Category: Quiz

Colonial America, Colonization & Settlement, Quiz

Christopher Columbus Quiz to Use in Classroom

This is a very interesting and pretty thorough quiz about Christopher Columbus. You can use it at the beginning of class to measure your students’ knowledge or as a way to spark interest in the topic. You can also use it as a filler at the end of class or at the start of the next class. I would project this on the board and go through it as a class. Give students time to guess the answer to each question and then submit the answer and discuss if necessary.

Holidays, Quiz

Veteran’s Day Quiz

Here’s a quick Veteran’s Day quiz. Project it on your board and go through it as a class. (Let the students silently answer the question, and then take an informal vote as to which answer you should choose.) When checking the answers, make sure you read the information that explains the correct answer before moving on. Use this quiz to activate prior knowledge or as a filler at the end of class. If you do my Quick Veteran’s Day lesson, I’d do it after the reflection, at the end of class, or the next day as a quick review.

 

 

Assignment Ideas, Quiz, World War II

Pearl Harbor PowerPoint, Interactive Quiz, and Videos

In honor of December 7th, I have created a PowerPoint summary of the key points you may want to review with your students when discussing the importance of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I also created an interactive quiz and have embedded several videos that might be useful in your classroom.

Click here to download my free PowerPoint summary of Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor Interactive Quiz (10 Questions)

Quick video summary of the attack

 

FDR’s Famous Speech (speech starts at 0:30)

 

Interview with survivor of USS Arizona (It’s about 15 minutes long, but it’s so interesting!)

 

 

Inventors, Miscellaneous, Progressive Era, Quiz

Interesting Wright Brothers Article

Did you know that Neil Armstrong took a piece of the Wright Brothers’ Flyer to the moon!!??  How cool is that!  I was teaching a lesson on the Wright Brothers in my American Inventors class and came across this link during my research.  It’s a History Channel article called “10 Things You May Not Know About the Wright Brothers.”  This sucker is full of fascinating info that will grab your students’ interest and make them want to know more.  As with most US history classes, I’m sure you probably won’t have time to spend a whole class period on the Wright Brothers, but this would be a great article to have your students read after they finish an assignment or test.  Remember, the more interesting you can make something or someone, the more likely your students will remember it and read more about it on their own time.

On a side note, how can you actually remember to fit this random article into your lessons/curriculum?  Take one afternoon and print off copies of all of the interesting articles that you would like to squeeze in to your curriculum throughout the year.  Put them in a folder and keep them someplace handy (or at least bookmark them or put them in a digital folder).  Whenever you have an extra 5 or 10 minutes to fill, pull out an article to cover.  But what if it’s not chronologically appropriate?  What if you don’t have any articles that fit the time period you are covering?  SO WHAT!  Who says history has to be covered chronologically?  As long as an article or activity leads to learning of some kind, it’s valid!  (Plus, over time, you can collect more and more articles like these and eventually have a nice assortment from various time periods.)

Miscellaneous, Quiz

Fun, Free Quizzes to Use as Fillers at the End of Class

There are five minutes left in class.  Your students are tired.  It’s too late to start anything new and you don’t have an exit ticket idea to fill the time.  What do you do?  It’s always a good idea to have some quick, fun “filler” activities up your sleeve for just such a time.  Here is a great one…

For years I’ve been using Encyclopedia Britannica instead of Wikipedia.  (I want a reputable source for my information, rather one that literally anyone can edit.)  I have NEVER noticed, until today, that they have a tab at the top of their page called “Quizzes.”  I clicked on it and, what do you know, they have a bunch of free quizzes.  Wouldn’t it be convenient if they happened to have some about US history?  Well, they do!  These quizzes are usually around 10 questions and are graded immediately after you answer each question.  The only catch is that each question must be answered within 10 seconds or it is counted wrong, and those 10 seconds go by really fast!  The faster you answer, the higher your score is.  On the score page at the end of the quiz, you can scroll down for detailed answers to each question.

How can you use this?  Bookmark these quizzes and put them in a folder in your browser labeled “Filler” (or maybe something less obvious to your students, like “5 Minute Fun”).  Then, you can pull one or two of these up on your projector or interactive board and let your students try them.  Since this is a filler activity, you can let the kids just yell out the answers and quickly decide what they collectively think is the correct answer..  If that is too loosey-goosey for you, have them answer silently and keep track of their points on a scratch sheet of paper.

There are over 150 history quizzes!  (They also have a Geography section.)  I’m providing links below to the ones that I like best.  You can also click here and scroll down to browse all of their quizzes.  One other thing to note: you don’t have to do a quiz that is associated with the content you are currently covering.  Sometimes it’s good to throw some random knowledge out there and remind students that any learning is good, regardless of whether it will “be on the test.”

US Presidential Elections

US Presidential Firsts

First Ladies of the United States

John Adams or John Quincy Adams

Salem Witch Trials

Republican or Democrat

Abraham Lincoln

Soldiers in Petticoats:  Fact or Fiction

US and Cuba

19th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage

US Presidential Nicknames

The Titanic

World War I or World War II

Pirates:  Fact or Fiction

The US: Fact or Fiction

Which of these quizzes is your favorite?  What’s the highest score you or your class achieved?  Let us know how you did in the comments below!