I’ve finally released my Stand and Sorts for US History! What is a stand and sort? It’s a way to get your students out of their seats while reviewing content. Category signs are taped on the walls in various locations in the classroom. Students (or groups of students) are given characteristic/example cards. Students use their knowledge of the content to determine (based on their card) what category sign they must stand under. The cards can be reshuffled and the activity can be repeated. A stand and sort can also be completed individually (at the students’ desks) or as a group. You can also make it a group competition stand and sort, where each group races to get their example cards posted around the classroom before the other groups do so. My students LOVED the group competition. Years ago I created Stand and Sorts for Economics and people really enjoyed them. I’ve always wanted to make some stand and sorts for US History and was finally able to get them finished! You can buy them on TPT here.
Use these stand and sorts to:
- Reinforce content immediately after you teach it
- Review content the day after teaching it
- Do one stand a sort a day as review leading up to standardized testing
- Give a struggling student extra practice
Each stand and sort is listed below.
- 13 Colonies (New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies)
- American Revolution (Britain, Colonies)
- Important Founding Documents (Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Bill of Rights)
- Articles of Confederation v. Constitution
- Founding Fathers (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin)
- Branches of Government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial)
- Industrial Revolution (Before v. After)
- Civil War (Union, Confederacy)
- Civil War Events (Harper’s Ferry, Fort Sumter, Bull Run/Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Appomattox)
- American Inventors (Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Wright Brothers, Garrett Morgan, Henry Ford, Samuel Morse)
- Roaring Twenties v. Great Depression
- World War II (Allies, Axis)
- World War I v. World War II
- Cold War (US, Soviet Union)
- Korean War v. Vietnam War
- Civil Rights (Little Rock Nine, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Sit-ins, Freedom Summer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, SCLC & SNCC, Freedom Ride)
- Vietnam War (US v. North Vietnam)
- Late 20th Century Presidents (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan)