Correlated to state learning standards
Explore U.S. History with varied and dynamic teaching material, like this activity requiring students to drag the labels into the correct places on the map of Germany after World War II. With 24 topics split into over 75 presentations, and over 1,000 slides of teaching material, Boardworks gives you everything you need to teach exciting, inspirational classes.
- The engaging, interactive presentations give you everything you need to teach U.S. History to students of all levels.
- The wealth of material contained in the resources helps you to explore and teach U.S. History in detail.
Well-organized resources for whatever you're teaching
The interactive menu system in Boardworks High School U.S. History lets you navigate the resources either by your state standards or by topic, making it easy to find and select the material you want to teach. Once you have selected a lesson, a preview will appear at the bottom of the screen – simply roll your mouse over a preview slide to enlarge it. With one click you can open the lesson and start teaching.
- All presentations are logically structured and enhanced with a wide variety of material to ensure you get the most out of your lessons.
- Each presentation is a manageable length, with well-defined sections so that topics can be taught in focused, bite-sized chunks.
Time saving and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are ready to teach, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. Teacher's notes, indicated by the notebook icon in the top right-hand corner of the slides, provide answers to questions, and useful suggestions for extension activities.
- Interesting and varied interactive activities enhance classes and motivate your students.
- Interactive activities make use of original illustrations, photographs, portraits and primary sources to help underpin learning.
- Comprehensive summary activities aid and consolidate learning.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and explore U.S. History in a unique, engaging and stimulating way. Dynamic step-by-step animations, like this one about revolutionary war battles, clarify complex processes and can be played at the right pace for your class.
- Use your classroom technology to facilitate class discussion and encourage and focus lively debates.
- Inspire your students with stimulating quizzes, testing activities and thoughtful animations.
- Important historical theories, concepts and events are presented in ways which are easy to understand and simple to recall.
A wealth of exciting ideas
Bring history to life with engaging and informative interactive activities. This linking activity tests students' knowledge of key terms of three progressive presidents, great for use as a whole-class activity either to test what students already know, or to revise what has been taught.
- Encourage students to explore U.S. History in more detail with imaginative activities and open-ended exercises.
- Numerous questions engage students in debate, allowing them to analyze and evaluate evidence to support arguments
- Icons in the top left-hand corner of each slide indicate which themes the material focuses on, allowing you to see at a glance what each slide covers.
Easy-to-use, flexible resources
With Boardworks High School U.S. History, you can easily tailor the resources to the needs of your students. This PowerPoint slide can be adapted to suit your class – you can edit the text to alter the emphasis, or even insert your own or your students' pictures.
- All presentations are created in PowerPoint for ease of use, versatility and editability.
- Presentations can be added to and enhanced with your own ideas and resources.
- Activities can be used flexibly, both to support your own teaching methods and to meet the different learning needs of your students.
