Unit project focus: students research an American Indian tribe and an explorer. Students analyze how each shaped the history of the United States. Students then pick one side and participate in a Socratic Seminar.
Unit project focus: students research a number of influential people of the era. Students pick one person, work in small groups, then design and film a silent film of how a person is responsible for their community in the past and today.
Unit project focus: after learning about the American Revolution, students research a current revolution from Egypt, Libya, Yemen, or Syria. Students work in groups to create a newscast that compares and contrasts revolutions from 1776 and the 21st century.
Unit project focus: students learn about how the Constitution guards against tyranny using the DBQ Project materials.
Unit project focus: students fill out a Hyperdoc in which they analyze the powers of the first five Presidents and who demonstrated the most power in their time.
Unit project focus: students design a choice "tic-tac-toe" project in which they travel back in time and persuade people to visit/move to a specific location in order to ensure that a major event happens between 1820 - 1850.
Unit project focus: students learn about Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement using the DBQ Project materials.
Unit project focus: students pick a person or event from Colorado history. Students design and narrate a digital story from someone's perspective that was involved in the event.
Unit project focus: students do a joint project with Language Arts. While researching the American Civil War, they choose a major person involved and their most important characteristic. Students participate in a wax museum event in Language Arts, and put together an improvement hour project that exemplifies the person's characteristic.
Unit project focus: students learn about who was more responsible for the end of Reconstruction, North or South, using the DBQ Project materials. Instead of writing an essay, students create a visual essay using Piktochart.