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Type
Description
Civilization in a
Bag
Create a
Crossword
Make your own crossword puzzle using terms from the current unit.
Deadliest
Warrior
HiStory
Write a creative fictional story using key terms and figures from the unit.
iHistory
Letters Home
Magazine Cover
Movie Madness
Use art and writing to recreate a given unit as a movie. Includes designing
a movie poster and writing a movie review.
Paper Bag
Puppet
Picture Book
Play
Write and perform a short play about a historical event. Completed in pairs
or small groups.
Pop Culture
Social Network
Storyboard
Travel Brochure
Create a six-panel foldout brochure that highlights the history, hot spots,
and accommodations of a civilization. You also get to design an amusement
park!
Web Page
Create the layout for a web page about a specific topic from the unit.
What If?
Aka: Fracture
Flip the script on an event in history. Change one major detail from the
event then speculate how this would have changed the outcome. Show
your results in a recreated textbook page.
Name
Type
Description
A-Z Book
Working with a partner create a picture for 26 key terms each starting
with a different letter of the alphabet. If you ask nicely I might let you
skip 2 of the tougher letters.
Bloom Ball
Board Game
Model
Newscast
Newspaper
Mind Map
Create a large word cluster using terms from the unit. Then write
sentences explaining how the words are connected. It is basically a very
large Brain Chain.
Slideshow
Presentation
(coming soon)
Textbook Remix
Name
Type
Description
Acrostic Poem
A word from the unit is written vertically and then each letter is used
to start each line of a descriptive poem.
Advertisement
Advice Letter
Be the Thing
Bio-poem
Bumper Sticker
Describe two causes and two effects for a given historical event.
Caution!
Countdown!
Day Planner
Epitaph/Gravestone
Game On!
In 'N' Out
Judgment
Picture Analysis
Picture Frame
Report Card
SOAPS
Top Ten
Venn Diagram
Wanted Poster
10 Point Assignments
45 minutes to complete
Name
Type
Description
Annotated
Illustration
Bracketology
Bio Box
Brain Chain
Character Clash!
Circle Summary
Comic Strip
Dear Diary
Flash Cards
Illustrated Map
Draw a map and add captions or small pictures to bring the map to
life.
Illustrated
Timeline
Instant Messages
Introduction
Speech
Invitation
Legal Brief
Mannequin
Personal
Pyramid
Perspective
Quest for
Knowledge
Recipe for a
Civilization
Remote
Control
Song Rewrite
Time Machine
Transport yourself back in time and figure out what would happen
to someone your age and gender in a given civilization.
Trading Cards
Worlds Collide