ELA warm-ups where students choose to do the "this" or the "that" activity, then you might quickly review what will be waiting on their desks when they arrive. Taking the time to preview tomorrow's warm-up is a great way to set expectations for students! If you're looking for some daily warm-ups, you might want to check out these This or That ELA warm-ups or these This or That Writing warm-ups! STEP 7: Don't forget to have an extension activity just in case your lesson ends early. I love playing games like "Move If You..." which you can find for FREE HERE. While you may never get to the extension activity, it's a lifesaver if you need it! TIPS: When you're following this recipe for a great first day of school, you might want to: ➤ Greet students at the door and answer these questions for students right away: ➨ Where do I sit? ➨ Am I in the right classroom? ➨ What should I be doing right now? ➤ Also, be prepared to manage students' behavior on the first day of school. Ensure that you have a positive classroom management system in place and ready to use if you need it! Well, there you have it, my recipe for a great first day of school. Be sure to download all the ideas with links AND the FREE airplane activity HERE! CHECK THIS OUT! I've put together a 100+ page guide for back to school for teachers. It includes tips, tools, and printables for classroom décor, classroom organization, lesson planning, community building, and planning the first day of school. It's absolutely FREE! Just click here to sign up. When you sign up, you'll get access to 6 mini-courses that cover everything Back to School including classroom design, organization, curriculum planning, and ways to build a positive classroom community. There's also a TON of exclusive freebies, bonuses, and videos! If you'd like to learn more and sign up, just click HERE. Thanks so much for stopping by, Mary Beth P.S. If you'd like MORE free resources for your classroom, be sure to join the Brain Waves Instruction club!

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