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Browse AI use cases from history teachers.
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Social StudiesHumanitiesMiddle schoolKey Stage 3
How to differentiate instruction in history
How to differentiate instruction in history: every student reads the same Lewis and Clark journal entries, and each one gets the help they need while reading, shown with two students and a free Flint activity.
Social StudiesHumanitiesMiddle schoolKey Stage 3
How to teach ancient Egypt
What students need to understand about ancient Egypt and the Nile flood, and a free ancient Egypt activity: students plan a year of shipping limestone to Giza in a spreadsheet Sparky builds, and a student who picks the dry season gets sent back to the canal depth.
Social StudiesHumanitiesElementaryPrimary
How to teach checks and balances
A free checks and balances activity: each student draws arrows between the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court and writes a check on each one. Sparky sends a veto drawn from the Court back to the White House photo on the student's own board, then asks what Congress can do after a veto.
Social StudiesHumanitiesHigh schoolKey Stages 4 and 5
How to teach civil liberties
How to teach civil liberties: students rule on five real Supreme Court cases where the government limited a right for national security, give a reason from each case, then see what the Court decided, in a free Flint activity.
Social StudiesHumanitiesElementaryPrimary
How to teach Native American regions
Teach Native American regions through the homes each nation built. Students move four homes between four regions, a student who says a nation built its home because they liked it gets sent back to a region card, and a right answer gets a harder question.
Social StudiesHumanitiesMiddle schoolKey Stage 3
How to teach primary elections
How to teach primary elections: students split 100 voters among five made-up candidates, Sparky charts their numbers, and they work out plurality versus majority, who gets delegates under a 15% rule, and why Ross Perot got 0 electoral votes in 1992.
Social StudiesHumanitiesHigh schoolKey Stages 4 and 5
How to teach rationing in World War II
What students need to understand about WW2 rationing in Britain, and a free activity: each student plans a week of meals on a real 1941 ration. A student who says Britain ran out of food gets sent back to the planner, and one who works out the ships gets a harder question about total war.
Social StudiesHumanitiesHigh schoolKey Stages 4 and 5
How to teach supply and demand
What students need to understand about supply and demand, and a free supply and demand activity: each student prices their own game-day stand in a spreadsheet Sparky builds, and a wrong answer gets sent back to the row that disproves it.
Social StudiesHumanitiesMiddle schoolKey Stage 3
How to teach the 5 themes of geography
The 5 themes of geography with an example of each, and a free Flint activity: students find a mystery city from five clues on a clickable world map, then sort the clues into Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement and Region.
Social StudiesHumanitiesElementaryPrimary
How to teach the causes of the American Revolution
How to teach the causes of the American Revolution: the taxes and laws from 1763 to 1775, and a free Flint activity where students work out why Boston dumped tea that had just gotten cheaper.
Social StudiesHumanitiesMiddle schoolKey Stage 3
How to teach the causes of the Civil War
How to teach the causes of the Civil War with primary sources: students predict why Southern states seceded, then Sparky counts their chosen words in four declarations of secession and charts the counts, in a free Flint activity.
Social StudiesHumanitiesHigh schoolKey Stages 4 and 5
How to teach the Gilded Age
How to teach the Gilded Age through the Standard Oil monopoly, from buying out rival refiners in 1872 to the 1911 Supreme Court breakup, with a free Flint game where a student runs a refinery against Standard Oil and finds the railroad rebate in the records.
Social StudiesHumanitiesElementaryPrimary
How to teach the Oregon Trail
How to teach the Oregon Trail with an AI Oregon Trail map: students pick the month their wagon leaves Missouri and watch the grass and snow change along the trail, in a free Flint activity.
Social StudiesHumanitiesHigh schoolKey Stages 4 and 5
How to use flexible grouping in history class
How to use flexible grouping in history class: one primary source activity on the causes of the American Revolution shows which skill each student is missing, so you can set up small groups by skill.
