Students conduct interviews with other individuals in their community to get a hands-on experience with the content they are learning in class. 

Students practice classroom juggling for a warm-up activity. Students have two minutes to juggle with their group. The student who ends up with the odd-colored ball has to contribute an idea to the warm-up question. 

Students work in groups to read a text, take down notes, and complete a quick write together. This activity promotes collaboration and breaks down more complex readings or topics for students.

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Students retell the story of historical figures and/or events through a creative storytelling medium. 

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Students create a 1-page inforgraphic on a specific topic with an emphasis on the data, statistics, and other interesting numbers related to it. 

Students create 10 rhyming couplets based on source material. The poem is a retelling of the text or video they viewed. 

Similar to Retell in Rhyme, students capture the themes of primary sources by taking out the most significant words in the text and creating a poem out of it. Students black everything else out in Sharpie, leaving behind the words they used and an image that represents their poem. 

Students are assigned to a single slide in a google slides document that is shared with the entire class. Historical figures in a unit in jigsawed and allows a quick introduction of many people in a short amount of time.

Students recreate historical moments and figures through social media platforms. 

Students are given a vocab list from the unit and must connect them together indicated that they relate to each other. After forming a connection, students must explain why the words connect and its significance. 

Nearpod is a platform used to create lectures and mini-activities. Nearpod shifts lectures from direct-instruction to classroom driven instruction. 

Students are assigned vocab words where the sketch a drawing of how it can be represented. Afterwards, they write a summary on what their drawings are along with their significance/relation to the unit. 

Students are given an article to read and then they must indicate what types of claims the author makes. Then, they find evidence from the article and give their reasoning whether the claim is one of fact, value, or policy.

Students practice their close-reading skills by reviewing a primary source and fact-checking against AI-generated errors. 

Students practice the eight parts of language by creating a short creative narrative based on a series of photos provided to them. The analysis of the photos are then connected back to the lesson topic; in this example, we explored the impact of the Great Recession. 

Students read the text provided. Students are then given various prompts that they must answer using any parts of the text that they choose.