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Content Resources
United States History Georgia Standards of Excellence for Social Studies
Teacher Notes
United States History Teacher Notes
Teacher Content Videos
To view this video series in the embedded YouTube playlist below, click the menu in the upper-left corner of the video and select a playlist topic.
Playlist Topics
1. English Colonization - USH1
2. Causes of the American Revolution - USH3
3. Creating the Constitution – USH5c-e
4. Big Business – USH11
5. Foreign Relations at the Turn of the 20th Century – USH14a-b
6. National Identity after WWI – USH16
Student Video Dictionary
These are short, classroom appropriate videos designed to support students in U.S. History.
Instructional Resources
United States History Curriculum Map
United States History Curriculum Map
Sample Units
Unit 1: Connecting Themes
Unit 2: Colonialism 
Document Set
Unit 3: Revolution and Constitution Document Set
Unit 4: Early Republic, Expansion, and Reform Document Set
Unit 5: Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction Document Set
Unit 6: Expansion and Reform
Unit 7: World War I and the 1920s
Unit 8: Great Depression and World War II
Unit 9: Cold War and Civil Rights
Unit 10: Modern US History
Distance Learning Resources
Unit 2: Topic - The Pocahontas Story PPT
Unit 6: The Progressive Era and the Empowerment of the Voter
Instructional Activity Videos
To view this video series in the embedded YouTube playlist below, click the menu in the upper-left corner of the video and select a playlist topic.
Playlist Topics
1. Better Feedback - USH1-2
2. Circle Maps
3. Cornell Notes
4. The Dinner Party - USH13, 16
5. Document Analysis: Explicit vs Inferences
6. Edmodo - USH10
7. Exit Questions - USH20
8. Gamification of US History
9. Jigsaw - USH3
10. Mock Journal Entries
11. Reflections - USH5,11,15
12. Student Created Multiple Choice - USH6
13. Summarizers
14. Systematic Thinking - What? So What? Now What?
15. Think Alouds
16. Vocab Quizzes
17. Vocabulary Strategies
Social Studies Labs
• George Washington: Are leaders Born or Made? PDF Version PPT Version
• Domestic Impact of World War I PDF Version PPT Version
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