8th grade history

In case you haven't noticed, many textbooks are boring. (No, not all of them, but many of them are, especially when it comes to learning history.) History can and should be an adventure, and here are 30+ Ways to Teach it Without a Textbook!

Civil War Anchor Chart

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Free 7th & 8th grade worksheets, printable games, and activities to make learning math, literacy, history, and science engaging and FUN!

An overview of the printable PDF and Google Doc timeline activities included in packets for every unit in the Students of History US History curriculum.

The Gettysburg Address Worksheet | Lesson Planet:

I randomly came up with this idea during the last week of school. One of my reading groups had finished their book and project before any of the other groups had finished. Instead of giving them a new book (there was only one week left), I quickly created this template and told them to pick an event in history and research it. I had one boy choose the Vikings, someone else chose the atomic bomb, a girl wanted the great depression, and another student picked the Korean war. I loved that…