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Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
November 30, 2021
Give a lesson on the significance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day with these Pearl Harbor activities for elementary and middle school students.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
November 10, 2021
Use these National Hispanic Heritage Month activities and lesson ideas to honor Hispanic American contributions and influences in our society.
Daniel Poremba
Senior Tier II Specialist, HMH
August 27, 2021
Looking for ways to help your students understand the September 11 terror attacks and their impact? Use these 9/11 activities and lesson plans designed for middle and high school classrooms.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
August 10, 2021
Find free teaching resources. Explore fun classroom activities, lessons plans, downloadables, and videos for Grade K–12 kids to keep learning and growing at grade level.
June 16, 2021
Celebrate Juneteenth in the classroom. Explore Juneteenth activities and lesson plans for elementary, middle school, and high school students.
Shaped Staff
May 12, 2021
Hop to it! Try these 7 Easter classroom activities for elementary and middle school students. Your class will have fun while sharpening reading, writing, and STEM skills.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
March 11, 2021
Download these fun Black History Month activities for elementary and middle school students to teach your class about African American history.
Shaped Staff
January 27, 2021
Inauguration Day is January 20. These presidential inauguration activities for students can be integrated into social studies or language arts lessons and used in remote or in-person classrooms.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
January 11, 2021
Dr. Emma Humphries, Chief Education Officer at iCivics, shares how she believes educators can carefully and thoughtfully approach teaching impeachment in K–12 classrooms.
Geraldine Stevens
Social Studies Content Expert
January 08, 2021
Introduce students to Black innovators with these Black History Month writing prompts and guide them into a particular type of text, such as personal narrative, informative, or persuasive.
Perry Hollins
Fourth-Grade Teacher, Evanston/Skokie School District, Illinois
December 22, 2020
Allow your middle schoolers to explore the past with these social studies activities and lessons covering topics ranging from U.S. Supreme Court cases to ancient civilizations.
December 22, 2020
Keep students engaged with these fun learning activities for middle school, no matter what subject you teach and whether your students are in person or remote.
December 22, 2020
Here are Constitution Day activities to engage your students in learning about the historic document that defines how our government works.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
September 04, 2020
Download a 1960 election lesson plan to teach your students about the first-ever televised presidential debates in 1960 and their long-term impact.
August 24, 2020
Download a sample chapter from Finish the Fight!, accompanied by activities to engage students and honor 100 years of voting rights for women.
Shaped Staff
July 31, 2020
Use this history of political parties lesson plan and activity to teach your students about how the U.S. political system in time for the 2020 presidential election.
Shaped Staff
July 27, 2020
Use these Cold War lesson plans and activities for middle school and high school to teach students about the decades-long period of geopolitical tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.
June 30, 2020