8th grade history

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

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

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Civil War Anchor Chart

This The Gettysburg Address Worksheet is suitable for 5th - 6th Grade. In this social studies worksheet, students read the Gettysburg Address. Students substitute words or phrases that have the same meanings as 10 underlined phrases from the Address.

Use these fun history activities for middle school in your Grade 7 History and Grade 8 History classes as well as your Grade 6 Social Studies program. These engaging history activities are also useful for your middle school history classroom. Try these ideas with your 6th grade social studies, 7th grade social studies and 8th grade social studies students. Read about 13 ways to make middle school history class engaging for your students.

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…

An overview of the engaging resources for Geography, Civics, World, or US History that are all included with a subscription to Students of History.

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.