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US History Worksheets: Printable and Digital Activities for Kids

Students of History

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. Each curriculum includes hundreds of activities you can immediately implement into your classes!

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Refreshed Digital Notebook Activities for Social Studies

Students of History

These activities include: Sourcing documents Drag & drop timelines Analyzing primary and secondary sources Interpreting and inserting images Notetaking Comparing and contrasting topics 4. Refreshed Themes - each digital notebook set now has its own theme to match the unit.

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5 Top Trends for Teaching Social Studies in 2023

Students of History

I have a thorough World History PBL packet that can be used in any unit. One way to do this is to incorporate a variety of primary sources into lessons, including documents and speeches from underrepresented groups. It allows students to select a presentation model based on their own skills or interests.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. A Teacher’s Influence “Because of MAHG, I’ve begun using way more primary sources,” Livingston says. They give you history straight from the horse’s mouth, not somebody’s interpretation.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. She asks freshmen taking World History and juniors taking US History to complete a large independent research project.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

The next day, we dove into the document analysis activity compiled by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. After going over key terms and background information (as suggested by Wolfe-Rocca in the PDF version of the activity), I arranged my students in groups of four and they investigated six of the included documents.

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