40 Primary Sources for 7th grade history (Medieval - Modern) Massive Bundle

Each primary source document has guiding, text-dependent questions to help students analyze the text. These resources come from every unit of 7th grade History, are fully editable, and have been designed to fit on one paper for easy printing and copying.

Using Primary Sources throughout the year will also better prepare students for common core and smarter balanced assessments. Each of these unique resources can be downloaded separately, but are offered here at a bundle discount.  

This download includes all 40 of the primary source documents listed below...

Seppuku Primary Source
Da Vinci text on painting advice
Machiavelli's The Prince Excerpt
Magna Carta vs. Bill of Rights
Da Vinci Primary Source text on birds and flight
Epic of Sundiata, the Lion King of Mali
Constitution of Prince Shotoku
Rousseau's Social Contract
The Life of Augustus
The Roman Colosseum
Julius Ceasar's Gallic Wars
Life of Charlemagne
Pope Urban II calls to crusade
Pope Leo X Papal Bull against Martin Luther
Newton's Three Laws of Motion
Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji
Mayan Number System
Martin Luther's 95 Theses sample
Martin Luther's Edict of Worms
Learning Iambic Pentameter from William Shakespeare
Kublai Khan's Letter to Japan
Indictment of Galileo 
Hernan Cortes Primary Source
King Henry vs. Pope Gregory
Francisco Pizarro Letter
First Correspondence between Japan and the United States
Eye Witness Account of the Battle of Hattin
Excerpt of the Black Death - Varying Reactions to Disaster
Excerpt of the Black Death - Breakdown of Social Order
Excerpt of the Black Death - Signs of Impending Death
Excerpt of the Black Death - Mass Burials
Copernicus on "Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"
English Bill of Rights vs. U.S. Bill of Rights
Andreus Vesalius excerpt
Voltaire's "A Treatise on Toleration"
Vasco Da Gama description
Magellan's Death eye witness
Christopher Columbus excerpt
Johannes Kepler quotations
Declaration of Independence

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Top Ten Inventions from Ancient History: Engaging PPT with handouts & more

Top Ten Inventions from Ancient History: Engaging PPT with handouts & more

This download includes both the interactive 35-slide PowerPoint and the follow-along graphic organizer (in PDF and MS WORD format).

This resource guides students in analyzing 10 world-changing inventions from ancient history. Each invention is introduced with images, key questions, and connections are also made to later innovations that stemmed from each invention. There is also a list of "honorable mentions" for students to further research on the back of their handout. This lesson was designed for use in a middle school classroom. Enjoy!

***For other modern inventions such as the computer, penicillin, the light bulb, telephone, or the cotton gin, search for "Top Ten Inventions from Modern History: Engaging PPT with links, handouts & more"

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44 U.S. (American) Presidents Bobble-heads Activity: handouts & PPT included

This download includes both the PowerPoint with the answers and various versions of the handout (in PDF and MS WORD format)

Students follow along to fill in the names of the 44 Presidents. This can be done at the beginning of the year as an introduction, or at the end of the year for a review. Students can complete on their own for homework, or follow along to fill in the names. Works for any grade studying U.S. History (e.g. 5th grade, 8th grade, 11th grade) or anything in-between. Enjoy!  

Use slide 3 as a handout if you want students to fill out the 55 figures without any clues

Use slide 4 as a handout if you want students to fill out the 55 figures Using clues

Use slide 5 if you want to display all of the answers to the class

Use slide 6 if you want to display one answer at a time (to allow for discussion, participation, guessing, etc.)

1 George Washington (1789-97)

2 John Adams, 1797-1801 (Federalist)

3 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-9 (Democratic-Republican)

4 James Madison, 1809-17 (Democratic-Republican)

5 James Monroe, 1817-25 (Democratic-Republican)

6 John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 (Democratic-Republican)

7 Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 (Democrat)

8 Martin Van Buren, 1837-41 (Democrat)

9 William Henry Harrison, 1841 (Whig)

10 John Tyler, 1841-45 (Whig)

11 James Knox Polk, 1845-49 (Democrat)

12 Zachary Taylor, 1849-50 (Whig)

13 Millard Fillmore, 1850-53 (Whig)

14 Franklin Pierce, 1853-57 (Democrat)

15 James Buchanan, 1857-61 (Democrat)

16 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 (Republican)

17 Andrew Johnson, 1865-69 (Democrat/National Union)

18 Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77 (Republican)

19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-81 (Republican)

20 James Abram Garfield, 1881 (Republican)

21 Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85 (Republican)

22 Grover Cleveland, 1885-89 (Democrat)

23 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93 (Republican)

