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High School Social Studies Lesson Plans Number 101 to 150
- A Case Study: The Unemployment Rate
- A Case Study: United States International Trade in Goods and Services
- A Dinosaur's Neighborhood
- A Fair Wage?
- A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America
- A Look at the Population Density of the United States
- A Reason for the Season
- A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca
- A Web of Resources
- About a Tree: The Life and Work of Emerging Explorer Mark Olson
- Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery
- African American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions
- African Americans After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?
- African Language Diversity
- AIDS in Africa I: The Scope of the Problem
- AIDS in Africa II: More Than Sympathy
- Airline Mergers, Software Industry Monopolies: Contestable Markets?
- Alarming Frogs: The Life and Work of Emerging Explorer Tyrone Hayes
- American Diplomacy in World War II
- American Experiences Abroad: An Interview- With foreign trade being so controversial, students need an opportunity to examine a broad spectrum of information about our complex relationships with overseas friends and foes.
- American Political Culture- This lesson plan stimulates classroom discussion of basic values. First a personal evaluation is taken, and then those personal values are compared and contrasted with the class as a whole.
- Citizenship and the Constitution- Students need to be informed citizens on a local, state and national level.
- Civil Rights: Casualties of Wartime- When we warn of threats to our constitutionally guaranteed rights, our students often side more with expedience, for instance, than with due process. Likewise, in international crises, the challenge is leveled: Why don't we just nuke 'em?
- Civil War Essay Writing- The learner will be able to list the six major themes presented in class and explain one in detail as an essay answer.
- Class Reunion- Lesson prepared in an effort to make students ruminate about their future and preparation for life beyond high school.
- Classical Conditioning Experiment- The learner will see the effect of classical conditioning in their everyday life.
- Colonial Rules- This particular activity was designed to show students how the colonists felt during this oppressive period.
- Communication in U.S. Society; Radio in America- For the MTV generation radio's impact may seem unlikely but this lesson will show them how powerful the second revolution (the first being the printed word) in the media was to life in the United States.
- Concentration/Constitution and Bill of Rights- The class will engage in a spirited competition on the Constitution/Bill of Rights by trying to identify phrases connected with the Constitution/ Bill of Rights.
- Conceptual Analysis In Economics- The purpose of this activity is to involve students in making decisions and pursuing their own interests within a social and economic environment.
- Constitutional Scavenger Hunt- A fun way to learn.
- Cultural Diversity- This activity is designed for teachers who would like to heighten student's awareness of lifestyles, stereotyping, and cultural diversity.
- Dynamics of Relationships- Students will recognize that a relationship is more than the sum of two people, it is dynamic and built on the unique dimensions that are possessed by the people involved.
- Entrepreneur- This activity is used as a group activity. The students work in groups of four to establish a profitable business that also helps the economy of the community.
- Establishing Justice- This lesson can be used when studying the Court system in United States Government or American history when studying the 1960's.
- Ethics in American Government- This activity provides exploration of ethical dilemmas which might face our present government officials.
- Evaluating Crimes- Students will learn that a crime is something one does or fails to do in violation of a law; or it can also be behavior for which government sets a penalty.
- An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis
- An EDSITEment Tour of the National Mall
- Ancient Greece
- Animals Versus People: Who's the Better Navigator?
- Are the Best Things in Life Free?
- Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
- Attitudes Toward Emancipation
- Babysitter Shortage in Washington, D.C.
- Bank Mergers Lead to Greater Business Concentration
- Baseball Economics 101
- The Middle East- Following the successful completion of the introductory activity on the Middle East, 12th graders will be able to explain the different Middle East countries and their relationships with each other, with 100% accuracy.
- The New Deal- The student will analyze how the Great Depression affected children.
- The Pottery Project- Begin lesson by assigning a different Native American culture region to each group in your class. The group will then decorate a clay pot to reflect the culture of their assigned region. While paint is the most fun, colored pencils work best.
- The Rain Forest- This project is long term and the culmination is the creation of a "Tropical Rain Forest" in the classroom. We had the students do research on a rain forest and then re-created it.
- The Ripple of Society- Given a list of categories students will be able to come up with a minimum of twelve things that have been integrated into our culture and explain how they have changed the culture.
- The Sistine Chapel Painting Project- I have students watch "The Agony and The Ecstasy", or you could read it with an upper level class, to get an idea of what Michaelangleo's life was like. The kids enjoy the love/hate relationship portrayed between Pope Julius and Michaelangelo. After viewing the movie, I introduce the project, explaining that the students will replicate chosen panels of the ceiling.
