Social Studies Lesson Plans & Activities for High School

History doesn't have to be boring - bring it to life with comics! These lesson plans and activity ideas will have students depicting historical events, outlining important philosophies, and analyzing different time periods. They can even create posters and infographics for summative projects or information reinforcement outside of a traditional essay.

Other Project Ideas

• Timelines
• 5 Ws of Events
• Geography Infographics
• Biography Posters
• Political Cartoons & Propaganda
• Development of Ancient Cultures
• PSA Infographic
• Travel Posters

US History

Example from the Declaration of Independence

• 13 Colonies
• 1850s America
• Age of Exploration in America
• American Revolution
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Civil Rights Movement
• Cold War: 1945-1962
• Common Sense
• Constitutional Convention
• COVID 19 Pandemic
• Declaration of Independence
• Election of 1800: Jefferson vs. Adams
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Events Leading Up to the American Revolution
• Federalism
• French and Indian War
• Great Depression
• History of the US Civil War
• Indigenous Peoples
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Japanese American Incarceration in WWII
• Massachusetts Bay Colony Teacher Guide
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• New Deal
• Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony
• Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
• Presidency of Harry Truman
• Presidency of Richard Nixon
• Presidency of Ronald Reagan
• Reconstruction Era
• Revolutionary War
• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Transcontinental Railroad
• U.S. Territorial Expansion 1783-1959
• Voting Rights
• War of 1812
• World War II: (1939-1941)
• World War II: (1942-1945)
• World War II: An Introduction

World History

Introduction to World War 2

• Ancient China
• Ancient Civilizations
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient India
• Ancient Mesopotamia
• Ancient Rome
• Buddhism
• Canadian History
• Canadian History 1784-1896
• Christianity
• Communism and the Russian Revolution
• COVID 19 Pandemic
• Early Humans
• Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
• French Revolution
• Geography of Canada
• Hinduism
• History of Imperialism
• History of the Holocaust
• Indigenous Peoples
• Industrial Revolution
• Islam
• Judaism
• Primary and Secondary Sources
• Sikhism
• Vietnam War
• World Geography Projects
• World War I (1914-1918)
• World War II: (1939-1941)
• World War II: (1942-1945)
• World War II: An Introduction

Civics

Introduction to US Government

• Bill of Rights
• Canadian Government
• Executive Branch
• How to Become President
• Introduction to Democratic Principles
• Introduction to Government
• Judicial Branch
• Legislative Branch
• Political Parties
• US Elections
• Voting Rights

Primary Sources

Diary of Anne Frank

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• Bill of Rights
• Boy on the Wooden Box, The
• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• Emancipation Proclamation
• General History of Virginia, The
• I Have a Dream
• Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Night
• Of Plymouth Plantation
• Speech in the Virginia Convention

Historical Fiction

The Scarlet Letter

• A Single Shard
• A Tale of Two Cities
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
• Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The
• Boy on the Wooden Box, The
• Breadwinner, The
• Catcher in the Rye, The
• Cay, The
• Chains
• Color Purple, The
• Don Quixote
• Echo
• Elijah of Buxton
• General History of Virginia, The
• Grapes of Wrath
• Great Expectations
• Great Gatsby, The
• House on Mango Street, The
• Johnny Tremain
• Julie of the Wolves
• Kira-Kira
• Kite Runner, The
• Last Cherry Blossom, The
• Long Walk to Water, A
• Milkweed
• Moon Over Manifest
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Night
• Night Diary, The
• Of Mice and Men
• Of Plymouth Plantation
• Prince and the Pauper, The
• Red Badge of Courage, The
• Refugee
• Scarlet Letter, The
• Silas Marner
• Sunflower, The
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Things They Carried, The
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• War That Saved My Life, The
• Wednesday Wars, The
• Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
• Wolf Hollow