24 Grover Cleveland, 1893-97 (Democrat)

25 William McKinley, 1897-1901 (Republican)

26 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-9 (Republican)

27 William Howard Taft, 1909-13 (Republican)

28 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21 (Democrat)

29 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 (Republican)

30 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29 (Republican)

31 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33 (Republican)

32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-45 (Democrat)

33 Harry S Truman, 1945-53 (Democrat)

34 Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61 (Republican)

35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-63 (Democrat)

36 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69 (Democrat)

37 Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-74 (Republican)

38 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77 (Republican)

39 James Earl Carter, 1977-81 (Democrat)

40 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89 (Republican)

41 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (Republican)

42 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001(Democrat)

43 George W. Bush, 2001-2009 (Republican)

44 Barack Obama, 2009- (Democrat)

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Making Metaphors for World History 10-UNIT BUNDLE (PPTs & Handouts included)

This download includes both the 15-slide guiding PowerPoint AND the graphic organizer in PDF and MS WORD format for ALL 10 UNITS OF HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY. The bundle of 10 assignments provides 10 days of high-engagement, high-level-thinking, creative student activities (one per unit throughout the school year).

These activities have been designed to have students think outside the box and create their own analogies of historical topics. Each unique PowerPoint provides metaphors for three historical events for that unit, both verbally and visually, before asking students to create their own by replacing the underlined portion of the historical comparison. Check out the preview file to get an idea. 

Benefits of this resource:

Handouts & PowerPoint included
Ideal for a single-period lesson
Higher-Order-Thinking-skills
A scaffolded, guided lesson
Fresh way to review a unit
Fun, Engaging, interactive
Perfect for Common Core
Lots of Student Choice and differentiated student products in the end

The units covered in this download for a World History course include:

1 Influences on the Western World
2 Enlightenment Revolutions
3 Industrial Revolution
4 Imperialism, Colonialism
5 World War One
6 Interwar Years
7 World War Two
8 Cold War (1945-1950s)
9 Cold War (1960s-1970s)
10 Modern World (80s, 90s, & beyond)

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Hawaii Map Activity- fun, engaging, follow-along PPT with blank map handouts

This download includes both the follow-along map activity AND the blank Hawaii map in PDF and MS WORD format. By the end, students will turn the blank map into an informational resource with cities, geographic regions, islands and more. Enjoy!

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55 Figures from 7th Grade History

Great way to introduce all the famous figures that students will learn about throughout the year. 


This download includes both the PowerPoint with the answers and various versions of the handout (in PDF and MS WORD format)

Students follow along to fill in the names of 55 historical figures that are likely to come up in a 7th grade History Curriculum (Medieval, Renaissance, Modern, etc.). This can be done at the beginning of the year as an introduction, or at the end of the year for a review. Students can complete on their own for homework, or follow along to fill in the names. Enjoy!

Use slide 3 as a handout if you want students to fill out the 55 figures without any clues

Use slide 4 as a handout if you want students to fill out the 55 figures Using clues

Use slide 5 if you want to display all of the answers to the class

Use slide 6 if you want to display one answer at a time (to allow for discussion, participation, guessing, etc.)

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Elvis Presley: 20 slides with text, hyperlinks & primary sources (with handouts)

This download includes both the 20-slide PowerPoint AND the stick figure graphic organizer (in PDF and MS WORD format)

This lesson examines the career and impact of Elvis Presley. The slides include informational text, timelines, graphics, images, primary sources, and several hyperlinks to hear samples of his music. Students follow along using the unique Stick Figure graphic organizer. Enjoy!

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History of Australia

This unit can be downloaded as individual lessons, or as a unit bundle at a discount. This download includes part 1, 2, 3, & 4 of the unit described below…

The entire unit includes 120 rich, interactive slides and 5 pages of detailed structured notes. Graphic organizers, links to videos, text, images and more are built into the lesson. Enjoy!

Part 1 – Geography (35 slides and 1 blank map) - Students follow along to identify political and geographic features on a blank map of Australia. Follow-along PowerPoint AND blank Australia map handout is provided…

Part 2 – Pre-Colonization (23 slides and 1 page of structured notes and questions) - Students use guided notes to follow along and learn about the history and culture of Indigenous Australians (Aborigines / Aboriginal peoples) as well as the Torres Strait Islanders…

Part 3 – British Colonization (34 slides and one page of structured notes and questions) - Students use guided notes to learn about the first penal colonies, about free colonies, gold rushes, immigration and more in Australia’s colonial period…

Part 4 – Australia as a Nation (28 slides and 2 pages of structured notes and questions) - Students use guided notes to learn about the process of federation, the structure of the federal government, influences from England and the U.S., famous Australians, human rights issues and more…

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