Islamic Empires – Spread of Islam Unit Close Readings & Activities Lesson Plans

Engage your students with this 7th Grade Social Studies Middle Ages Unit on the Early Empires of Islam—featuring 290+ pages of worksheets, maps, activities, and assessments in both print and digital formats.

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $31.49.

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This Middle Ages Curriculum, Early Empires of Islam, Social Studies Grade 7 Unit is packed with both digital and print worksheet activities. Over 290 pages divided into 8 easy-to-follow subfolders with Early Islam civilization maps, worksheets, activities, reading passages, guided notes, and assessments you need to teach like a superhero!

Like all our Medieval History bundles, the Islam unit features a common flow to reduce anxiety for you and your students throughout the year. We know that teachers love no-prep history activities, and students need structure and accountability to succeed; our units are taught with a common sequence, complete with mini-assessments along the way.

Here’s what’s included, organized in 8 sequenced subfolders AND on a linked Google-ready table of contents for easy access:

 

1. UNIT INTRODUCTION SUBFOLDER– These two great introduction lessons include:

2. GEOGRAPHY SUBFOLDER– Includes student or teacher-guided click geography activities, games, Google form or print quiz, and answer keys!

 

3. VOCABULARY SUBFOLDER– Includes assignment options, review games, and a Google Forms or print quiz. Also, includes Quizlet links for online learning practice!

 

4. GUIDED NOTES & READINGS SUBFOLDER – Includes everything you need to teach the content via readings, activities, or direct instruction. Complete with a content-specific Google form or print quiz.

 

5. ACTIVITIES SUBFOLDER– Includes diverse, interactive, student-centered activities, worksheets, and close readings from which teachers can pick and choose based on personal style and class needs.

 

  1. Postcard from the Arabian Peninsula Activity
  2. Spread of Islamic Empire Click Map Activity
  3. Understanding Islam Reading and E-mail Activity
  4. The Spread of Islam Common Core Analysis Activity and Instagram from the Caliph fun Activity – Includes a close reading, claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) worksheet, and fun graphic organizer.
  5. Why Study Religion? World Religions Click Map
  6. Comparing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism Activity set– Includes a Why study religion? world religions map introduction activity with map questions, matching vocabulary with information charts, and a class game.
  7. What’s Your Destiny?-Close reading and fun comprehension game.
  8. Doodle World History Summary Activity– Fun creative note-taking graphic organizer that allows students to detail the 6 key “big idea” concepts.
  9. Code Hacker Early Islam Escape Room

 

6. BELLRINGERS: Skill-Based Text Analysis Warm-Ups and Mini-Lessons and Review – Students make inferences and predictions from the text, choose the best evidence to support a claim, cite sources, paraphrase, and learn to write strong commentary in these daily skill-based mini-lessons and practice slides.

7. BIG IDEAS REVIEW SUBFOLDER- Includes 10 activities that work perfectly with interactive notebooks!  Each unit comes with a key concepts introductions PowerPoint and graphic organizer, My World- Big Ideas Activity, Folding graphic Organizer, The Biggest Idea Unit Summary Activity, Big Idea Claim, Evidence (note that this product has examples some of the assignments listed above, but not all are included in the bundle) Also includes:

 

8. ⭐UNIT ASSESSMENT CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING (CER) TEST– Each unit comes with an editable assessment that has students support claims with evidence.

 


What other teachers are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Very easy and fun to use with 7th graders. They really enjoyed having visual aids in the notes to help them get more excited about the content” -Isabella D.

 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Saved a lot of time, such a comprehensive set of resources. I was able to go through and take out the products that were most useful and relevant to my students.” -Rachel B.

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