HistoryGrade 3
Matching Inventions to the Problems They Solved
In this 45-minute Grade 3 history lesson, small teams race to match ten well-known inventions, such as the wheel, the printing press and the compass, to the everyday problems people…
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HistoryGrade 8
Judging the Reliability of Conflicting Eyewitness Accounts
In this 50-minute Grade 8 history lesson, students act as investigators hired to solve a fictional 1850 bridge collapse. They compare four conflicting witness accounts and rank how reliable each…
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HistoryGrade 4
Testing How Retold Stories Change Over Time
In this 45-minute Grade 4 lesson, teams play a whispered retelling game using a short story about a past event, then score how many details survived. Students learn why memories…
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HistoryGrade 2
Comparing Daily Life Long Ago and Today
In this 45-minute Grade 2 lesson, children open a mystery letter written by a girl who lived about 100 years ago and hunt for clues about her daily life. They…
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HistoryGrade 5
Placing BCE and CE Events on a Scaled Timeline
In this 50-minute Grade 5 history lesson, small groups build a one-metre timeline from 3000 BCE to 2000 CE. They measure where eight world events belong and work out how…
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Quick lessonHistoryGrade 8
Ranking Long-Term and Short-Term Causes of an Event
Students read a short made-up history of a town that was abandoned. In pairs, they sort six causes into long-term and short-term, then rank them and defend their top choice.…
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Quick lessonHistoryGrade 4
Telling Facts from Opinions About the Past
Children hear short statements about life long ago and decide whether each is a fact that could be checked or an opinion someone holds. They then work in pairs to…
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HistoireNiveau 6
Construire une frise chronologique des inventions à l’échelle au sol
En 50 minutes, les élèves de 6e année calculent la position de dix inventions, de la roue à Internet, puis les placent à l’échelle sur une ligne de ruban collée…
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HistoireNiveau 3
Construire une maquette de village historique ancien
En équipes de 3 ou 4, les élèves de 3e année construisent un village d’il y a 200 ans : maisons, lieu de culte, marché, école et forge ou moulin,…
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HistoryGrade 8
Analyzing Primary Sources to Understand Historical Perspectives
In this 45-minute Grade 8 lesson, small groups read accounts of one event, like a labor strike, from opposing sides and chart how each author’s background, audience and word choice…
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HistoireNiveau 6
Organiser un procès historique contre des personnages célèbres
En 45 minutes, les élèves de 6e année jouent les avocats, procureurs, juges et témoins lors d’un procès fictif contre Jules César, Napoléon et Christophe Colomb. En préparant leurs arguments…
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HistoryGrade 4
Drawing Travel Routes of Famous Historical Explorers
In this 45-minute Grade 4 history lesson, pairs of students research an explorer such as Marco Polo, Zheng He, or Ibn Battuta and draw a large illustrated map of the…
