This simulation/role play activity gets students to deal with limited resources. They each are assigned a different government to be, and as that government, they need to solve government problems...
This lesson has students try to identify what you need to make a cell phone, where the teacher leads them down a path of thinking that you also need governments, electricity, education, (the list...
This activity is similar to another activity I uploaded on Middle Ages Trade Routes. This is more simple, and should be done before the Middle Ages Trade Activity. Students are split into groups (...
This is the first in a unit of lessons with the same title, but a different number. This lesson starts students by having them generate questions and make predictions about the Neolithic...
This is one of the best projects I have tried with my students. I uploaded the assesment/project guidelines. In each class, together as a class we also added to the rubric. It was a fun day in...
This activity has students look at several laws in Hammurabi's code and analyze their fairness (or lack thereof), which laws apply to protection of the people (the laws mentioning the city walls...
This task asks students to create a claim about the Neolithic Revolution, defend it using several sources, and also present a counterclaim to that claim. The sources are included, and there is a...
This is a pretty basic activity for students to jigsaw. Each student reads about a different river valley civilization (Mesopotamia/Sumer, Egypt, China, and Mohenjo daro/Harappa). While reading,...
