History
topics
Analyze Greek myths and legends.
Produce a brochure for a cruise around ancient Greece.
Persuade an undecided city-state to align itself with Athens.
Design Greek architecture and pottery.
Compete in the Olympic Games.
Participate in a Socratic Seminar.
Use a quiz show format to answer questions about the Dark Ages.
Given clues, identify characters in various classes of the feudal system.
Design a family's coat of arms.
Contrast the simple lifestyles of monks with the illuminated manuscripts they created.
Debate the issues that led to the Crusades.
Decide how to deal with the Black Death.
Perform in a 4-act play about the spice trade.
Write a diary of a simulated journey of exploration.
Role-play historical figures to learn how Europeans reacted to the mad scramble for overseas empires.
Debate whether or not Columbus Day should be celebrated.
Explore reasons why people came to America.
Simulate immigrating by deciding what to pack for the journey.
Acting as Pilgrims, write a Mayflower Compact.
Create exhibits for a Native American museum.
Design a site plan for a colonial settlement.
Simulate colonial life by creating a Colonial Fair.
Perform skits dramatizing British acts imposed on the Colonies.
As colonists, debate whether or not to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Design a tour of the sites of five critical battles.
Write the Articles of Confederation.
The
Constitution and a New Government
Take part in a Constitutional Convention play.
Elect a president.
Examine the process by which a bill becomes a law through role-playing.
Debate the creation of a federal judicial system.
Acting as US diplomats, negotiate foreign treaties.
Witness the effect of the Land Act of 1785 by becoming a wagon train of pioneer families on the Oregon Trail.
Create "Free Homestead" posters.
Write short stories that reflect young adults/ reactions to the frontier's challenges.
Debate issues related to the Western Expansion.
Debate the Dred Scott Decision.
Create a documentary TV show about a Civil War topic.
Assist President Lincoln in selecting a general to lead the Union Army.
Perform six mini-skits to set the state for a simulation of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Simulate a voyage on a ship from Europe, landing at Ellis Island.
Investigate the conditions that motivated emigration.
Compare the lives of different ethnic groups after they settled in America.
Conduct oral history interviews of immigrants' experiences.
Conduct an efficiency simulation to explore the principles behind the mass production of goods.
Simulate the patent process.
Assume the roles of assembly line workers and produce shirts from start to finish.
Negotiate to prevent a workers' strike.
Write newspaper articles in a "yellow press" newsroom.
Lobby against going to war with Spain.
Debate the seizure of the Panama Canal.
Role-play the decisions that drew nations into World War I.
Become a casualty of trench warfare.
Discuss the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles.
The
Roaring Twenties & The Great Depression
Create a live radio show.
Explore the influence of Flappers on American society.
Investigate a gangster hit with the Untouchables during Prohibition.
Invest and lose everything in an unpredictable stock market.
Wait for soup in a breadline.
Examine wreckage from the bed of Pearl Harbor.
Learn how to send semaphore.
Investigate women's contributions to the war effort.
Recreate a television news report of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Debate the use of atomic bombs against Japan.
Pass judgment on Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials.
Explore the history of anti-Semitism.
Examine the plight of escapees as they look for a save haven.
Become sensitive to the anguish of the Judenrät.
Learn how the Nazis used propaganda.
Stage a hearing before the UN to determine Israel's status as a nation.
Read testimonials from over 200 survivors.